Organised by: Molins de Rei Town Council and Molins de Rei Women’s Institute

Venue: Ca n’Ametller

Dates: 4 to 13 November 1983

Exhibition of Mercè Rodoreda’s pictorial work. Publication of a catalogue.

Organised by: Altarriba Art

Held in: Calldetenes

Dates: 1991

Organised by: Caixa de Girona Foundation

Venue: Fontana d’Or, Girona

Dates: 4 to 30 June 1999

Curator: Carme Arnau

This exhibition presents the life and work of Mercè Rodoreda in its historical context.

Publication of a catalogue

Organised by: Government of Catalonia programme “Cataluña hoy” (“Catalonia Today”), Mercè Rodoreda Foundation, Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC)

Venue: Madrid Fine Arts Society (Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid - CBA), Dance Hall

Dates: 22 April to 2 May 2002

Curator: Joaquim Molas, in collaboration with Carme Arnau, Berta Morán and Marta Nadal

Tour venues:

Caceres. Carvajal Palace
Dates: 18 October to 17 November 2002

Organised by: Institute of Catalan Letters (ILC), Government of Catalonia, Mercè Rodoreda Foundation, Institute for Catalan Institute of Catalan Letters (ILC), Government of Catalonia, Mercè Rodoreda Foundation, Institute for Catalan

Venue: Cloister of the Monastery of Sant Cugat del Vallès.

Dates: 26 October to 14 November 2004

Curator: Joaquim Molas, in collaboration with Carme Arnau, Berta Morán and Marta Nadal.

Tour venues:

Tarragona. Sala Metropol exhibition space
Dates: 18 February to 13 March 2005

Reus. Sala Fortuny exhibition space – Reus Reading Centre
Dates: 13 April to 12 May 2005

Lleida. Exhibition space of the Regional Services of the Government of Catalonia
Dates: 3 June to 22 July 2005

Barcelona. Moja Palace exhibition space
Dates: 6 October to 1 November 2005

Sant Feliu de Guíxols. Exhibition space of the History Museum, located in the old hospital in Sant Feliu de Guíxols
Dates: November 2006 to May 2007

Andorra. Government of Andorra exhibition space
Dates: 16 September to 26 October 2008

Badalona. Exhibition space Espai Betúlia, Word and Literature Cultural Centre – Badalona City Council
Dates: 3 November to 10 December 2008

Santa Cristina d’Aro. Espai Ridaura. Romanyà de la Selva
Dates: since October 2013

Touring version of the exhibition for presentation in the libraries of Barcelona Provincial Council.

Organised by: Library Service – Barcelona Provincial Council

Venue: various locations around Barcelona

Dates: 28 May 2008 to 19 October 2009

Tour venues:

2008
L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. Central Library Tecla Sala
Dates: 28 May to 29 June

Santpedor. Pare Ignasi Casanovas Library
Dates: 3 to 27 July

Tordera. Tordera Library
Dates: 2 to 28 September

Vic. Joan Triadú Library
Dates: 2 to 30 October

Roda de Ter. Bac de Roda Library
Dates: 5 November to 1 December

El Prat de Llobregat. Antoni Martín Library
Dates: 4 to 31 December

2009
El Masnou. Joan Coromines Library
Dates: 2 to 24 March

Llinars del Vallès. Llinars del Vallès Library
Dates: 27 March to 20 April

Rubí. Mestre Martí Tauler Library
Dates: 23 April to 18 May
Cornellà de Llobregat. Central Library
Dates: 21 May to 11 June

Sant Quirze del Vallès. Sant Quirze del Vallès Library
Dates: 28 September to 19 October

Virtual exhibition created by LletrA (Open University of Catalonia – UOC) in collaboration with the Mercè Rodoreda Foundation and the Institute for Catalan Letters (ILC).

DVD available for libraries.

Organised by: LletrA (Open University of Catalonia – UOC)

Dates: since 13 October 2007

Exhibition organised to complement the adaptation for the stage of The Time of the Doves presented at the National Theatre of Catalonia. The exhibition, which had as its theme the life and works of Rodoreda, visited several Catalan-speaking towns. In some of these towns the play was also performed.

