Celeste Garduño and Santiago Ávila, students of the Master in Curatorial Studies, will curate an exhibition with pieces from the Bergé Collection at Cuatrecasas.

The exhibition proposal Function and Fictionby Celeste Garduño Carbajal and Santiago Ávila Albuja, students of the Master in Curatorial Studies at Museo Universidad de Navarra, has won the competition promoted by this center in collaboration with the Bergé Collection and the Cuatrecasas law firm in Madrid. 

The project has been selected among those presented by the students of the IV promotion of the postgraduate course and will be inaugurated on September 8 in the hall of the Cuatrecasas headquarters in Madrid. In the exhibition, the curators, with the help of 9 contemporary art pieces chosen from the Bergé Collection, populate a space conceived as aseptic and businesslike to invite us to think about the human and functional relationship we have with spaces and objects of everyday use, to which these pieces give a new meaning. In this way, the exhibition questions the function of space and objects from a more personal and intimate perspective, and incorporates creativity and contemporary art as everyday elements of reflection in the workplace.

The jury of the competition - made up ofJorge Badía Carro, CEO of Cuatrecasas; Alicia Alcocer Koplowitz, collector; Ángel J. Gómez Montoro, president of the MUN Board of Trustees; Nieves Acedo del Barrio, director of the Master's Degree in Curatorial Studies; Pedro Enciso Bergé, vice president of Bergé y cía; and María Aguilera Aranaz, curator of the Bergé Collection - has highlighted the high quality of the proposals received, from which it has selected this one "for its clarity in the exposition of concepts, its sharpness in understanding for the public and the humor in the selection of the pieces in keeping with the project".

REFLECTIVE AND CREATIVE VISION

With Function and Fiction, the young curators have had the opportunity to apply in practice the skills learned during the master's degree and to continue reflecting on key questions about art curating. In the words of Garduño and Avila, "the Master's training has been fundamental, as it has allowed us to have a reflective and creative vision of curatorial practices. Our concerns about the different types of audiences, spaces and projects arise from our curatorial studies". In this sense, they emphasize that in this project they have put into practice "several important aspects learned during the course, especially in recognizing the importance and difficulty of proposing projects that go beyond traditional museum spaces. In addition, our work has been developed in a collaborative manner at all times. This has been a common teaching and practice throughout the Master's program, which insists on the importance of organization and teamwork". 

This responds to the theoretical-practical vocation with which this postgraduate course has been conceived, which complements a solid theoretical training with a practical dimension, very close to the current reality of art, marked by private and corporate collecting. This curatorial award responds to its search for professional opportunities for its students in innovative environments in which curatorship adds value.

Both companies, Bergé and Cuatrecasas, have been collaborating for decades. This proposal, however, goes a step further and not only proposes the exhibition of the Bergé Collection at its location in the Cuatrecasas law firm, but Función y ficción complements the selection and proposed distribution of the pieces with a daring mediation plan that involves all the workers and collaborators of the firm in the exhibition project and in the reflection it provokes.