Every Beginning is an Essay, the public program of the Art to Come Residencies

Arte por Venir was born from the commitment of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation to the artistic fabric and its desire to strengthen it through a program 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, but its objective goes further, opening the space with a public program in which citizens can participate.

Every Beginning is an Essay is the public program that accompanies the Art to Come residencies. In this first edition we have invited the artists to think about the different dimensions that make up a residency: from the spatial to the relational, through its political potential or its ability to generate knowledge and circulate it. This first year is a kind of rehearsal, a kind of test of what a place of coexistence can be. We want to collectively imagine what forms these spaces can take to try alternative ways of inhabiting our presents. What conditions must be met to create a place that favors relationships, care, affection and listening? How can we imagine structures that not only sustain, but also contribute to the construction of community spaces?

Through this program we intend to open the work processes of the artists in residence to share and enrich them through the new conversations that are being woven. It will include study group sessions led by the resident artists themselves, as well as a series of workshops and seminars taught by invited individuals whose research resonates with the topics being explored. It is proposed as a space where we can think together, where we can conspire from different references and languages, and explore ways of moving from reflection to action. A place to try out other ways of being and doing, where coexistence, listening and mutual attention are understood as affective practices of encounter. A small-scale essay on modes of relationship that can be transferred beyond the space of the residence.

The programme will be completed with a series of activities aimed at a wider audience to publicise both the projects of the artists and the guests of the programme.

Every Beginning is an Rehearsal will feature the participation of, among other guests, Andrea Canepa, Nina Glockner, Vir Andres Hera, Juf, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Luz Broto, Lucía Jalón, Leonardo Bürgi Tenorio, Mariana Murcia and Valentina Desideri.

Program Information

Inscriptions:

• The program is designed for a stable group of 10 participants, who will register for the set of sessions. In addition, 5 additional places will be reserved for each session for people who wish to register on a timely basis.
• To participate in the stable group, write to arteporvenir@fundacioncarasso.org indicating your interest in being part of the study group and a brief biography. In the subject of the email, specify: Registration | Every beginning is a rehearsal.
• The deadline for submitting applications is 3 November.
• If you would like to attend a specific session on a one-off basis, please write to arteporvenir@fundacioncarasso.org a week in advance. Subject: Participation in (name of the session).

Number of sessions:

There will be a total number of 12 sessions: six in study groups and another six in the form of a workshop. These sessions will be complemented by public activities aimed at a wider audience.

All sessions will take place at Infinito Delicias, unless otherwise indicated.

OTHER INITIATIVES OF THE ARTE POR VENIR

PROGRAMMEIn addition, the Arte por Venir programme also offers a call for grants for artists, in order to support artists with this potential, promoting projects that need support to grow or unfold their full potential. The projects that are selected will receive financial aid for their development, accompaniment through mentoring, in addition to participation in the two meetings that will be held to be publicly presented in the middle and at the end of the process, which will allow generating synergies with other agents of change in our ecosystem.

Rules of the Art to Come 2025 call for grants

• 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.
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