Further information

Organised by: Institute for Catalan Letters (ILC) and National Theatre of Catalonia (TNC)

Tour co-ordinator: Catalan Public Libraries Deputy Management

Dates: 15 November 2007 to 20 January 2008

Curators: Jordi Castellanos and Maria Campillo

Tour venues:

2008
Reus. Xavier Amorós Central Library
Dates: 12 to 24 February

El Vendrell. Terra Baixa Public Library
Dates: 26 February to 9 March

Vila-seca. Vila-seca Public Library
Dates: 11 to 30 March

Amposta. Sebastià Juan i Arbó Regional Library
Dates: 1 to 13 April

Tortosa. Marcel·lí Domingo Library
Dates: 15 to 27 April

Les Borges Blanques. Marquès de l’Olivart Library
Dates: 29 April to 11 May

Balaguer. Margarida de Montferrat Library
Dates: 13 to 25 May

Mollerussa. Jaume Vila Regional Library
Dates: 27 May to 8 June

Agramunt. Guillem Viladot Municipal Library
Dates: 10 to 24 June

Blanes. Blanes Regional Library
Dates: 25 June to 6 July

Banyoles. Pla de l’Estany Regional Library
Dates: 8 to 20 July

Salt. Salt Public Library
Dates: 22 July to 3 August

Calonge. Pere Caner Municipal Library
Dates: 5 to 17 August

Roses. Jaume Vicens Vives Library
Dates: 19 to 31 August

Olesa de Montserrat. Santa Oliva Library
Dates: 2 to 14 September

Manresa. Casino Library
Dates: 16 to 28 September

Sabadell. Vapor Badia Library
Dates: 30 September to 12 October

Manlleu. Bisbe Morgades-Manlleu Municipal Library
Dates: 14 to 26 October

Malgrat de Mar. La Cooperativa Library
Dates: 28 October to 9 November

Igualada. Central Library
Dates: 11 to 23 November

Sant Cugat del Vallès. Mil·lenari Library
Dates: 25 November to 14 December


Barcelona. Guinardó-Mercè Rodoreda Library
Dates: 16 to 30 December

Exhibition that brought together original images by Elisabeth Insenser produced specially for the exhibition along with reproductions of writings and poems by Mercè Rodoreda. Thanks to the images, the visitors were able to focus their attention on the annotations, doodles, drawings, and corrections in the margins, and in this way enter into the work of the poet – and also into the person – in an innovative and unusual way. At the same time they were able to observe aspects of the writing that readers do not usually notice.

(1) Word play with the writer’s first name, Mercè, and the Catalan word mercès, which means “thank you”.

Organised by: Guinardó-Mercè Rodoreda Library, Barcelona

Dates: 20 May to 6 July 2008

Venue: Biblioteca Guinardó-Mercè Rodoreda. Barcelona

The exhibition recreated the atmosphere and peculiar, complex world of Mercè Rodoreda’s novels with the goal of encouraging reading or re-reading of the writer’s work. The exhibition was organised into four sections, each one with the title of one of the writer’s best-known novels: The Time of the Doves, A Broken Mirror, Death in Spring and So Much War

Catalogue published in Catalan, Spanish, English and French.
Further information

Organised by: Exhibition space 1 at the Palau Robert, Barcelona

Dates: 26 March to 15 June 2008

Venue: Sala 1 del Palau Robert, Barcelona

Curator: Marina Gustà

Exhibition with large panels displaying fragments of Mercè Rodoreda’s best-known novel, The Time of The Doves, translated into eleven different languages, from Spanish, Italian, English and Romanian to Chinese and Japanese, as well as other languages from Europe and around the world.
Visitors were able to read and listen to the texts in any of the selected languages.

The exhibition included the audiovisual directed by Rosa Vergés and based on Mercè Rodoreda’s story “The river and the boat”, which was exhibited at the Expo Zaragoza 2008.

Organised by: Government of Catalonia. Catalan Government Office in Madrid

Dates: 15 September 2008 to 6 January 2009

Venue: Blanquerna Cultural Centre, Madrid

Curator: Marina Gustà

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Time of the Doves, the Madrid exhibition “Rodoreda, Mirror of Languages” was adapted to Catalan. This exhibition consists of panels displaying a excerpt from the beginning of the novel in several languages, a timeline, the front covers of some of the translations, and two showcases with documentary material about the novel: press articles and correspondence.

