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Campus Miró – 3rd Edition: Portabella Sequences

The Miró Campus reaches its third edition, consolidating itself as a meeting and learning space around the arts and critical thinking. For four days, the Miró Foundation becomes a university campus open to all audiences.

The Campus is a joint initiative between the Joan Miró Foundation and Pompeu Fabra University, involving members of the teams of both institutions, and structured around the exhibition programme of the Joan Miró Foundation.

In this new edition, the Campus takes a step further by aligning itself with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Joan Miró Foundation and the centenary of filmmaker Pere Portabella. As part of Acció Portabella, it establishes a living and transversal dialogue between Portabella's film practice and Joan Miró's creative universe. Today, in a time marked by political uncertainty and disaffection, the cinema of Portabella and Miró's universe are more necessary than ever.

Across four days, each conceived as a sequence-drawing from Portabella's own praxis-the campus unfolds a journey that connects cinema, visual arts, political thought, and artistic practice. Each day takes shape as a chapter with its own identity, linked to key concepts that run through Portabella's work, and is completed by the screening of one of his films, which acts as the axis and resonance of the activities.

From reflections on political denunciation to artistic vampirization-understood as appropriation, transformation, and rereading-through testimony and destruction or possible institutional subversions, the Miró Campus offers an immersion into creative processes that question, overflow, and reimagine the limits of art.

Through activities that combine exhibition visits, film screenings, workshops, conversations, and public masterclasses, the campus becomes a territory open to active participation. Artists, students, professionals, and the wider public will all find an open space in which to engage in a shared experience where observing, creating, and reflecting are deeply interconnected.

Programme

Monday, May 4 - Sequence I · Crossed Politics
11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. General report on archives of public interest. Talk and screening, with Pedro Larrègle.
3:30 - 6:30 p.m. Denouncing from hope. The invisible threads between El sopar and L'esperança del condemnat a mort. Visit, screening and conversation with Magda Oranich, Montse Puig Antich, Jordi Vidal Amorós and Teresa Montaner, moderated by Dolors Rodríguez Roig.

Tuesday, May 5 - Sequence II · Artistic Vampirizations
11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Vampires and Pompiers. From Portabella's camera to Miró's brush. Visit and screening, with Dolors Rodríguez Roig.
3:30 - 6:30 p.m. Making a vampir-cuadecuc. Experimental workshop, with Marc Esquirol and Pablo Cavero Asencio.

Wednesday, May 6 - Sequence III · Testimony and Destruction
11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Miró on paper. Talk, visit and screenings, with Toni Esparó.
3:30 - 6:30 p.m. Burnt works. Talk with screening and destruction workshop, with Carlos Baixauli.

Thursday, May 7 - Sequence IV · Institutional Subversions
11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Moves. Curatorial workshop on how to intervene in the museum, with Èlia Bagó and Sara Torres.
3:30 - 6:30 p.m. Feminist theories and practices. Open class, with Pilar Monsell.

Full programme