The second edition of the Art to Come call for grants enters the next phase of project selection

A total of 24 projects have been shortlisted for the second phase of the Art to Come programme, the programme of grants for artistic creation promoted by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation as a sustained commitment to strengthening the artistic fabric. In a context marked by profound social, cultural and ecological transformations, the programme seeks to support proposals that contribute to imagining new, fairer, more inclusive and cohesive horizons, and that activate the potential of art as a tool for thought, relationship and social transformation.

Following the call launched in October 2025, aimed at individual and collective artists from various disciplines, 547 projects have been received, a figure that once again highlights the vitality and diversity of the contemporary art scene.

From the Foundation we would like to underline the high level of the projects presented and thank the interest shown in this call. A total of 24 projects have been pre-selected and are now moving on to this second phase of the process. This will result in the final selection of eight projects, which will receive financial aid of 20,000 euros (25,000 euros in the case of collectives), in addition to a year-long accompaniment process aimed at facilitating the development of the proposals, generating links between them and consolidating a sustained space to support artistic practice.

In this first stage, 24 projects have been shortlisted that reflect a remarkable diversity of approaches, methodologies and artistic languages, from different territorial contexts and articulated from practices ranging from living archive and artistic research to performing arts, music, sculpture, audiovisual or community practices. This plurality accounts for an artistic ecosystem attentive to care, critical ecologies, bodies, memories, affections, and collective forms of knowledge production.

To address this second phase of the call, the shortlisted projects will receive an endowment of 600 euros, aimed at deepening and developing their proposals in aspects such as conceptual approaches, work methodologies, formats, calendar and budget. This documentation will be evaluated by an independent jury, which will announce its decision in the coming weeks.

The Art to Come programme was born with the aim of helping to imagine more hopeful futures in which art and culture play an active role in the construction of a more committed, critical and supportive society. It is conceived as a support and accompaniment that allows artists and collectives to deploy their projects in different phases, reinforcing both their individual practices and the relationships and communities that are generated around them.

Shortlisted projects:

Garagonoche, by Alexander C. Trigg
Radical Joy, by Ana Esteve Reig
1000 ships, by Annat Vallés and Nesi Caro
PIPE/O, by Ariadna Guiteras
Breaking the World: Art, Body and Community Health, by Beatriz Regueira Pons
Independent Collection, by Juf
Heridas de Agua, by Carlos Monleon
Intertwined Cosmologies: Vegetable Time and Quantum Dreams, by Elena Bajo
Vinti Quintais de Amor, by Esto no es una poesía
SOLFEGGIO, by Fito Conesa
When the Earth Ceases to Be Background, by Irati Inoriza
Echo Chambers, by Isabel Merchante Martínez
Gorputzean zortzi zulo-eight orifices of rage, by Izaro Ieregi González
Landscape Plus, by Laida Lertxundi
Tórtola Valencia, pienso en ti con mis manos, by Lara Brown
El mar de las lentejos, by Lucia Piedra Galarraga
Minus one film, by Mar Reykjavik
Banquete protocolo, by Marina Monsonis
The Vibration of the Possible, by Massimiliano Casu
hemen maiz, hiltzen naiz, by Mikel R. Nieto
Fresco as a reunion, by Noa and Lara Castro Lema, Rahel Goetsch, Cristóbal García-Belmont and Adi Blaustein Rejto
The Possible Is Close, by Marta de Gonzálo and Publio Pérez Prieto
Les Güelgues, by Sara García
Salmueras, by Sonia G. Villar