19.09.25 at 7.30 p.m. – We are opening three new temporary exhibitions
Opening 19.09.2025
The Mayor of Palma and President of the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, Mr. Jaime Martínez Llabrés, is pleased to invite you to the opening of the new temporary exhibitions.
Program:
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7:15 PM – Reception of authorities and general public.
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7:30 PM – Official welcome.
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7:45 PM – Guided tour for the authorities led by the artists.
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8:30 PM – Open visit to the exhibitions and cocktail reception in the gardens, with live jazz trio.
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10:00 PM – Closing of the event.
* Important information: The Fundació offers free parking, but spaces are limited. A complimentary shuttle service will run from 7:00 PM to 10:30 PM, connecting the Marivent Park & Ride (Avinguda de Joan Miró, 227B, Ponent, 07015 Palma, Illes Balears) with the Fundació.
Utopía del Lodo y Sashimi de Bruma – Grip Face
19.09.25 – 23.03.26 / Espai Cúbic
The installation consists of twelve suspended sculptures – masks held by thorn ropes – arranged in the shape of the European Union symbol. This configuration is not accidental: it questions Europe’s pacifist identity and its ambiguous role in armed conflicts. The masks, fragmented figures of ambiguous character, evoke silent, spectral presences that can be read as avatars of resistance or as protective amulets.
Grip Face draws inspiration from news reports of bombings in children’s playgrounds in places like Gaza or Ukraine, using the swing as a symbolic element to highlight the fragility of childhood in wartime. These swings, motionless and hung from thorns, transform the space into a haunting scene where theatricality becomes a metaphor for the battlefield, and stillness communicates a latent tension.
With this site-specific proposal, the artist transforms Espai Cúbic into an installation that invites slow and critical reflection on European identity, collective memory, and the fragility of contemporary peace.
La Biblioteca – Stella Rahola Matutes
19.09.25 – 23.03.26 / Espai Zero
Through installative and sculptural glass pieces, Stella Rahola Matutes explores the creation of situational spaces and encounters that rescue specific residual materials. The impossibility of reusing these materials, due to certain political contexts, places them on a threshold. La Biblioteca is an exhibition that displays more than 2,000 discarded borosilicate glass pieces that the artist has collected from various workshops across Catalonia.
Borosilicate glass is a strong and ultra-clear type of glass that requires higher temperatures than common glass to be melted. This characteristic, along with the fact that it can only be worked by hand (without the possibility of mechanization or industrialization), creates an intimate and necessary link with craftsmanship. Given the crisis in manual production within post-capitalist societies, there are not enough workshops for a significant amount of this material to be discarded. This scarcity makes it impossible to establish a borosilicate glass melting plant to return it to its production cycle. Discarded borosilicate glass cannot be recycled and exists in a state of suspension.
Borosilicate glass is used to make laboratory components: test tubes, ampoules, coils… These are essential tools for research and scientific knowledge. However, as mentioned, achieving this requires embodied knowledge. This strict path—where one must first master manual skills in order to reach science (a form of highly intellectualized knowledge)—positions the capacities of the hands and body as crucial, thus inverting the hierarchy of knowledge. Through a physical inquiry into the possibilities of making, Stella explores a prolonged and empathetic approach in order to reassess our relationship with material culture.
The Inhabited Mask – Mabi Revuelta
19.09.25 – 23.03.26 / Auditori i hall -1
One day, Joan Miró hung a photograph of the Warka Mask on one of the walls of Son Boter. He had cut it out from the February 19, 1966 issue of Arts & Loisirs magazine. This Sumerian mask, carved in white stone, dates back to around 3300 BCE and is one of the earliest accurate artistic representations of a woman’s face.
The Inhabited Mask tells the story of a complicit dialogue between two characters who meet in Son Boter. Joan and Ninna walk through Joan Miró’s most magical studio, embarking on their own mythical journey through the rooms of the house. They are presences in a state of suspended consciousness who, with mysterious wisdom, offer their generous vision to the world.
The performance is led by contemporary dancer Pilar Andrés (Ninna), accompanied by the voices of Gabriel Ocina (Joan) and Ena Fernández (Ninna). Together, they shape an original narrative that unfolds at the intersection of dance, film, photography, and sculpture.
The Inhabited Mask is part of a series of audiovisual essays initiated by Mabi Revuelta during her residency at the Spanish Academy in Rome. These films, created in 2023 and grouped under the title La stanza dipinta (The Painted Room), were shot in archaeological parks such as the Etruscan necropolis of Banditaccia (Cerveteri), the Villa of the Mysteries, and the Villa of Poppaea (Pompeii). They reflect on archaeological heritage, the artistic legacy of mural paintings, and the poetic exploration of the spaces that contain them.
