We are thrilled to present the first national retrospective by Kapwani Kiwanga (1978), winner of the 2025 Joan Miró Prize.

Created specifically for the Fundació Joan Miró, this exhibition invites you to explore the fascinating ways that materials, global trade, and the deep history of our planet shape the spaces we live in.

Through her work, Kiwanga takes a fresh look at how the buildings around us can influence and even control our movements, offering a modern perspective on the power structures hidden within architecture. This show brings together a selection of the artist's celebrated pieces alongside several new works created especially for this Barcelona exhibition.

The exhibition moves from raw materials to geological time, examining how economic exchange, territorial control and exploitation become embedded in apparently neutral objects. Kiwanga creates an internal architecture specifically in dialogue with Josep Lluís Sert’s building, turning the museum itself into part of the argument.

Kapwani Kiwanga (b. 1978) is a Canadian-French artist trained in anthropology. Winner of the Joan Miró Prize 2025 and Canada’s representative at the 2024 Venice Biennale, she has become one of the most significant international voices connecting Minimalist aesthetics with postcolonial research.