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At IE School of Humanities, we emphasize the importance of daily exposure to art and culture. We believe that engaging with art enriches our community, fostering creativity, critical thinking, and a deeper appreciation of diverse perspectives.
Apart from our extensive agenda of extracurricular activities with our frequent collaborators, we bring the arts directly to our campuses, creating spaces where the IE community can observe, interact with, and be inspired by artworks in various contexts. These on-campus exhibitions and installations reflect and promote the core values of IE, including sustainability, innovation, and diversity.
Learn more about our upcoming, current, and past arts collaborations and on-campus exhibitions here.
Leave Here Your Fears
By Alicia Framis Â
Leave Here Your Fears was born from the artist's experiences during the pandemic, in which for many moments of uncertainty affected our way of being. Recently, these insecurities have increased with increasing war and global chaos in which we live. We have developed more fears, doubts, tears, anger, melancholy, loneliness, and, above all, stress. But, on the other hand, these experiences have given us the opportunity to acquire more solidarity, more humility, and greater acceptance of risk.
Leave Here Your Fears is a diamond made of mirrors or stained steel that rotates in the center of the room. With this interactive sculpture, the artist Alicia Framis invites you to leave your fears and prejudices. This awareness is necessary in order to have the exchange of giving and receiving to each other while abandoning our apparent differences. The rhinestone-shaped vessel operates as a  memorial to free yourself, abandon your fears, and reconnect with your environment and others.
Functioning as a sanctuary to connect with the world. Alicia Framis frees anyone who is willing to leave their psychological obstacles and be available in support to each other, allowing people to materialize and erase their daily toxic thoughts.
Discover the interactive sculpture in the 16th floor hub at the IE Tower in Madrid.
Beyond this participative arts collaboration, students and IE community members can access additional resources thanks to the support of the:
CNIO Arte
by the National Cancer Research Center
CNIO Arte is an initiative that establishes contact between scientists and leading international artists to explore the common territories between scientific research and artistic creation. Every year, CNIO Arte invites one of these scientists and an artist to engage in a dialogue that results in the creation of one or more pieces by the artist.
IE School of Humanities is proud to feature these works across our three campuses in a celebration of the link between art, creativity, and the advancement of science.
From September 2024, IE University will host the audiovisual works END by Dora GarcÃa created with the collaboration of David Nogués-Bravo, Professor at the Globe Institute of the University of Copenhagen and Meditación by artist Amparo Garrido in collaboration with Elizabeth Blackburn, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology (2009). The exhibition also counts on the work Fulguraciones by renowned contemporary visual artist and IE University adjunct professor Daniel Canogar with the collaboration of German scientist Sarah Teichmann of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
The CNIO Arte project is based on the fundamental principle that science and art are indispensable for understanding and interpreting the world and that each can inspire the other.
PAST COLLABORATIONS
IE – Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Sustainability Route
The Museo Nacional Thyssen—Bornemisza and IE University have put together a selection of works that call the attention to matters related to ecology, the economy and our social organization.
Launched in November 2021 during IE Sustainability Week, 5 large-scale art reproductions were installed in the four hubs of the IE Tower, as well as the lobby of Monforte de Lemos (level -4).
The works invited our community to reflect on our relationship with the environment and our commitment to sustainable development models.
Additional reading surrounding the exhibition: