Exhibitions

From Miró to Barceló

Valencia, Spain

From Miró to Barceló, from the avant-garde to contemporary painting: this exhibition reads art as a long conversation — restless, experimental, and still very alive.

From Miró to Barceló

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© Fundación Bancaja

The Movement

Abstract Expressionism, Conceptual Art, Figurative, Pop Art

ArtLovers Tip

Choose one early modern work and one contemporary work, then look for what connects them: a line, a gesture, a refusal, a way of breaking the rules. The beauty of this exhibition is that it shows art history not as a closed timeline, but as a living conversation — from Miró to Barceló, and still unfinished.

Exhibition Highlights - What you'll see

86 works by 59 national and international artists, from 1913 to 2023.

Modern and contemporary art across more than a century: historical avant-gardes, abstraction, informalism, pop art, contemporary figuration, and experimental painting.

The exhibition brings together works from the collections of ABANCA and Fundación Bancaja, creating a dialogue between early 20th-century modern art and the diversity of contemporary artistic languages.

Compromiso con el arte. De Miró a Barceló is a journey through 20th- and 21st-century art, with works dated between 1913 and 2023. It is not a linear art-history lesson, but a visual conversation between generations, collections, and ways of understanding modernity.

You’re watching:

  • The legacy of the historical avant-gardes
  • Modern art as rupture, experiment, and new visual language
  • Contemporary painting in many forms: abstract, figurative, gestural, conceptual
  • Works by major artists including Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Antoni Tàpies, and Miquel Barceló
  • A dialogue between two collections that use art as memory, commitment, and cultural responsibility

The exhibition feels like a bridge: from the first breaks with tradition to today’s plural, open, unstable art world.

Worth the trip

Yes — especially if you want a strong overview of modern and contemporary art in Valencia.

This exhibition matters because it brings together two major institutional collections and shows how modern art did not move in one straight line. It moved through rebellion, abstraction, matter, politics, image, gesture, and experimentation.

It is especially valuable if you want an Artlovers route in Valencia: Fundación Bancaja gives you a concentrated journey from Miró and Picasso to Tàpies and Barceló, while the city itself is becoming a stronger destination for modern and contemporary art.

How to experience it

Don’t try to read it only chronologically — look for echoes between old and new.

Compare how different generations use color, gesture, matter, and form.

Pause at the transitions: from avant-garde rupture to contemporary freedom.

Think about what a collection does: it doesn’t just preserve art, it tells a story.

Use the exhibition as a map of how 20th-century art keeps mutating into the present.

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