Collaboration Programmes

Since mid-April MACBA has been collaborating with Magnet. Alliances for Education Success, a programme bringing together major cultural and scientific institutions and educational centers. Inspired by the American magnet schools and adapting it to a Catalan context for the first time, the project is promoted by the Department of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Fundació Jaume Bofill.

The aim is to work closely for four years with the educational centers so that the specific knowledge of the institution of reference (in our case, contemporary art) can impregnate day-to-day educational practice and the learning processes. As the title indicates, the intention is to act as a magnet: to provide magnetism to a particular educational center so it can become a referent in its own field.

Besides introducing a methodological innovation, the initiative aims to increase the number of students in the selected educational centers and to work on specific areas of knowledge, such as art, science and communication, in a practical manner.

A pilot project has already begun in three primary schools and one secondary school in Barcelona, with more joining us in the near future. Besides MACBA, the institutions participating at this early stage are TV3 and the Institute of Marine Sciences. MACBA will collaborate directly with the Escola Josep M. de Segarra and the Institut Moisès Broggi.

"MeLa – Museums in an Age of Migrations. Reinterpreting Europe’s Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century" is a research project that aims to reflect on the role of museums – with a special focus on specific areas such as museum libraries – in the construction and dissemination of European cultural heritage, and to identify the new paths that are opening up to museums and libraries in today’s context of mobility and change.

This four-year project funded by the European Commission brings together a consortium of academic institutions and museums from five European countries, coordinated by the Department of Architectural Design at Politecnico di Milano.

MACBA’s collaboration in the project, channelled through the MACBA Study Center, is based on the idea of exhibitions as discursive artefacts. From this point of departure, it explores different aspects such as thinking about and analysing relevant case studies from the history of exhibitions; using its own experience in managing the MACBA historical archive to develop a series of guidelines for archives and documentation, and a formal review of traditional presentation formats, in collaboration with several postgraduate programmes in architecture, interior design, etc.

The results of the MeLa Project call for proposals have now been released. The proposals address the redefinition of the lobby of the MACBA Study Center as a multifunctional space for activities and exhibitions of archival materials.

The jury has selected the projects that best resolved the specifications set out in the conditions of entry and the requirements of the space, in accordance with four categories: Urban Intervention, Interior Design, Furniture Design and Graphic Design

This is the list of finalists and winners for each category.

URBAN INTERVENTION IN FAÇADE AND SQUARE
1) "Open Call for Proposals Redefinition of the Lobby of Macba Study Center". Julia Ferrández, Jordi Biosca and Àngel Solanellas. ETSAB. Escola Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (Barcelona).

Finalists
2) “MACBA Lab”. Alessandra Giron, Silvia Ottaviano, Bernardo Cossio, Daiki Kato and Juan Pablo Costa. Politecnico di Milano (Milano).
3) “Redefinition of the Lobby of MACBA Study Center. Turning Site Weakness intro a Project Strenght”. Carla Compte, David Fontanils, Ramiro Chirotti and Ariadna Coloma. ETSAB. Escola Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (Barcelona).

DISTRIBUTION OF USES AND DESIGN OF INSIDE SPACES
1) “Open Call for Proposals Redefinition of the Lobby of Macba Study Center”. Julia Ferrández, Jordi Biosca and Àngel Solanellas. ETSAB. Escola Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (Barcelona).

Finalists
2) “Redefinition of the Lobby of MACBA Study Center. Turning Site Weakness intro a Project Strenght”. Carla Compte, David Fontanils, Ramiro Chirotti and Ariadna Coloma. ETSAB. Escola Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (Barcelona).
3) “El Lab”. Arturo González, Marc Ferrer, Berta Porta, Jordi Garcia, Alba Monferrer, Nieves Serra and Yann Figueiredo. Eina. Escola de Disseny i Art (Barcelona).

FURNITURE AND EXHIBITION DESIGN
1) “Arxiu”. Grupo Intermac: Cristina Bardés, Núria Baset, Nuria Bringué, Tatiana Contreras, Anaïs Eribald, Laia Ràfols and Griselda Rocafull. Eina. Escola de Disseny i Art (Barcelona).

