Arte por Venir expands with a new call and a residency program

Citizen art is one of the most powerful tools to transform our reality. It allows us to stop, feel and reflect on our presence in the world and our environment, and then act. At the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation we know that this is important so that a liveable, fair and sustainable future for all can be real. But it is unfeasible to do this individually and without thinking about artistic processes.

Art to Come is a programme of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation that is committed to its commitment to the artistic fabric and its desire to strengthen it through a programme of grants and another of residencies aimed at artists who can contribute to imagining new horizons in the face of the challenges of the present. In its first edition, the program launched a call for grants. In this second edition, it is expanded, including, in addition to the grants, a residency program. Through all these initiatives, Arte por Venir seeks to promote a type of artistic practice with regenerative power and capable of having an impact on society.

In the face of the malaise that often characterizes our time, there are artistic practices that propose other ways of inhabiting reality, becoming one of the most inspiring tools for social transformation. Arte por venir wants to support artists with this transformative potential, favoring the circulation of the artistic experience to multiply its transmission and exchange. At the same time, it generates a learning community with which to share the different phases of the work process, broadening its horizons and enriching itself through encounter/through contact with other languages, times and realities.

Art to Come was thus 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.

AID PROGRAMME – NEW CALL

The main objective of the grant programme is to support and care for artistic processes, paying special attention to their different phases and the contexts and communities in which they take place. A program that seeks to generate spaces for dialogue based on initial intuitions, enriching research and critical reflection while inviting experimentation.

Each of the eight selected projects will receive financial aid of between €20,000 (for individual artists) and €25,000 (for collectives) and will also enjoy 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 within 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.

Key data of the call

• Open call from October 6 to November 10, 2025.
• Aimed at artists and groups of any artistic discipline based in Spain.
• Artistic projects focused on creating fairer and more inclusive horizons.
• Up to 8 selected projects.
• €20,000 for individual artists and €25,000 for collectives.
• €600 for projects that pass to the second phase but are not selected.
• Informative webinar on October 22 at 3:30 p.m. [registrations]
• More information on our Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and newsletter.

RESIDENCY PROGRAM AT INFINITO DELICIAS

In parallel, Arte por Venir expands through a residency program, with the aim of creating a workspace that favors the relationship and collaboration between artists, the foundation itself and other agents, taking advantage of the new possibilities offered by Infinito Delicias as a meeting space. The residencies will be accompanied by a programme of activities that will feed the lines of research and help to make the work processes visible.

In its first year, the residency program proposes to reflect on its own nature, as a place of collective construction, a space that is defined both by its physical dimension and by the relational dimension, the affections and the imaginaries that cross it. In this pilot edition, the programme is organised in three cycles with six artists whose practices, although diverse, converge in a common interest in ways of doing and sharing. The combination of their perspectives allows us to imagine the residency as a platform to rethink the links between creation and collective action, where the political, the common and the sensitive are activated through methodologies imagined for the context in which they occur. In addition, each invited artist has the possibility of collaborating with an artist based in Madrid, which enriches the dialogue with the local context and expands the forms of exchange.

The accompanying public programme is structured around two complementary lines. On the one hand, there will be a study group led by the artists themselves in residence, conceived as a space to open and share the work and research processes in progress. On the other hand, sessions will be organized in workshop or seminar format with external guests, who will contribute other visions and languages to the ongoing collective dialogue. The combination of both seeks to form an expanded study group, in which the practice of the residents and the contribution of invited agents are intertwined, generating a space for experimentation, shared learning and openness to the context. In addition, the program will have a series of activities aimed at a wider audience to publicize the artists’ projects.

This relational dimension of the program is what defines it: an open framework that is configured through the interactions that occur, the affections that circulate, and the learning that emerges.