The Salon de Mayo (1956-1969), known in the plural as Salones de Mayo, was an annual contest created by the Association of Current Artists, with the aim of contributing to breaking with the situation of marginality suffered by post-trends. -impresionistas in Barcelona and Catalonia in the 1950s and 1960s and, in addition, to find in the private sector the economic support for their professional activities, given the few facilities they received from official institutions.
Driven by the board of directors of the Association of Current Artists that presided over Alexandre Cirici, like the room organized by the Parisian Société des Artistes Indépendants, it was a famous meeting point for artists, critic and public, which brought together in its thirteenth editions more than 900 artists from Catalonia and also internationally, and is considered a precedent action of what would become the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona.
It had its headquarters in the old chapel of the Santa Cruz and San Pablo Hospital in Barcelona and also, in its latest editions, the Parc de la Ciutadella de Barcelona. They presided over the Hall of May Emili Bosch Roger (1957), Ramon Rogent i Perés (1958), Antoni Cumella (1959), and Santiago Surós Horno (1960-1969).
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