Art to come: aid program

The aim of the grant programme is to support and care for artistic processes, with special attention to their different phases and the contexts and communities in which they are developed. It also seeks to generate spaces for dialogue based on initial intuitions, enrich research and critical reflection and open room for experimentation.

Each of the selected projects receives financial aid of between €20,000 (for individual artists) and €25,000 (for collectives) and will also benefit from a process of accompaniment that will facilitate the development of the proposals and the creation of links between different agents. This advice will include mentoring sessions with the team assigned by the Foundation, who throughout the year that the program lasts, will share with each artist the processes, concerns and challenges that the project goes through.

The projects selected in the framework of Art to Come must develop, in collaboration with the Foundation’s team, a program that finds ways to make their processes visible at each stage, including at least three public activities to involve the community and enrich their projects from a collaborative perspective.

The Arte por venir grant programme is based on an open call aimed at artists of legal age, of Spanish nationality or residing in Spain and who develop their activity in the field of architecture, plastic arts, visual arts, living arts, sound art, cinema, dance, music, theatre or any other discipline, also including the intersection between them. The selected projects must be developed in Spanish territory, without the need to be based in a specific space, and demonstrate their viability, as well as the fact of having dealt with similar themes previously in their artistic creations will be valued.

Art to Come was born as a program built to help imagine other, more hopeful futures in which art and culture, through a strong and revitalized artistic fabric, collaborate in the creation of tools and imaginaries for a more cohesive and committed society.

The aid program has Soledad Gutiérrez and Violeta Janeiro as associate curators.