The Espai 13 at the Fundació Joan Miró is an exhibition programme of emerging artistic and curatorial practices set up to meet Joan Miró's wish to create a space where new generations could present their work. Since its launch in 1978 in the foundation's Espai 10, over 45 years ago, our programme of emerging art has built up an extensive background in promoting local, national and international talent. Over the years, Espai 13 has become an important turning point in the artistic and professional careers of many of its participants, for whom it has represented a major advance in terms of their professionalisation and recognition within the art world.
As an observatory and barometer of the changes in emerging art, each year Espai 13 entrusts a curator with developing a programme of solo exhibitions based on a theme related to contemporary artistic practice. These exhibitions emanate from original, newly produced projects designed specifically for the season and the space. In 2026, the independent curator Alejandro Alonso Díaz will take over from Carolina Jiménez. Following a year of exhibitions stemming from considerations on the relationship between artists and their surroundings, as well as ideas of place and context, this year's programme will be framed by Barcelona's status as the European Capital of Architecture. The exhibitions will focus on current debates around the notion of space, through artistic practices that consider how such discipline is determined by the energy flows that cut across social spaces, infrastructures, and the programmatic functioning of institutions
1998-1999 SeasonCurators: Jorge Luis Marzo, Rosa Sánchez i Tere BadiaSingular Electrics, a play on the name "General Electrics", is concerned with some of the new international art forms that have grown out of the latest communications and imaging technologies.
1997-1998 SeasonCurator:Ferran Barenblit, [email protected] the 1997-1998 cycle, Invisible Circles has analysed the landscape — both physical and social — that makes up our environment, that invisible line that we draw around us to separate us from the outside world.
