IEA Oriol Martorell is a public school where students combine general Primary, Secondary and Baccalaureate education with elementary and professional-level studies in music and dance.

The school was founded in the 1997–1998 academic year, inspired by the spirit of the LOGSE (3 October 1990), which established the arts within the education system as specialised studies. As an integrated school, IEA Oriol Martorell pioneered an innovative educational model, promoting high-quality arts education from the earliest stages of schooling.

Espai Impro is a space for regular meetings and work based on improvisation, aimed at fostering students’ autonomy and the development of their own personal bodily and musical language. Within this framework, the project Espai Impro at the MNAC offers a space for improvisation using the body and musical instruments, based on themes connected to the Museum’s collection and the students’ academic curriculum. It continues the relationship between the Museum and the school, which dates back to 2008, when members of its teaching staff began collaborating on the advising, creation and support of some of the activities in the Museum’s educational programme.

In 2024, as part of the temporary exhibition What Humanity?, which explored the position of art in the Europe shaped by the great wars, students interpreted the theme of war and the culture of peace, closely connected to current events, through improvisation with the body and music. They created improvisations using acoustic instrumentation, which came together in a collective performance evoking the sounds of war and trauma, gestures of resistance, cries of pain and movements of hope.

This performative action was presented on the morning of Sunday 21 January 2024, offering visitors another dimension to their experience of the exhibition.

Espai Impro at the MNAC demonstrates the MNAC’s educational role as a public and open institution, serving centres that provide arts education and committed to bringing artistic languages closer together and fostering creativity among young people.