Exhibitions
The Spectator as a Lens: New Ways of Looking at the MUN
The University of Navarra Museum presents a new exhibition curated by Florencia Baliña, Andrés Ruiz, and Andrea Vargas in the Sala Torre from September 9 to February 8, 2026. The exhibition invites not only to see and grasp, but also to look in a deeper sense: to pause, pay attention, and allow oneself to be transformed by the artistic experience.
This is the route at the MUN, where, based on a selection of formally and thematically diverse works, a total of 35 pieces from the ARCO Foundation Collection, different modes of being a spectator are explored. Each artist designs formal resources and decisions that guide the way their work will be perceived. In some way, every creation implicitly involves the figure of a spectator, whom it summons and with whom it seeks to establish a dialogue.
The exhibition "Dear Viewer, What Are You Looking At?" invites us to consider the multiple ways of looking, understanding the gaze as a broad experience that transcends the simple functioning of sight. Here, looking is not limited to passive contemplation, but is understood as an active gesture: each viewer becomes a protagonist by observing, choosing, establishing relationships, and elaborating their own meanings. The proposal emphasizes that every gaze is also an action that transforms what is seen into a construction that is both personal and collective.
Through the four figures of the viewer—the detective, the hedgehog, the peephole, and the projector—the exhibition proposes a play on correspondences between the diversity of the ARCO Foundation Collection and the richness of different ways of seeing. The intention is to foster a close and sensitive experience, allowing the visitor to approach the works from varied perspectives and with an open attitude.
