Socially engaged art
30 April, 2025
Eight projects selected in the ‘Art to Come’ call
At the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation we have launched Arte por venir, a grant programme that aims to contribute to strengthening the artistic fabric. It is aimed at artists and collectives that help us imagine new horizons in the face of current challenges.
A total of 1,195 applications were received, of which 24 were pre-selected and, finally, 8 will receive funding and support for a year to develop their proposals. In this first call, the projects of Olmo Cuña, Agnes Essonti Luque, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Oliver Laxe, Miralda and Anna Moreno have been selected, and those of two collectives; the Office of Documentary Research and the one formed by Lorenzo Sandoval and Zineb Acchoubie.
All the projects received show enormous potential to boost the collective imagination. Connection and futures through food and rituals; study of textile practices and agroecology to work in community; critical reflection on climate through collective audiovisual production; documentary research to face our fears about the past or the creation of horizons with rural and urban communities, are some of the topics addressed by these projects.
We are very grateful for the great response to the call; We are very happy with the eight projects selected by the jury and also with the quality of many others that have been submitted, which we find equally inspiring, and which may have the opportunity to be selected in the following editions since it is an annual call
Pepa Octavio de Toledo
Director of the Citizen Art Axis of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation in Spain
Eight projects have been selected to be accompanied for a year, six by individual artists and two by artistic collectives. The first six will receive 20,000 euros, while the two from collectives are financed with 25,000 euros. These projects will be developed in points as different as Barcelona, Madrid, Cordoba, Bilbao, A Coruña, Pontevedra, Asturias, Murcia or Tarragona.
During the year of accompaniment, the aim will be to generate links between the selected people and facilitate meetings to create a leafy network that is also developed through activities and samples of the artistic process of their projects.
The diversity of the projects presented in Arte por venir not only highlights the richness of artistic perspectives and practices in our country, but also their ability to address topics as varied as the rural future, collective memory, and social challenges, showing art as a powerful vehicle for transformation
Carlos Casas
Art to Come 2024 jury member, filmmaker and artist
Selected projects:
Fever
Olmo Cuña, Vigo, 1983
Collaborative audiovisual project located in Asturias
Fiebre is a collaborative audiovisual project that explores the relationships between territory, body and moving image from the process of closure of coal-fired power plants in Spain. The proposal is located around the Aboño Thermal Power Plant, in Asturias.
A Practice of Sharing
Agnes Essonti Luque, Barcelona, 1996
Visual practices, installation and performance project located in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Madrid, Córdoba and Bilbao
A Practice of Sharing It is a multidisciplinary artistic project that explores commensality as an act of connection, sustainability and resistance, integrating cuisine, performance, installation and culinary knowledge. Through collective cooking sessions, installations, performances and shared readings, the project seeks to generate spaces where people and collectives can weave networks, share stories and rethink social and food practices.
A rumor
Fermín Jiménez Landa, Pamplona, 1979
Art and action project located in various locations in Spain and France
A sound that spreads in a straight line through the bells of the villages. It starts from an ancestral communication system on a local scale and expands to one between peoples and regions. A fleeting but memorable poetic gesture requires prolonged encounters, negotiations and affection.
A present of goats
Oliver Laxe, Paris, 1982
Multidisciplinary and rural internship project located in Vilela (Galicia)
Un presente de cabras is a fusion of ecology, land-art, cinema, silvopastoralism, rural development and agricultural experimentation, a creative way to address some challenges of the agricultural and food systems in Os Ancares.
Romería Update. Travelling with San Stomak
Miralda, Tarrasa, 1942
Performance and food project located in Laro (Galicia) and Madrid
Romería Update proposes a contemporary rereading of the concept of pilgrimage, which investigates the interaction between rituals, food, mass culture and tourism, generating a dialogue between the iconography of pilgrimages and the icon of Sant Stomak.
Marfantes
Anna Moreno, Barcelona, 1984
Audiovisual and territorial project located in the Ebro Delta
Marfantes is a speculative video installation that approaches post-production as a collective and experimental space from which to imagine possible futures. Set in an Ebro Delta transformed by climate change, the work is built from improvised scenes with inhabitants of the area, who project their own narratives from a future located 75 years away. The editing process – far from being only technical – is presented as an artistic and collaborative practice, where image, archive and fiction are reorganized to open up other ways of narrating what is to come. Through workshops and open sessions, Marfantes rehearses methodologies of speculative auto-fiction that allow us to think about the present from an expanded temporality. The project proposes an archaeology of the future from the local, combining audiovisual creation, territorial research and critical reflection on the climate, memory and the possible languages of tomorrow.
Atlas of Disappearance
PlatformOffice of Documentary Research
Archive and memory project located in the Cuelgamuros Valley
Atlas of Disappearance is a situated research project that explores in depth the burials in Cuelgamuros. Through a digital platform and various artistic and investigative expressions, the project is nourished by the closeness with families who seek to exhume their loved ones.
The House of Connections
Lorenzo Sandoval, Madrid, 1980 and Zineb Achoubie, Casablanca, 1995
Textile, audiovisual and agroecology art internship project located in Murcia
The project is based on the notion of the philosopher Ibn Arabi’s settings to relate textiles, audiovisuals and agroecology. With this objective in mind, they propose a textile laboratory and a series of studies with several collaborators on botany, space, cinema and agriculture.
Members of the jury:
Monica Bello – España | Independent curator and former artistic officer at CERN
Tanya Beyeler – España | The Count of Torrefiel
Carlos Casas | Artist and filmmaker
Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe | Cooking Sections Artists
Soledad Gutierrez – España | Independent curator
DESIGN AND CREATIVES: REBEKA ARCE
