Image: Miralda, El Internacional facade. Photo: Peter Aaron Otto
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago will present an exhibition of work by Antoni Miralda from February 27 to April 25, 2027. Curated by Myriam Ben Salah, the show brings together works from across the artist's expansive practice while focusing specifically on the experiment-cum-restaurant he started with his partner Montse Guillén in the 1980s.
For more than five decades, Miralda has used food and its ceremonies to examine how cultures are made, mixed and consumed. His work moves between sculpture, installation, performance and collective participation, and across these forms it turns the familiar rituals of eating into something altogether stranger. In Miralda's work, as the Renaissance Society notes, a meal can become a monument and a recipe a history lesson, while a wedding between the Statue of Liberty and Barcelona's Columbus Monument becomes an unlikely portrait of the traffic between the Old and New Worlds.
By centering the restaurant project, the exhibition considers the table as a place where the personal and the political intertwine. The image released with the announcement shows the facade of El Internacional, photographed by Peter Aaron Otto.
The exhibition is part of the Renaissance Society's 2026–27 program in its galleries on the fourth floor of Cobb Hall, on the University of Chicago campus, which are free and open to the public. It follows Tony Lewis: The Long and Short of It, on view from December 12, 2026 to February 7, 2027, and precedes an exhibition by Trương Công Tùng opening in May 2027.
