The University of Navarra Museum collection is a growing legacy, centered on photography and the modern and contemporary art collection. These two pillars provide a space for interdisciplinary encounters between photography, painting, sculpture, and video creation.
Since 2002, the Museum has been developing a creative research and artist residency project: Tender Puentes(Building Bridges). This initiative promotes dialogue between contemporary artists and our collection, which inspires them to create new artistic projects and new works. Tender Puentes is complemented by theoretical reflection in the form of a book, a conference, and othereducational activities.
National photography awards such as Bleda y Rosa, Joan Fontcuberta, and Javier Vallhonrat; artists Pierre Gonnord, Vik Muniz, Antoni Muntadas, Fernando Pagola, and Carlos Cánovas have participated in this program. In addition, since 2016, the Museum has expanded the project to visual artists from other disciplines.
The Performing Arts and Music Artist Residency Programsalso draw on the MUN Collection as a source of inspiration. New dance, music, and theater creations are based on and rooted in works from the Collection, giving rise to important creative and research processes. The results are shared through conferences and publications: Cuadernos de creación is the editorial line that covers the different phases of their development and the fundamental milestones that have led to the final piece.
Artists
Vik Muniz
He tells us about his exhibition and his work process.
Antonio Lopez
Antonio López tells us about Isabel Baquedano
Teresa Catalán
He talks to us about Isabel Baquedano and the exhibition "On Beauty and the Sacred."
Iñaki Bergera
Share your latest exhibitions
Javier Viver
Showcase the work in your new photobook
Aitor Ortiz
The artist Aitor Ortiz and his new projects
Luis González Palma
Luis González Palma opens the doors to his studio during quarantine in Argentina
Javier Vallhonrat
Javier Vallhonrat invites you on a walk through the invisible forest
Juan Ugalde
Juan Ugalde opens the doors to his studio
Pierre Gonnord
The Mauthausen Suitcase
Pierre Gonnord
Pierre Gonnord shares the creative process behind his latest work
Cecilia Paredes
Cecilia Paredes and her workshop in Philadelphia, USA.
Building Bridges
It is a curatorial project promoted by the University of Navarra Museum since 2002.
This project proposes a dialogue between contemporary photographers and the work of 19th-century pioneers in Spain, offering not only artistic creation but also theoretical reflection in the form of a book, conference, and other educational activities that give voice to works within a context that seems to reproduce a similar situation: the dawn of major technological changes and new forms of communication.
Various contemporary authors of national and international renown participate in the study and reflection on the founding 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 awards such as Bleda y Rosa, Joan Fontcuberta, Javier Vallhonrat, as well as other artists such as Pierre Gonnord and Carlos Cánovas, among others, have participated in this artist residency program. Currently, Fernando Pagola, Antoni Muntadas, and Vik Muniz are focusing their attention on the museum's collection, developing their own creative projects.
Artistic Residencies for Performing Arts and Music
The performing arts, music, and performance art, especially those that
bring artistic disciplines into dialogue and are innovative, have a prominent place in the Museum.
Through its Artist Residency Programs, the Museum supports and facilitates artists in carrying out projects based on the collection, resulting in their own works with a renewed staging, new artistic languages, use of technology, or a new way of addressing the audience that participates in them...
Thanks to the knowledge acquired in the Tender Puentes projects in the exhibition area, the creative process itself and the research involved are the subject of conferences and publications. Cuadernos de creación (Creation Notebooks) is the editorial line that covers the different phases of its development, its findings, the decisions that have led to the final piece, and the fundamental milestones of the creative process. The entire project is accompanied by a visual summary, the "making of" the piece that is finally premiered at the Museum.
Dani Pannullo, Itsaso A. Cano, and Daniel Martín are the titles already published, and dancer Jon Maya will soon be joining them. Antonio Ruz and Daniel Abreu, both national dance award winners, are already working on their Creation Notebooks, which will be published soon in the Museum's collection.