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Thursday, 8 June 2023 Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200 and online platform
Artistic Research Encounter
Online platform4pm Welcome and Presentation
― Conducted by Laia Blasco Soplon and Germán Labrador Méndez
4:15pm Presentation of Final Projects from UOC ’s Bachelor’s Degree in Art
― With Albert Comerma Bertran, Loreto Binvignat Streeter, Joan Codina Donaire, Alba López Revelles, Aida Martí Pago and Cesc Sidera Roca.Albert Comerma Bertran. El Transbordador (The Shuttle), 2022
This work explores the artist’s personal memory via four specific components: text, the found image, the technical element and the electric guitar. The project starts from a need for searching in a process of self-transformation — the origin of the conceptual deployment of the work — and seeks to respond to situations of change, key moments which have occurred in recent years in his life. More than finding certainties, he devises new interrogations from artistic research.Loreto Binvignat Streeter. Biotex, 2022
A project, resulting from research into regenerative and biodegradable biomaterials, which imagines other possible futures and new ways to create art by placing value on concepts of sustainability, innovation, science and avant-garde.Joan Codina Donaire. Seguir con el problema. Hacia el abismo, (Carry On with the Problem. Towards the Abyss), 2022–2023.
This work looks to question, create dialogue with and generate new discourses on the exploitation of space through the rotation between the use and disuse of thousands of objects which inevitably increase the environmental footprint and could ultimately put humanity at risk, reflecting on an inability to take on the necessary commitment to the environment.Alba López Revelles. El reflejo de los dientes del lobo (The Reflection of the Wolf’s Teeth), 2023
This project is a contemporary illustrated literary work related to the genre of modern poetry. An intimist-style book made up of narrative texts, poetry and micro-poetry, with the collection created to give a voice to social problems in the most human and sensitive way possible.Aida Martí Pago. Monument 24, 2022
This project focuses on the Commemorative Monument of the Battle of the Ebro (Tortosa, 1964), an imposing propaganda work located in the middle of the Ebro River, and symbolically charged, which was conceived and unveiled during Franco’s dictatorship. The work pursues processes in the gestation, production and activation of the monument by mining archives, and going to the heart and roots of the piece in all its scope. From the work a critical visual essay is distilled in the form of an art publication, playing with the materiality of the work.Cesc Sidera Roca. No matter what, Listen!, 2021
Noises, electromagnetic pulses, radio waves, etc. Inaudible anthrophonies fill the visual vacuums of our local landscape with discursiveness. The art project No matter what, Listen! maps the process of subjectively transforming the identity of the artist’s local environment into agency and an aural temple.5:30pm Debate
―Moderated by Laia Blasco Soplon6:30pm Break
7pm Conversation with Clàudia Pagès Rabal
―Presented and moderated by María Iñigo Clavo and Aida Sánchez de Serdio MartínIn this encounter, María Iñigo Clavo and Aida Sánchez de Serdio Martín, researchers and professors on UOC’s Bachelor’s Degree in Art, engage in conversation with visual artist, performer and writer Claudia Pagès (Barcelona, 1990), whose artistic research explores the multitude of formats for thinking about the insertion of bodies in legal frameworks within a capitalist and migratory context. The conversation, followed by a talk, addresses themes the artist explores in her works, how she articulates art-making and thought in her projects, her formative experience, and her process of professionalisation.
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Friday, 9 June 2023 Meeting point: Nouvel Building, Library and Documentation Centre
Workshop with Patricia Esquivias and Matteo Locci
This workshop sees artists Patricia Esquivias and Matteo Locci go on a walk to test the Museo’s centripetal force. The time the activity will end is not set and is inversely proportional to the group’s indecision.
Aimed primarily at students and recent Art and Fine Arts graduates
![Claudia Pagès, Gerundi Circular [Gerundio Circular], 2021. Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Fotografía: Roberto Ruiz](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/claudia-pages-snippet.png.webp)
Held on 08 jun 2023
Open Chair is a project which stems from a collaboration between Museo Reina Sofía and the Bachelor’s Degree in Art at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and aims to annually organise an in-person encounter to intersect and place in dialogue university with museum. The space, geared towards training artists, seeks to contribute to creating an expanded and connected community of student creators and researchers, and is linked to the Museo Reina Sofía Study Centre.
Departing from this point, and from its first edition under the title Forms of Thinking, the Chair places value on artistic research as a space from which to generate thought, welcoming some of today’s pertinent critical debates. It is a public programme which starts with the presentation of a selection of six final degree works by students from the UOC’s aforementioned Art Degree, opening a subsequent discussion to share processes, methodologies, questions and learnings related to artistic practice and reflection. The Chair will then host a public conversation with visual artist, performer and writer Clàudia Pagès centred on her work, methodology, experience and career, and will conclude with a workshop conducted by Patricia Esquivias and Matteo Locci, whereby a walk will put into practice the methodology of performative research.
Organising Committee
Laia Blasco Soplon (UOC), Muriel Gómez Pradas (UOC), Diana Guijarro Carratalá (UOC), María Iñigo Clavo (UOC), Germán Labrador Méndez (Museo Reina Sofía), Mariona Peraire Selva (Museo Reina Sofía-UOC), Aida Sánchez de Serdio Martín (UOC)
Organised by
Museo Reina Sofía and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Programme
Inside the framework of
Participants
Loreto Binvignat Streeter is a designer and artist whose work brings together design, sustainability, innovation and research. She is an Art graduate from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).
Laia Blasco Soplon is the director of UOC’s Bachelor’s Degree in Art. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona and is a candidate on UOC’s Online PhD Programme in Information Technology and Networks. Her artistic and academic research focuses on the creation, study and critique of interactive visual tools for experimentation and learning.
Joan Codina Donaire is an artist. His interest in art-making can be understood as an obsession with creating images that depict human beings and their relationships and behaviours. His works reflect on life, art and human misery, and from daily life, absurdity and irony he looks to create new realities which lay bare our contradictions.
Albert Comerma Bertran is an electric guitarist who plays live and records in Spain, and is a guitar and music teacher, a columnist in didactics for Cutaway Guitar Magazine and an endorser of different international brands. Currently, his work on electric guitar and thought is carried out under the name Eremitt.
Patricia Esquivias is a storyteller and narrator. In her videos, drawings, photography, sculptures and installations she deconstructs hegemonic narratives and offers alternative routes to reconstruct them and rediscover lost stories, taking as her point of departure events, characters, cultural objects, phenomena from pop culture and archive images. She has displayed her work in Spain (Museo Reina Sofía, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona), Germany (Frankfurter Kunstverein, 5th Berlin Biennale), the USA (White Columns, New Museum, Hammer Museum, Midway Contemporary Art) and the UK (EASTInternational, Tate Modern).
María Iñigo Clavo is a professor on UOC’s Bachelor’s Degree in Art. Her research themes include colonialism, museology, modernity and its inventions of otherness, critical heritage, and art and curatorship in Latin America, with a focus on Brazilian art.
Germán Labrador Méndez is the director of the Museo Reina Sofía’s Public Activities Department.
Matteo Locci is a multimedia artist and researcher who articulates his work through collaboration with multiple collectives of which he is either a member or ally. Among other collectives, he is the co-founder of the ATI collective from Rome (2014), whose work considers questions around contemporary political representations, architectural ideology and interventions in public space. He is a founding member of the collective Funduk (2020), where he works on perceptive and interactive concerns in the link between speech, language and politics.
Alba López Revelles is a multi-disciplinary artist whose concerns from a very young age have revolved around the art world, particularly drawing, literature and poetry. She began a degree in Fine Arts at Universitat de Barcelona, and continued her studies at UOC. The themes she explores include violence, introspection and the gender condition, and also works on herself using her alter ego “el lobo” (the wolf).
Aida Martí Pago is an interior designer and Art graduate at UOC. In parallel with her art studies, she has embarked upon a personal and professional project as a freelance artist, employing different languages and techniques in her work to create a symbiosis between training and practice. She currently works as a drawing teacher in secondary education.
