The ARCO Foundation entrusts the MUN with the study and dissemination of the ARCO Collection

The ARCO Foundation and the Museo Universidad de Navarra have signed a collaboration agreement that makes it possible for students of the MUN's Master's Degree in Curatorial Studies to research the ARCO collection, made up of 384 works. As a result of this study, the students will carry out their Master's Thesis, which will consist in the presentation of an exhibition project for the MUN. The alliance was signed by José Vicente de los Mozos, president of the Board of Trustees of Fundación ARCO and IFEMA MADRID, and Jaime García del Barrio, director of Museo Universidad de Navarra.

Thanks to this agreement, the students of the VI postgraduate class will have access to the ARCO Collection during the 2023-24 academic year. In addition, during the second semester, the group will visit the CA2M (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo) in Madrid, where the collection is archived, preserved and exhibited. The alliance between the two institutions also foresees other actions to make the ARCO Foundation's collection more visible.

In a first meeting at the university campus of Pamplona with the students, Maribel Lopez, director of ARCO and born patron of the ARCO Foundation, made a first presentation of the funds and encouraged them to be transgressors in their approaches: "don't be afraid to find new readings of the ARCO Collection, don't be afraid to invent words and stories; our Collection is very free in the way it is looked at and we trust in your youth, creativity and perspective". Likewise, Lopez pointed out that this experience will be a very real exercise for future curators, since "you will have to research about the pieces, the artists, detect what would catch the public's attention, take into account conservation and transportation aspects, structure an exhibition project and develop it with flexibility, evolving it, because you will find pitfalls, as in every living project".