Organised by: Mercè Rodoreda Foundation and Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC)

Dates: 23 April to 19 September 2012

Venue: Institute for Catalan Studies, Barcelona

Curator: Marina Gustà

Mercè Rodoreda Garden

As a complement to the exhibition, the plants in the Mercè Rodoreda Garden, located in the Casa de Convalescència (the old home for convalescence), were renewed and nineteen plaques were installed with their names in Catalan, their scientific names, a short text by Rodoreda related to each plant, and the titles of the works the texts come from.

Tour venues:

2013
Barcelona. Exhibition space at the Gràcia district council offices
Dates: 25 September to 19 October 2012

Sant Joan Despí. Mercè Rodoreda Cultural Centre
Dates: 29 November to 19 January 2013

Barcelona. Espai Putxet
Dates: 25 February to 22 March 2013

Barcelona. Can Rectoret Community Centre (Collserola)
Dates: 1 to 30 April 2013

Girona. Santa Cristina d’Aro Library
Dates: 15 May to 5 June 2013

Ripoll. Ripoll Library
Dates: 4 to 27 July 2013

Sarrià de Ter. Sarrià de Ter Library
Dates: 29 July to 19 August 2013

Barcelona. Exhibition space at the Gràcia district council offices
Dates: 25 September to 19 October 2012

Sant Joan Despí. Mercè Rodoreda Cultural Centre
Dates: 29 November to 19 January 2013

Barcelona. Espai Putxet
Dates: 25 February to 22 March 2013

Barcelona. Can Rectoret Community Centre (Collserola)
Dates: 1 to 30 April 2013

Girona. Santa Cristina d’Aro Library
Dates: 15 May to 5 June 2013

Ripoll. Ripoll Library
Dates: 4 to 27 July 2013

Sarrià de Ter. Sarrià de Ter Library
Dates: 29 July to 19 August 2013

2014
Tarragona. Casa de les Lletres exhibition space
Dates: 15 May to 15 June 2014

Tarragona. Bonavista Civic Centre
Dates: 19 June to 30 September 2014

Barcelona, Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC)
International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (NACS)
Dates: 29 to 30 June and the whole of July 2015

One of Mercè Rodoreda’s lesser known creative facets is her dedication to the visual arts in the 1950s, before taking up writing again in 1958 and, in particular, in 1962 with the publication of The Time of the Doves, which would make her the most translated modern Catalan writer of the 20th century.

This exhibition presented thirty of her paintings and collages, mostly unknown works, to commemorate the centenary of her birth and propose new approaches to the reading of this important literary oeuvre, in which the visual arts had a more than notable influence.

Publication of a catalogue

Organised by: Caixa Catalunya Foundation

Dates: 16 December 2008 to 1 February 2009

Venue: La Pedrera, Barcelona

Curator: Mercè Ibarz

More than twenty years ago, the Majorcan filmmaker Agustí Villaronga had all the necessary material ready to start shooting his adaptation of Death in Spring. A month before filming was due to begin, with the sets already prepared in the town of Sort, the project ran aground.

This exhibition presented all the preparatory work for a film that was never made: the scripts (written and illustrated), the wardrobe, the sets and accessories. A collection of visual material that showed visitors all the basics of a film project that never came to fruition.

Publication of a catalogue

Organised by: Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB), Barcelona City Council

Dates: 5 March to 3 May 2009

Venue: Virreina Palace, Barcelona

This exhibition explores the life and work of the most translated writer in contemporary Catalan literature. It evokes the author’s literary world and her ability to bring her feelings closer to the reader through the development of characters, especially the female ones, who have a life beyond the story.

Tour dates: booking available

Publication of a catalogue

Further information

Teaching dossier

Organised by: Catalan Women’s Institute (ICD)

Dates: since 2008

Photos: Pilar Aymerich

Texts: Marta Pessarrodona

Project based on a exploration – as accurate and precise as possible – of the world of the writer during her exile in France, using a photographic perspective that aimed to rediscover and show these spaces of memory.

