Visual Arts students artistically transformed the iconic venue’s seats in a symbolic action that brought together design and emerging creativity with art and cultural heritage
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IED Barcelona pays tribute to Cine Comedia ahead of its conversion into the Museu Carmen Thyssen Barcelona
Date
25 November 2025
More than 70 students from art and design schools in Barcelona collectively transformed the 500 seats of the former Cine Comedia as part of its transition towards becoming the Museu Carmen Thyssen Barcelona. The artistic intervention included the participation of IED Barcelona.
A group of students from the School of Visual Arts became the first creators to bring life to what will become, in 2028, a museum space dedicated to housing the Carmen Thyssen Collection from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as works by young talents. They did it through an ephemeral action that connected emerging creativity and cultural heritage.
In particular, IED Barcelona transformed the cinema seats using different shades of red and various materials as a means of inviting the public to question their own stance and responsibility in the face of current crises. Its intention was to shed light on the implications of the silent complicity inherent in the inaction of those who witness global chaos.
At the end of the event, Carmen Thyssen personally selected one of the intervened seats, which will be displayed soon at IED Barcelona. The artistic intervention was attended by, among other notable figures, designers Jordi Labanda, Javier Mariscal and Pablo Erroz, the latter an alumnus and lecturer at IED Barcelona.
IED Barcelona Students:
Malak Abdou, Valeriya Anushkevich, Maria do Mar Carmona José De Melo, Paul Cauchois, Adrianne Florence, Kyla Henry, Irina Kavtaradze, Arbel Meir, Nunu Mikuchadze, Laila Tayel, Tom Toldi.
Tutors:
Mery Glez, Head of Visual Arts del IED Barcelona
Thinh Truong, Alumnus IED Barcelona
Product Assistant:
Camila Kotliarsky, Alumnus IED Barcelona
Photos: Gablons.
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