Clàudia Pagès Rabal is a visual artist, performer and writer. Her most recent work focuses on the logistics system and its link to jurisdictional language, with both operating in the verb tense of a non-finite and violent gerund which has direct effects on bodies. She has performed and exhibited at Fundació Joan Miró and Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Barcelona), Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art (Middelburg), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Capc Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux (Bordeaux) and the Sharjah Art Foundation (United Arab Emirates), among others.
Aida Sánchez de Serdio Martín holds a PhD in Fine Arts from Universitat de Barcelona and is a professor on UOC’s Bachelor’s Degree in Art. Her main field of specialisation is educational and community practices in relation to arts and culture, understood as a place to produce knowledge, political debate and social transformation.
Cesc Sidera Roca is an Art graduate at UOC. He is a freelance sound artist and composer with over fifteen years’ experience in creating and developing community art and culture projects. In recent years, the body of his art projects has sparked dialogue between experimentation, research and the socialisation of sound and listening as an art object and social agent.
![Matteo Locci, Documentation from the up-to-date rare, and, back then, very first time I signed an artwork with my own birth name [Rara documentación y, en aquel entonces, primera vez que alguien documentó una obra de arte que firmé con mi propio nombre de nacimiento hasta la fecha], 2013. Archivo personal del artista](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/mateo-locci.png.webp)
![Miguel Brieva, ilustración de la novela infantil Manuela y los Cakirukos (Reservoir Books, 2022) [izquierda] y Cibeles no conduzcas, 2023 [derecha]. Cortesía del artista](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/ecologias_del_deseo_utopico.jpg.webp)
![Ángel Alonso, Charbon [Carbón], 1964. Museo Reina Sofía](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/perspectivas_ecoambientales.jpg.webp)
Más actividades
Christian Nyampeta and the École du soir
13, 14, 15 NOV, 11, 12, 13 DIC 2025
Christian Nyampeta is a Rwandan artist, musician and film-maker whose work encompasses pedagogies and community forms of knowledge production and transmission. His Ècole du soir (Evening School) is an art project conceived as a mobile space of collective learning and is named in homage to Ousmane Sembène (1923–2007), a pioneer of African cinema who defined his films as “evening classes” for the people, a medium of education and emancipation through culture.
This block is made up of three double sessions: the video work of Christian Nyampeta, the films of École du soir and one of Ousmane Sèmbene’s feature-length films. Nyampeta will introduce all three first sessions.
UP/ROOTING
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 NOV 2025
Museo Reina Sofía and MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) invite applications for the 2025 iteration of the School of Common Knowledge, which will take place from November 11th to 16th in Madrid and Barcelona.
The School of Common Knowledge (SCK) draws on the network, knowledge and experience of L’Internationale, a confederation of museums, art organizations and universities that strives to reimagine and practice internationalism, solidarity and communality within the cultural field. This year, the SCK program focuses on the contested and dynamic notions of rooting and uprooting in the framework of present —colonial, migrant, situated, and ecological— complexities.
Building on the legacy of the Glossary of Common Knowledge and the current European program Museum of the Commons, the SCK invites participants to reflect on the power of language to shape our understanding of art and society through a co-learning methodology. Its ambition is to be both nomadic and situated, looking at specific cultural and geopolitical situations while exploring their relations and interdependencies with the rest of the world.
In the current context fraught with war and genocide, the criminalization of migration and hyper-identitarianism, concepts such as un/belonging become unstable and in need of collective rethinking:
How can we reframe the sense and practice of belonging away from reductive nationalist paradigms or the violence of displacement? How to critically hold the entanglement of the colonial routes and the cultural roots we are part of? What do we do with the toxic legacies we inherit? And with the emancipatory genealogies and practices that we choose to align with? Can a renewed practice of belonging and coalition-making through affinity be part of a process of dis/identification? What geographies —cultural, artistic, political— do these practices of de/centering, up/rooting, un/belonging and dis/alignment designate?
Departing from these questions, the program consists of a series of visits to situated initiatives (including Museo Situado, Paisanaje and MACBA's Kitchen, to name a few), engagements with the exhibitions and projects on view (Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture from Panafrica), a keynote lecture by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, as well as daily reading and discussion gatherings, editorial harvest sessions, and conviviality moments.
