PARIS | BARCELONA

Mayoral, founded in 1989, is a gallery located in Barcelona and Paris. The gallery articulates an intergenerational exhibition programme focused on the best of post-war and contemporary Spanish art, promoting artists such as Tàpies, Chillida, Millares, Saura, Zóbel, Francés and Chordà, alongside works by key twentieth-century avant-garde artists such as Miró and Picasso, and the best of today’s generation with names such as Macarrón, Oliver, Pratts and Barriga.

The gallery develops projects that are rigorously curated and grow out of an exhaustive process of research. The gallery relies upon the support of the artists’ families, foundations and other institutions as well as collectors and museums, both public and private, when it comes to accomplishing its mission.

In recent years Mayoral has presented projects such as “Miró’s Studio,” and retrospectives dedicated to Millares, Tàpies, Saura and Chordà, as well as dialogues between artists such as Miró/Zao Wou-Ki and Francés/Vieira da Silva, which delved into the creative process of the artists and analysed how their work continues to be relevant today.

The gallery participates in art fairs such as Art|Basel Miami Beach, Art|Basel Hong Kong, TEFAF Maastricht, TEFAF New York and ARCOmadrid.

  • Miró. The Flaming Heart

    Miró. The Flaming Heart

    Mayoral is honoured to present an exhibition that traces Joan Miró’s philosophical and revolutionary use of fire as a material to be deployed to “assassinate painting.” Joan Miró, Toile brûlée 2, 1973, acrylic on burnt canvas, 130 x 195 cm, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, on loan from a Private Collection © Successió Miró, 2022

  • Zao Wou-Ki on Joan Miró

    Zao Wou-Ki on Joan Miró

    Mayoral presented an original dialogue between Joan Miró and Zao Wou-Ki, highlighting the parallel trajectory of these two great figures of Modern art. Curated by Salomé Zelic, the show had the collaboration of the Fundació Miró Mallorca, the Musée de l'Hospice Saint-Roch in Issoudun and the Fondation Zao Wou-Ki.

  • Opening of Mayoral Paris

    Opening of Mayoral Paris

    Mayoral established its first gallery space abroad in November. Located on the historic Avenue Matignon in Paris, the gallery opened its doors with an exhibition dedicated to Antonio Saura.

  • Round table at the MACBA

    Round table at the MACBA

    The 30th anniversary of the gallery was celebrated at the MACBA with a presentation by Cristina, Eduard and Jordi Mayoral, and a round table on "The construction of the story of a gallery" mediated by Llucià Homs and with the participation of Carles Guerra, Sílvia Dauder and Maribel López.

  • Tàpies Today

    Tàpies Today

    Mayoral presented "Tàpies Today", a monographic exhibition devoted to Antoni Tàpies which followed the artist’s creative trajectory and argued for the validity and relevance of his work today. Arnau Puig, a friend of the artist and an expert in his work since the creation of the group Dau al Set, was the curator of the show.

  • Manolo Millares: Building bridges, not walls

    Manolo Millares: Building bridges, not walls

    Focusing on Manolo Millares's notorious maturity period (1957-1972), it was the artist's major exhibition in a private gallery up until then. The show provided a unique opportunity to contemplate an ensemble of seventeen of Millares's arpilleras (burlap paintings).

  • Surrealist Women

    Surrealist Women

    An exhibition of Surrealist Women is presented for the first time in Spain, embracing works by artists Valentine Hugo, Maruja Mallo, Lee Miller, Frida Kahlo, Dora Maar, Remedios Varo, Ángeles Santos and Leonora Carrington.

  • Art Revolutionaries

    Art Revolutionaries

    Mayoral commemorated the 80th-anniversary of the Spanish Republic Pavilion at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris, with a replica of "The Reaper" by Joan Miró, his great lost work.

  • Miró's Studio

    Miró's Studio

    Mayoral presented an immersive exhibition recreating Miró’s studio, curated by Elvira Cámara, Director of The Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca and produced in collaboration with Joan Punyet Miró, the artist’s grandson.

  • Chillida

    Chillida

    Mayoral inaugurated a solo show devoted to Chillida in 2015 with the collaboration of the Fundación Eduardo Chillida-Pilar Belzunce. The project embraced an accurate selection of drawings, sculptures, graphic works by the artist and the film 'Art and Dreams'. It received the GAC Award for Best Exhibition.

  • Miró / Calder

    Miró / Calder

    Mayoral celebrated its 25th-anniversary with an exhibition on Joan Miró and Alexander Calder, organized in collaboration with Successió Miró and Calder Foundation, presenting 40 artworks. Miró’s grandson, Joan Punyet Miró, inaugurated the exhibition.

  • Mayoral presented a Picasso solo-show in collaboration with Maya Picasso.

  • Mayoral organized a retrospective exhibition commemorating the centenary of Dalí's birthday.

  • Inauguration of Galeria Mayoral in Barcelona