This exhibition is based on a selection of works from the permanent collection, curated by Aldones Nino, curator at Collegium, and Javier Lumbreras, founder of the museum. Bringing together a wide range of artistic practices—from sculpture and painting to installation and video—the exhibition considers art as a possible response to the urgencies of the present. In a context shaped by global economic crisis, growing inequality, and the erosion of wealth redistribution systems, it invites us to imagine new ways of understanding value and the idea of community.

The conceptual starting point is the notion of commodatum, formulated in the 16th century by Martín de Azpilcueta: a loan for use, free of charge and reversible, based on trust and reciprocity. In contrast to economic models grounded in accumulation and debt, this principle offers a symbolic and structural framework for imagining alternative forms of exchange. The exhibition title also alludes to the fact that the private collection of Javier Lumbreras and Lorena Pérez-Jácome—now the foundation of Collegium’s permanent holdings—has been placed in the museum on an open-ended commodatum loan.

With this proposal, the program "Open for Works" temporarily leaves behind the format of inter-collection dialogues to focus on a more introspective reading of its own collection.

Artists: Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Christian Jankowski, Jean-Luc Moulène, Jonathas de Andrade, Juan Antonio Olivares, Juan Carlos Alom, Justin Lieberman, Lara Favaretto, Nasan Tur, Petrit Halilaj, Roman Ondak, Shilpa Gupta, Slawomir Elsner, Wilfredo Prieto.