The first event for the Museum in 2016 will be the celebration of its first anniversary on January 22. After recalling the inaugural events and taking stock of the first year of activity, the new season will begin, covering the months of January to June 2016.

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PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAMMING

Between January and June 2016, a total of 22 shows for all audiences and tastes will be offered, with a clear predominance of music. The activities have been carried out by invitation or at partnership with relevant institutions in the performing arts sector at national and international level. In this sense, it is worth mentioning that many of the collaborations initiated since the inauguration of the Museum -one year ago- with Navarrese cultural institutions, will see the light in this coming season: the concerts of the Conservatory of Pamplona, the Symphonic Orchestra of Navarre or the auroros of Peralta, are a sample.

The new season at the Teatro del Museo brings with it the second edition of three cycles that began to be programmed in the museum's first year. February will be the month of dance, with various activities programmed under the umbrella of the "Coda en movimiento" brand. In March, "Cartographies" will focus on music. And, on dates close to Easter, a musical performance will be programmed, called "Musicae Artis", which will present a different production each year. This year, it is a concert with more than 120 auroros, from different towns in Navarra, who will offer an itinerant concert through the university campus to culminate with a musical performance in the Museum's theater.

"Coda en movimiento" is a dance series curated annually by the dance critic of El País, Roger Salas. In this 2016 edition, it aims to bring the world of dance through film. It starts with the screening of the classic musical West Side Story and the performance of Marquese Scott, a renowned choreographer and dancer specialized in the "dubstepHe is a renowned choreographer and dancer specializing in the "dubstep" technique, who has achieved great success thanks to the videos of his choreographies on YouTube, which already have more than 130 million views.

"Cartografías", coordinated this year by Joseba Torre, musical composer, pays tribute to international artists, creators and local groups of great prestige, and travels through the artistic territories that accompanied the pictorial emergence of the avant-garde of the twentieth century, as well as offering a forum for reflection and essay for new generations in search of artistic proposals of all subject. The Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra will offer one of the programmed concerts.

As a complement to the performance of some artists at the Museum, a series of meetings and masterclasses will be held with them, open to the public. Quico Cadaval, oratory expert; Agustín González Acilu, composer; Rafael Moneo, architect; Marquese Scott, dubstep dancer; José Carlos Martínez, director of the National Dance Company; Virgilio Sieni, director dance at the Venice Biennale; or Carlos Mena, countertenor, among others.

EXHIBITIONS

Three new exhibitions will be inaugurated in the first semester of next year. They are works by artists who have participated in the project of creation promoted by the center since 2002, called "Tender Bridges.Tender Puentes".

 

Joan Fontcuberta

Great exhibition retrospective of the Catalan photographer Joan Fontcuberta. His work dialogues and at the same time adapts to the environment of the University and finds the partnership of the Museum of Natural Sciencesof the university center, which has about 7,000 pieces (animals and minerals) from all over the world.

 

Atelier Retaguardia

The Atelier Retaguardia was a team of five photographers (Martí Llorens, Rebecca Mutell, Arcangela Regis, Israel Ariño and Xavier Mulet) who, when they disbanded, donated their entire work to the Museum. They used 19th century photographic techniques for their artistic creations. They carried out a very important work of research, collecting, preservation and transmission of primitive photography, which is an authentic intangible heritage of humanity.

 

Pierre Gonnord

The French photographer and portraitist, resident in Spain since 1988, has been awarded this year with the award International Photography of Alcobendas and in 2007 with the award de la Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid.

Pierre Gonnord has exhibited all over the world and his portraits are part of institutional collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the CNAP (French State Collection) and the Saastamonien in Helsinki.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

January 26th. Sergio Rubira "Conceptual practices and museum" and "Curatorship as essay: test and error".

He has been Editor-in-Chief of EXIT Express magazine (Madrid, 2003-2005); Director attachment of the three magazines of group publishing house EXIT (Madrid, 2006-2009) and is currently publisher External Editor of EXIT magazine.

February 3rd. Nieves Acedo. "Introduction to the Art Market: the role of the museum in the generation of value."

Expert in Aesthetics and Art processes. Director of department of Fine Arts. Professor of department of Art at Nebrija, PhD in Art History from the Universidad San Pablo-CEU, MBA from the Nebrija Business School and graduate from the Universidad Complutense.

February 16. Fernando Castro Flórez. "Performative appointments in unhinged time. Modes and strategies of the curatorial twilight."

D. in Aesthetics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he is Senior Associate Professor. He has written in cultural supplements of newspapers such as El País, Diario 16, El Independiente, El Sol or El Mundo. For more than ten years he has been working as an art critic for ABC Cultural.

February 25th. Olga Fernández. PhD in Philosophy- Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

April 13th. Nuria Enguita. "Curating as an act of editing". She is co-editor of Afterall magazine and team member director of the art and thought program at the International University of Andalusia- UNIA. From June 1998 to September 2008 she was manager of projects at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, where she has organized exhibitions and publications.

April 19. Jaime Rosales. "The curatorship as an act of editing". Director film winner of a Goya for best director for La Soledad (2007).

CINEMA

The film program will essentially consist of a general cycle to be held from January to June. Under the program's degree scroll "What is cinema, etc.", it will propose several mini-cycles that will involve as many aesthetic and conceptual approaches to the history and present of cinema, presenting both fiction classics and documentaries, contemporary films (including several that will be premiered in Pamplona) and artistic or experimental works. director We will also have some guests, such as the filmmaker Jaime Rosales, winner of a award Goya for best director for La soledad ( 2007), who will have a meeting with the public and will present one of his latest films.

Likewise, the permanent film program will continue at conference room 5 (Floor -1), with a new program of films by Norman McLaren graduate "The Dancer", which will run parallel to some of the dance performance activities.

Finally, as a novelty, Saturday afternoons will offer family movies at the museum, with a selection of classics and recent films of all genres, especially designed for children.