E-flux : Shilpa Gupta’s workshop in Santander / 30th annual Art Grants

Shilpa Gupta’s workshop in Santander / 30th annual Art Grants Centro Botín (Muelle de Albareda s/n Jardines de Pereda, 39004 Santander Cantabria, Spain)

“The Ground Slips Between Us”: Workshop by Shilpa Gupta in collaboration with Renata Cervetto, March 11-16, 2024. Fundación Botín.
Registration deadline: February 25, 2024

“The ground slips between us” is a workshop that encourages the sharing of practices and experiences in art and education based on the work of the artist Shilpa Gupta. The workshop invites artists, curators, cultural agents and mediators working within institutions or community projects to rethink their current processes and challenges based on the themes and methodologies that traverse the artist’s work. Topics such as strategies of creative resilience in the face of censorship and repression; the ideological and geopolitical barriers that cross our bodies and systems of thought-action-mobility; and imagination and radical listening as tools of resistance and community building will be exercised by contemplating the working contexts of the people participating in the workshop. The dynamics will be accompanied by group activities and organized visits to other cultural and artistic centres in Santander and its surroundings.

The workshop is linked to the exhibition I live under your sky too that will be shown at Centro Botín, from March 23 to September 8, 2024, a presentation of Gupta’s work in which voice and poetry will flood the exhibition spaces, claiming the existence of people who have been muted, and blurring the boundaries that limit freedom.

International open call: 30th annual Art Grants
Registration deadline: May 3, 2024

Fundación Botín is pleased to announce the 30th edition of the Art Grants, offering six scholarships for artists of any nationality. This scheme has an expected duration of nine months and an endowment of 23,000 euros for each selected project

The Art Grants support artists´ studies, research and production. In addition, the programme includes the public premiere of the works developed over the grant period in a collective exhibition at Centro Botín, Itinerarios, which this year celebrates its 29th iteration. Other spaces and formats better suited to making the artists’ research public, as may be the case with performance, participatory activities or film cycles, may also be considered, in conversation with Centro Botín. At the end of the grant period, Fundación Botín continues its commitment to the artists by closely following their career and, where appropriate, by acquiring works for the Collection.

Artists interested should make an initial application using the registration form available on the websites of Fundación Botín and Centro Botín, and submit the required documentation on paper by May 3. Every application received will be studied by a specially convened external jury composed by artists, curators and other art professionals, which rotates for each edition. From July, the jury´s final decision will be made public on both of the aforementioned websites.

Since the Art Grants were launched in 1993 they have benefitted more than 200 creative talents by acting as a dynamic stimulus to contemporary art and supporting practitioners seeking to develop a research project in the visual arts. A large number of the Fundación Botín grant recipients have already established themselves on the international art scene and are regularly present at significant events such as Erick Beltrán (Mexico, 1974), Sandra Gamarra (Peru, 1972), Fernando García Dory (Spain, 1978), Pedro G. Romero (Spain, 1964), Asier Mendizabal (Spain, 1973), Pedro Neves Marqués (Portugal, 1984), Basma Alsharif (Kuwait, 1983), Armando Andrade Tudela (Peru, 1975), Leonor Antunes (Portugal, 1972), Katinka Bock (Germany, 1976), June Crespo (Spain, 1982), Irene Kopelman (Argentina, 1971), Wilfredo Prieto (Cuba, 1978) or Eva Fàbregas (Spain, 1988).

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