There are many things you can do in Barcelona this year that revolve around Antoni Gaudí: celebrate the centenary of the great Catalan architect’s death, preview his Sagrada Família almost completed after more than a century of construction, or even sleep — almost — on the third floor of Casa Batlló.

The latest addition to the World Capital of Architecture 2026 concerns Casa Batlló and the Fundació Joan Miró, two icons of Catalan culture that, for the first time in history, are collaborating on an exhibition bringing Joan Miró’s works inside the residence imagined by Gaudí between 1904 and 1906. It is an opportunity to visit Casa Batlló, restored to its original colours through one of the most meticulous restoration projects of recent years, but above all to witness the dialogue between two figures who reshaped the artistic imagination of twentieth-century Spain.

Titled “Gaudí, Miró, Gomis: Deconstructed”, the exhibition will open on 8 July 2026 and is the second project hosted by Casa Batlló Contemporary, the new exhibition space inaugurated on the second floor of Gaudí’s Barcelona masterpiece. Curated by Joana Seguro and Ester Ramos and developed together with the London-based creative studio Tomorrow Bureau, the exhibition establishes an unprecedented relationship between Antoni Gaudí, Joan Miró and Joaquim Gomis, photographer and major disseminator of Gaudí’s work.

The exhibition will feature original works by Miró — particularly sculptures and graphic works — alongside photographs by Gomis, whose gaze played a decisive role in the international diffusion of Gaudí’s architecture after World War II. Alongside these historical materials, the exhibition also includes audiovisual and digital installations commissioned from Tomorrow Bureau, which uses tools such as 3D scanning, photogrammetry and generative artificial intelligence to reinterpret the works of the three artists.

More than a historical exhibition, “Gaudí, Miró, Gomis: Deconstructed” stages a dialogue between three figures shaped by the same Barcelona. When Antoni Gaudí died in 1926, Joan Miró was thirty-three years old and already living in a city deeply marked by the architect’s buildings and imagination. With Joaquim Gomis, meanwhile, the surrealist artist shared a direct relationship: the photographer was a friend, supporter and one of the main visual interpreters of Miró’s work, as well as the first president of the Fundació Joan Miró when it opened in 1975. The exhibition thus attempts to reveal the hidden connections between the three figures: organic forms, the relationship with nature, experimentation with matter, and a shared vision of the city.

The exhibition follows Beyond the Façade by United Visual Artists, which inaugurated Casa Batlló Contemporary’s new programme in January 2026, dedicated to the dialogue between architectural heritage and contemporary art.

Opening image: Casa Batlló photographed by Giovanni Comoglio for Domus