05 Sep 2025
A curatorial perspective on contemporary art.
Next Tuesday, September 9, 2025, at 7:00 p.m, the University of Navarra Museum (MUN) will open the exhibition “Dear viewer, what are you looking at?” which will remain on display until February 8 in the Torre Room.
Through 35 selected pieces from the ARCO Foundation Collection, a cultural institution dedicated to promoting collecting and disseminating contemporary art, curators Florencia Baliña, Andrés Ruiz, Aroa Urteaga, and Andrea Vargas generate a dialogue between art and the public.
The Master’s Degree in Curatorial Studies at MUN
Curatorial curation, also known as curatorship, is the professional practice of selecting, organizing, and presenting works of art in exhibitions. This process requires not only artistic knowledge, but also skills in research, design, and communication. The curator acts as a mediator between the artist and the public, creating a visual discourse that enriches the viewer’s experience.
The Master’s Degree in Curatorial Studies at the University of Navarra is the first official program in Spain dedicated to training art curators. It offers practical and innovative training based on active learning within the MUN environment.
Students have the opportunity to work directly on the conception and development of exhibitions, gaining experience in all phases of the curatorial process and knowledge from the best museum directors, such as Tania Pardo (Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo), Pablo Berástegui (Casa Encendida), Carlos Urroz (Museo Reina Sofía), Sergio Rubira (TEA), and Gabriel Pérez Barreriro (MUN), among many other artists.
“Dear viewer, what are you looking at?”: an exhibition that invites reflection
The exhibition organized by the MUN, in collaboration with the Pablo Palazuelo Foundation, focuses on the viewer, recognizing that every artist, when creating, considers who will observe their work. Thus, it invites the public to reflect on their way of looking, beyond the sense of sight, and to become an active participant, establishing an intellectual link with the work.
The exhibition shows that the perception of a work is not passive, but is constructed through interaction with each visitor, turning the artistic experience into an active process of interpretation.
The curatorial proposal emphasizes the viewer’s experience, stimulating reflection on how our gaze can modify the meaning of the work and how each person, when interacting with it, contributes their own narrative. At the same time, it highlights the relevance of curatorial curation, since the selection and arrangement of the pieces create a journey designed to provoke questions and discover new connections between art and observer.
In short, “Dear viewer, what are you looking at?” not only exhibits contemporary art, but also invites each visitor to complete the work with their own perspective, turning the gaze into a creative and participatory act: a silent conversation between art and the viewer.
