Socially engaged art
21 February, 2025
The Art to Come programme enters its second phase of project selection
A total of 24 projects have been pre-selected for the second phase of the Art to Come programme, the creative aid plan that the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation promotes as a commitment to strengthening the artistic fabric. In the face of the challenges posed by our society, we seek to support proposals focused on creating new, fairer and more inclusive horizons with the potential for inspiration and social transformation.
Following the call launched in November 2024 to creatorsand groups from various disciplines such as architecture, plastic arts, visual arts, living arts, sound art, cinema, dance, music, theatre and others, we have received a total of 1,195 projects, a number that has exceeded all our forecasts and of which we also want to emphasise the high quality of the proposals.
It has been a joy to see the wealth of initiatives in the artistic fabric and, in view of the number and level shown, the Foundation has decided to increase the number of finalists from the 15 initially planned, to a total of 24 candidacies as pre-selected for this second phase. The process will lead to the choice of between six and eight projects, which will receive funding of 20,000 euros (25,000 in the case of groups) each, in addition to a year-long support plan to facilitate the development of their proposals.
In this initial selection stage, an arduous task of revision has been carried out after having received 1,195 projects, inspiring and high-quality artistic proposals, which make us think that the Art to Come call has been well understood and that it was necessary at this time.
Pepa Octavio de Toledo
Director of Citizen Art of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation in Spain
In this first stage, the committee has selected a total of 24 very diverse projects – ten women, ten men and four collectives – which correspond to different artistic disciplines: visual and/or audiovisual arts; sculpture; sound art; performing arts; dance; performance; literature; architecture…
To address the second stage of the call, €600 is awarded to the shortlisted projects to develop their proposal in greater detail in accordance with the technical requirements, lines of work, methodologies, formats, budget, calendar and other aspects that will be reviewed by an independent jury that will announce its resolution at the end of next April.
The Art to Come programme was created to contribute to imagining new futures in which art and culture, through a solid artistic fabric with the capacity to create tools and possible scenarios of impact on society at a time of discouragement and uncertainty. It is not intended to be a prize or a grant of scholarships, but to provide aid so that the projects of these artists and collectives, in their different phases, can grow and unfold all their possibilities for social transformation.
This program has been built for artists to help us imagine new and more hopeful futures to achieve a more cohesive and committed society.
Lucía Casani
General Director for Spain of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation
Shortlisted projects:
A Practice of Sharing
Agnes Essonti Luque
A present of goats
Oliver Laxe Coro
Romería Update. Travelling with San Stomak
Antoni Miralda
A rumor
Fermín Jiménez Landa
Builder of worlds very similar to ours
Ludovica Carbotta
The House of Connections
Lorenzo Sandoval and Zineb Achoubie
FROST. Variations about u
Claudia Rebeca
Back and bracket
Paula García-Masedo Fernández
The Center Cannot Hold
Karlos Gil
>> 0——>0
Víctor Ruiz Colomer
Resonare fibris
Raquel González Ibáñez
OTHERKIN
Yes perse
The Milky
WayMaría García Vera
Preludes to a terrifying
CarnivalPoliana Lima
Sotoba Komachi
Itziar Okariz
Massage scanner_beta
Idoia Zabaleta Morán
Music in palliatives/accompaniment in death
processesFito Conesa
Atlas of Disappearance
PlatformOffice of Documentary Research
Libidinal
aestheticsPol Esteve Castelló
Organic Intelligence (O.I.): A View of Listening
Jokkoo Collective
Marfantes
Anna Moreno
An exhaustive
readSara Santana López
Hotel Mirage
Arash Fayez
Fever
Olmo Cuña