Department of Culture and Heritage The Museum of Mallorca hosts until September 21 the installation “Bernardí Roig. We’ve reached hell!”, a highlight of Biennal B, the joint initiative by the Consell de Mallorca and Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani, which aims to bring contemporary art into dialogue with the island’s cultural heritage.

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Bernardí Roig turns the Museum of Mallorca into a blazing inferno, evoking the Bulls of Costitx

The opening, held on Thursday evening, drew hundreds of visitors and went beyond a traditional exhibition to become a truly immersive experience. A live performance with batucada percussion guided the audience through the museum, transforming it into a sensory hell that left the attendees both surprised and moved.

In his remarks, the President of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, emphasised:

“This exhibition invites us to reinterpret our heritage symbols and to reflect on what is present and what is missing. The Bulls of Costitx are a vital part of our identity, and through this work Bernardí Roig offers a poetic yet unsettling journey that places Mallorca at the heart of contemporary artistic debate.”

Curated by Jackie Herbst and Sofía Borrás, the installation features a nine-meter altar where plaster replicas of the ancient bull heads are displayed among rubble and sculptural fragments. Strobe lighting cuts across the space, interrupting perception and underscoring the fragility of presence.

According to the artist himself:

“What we see is not what is there, but what stares back at us.”

This interplay between the visible and the absent resonates with Roig’s recent trajectory, having previously worked with the Bulls of Costitx at the Centre Pompidou Málaga (2022) and the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid (2025).

The exhibition can be visited with extended opening hours from 9 am to 9 pm (closed on Monday, September 15). The project will culminate with a lecture-performance by Fernando Castro Flórez on September 25 at 7 pm at the post-Talayotic sanctuary of Son Corró, in Costitx.