The Joaquim Jordà Residencies 2025
Friday, 7 November 2025 - 7pm
In this activity, the recipients of the 2024–2025 Joaquim Jordà Residencies call, María Aparicio (Argentina, 1992) and Andrés Jurado (Colombia, 1980), present respective projects related to their body of work in an open session in which to discover the creative interests of two of the most up-and-coming independent film-makers in Latin America today.
María Aparicio presents the working process behind her film De sol a sol (From Sun to Sun), along with a brief journey through the films prior to this project and her filmic searches in recent years. Aparicio synthesises the storyline of De sol a sol from the silhouettes of a group of men who appear between the stalks of a reedbed. Their knives glisten as the sun hits them, flashing and disappearing with their hand movements. Apprentices split the canes using no method; seasoned workers cut with skill. They are workers from a sugar mill in northern Argentina and are watched by Juan Bialet Massé, accompanied by Rosich, assistant and photographer. It is Argentina in 1904 and he is carrying out a mission assigned to him by his country’s government: to travel the Argentinian provinces, reporting on the state of the working classes.
Andrés Jurado, for his part, will look over his own work and the work of the La Vulcanizadora lab in this session. He will also open the archive stemming from the research process in the project Tonada, a journey through the succession of peace agreement betrayals in the history of Colombia. From the colonial era, understood in tumultuous terms, as a hurricane that keeps swirling, to the present day he traces the stories of people like Tacurrumbí, Benkos Biohó, Bateman and the many women and men who were betrayed by governments and oppressors. Tonada seeks to build a sound and film dialogue between the guerrilla disarmament of 1953 and the period following the peace agreement of 2016, invoking these and other events and confronting traumas of betrayal through a film composition devised to be sung. But what is sung? Some of these songs are heard and voices are shared in this presentation.
The Joaquim Jordà Residences programme for film-makers and artists was set in motion by the Museo Reina Sofía in 2022. The initiative comprises a grant for writing a film project rooted in experimentation and essay, as well as two subsequent residencies in FIDMarseille and Doclisboa, international film festivals devoted to exploring non-fictional film and new forms of audiovisual expression.
Ylia and Marta Pang
Thursday, 6 November - 8pm
The encounter between Spanish DJ and producer Ylia and visual artist Marta Pang is presented in the form of a premiere in the Museo Reina Sofía. Both artists converge from divergent trajectories to give form to a new project conceived specifically for this series, which aims to create new stage projects by setting out from the friction between artists and dialogue between disciplines.
![Carol Mansour y Muna Khalidi, A State of Passion [Estado de pasión], 2024, película](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/palestine%20cinema%20day%202.jpg.webp)
Palestine Cinema Days
Sábado 1 de noviembre, 2025 – 19:00 h
The Museo Reina Sofia joins the global action in support of Palestine with the screening of A State of Passion (2024), a documentary by Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi. The film features in Palestine Cinema Days Around the World, an annual festival, held globally every November, which aims to show films made in Palestine to an international audience. The initiative was conceived as a form of cultural resistance which seeks to give a voice to artists from Palestine, question dominant narratives and create networks of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Palestine Cinema Days Around the World originates from Palestine Cinema Days, a festival organised in Palestine since 2014 with the aim of granting visibility to Palestinian cinema and to support the local film community. In 2023 the festival was postponed because of the war in Gaza, and has since become borderless in scope, holding close to 400 international screenings in almost sixty countries in 2024. This global effort is a show of solidarity with Palestine and broadens the voices and support networks of the Palestinian people around the world.
A State of Passion exposes the atrocities committed against the Gaza population via the testimony of Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah, a Palestinian-British plastic surgeon living in London who decides to return to Gaza and save lives in the city’s hospitals amid the Israeli army’s indiscriminate bombing of the population. A necessary film exposé of the experience of unrelentingly working twenty-four hours a day for forty-three days in the Al Shifa and Al Ahli Hospitals in the city of Gaza.