The Casa Gomis will be a museum house and will be managed by the MNAC
The transfer from the Ministry of Culture will allow the completion of the account of the art of the second avant-garde movements.
BarcelonaFour months after the State understood, the future of Casa Gomis as a cultural facility is beginning to take shape: the home designed by architect Antonio Bonet Castellana will be a house museum managed by the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC). It is scheduled to open in 2026, coinciding with Barcelona becoming UNESCO's World Capital of Architecture and the Catalan capital hosting the International Union of Architects' World Congress of Architecture for the second time. As the Ministry of Culture and the museum announced in a statement this Friday, the MNAC team will be responsible for the cultural programming of Casa Gomis, classified as a cultural asset of national interest (BCIN). Furthermore, the Ministry of Culture will be responsible for any necessary renovation and maintenance work.
The incorporation of Casa Gomis into the MNAC is in line with the museum's future expansion and the expansion of second avant-garde art. This was due to the close relationship that the owners, Ricard Gomis and Inés Bertrand, had with important artists of the time. Among them, the couple created works specifically designed to decorate the house, which hosted concerts, dance, and theater performances at Club 49, to which Ricard Gomis belonged. It was a refuge during the Franco regime for artists, musicians, and promoters of national and international avant-garde art, such as Joan Prats, Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny, Carlos Santos, Robert Gerhard, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Antoni Tàpies, Joan Miró, and Joan Brossa. Museum sources affirm that the house is "a highly relevant piece that will allow for a coherent and complete account of the art of this period in Catalonia."
Precisely, the MNAC exhibited the work of Francesca Llopis in 2021 Inside inside, composed of a video with music by Barbara Held and percussion by Pilar Subirà, and a set of photographs, taken by Llopis in the same house. In the video, which was released coinciding with the Loop fair that year, a series of performers Dressed in black, they communicated with different parts of the house with their movements.
