ART EXPLORERS
ARTISTS AND MODELS. PASSION, CREATION, AND DESTRUCTION STORIES
The exhibition told to children
MATISSE IN HIS TIME
The writer and art critic Juan Manuel Bonet will delve into the impact that the French artist had on his time and on other artists, such as Joan Miró, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko and Manolo Quejido, who were influenced by his work.
QUANTUM LIFE
Sonia Fernández-Vidal, PhD in Quantum Physics and writer, will address, from an informative and understandable approach for everyone, the importance of this subject and the role of quantum principles to understand how matter and energy behave and, at the same time, our own existence and the world around us.
THE PROMISE OF THE WEST
Mira Milosevich, Senior Research Fellow for Russia, Eurasia and the Balkans at the Elcano Royal Institute, will analyze the context, impact and consequences of the construction and fall of the Berlin Wall in Eastern Europe.
HUMOR IN PHOTOGRAPHY
On the occasion of the exhibition at the Canal Foundation, Elliott Erwitt. La comedia humana, Cristina de Middel, photographer and current president of Magnum Photos, gives this lecture to reflect on the role of humor in snapshots.
CONVERGING PATHS: HUMAN EVOLUTION AND CLIMATE
José María Bermúdez de Castro, biologist specializing in human evolution and leading paleoanthropologist, is the protagonist of this conference to talk about the adaptation of human beings to the changing climate, from the appearance of the genus Homo and the extinction of the Neanderthals to the current interglacial situation.
Traces of the past
Prof. Dr. Axel Klausmeier, Director of the Berlin Wall Foundation, will share his perspective on the vital role historical heritage plays in our society today.
THE APPRENTICE IN THE SUN. MARCEL DUCHAMP IN PERSPECTIVE
Marcel Duchamp is considered, along with Pablo Picasso, the most influential artist of the 20th century. While Picasso’s creations represent a more continuist evolution with respect to the great classical masters, Duchamp’s work…
ALONE FROM ARCTIC TO INDIAN OCEAN
Antonio de la Rosa. An adventurer and tireless explorer, he has undertaken some of the most extreme navigations and solo expeditions on land and sea. Thanks to this, he has had the opportunity to see first-hand some of the most pressing environmental problems, such as the plastic islands in the ocean.
MORE THAN MUSES. WOMEN PROTAGONISTS OF THE ARTS
In this conference, Professor of Art History Beatriz Blasco Esquivias explores how the assigned and perceived role of women in the arts has varied depending on the historical moment.
HOW CAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HELP OUR PLANET?
Enrique Dans, an expert in technological innovation and professor at IE Business School, gives us a preview of the latest trends in innovation and artificial intelligence and how they are already being used in environmental applications to contain climate change. AI solutions at the service of the planet!
CILMATE CHANGE FROM SPACE
Space is a source of knowledge about the origin of the universe and life on our planet, but it can also provide us with extraordinarily valuable information, thanks to Earth observation satellites, about phenomena exacerbated by human activity, such as climate change.
CANCEL CULTURE. THE NEW CENSORSHIP
During his conference and the chat afterward with cultural journalist Ana Romero, philosopher José Antonio Marina will reflect on the censorship trend that is on the rise as a result of so-called “cancel culture,” not just in the news and social media, but also in artistic circles and in society as a whole.
THE SECRETS OF THE SEA AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH CLIMATE CHANGE
Manu San Félix is a marine biologist, diver, photographer, and explorer with National Geographic. He has been researching and diving in oceans all around the planet for over 30 years.
LARTIGUE THE VISIONARY: A MASTER OF BLACK AND WHITE WHO WENT FOR COLOR
A meeting with Professor of Contemporary Art Estrella de Diego in which, starting from the figure of Lartigue and his career, she gives us some clues about the development of photography in the last century.
World Water Day
The scientist and writer Carlos Briones shows us that the relationship between art and science has been a constant throughout the history of humanity.
Antarctica and glaciers as a laboratory for climate change
In his double facet, as a mountaineer and scientist, Jerónimo López shows us how these territories can reveal the future of the climate.
HOW WILL THE CLIMATE CHANGE IN SPAIN?
Isabel Zubiaurre, the meteorologist, reveals in this video the consequences of climate change.
PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST
We organize together with PHotoESPAÑA our photo contest #SonrisaCotidiana, in which humor and irony, but also optimism and emotion, should star in the contest images that, like those of Elliot Erwitt, provoke a smile in the viewer.
WORLD WATER DAY
On the occasion of the celebration of World Water Day, we present the Seven slogans for water school contest.
WORLD WATER DAY
Presentation of a methodological guide to estimate minimum contributions to reservoirs within the context of climate change
WORLD WATER DAY
Professional conference with experts in climate change adaptation strategies. Innovative measures in the water sector, developed by Canal de Isabel II.
Groundwater. Invisible, Yet Essential
“Fui sobre agua edificada, mis muros de fuego son, esta es mi insignia y blasón (I was built upon water, my walls are fire, this is my insignia and blazon).” This motto for Madrid, engraved on the shields of Alfonso VIII of Castile’s militias, bore witness to the importance of the water beneath the city. … Read more
The Canal Foundation has a two-fold mission: to create knowledge opportunities and to encourage caring for water. Two decades after its creation, the Foundation has helped give shape to this commitment through hundreds of activities on innovation, the environment, and culture, with the participation of nearly seven million people.
Located in Plaza Castilla, one of the main connection and meeting points in Madrid, Fundación Canal has a wide variety of spaces and facilities equipped with the newest equipment to adapt to every need.