Finalists
2) “El Lab”. Arturo González, Marc Ferrer, Berta Porta, Jordi Garcia, Alba Monferrer, Nieves Serra and Yann Figueiredo. Eina. Escola de Disseny i Art (Barcelona).
3) Tie between:
- “Arxiu MACBA”. Javier Arizu, Beatriz Arnau, Anna Berbiela, Belén Colomer, Óscar Coromina, Patricia García, Carla Osma and Raúl Vilanova. Eina. Escola de Disseny i Art (Barcelona).
- “Show the Backstage. MACBA Study Center”. 6roup: Cvetkovic Miloslay, Filipovic Nadica, Lagator Anita, Martini Marialucia and Solaja Dragana. Politecnico di Milano (Milano).

GRAPHIC DESIGN AND COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES
1) Tie between:
- “Centre d’Estudis MACBA”. Jessica Escanellas, Joan Marc Ferret, Raúl Aro, Marina Martínez, Edu Martínez and Amadeu Ventayol. Eina. Escola de Disseny i Art (Barcelona).
- “Arxiu MACBA”. Javier Arizu, Beatriz Arnau, Anna Berbiela, Belén Colomer, Óscar Coromina, Patricia García,Carla Osma and Raúl Vilanova. Eina. Escola de Disseny i Art (Barcelona).

Finalists
2) “El Lab”. Arturo González, Marc Ferrer, Berta Porta, Jordi Garcia, Alba Monferrer, Nieves Serra and Yann Figueiredo. Eina. Escola de Disseny i Art (Barcelona).
3) “Projecte de rehabilitació del Centre d’Estudis i Documentació del MACBA. L’Arxiu”. Dani Asenjo, Alícia Avià, Guillem Casasús, Helena Córdoba, Víctor Cruz, Jordi Deniel and Cynthia Segura. Eina. Escola de Disseny i Art (Barcelona).

Founded in 2009, L’Internationale is an ongoing collaborative project comprised of five museums and art-related archives and based on the shared use of the collections of the member institutions. The founding members of ’Internationale are the Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana; the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA); the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; the Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (M HKA), and the Július Koller Society, Bratislava (SJK).

Its aim is to collectively challenge the dominant narratives of art history and the reference cannon of Western art, and to study the inclusion and exclusion dynamics that take place in a unified European territory.

The first stage in this collaboration is entitled 1957-1986. Art from the Decline of Modernity to the Rise of Globalisation, a project supported by the European Union’s Culture Programme. It includes exhibitions, lectures and seminars for students and professionals.

Since the 2011-2012 academic year, MACBA's Educational Programmes Department has been collaborating with 'Creators IN RESIDENCE in Barcelona High Schools', a programme run by the Institut de Cultura and the Consorci d'Educació, Barcelona, in cooperation with the association A Bao A Qu.

'Creators IN RESIDENCE' aims to create links between art and education through ongoing dialogue among students, teachers and artists. This singular project allows students and teachers to actively witness the conception and production of an artwork, and to follow the methodologies of the resident artists up close. By drawing on the actual processes of contemporary creation, the project encourages artistic experimentation and educational innovation, as well as generating new models for learning in participatory contexts.

By taking part in the project, MACBA contributes tools for exploring artistic heritage and sets up links between the works in the permanent collection and classroom experiences, through specific tours conceived by the artists in conjunction with the Museum's Education Department.

Through its Public Programmes, the MACBA Study Center and the Independent Studies Programme (PEI), MACBA works alongside other entities, institutions and individuals who play a part in enriching a new kind of cultural patrimony. These three platforms set up vital and necessary links between heritage preservation and the dissemination of the knowledge that stems from it. Significant additions to its documentary collection mean that MACBA is now one of the most important archives in terms of the writing of contemporary art history. In this sense, the Museum also takes on the role of research center.

MACBA combines the production of its own content, exhibitions and publications with co-productions with other museums around the world. It also regularly collaborates with institutions that request loans of works from the MACBA Collection. The Museum’s commitment to research and diffusion allows its different areas of activities to open out and become part of a network with the complicity of external entities, positioning MACBA within a sphere of national and international scope.