Publication of a catalogue

Dates: 16 October to 28 November2008

Venue: Barcelona. Ateneu Barcelonès

Photos: Carme Esteve

Tour venues:

Perpignan. Mediathèque de Perpignan and Ramon Llull Institute (IRL)
Dates: 31 January to 28 February 2009

Exhibition organised as part of the cultural programme prepared for the “Spanish Year in Russia”.

Twenty Spanish designers created a dress design from a literary work. The pairing of designers and writers was as follows: Loewe and Miguel de Cervantes; Duyos and Lev Tolstoy; Roberto Verino and Anna Akhmatova; Hannibal Laguna and José Ángel Valente; Ana Locking and Olvido García Valdés; Juanjo Oliva and Marina Tsvetayeva; Lemoniez and Anton Chekhov; Devota & Lomba and Gabiel García Márquez; Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada and Mario Vargas Llosa; Jesús del Pozo and Carlos Fuentes; David Delfín and Antonio Gamoneda; Miriam Ocáriz and Ana María Matute; Ailanto and Miguel Delibes; Custo Barcelona and Mercè Rodoreda; Miguel Palacio and Carmen Martín Gaite; Roberto Torretta and Antonio Muñoz Molina; Amaya Arzuaga and María Zambrano; Lydia Delgado and Rosa Chacel; and Ángel Schlesser and Nikolai Gogol.


Publication of a bilingual catalogue in Spanish and Russian, that reproduces the dresses created for the occasion by the twenty designers, together with the texts of the Spanish, Latin American and Russian writers who inspired them.

Organised by: Ministry of Culture, Institute of Foreign Trade and Spanish Association of Fashion Designers

Dates: 2011

Venue: seat of the Cervantes Institute, Moscow

Adaptation of the exhibition “20 Dress Designs for Russia”
Creativity is the nexus that unites literature and fashion, and imagination is the starting point for these two arts, which went hand in hand in this exhibition held in Barcelona. The exhibition clothed the characters evoked in the readers’ minds by twenty different literary works.

The designers who took part in 20 dress designs, all members of the Association of Fashion Designers of Spain, interpreted great works of literature, bringing together the two art forms.

The list of designers and writers was as follows: Loewe and Miguel de Cervantes; Duyos and Lev Tolstói; Roberto Verino and Anna Akhmatova; Hannibal Laguna and José Ángel Valente; Ana Locking and Olvido García Valdés; Juanjo Oliva and Marina Tsvetayeva; Lemoniez and Anton Chekhov; Devota & Lomba and Gabiel García Márquez; Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada and Mario Vargas Llosa; Jesús del Pozo and Carlos Fuentes; David Delfín and Antonio Gamoneda; Miriam Ocáriz and Ana María Matute; Ailanto and Miguel Delibes; Custo Barcelona and Mercè Rodoreda; Miguel Palacio and Carmen Martín Gaite; Roberto Torretta and Antonio Muñoz Molina; Amaya Arzuaga and María Zambrano; Lydia Delgado and Rosa Chacel; and Ángel Schlesser and Nikolai Gogol.

Publication of a trilingual catalogue in Catalan, Spanish and English that reproduces the dress designs created for the occasion by the twenty designers, together with the texts of the Spanish, Latin American and Russian writers who inspired them.

Organised by: Roca, the Leading Global Bathroom Brand, and the Spanish Association of Fashion Designers. In collaboration with: Spanish Ministry of Culture, Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Institute of Foreign Trade and Cervantes Institute

Dates: 16 June to 30 September 2011

Venue: Roca Barcelona Gallery, Barcelona

Production of a bookmark

The year 2019, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the second edition of Aloma, the only novel from the 1930s that Mercè Rodoreda did not reject. The Mercè Rodoreda Foundation has decided to celebrate this occasion with secondary schools, libraries and cultural spaces through the promotion of a series of activities and a travelling exhibition.

Organised by: Mercè Rodoreda Foundation

Dates: 24 January 2019 to December 2020

Venue: all over Catalonia

Collaborating organisations: Barcelona Public Libraries, the Library Service of the Government of Catalonia and the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation (RTVE).

Curator: Neus Real

Tour venues: 2019 2020