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ARTS COLLABORATIONS
ARTS COLLABORATIONS
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.
IE School of Humanities & Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Collaboration
IE School of Humanities & Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Collaboration
The IE School of Humanities is proud to announce a cross-institutional collaboration with the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, leveraging digital technologies to bring the museum experience to our IE Tower campus. Drawing on high-quality reproductions from the museum’s permanent collection, this initiative links key themes in art historical discourses to major events celebrated at IE.
Between 2025 and 2027, we will host four digital art exhibitions curated by our Assistant Professor of Art History and Faculty Lead of the Bachelor in Humanities, Shana Cooperstein, each exploring artworks in connection with major university events. The exhibitions can be found projected on the screen at the lobby in level -4.
2025–2027 Exhibition Program
Fall 2025 — Before Fast Fashion: Art, Sustainability, and Style | Highlights from the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Context: IE Sustainability Week, October-November 2025
Art offers a visual archive of fashion over the ages. Through painted portraits of refined aristocrats to portrayals of athletes sporting fitness apparel, and even representations of merchandising, historians gain insight into the ways style can express identity and social values. Representations of fashion and the fashion industry likewise unfold onto the rich history of clothing’s material fabrication—subtly alluding to the sourcing of textiles, sewing, fittings, and even design itself. Scheduled to take place during IE’s Sustainability Week, “Before Fast Fashion” highlights the history of textiles and its material production to raise awareness of the ethics embedded in the production and consumption of clothing.
Spring 2026 — Pioneering Abstraction: Natalia Goncharova’s Modern Art | A Highlight from the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Context: International Women’s Day & IE Women Leadership Conference, March 2026
Fall 2026 — Toulouse-Lautrec and the World of Equestrianism | A Highlight from the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Context: IE Sports Week, 2026
Spring 2027 — Light’s Out: Art, Climate Change, and Environmental Stewardship | Highlights from the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Context: Earth Day, 2027
Leave Here Your Fears
Leave Here Your Fears
By Alicia Framis
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:
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IE – Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Sustainability Route
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: