The Museo Universidad de Navarra collection is a growing legacy, articulated around photography and the collection of modern and contemporary art. On these two axes, a space for interdisciplinary encounters between photography, painting and sculpture is fostered.
Since 2002, the Museum has been developing a creative research and artistic residency project: Tender Puentes. This proposal welcomes a dialogue between contemporary artists with the production of the pioneers of 19th century Spain and with the rest of the MUN collection. It is completed with a theoretical reflection in the form of a book, a conference and other teaching activities.
National photography prizes such as Bleda y Rosa, Joan Fontcuberta, Javier Vallhonrat; artists Pierre Gonnord, Vik Muniz, Antoni Muntadas, Fernando Pagola or Carlos Cánovas have participated in this program. In addition, since 2016, the Museum expands the project to visual artists from other disciplines.
The Artistic Residency Programs in Performing Arts and Music have a prominent place, putting the focus on the creative process and research. Their results are shared through conferences and publications: the Cuadernos de creación is the editorial line that collects the different phases of their development, their findings, the decisions that have given rise to the final piece and the fundamental milestones of the creative process. The project is accompanied by a visual summary, the making of the piece that is finally premiered at the Museum.
Artists
Vik Muniz
He tells us about his exhibition and his working process.
Antonio López
Antonio López talks to us about Isabel Baquedano
Teresa Catalán
He talks about Isabel Baquedano and the exhibition "On Beauty and the Sacred".
Iñaki Bergera
He shares his latest exhibitions
Javier Viver
Showing the work of his new photobook
Aitor Ortiz
The artist Aitor Ortiz and his new projects
Luis González Palma
Luis González Palma opens the doors of his studio during his quarantine in Argentina.
Javier Vallhonrat
Javier Vallhonrat invites to a walk through the invisible forest
Juan Ugalde
Juan Ugalde opens the doors of his studio to us
Pierre Gonnord
The Mauthausen suitcase
Pierre Gonnord
Pierre Gonnord shares the creative process of his latest work
Cecilia Paredes
Cecilia Paredes and her workshop in Philadelphia, USA.
Tender Puentes
It is a curatorial project promoted by Museo Universidad de Navarra since 2002.
This project proposes a dialogue between contemporary photographers and the production of those pioneers in Spain in the 19th century, also proposing - together with artistic creation - a theoretical reflection in the form of a book, conference and other teaching activities that allow a voice to be given to some works within a context that seems to reproduce a similar situation: the beginning of great technological changes and forms of communication.
Various contemporary authors of national and international prestige participate in the study and reflection on the foundational period of photography, with the aim of exploring and identifying the links that unite them and the issues that distance them from it. The invited authors develop their photographic projects in dialogue with the key pieces of universal photography contained in the Museum's Collection.
National photography prizes such as Bleda y Rosa, Joan Fontcuberta, Javier Vallhonrat as well as other artists such as Pierre Gonnord or Carlos Cánovas, among others, have participated in this artistic residency program. At present, Fernando Pagola, Antoni Muntadas or Vik Muniz are projecting their gaze on the Museum's collection by developing their own creative project.
Artistic Residencies in Performing Arts and Music
The performing, musical and performative arts, especially those that bring artistic disciplines into dialogue and are innovative, have a prominent place in the Museum.
innovative artistic disciplines in dialogue, have a prominent place in the Museum.
Through the Artistic Residency Programs, the Museum accompanies and facilitates artists to carry out projects based on the collection that result in pieces of their own production with a renewed staging, new artistic languages, use of technology or a new way of addressing the public that participates in them...
Thanks to the knowledge acquired in the projects of the Tender Puentes of the exhibition area, the creative process itself and the research involved are the subject of conferences and publications. Cuadernos de creación is the editorial line that collects the different phases of its development, its findings, the decisions that have given rise to the final piece and the fundamental milestones of the creative process. The entire project is accompanied by a visual summary, the "making of" of the piece that is finally premiered at the Museum.
Dani Pannullo, Itsaso A. Cano or Daniel Martín are the titles already published and will soon be joined by dancer Jon Maya. Antonio Ruz or Daniel Abreu, both national dance prizes, are already working on their Cuadernos de creación, which will be published soon in the Museum's collection.