Delicias Arte y Alimentación: new hybrid program of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation at Infinito Delicias

The Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation launches Delicias Arte y Alimentación, a new program that hybridizes its two strategic axes: Citizen Art and Sustainable Food. This initiative arises on the occasion of the upcoming inauguration of Infinito Delicias, an experimentation space dedicated to culture, cuisine and innovation, located in the Delicias neighborhood (Madrid).

At the Foundation we are committed to the power of art to inspire new ways of thinking and acting in the face of great contemporary challenges, especially those linked to the ecological crisis and the way we feed ourselves. This programme will promote cultural proposals and collaborations with agents who work around ecology, ecosystems and good food from creative and committed perspectives.

Infinito Delicias, with 2,700 m² dedicated to culture, cuisine and innovation, will soon be a living laboratory open to people of all ages: artists, chefs, farmers, associations, startups, public institutions, foundations… A space to think, debate, experiment and create together.

With Delicias Arte y Alimentación, which will find in the facilities of Infinito Delicias a privileged space for its development, the Foundation reinforces its commitment to connect culture, ecology and food to build a fairer, more conscious and sustainable future.

With this new initiative we will support cultural groups and agents whose practices address issues such as caring for the environment, ecosystems and food from a creative and transformative perspective.

In this first edition, we have invited Paisanaje, an exploration and action group that addresses the ecosocial crisis through art, to collaborate. Her proposal, Mano Vuelta, proposes a critical reflection on current models of food production and consumption, addressing issues related to territory, sustainability and extractive policies through art.

With this collaboration we seek to question the idea of art as something detached from what is useful. Instead, it proposes an aesthetic practice linked to production, land and care. It rejects the landscape look inherited from the nineteenth century, which idealizes the countryside as an idyllic place contemplated from the city. For this reason, the project proposes a reconnection with the environment that recognises Madrid not only as a space for consumption, but also as a producing territory.

We are committed to a rebalancing in the face of certain extractive policies. We rethink land uses, questioning those dynamics that conceive the territory as merely “buildable” and defending instead its potential to supply the population through non-intensive local agriculture that allows for closer and more sustainable food.

For this reason, it is structured around three rural enclaves in the Community of Madrid, each with different climatic and cultural conditions: the olive trees of La Vega, the vineyards of the southwest and the herds of the Sierra Norte. In these productive landscapes, semi-abandoned land will be recovered to accompany different phases of the agricultural cycle, from pruning, harvesting and pressing, to transhumance or shearing.

We imagine these three places as symbolic and productive refuges – linked to oil, wine and cheese – from which to think and practice a fairer future, even when doing so seems a naïve act. Spaces of creation and meeting where art, food and community are intertwined in harmony with other species and temporalities.

These tasks will result in a living agricultural calendar that will also set the pace of the public programme, deployed over 18 months – from September 2025 to December 2026 – both at the Infinito Delicias facilities and in different locations in the Community of Madrid. This program will include field trips, artistic activations, food transformation workshops, popular meals and publications, in a combination of knowledge, practices and shared experiences that value the links between culture, food and territory.

On the other hand, in this process we will be accompanied by guest artists who will closely follow the different agricultural phases and the development of the project. From this experience, each one will create a work that works as an artistic testimony of the process, materializing their learnings, links and transformations.