Center for the Arts | UDEM
We want to turn the Campus into a space for transformative experiences through art and creation.
This approach consolidates UDEM as a cultural reference at the national and international levels.
The Center for the Arts | UDEM aims to impact knowledge, inspiration, and new forms of thinking. The Universidad de Monterrey positions itself as an international cultural reference through creation, research, preservation, education, and artistic engagement
projects.
UDEM strives to enrich the cultural ecosystem of the region by engaging with students, professors, professionals, and citizens, to use the art as a means to connect and interact, nurturing creativity.
Contemporary Collection at Campus UDEM
UDEM has over 200 pieces in its collection, turning the Campus into a space where the community engages and lives art through works created by Manuel Felguérez, RufinoTamayo, Rodolfo Morales, Dale Chihuly, Antony Gormley, among others.
\ Blown Glass and steel
\ Concrete Installation
\ Polychrome steel
Lunar Theorem, w/d
Artwork by: Manuel Felguérez
\ Oil on canvas, steel and polychrome metal
The Mirror, 1978
Artwork by: Manuel Felguérez
\ Mixed media
The Man, 1999
Artwork by: Rufino Tamayo
\ Steel
Serpentine, 2004
Artwork by: Fernando González Cortázar
\ Polychrome stainless steel
Entropy, 1996
Artwork by: Jorge Elizondo
Prehispanic Collection
The Alberto Fernández Ruiloba collection comprises over 250 pieces integrated into UDEM through a loan agreement formalized in 2018 with the Fernández family, with the intention of making it accessible to the community.
This collection primarily consists of pieces from Western Mexico (Nayarit, Colima, Jalisco, Zacatecas, Bajio, southern Sinaloa), particularly from the Shaft Tombs; from the Gulf Coast (northern Veracruz, southern Tamaulipas, and southeastern San Luis Potosí), specifically from the Huasteca region, as well as ceramic and lapidary productions from other areas of Mesoamerica, such as the Olmec, Teotihuacan, and Mezcala cultures. The objects date back 2500 years.
Temporary Exhibitions
You can discover art, design, and architecture through our temporary exhibitions presented at the Roberto Garza Sada Center galleries and around the UDEM Campus.
Temporary Exhibitions
Be inspired by a world of art and innovation with the temporary exhibitions taking place at the Roberto Garza Sada Center.
\ August-October, 2024
Beautiful Numbers. Stefan Sagmeister
The exhibition offered thirty works by the multidisciplinary designer and artist, which are a reminder that the most recent negative trends are rather irregularities, as the large-scale vision is that people live in a relatively healthy environment.
\ October, 2024
10 years of the Roberto Garza Sada Center
In commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Roberto Garza Sada Center, an exhibition was presented with photographs and models that allowed students to learn about the process and history of the building, which has become an icon designed by Tadao Ando.
\ November, 2023-March, 2024
Nothing inert ever. Painting and the subject-object affinity.
Curator: Christian Camacho
The exhibition highlighted the relevance of the figurative pictorial traditions in Mexican and Monterrey art of the 20th century, and then introduced a series of more precise relationships: the presence of correspondences between the objectual or inanimate, and the densely sentimental, personal and identitary, with works by Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo, Julio Galán, Dulce María Nuñez, Sylvia Ordóñez and Arturo Marty.
\ March-June, 2024
Enrique Guzmán. Pioneer of neo-Mexicanism.
The exhibition showed a total of twenty-nine pieces by Enrique Guzmán, a creator of a Mexicanist work of great transcendence, who used painting as a means to reflect the concerns of the young people of his time.
\ Agosto-Octubre, 2024
Rodolfo Nieto: Presencias inesperadas.
Rodolfo Nieto destacó por su búsqueda personal y su estilo inconfundible, influenciado tanto por elementos locales como por corrientes vanguardistas internacionales lo cual se mostró a través de una selección de 33 piezas procedentes de colecciones locales, que destacaron los temas recurrentes en la obra de Nieto, como la presencia humana y los animales, y en su última etapa, el paisaje.
\ Junio-Julio, 2024
Degree Show
Exposición colectiva de jóvenes artistas que ofrecieron una profunda reflexión sobre las performativas del ser, del habitar, del mirar y la contemplación de la obsesión, con obras de arte que realizaron como Proyecto de Evaluación Final (PEF) para graduarse de la Licenciatura en Artes de la Universidad de Monterrey.
