Artist Eva Lootz in front of her work for the first edition of CNIO Arte, in 2018. /Amparo Garrido. CNIO.
On October 30th, CNIO Arte will come to the Reina Sofia Museum for the first time, as part of the activity `Thinking about the world from art and science’ (6pm, Nouvel building, Auditorium 200).
Admission is free until the venue reaches full capacity (tickets can be obtained from the ticket office or the Museum website from 10am on October 28th (maximum 2 per person). 20% of tickets are reserved for walk-ins on the day.
Art and science require creativity and methodical work, and both disciplines organise our knowledge and experience of the world. This is the premise behind CNIO Arte, an initiative launched by Spain’s National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), with the collaboration of Fundación Banco Santander, for the creation of works of art inspired by science.
Since its inception in 2018, CNIO Arte has worked in different fields of science with world renowned scientists and artists, creating a wealth of artistic heritage that has been exhibited and disseminated in Spain, the USA and Europe, and whose main objective is to make society aware of the research work that we carry out at CNIO.
On October 30th, CNIO Arte will come to the Reina Sofia Museum for the first time, as part of the activity `Thinking about the world from art and science’. As the museum explains on its website: “In recent years, consumer lifestyles, climate change and the pandemic have led artists to look to science for alternative ways of understanding our present and, above all, to imagine other potential futures. So, with the shared principle of exploring what may be possible, scientific research and artistic creation are experiencing a profound and renewed exchange.”
This event will bring together participants from different editions of CNIO Arte: the Nobel Prize winner in Physiology Elizabeth Blackburn, the macroecologist David Nogués-Bravo and the artist Dora García, who will speak online; as well as the artists Eva Lootz and Amparo Garrido. Clara Montoya, artist-in-residence in the first edition of the CNIO Art Residency Programme, curator Juan de Nieves, and CNIO’s Scientific Director Maria A. Blasco will also be taking part.