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Miró Foundation Mallorca: Palma visit, studios and donation

Par Gabriel Goldberg 18 October 2026 16 min read

My visit to Fundació Miró Mallorca: fifteen photographs, the Sert Studio, Joan and Pilar’s donation, Miró’s island life and collections in Spain, France and beyond.

Contents

A personal visit, not a lesson to recite
Who was Joan Miró? A distinctive language in twentieth-century art
Miró and Mallorca: family roots rather than a random retirement destination
My photographs: colour, but also the physical surface
Five more photographs: Miró’s signs, torn surfaces and the experience of looking
Sculpture and objects: beyond the printed image
The Sert Studio: approaching Miró’s working environment
Son Boter, Son Abrines and the studio are not interchangeable names
The transfer: a donation in 1981, not just a will
Pilar Juncosa and the building that made the museum possible
What does the collection’s size actually mean?
Another Mallorca: cultural heritage as something alive
Where to see Miró in Spain: Palma, Barcelona and Mont-roig
France and beyond: not every Miró collection is a Miró foundation
Visiting Fundació Miró Mallorca: address, hours and tickets
What I take away, and where to read more
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This Sunday, 18 October 2026 , I visited the Miró Foundation in Mallorca . I expected to see works of art. I had not quite appreciated how strongly a studio, a group of objects and a place could change my understanding of an artist. My photographs show me beside paintings: an orange ground, a large black circle, lines that suggest trajectories. Elsewhere, sculpture occupies a room or a garden, and canvases gather in the studio. This is not just a collection to walk through. It is a way of approaching a world being made. What is Fundació Miró Mallorca? Also known as Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, the foundation is at 29 Carrer de Saridakis, Palma, in the Cala Major area . It brings together a collection rooted in Joan Miró and Pilar Juncosa’s donation, the Sert Studio , Son Boter and exhibition premises by Rafael Moneo . Son Boter is temporarily closed at the time of my visit. This is a different institution from Barcelona’s Fundació Joan Miró. Gabriel Goldberg visiting on 18 October 2026, beside an orange-ground painting whose black signs and green disc invite the imagination. Personal photograph: Gabriel Goldberg. A personal visit, not a lesson to recite I like being able to approach a painting without identifying it immediately. In the orange work beside me, I notice dark points, thin lines, a star-like sign and a green presence. I do not claim to know their final meaning. I find a space where my eyes can move without having to solve a puzzle. That is my response,…