Residencies Exchange - II Curatorial Meeting Estampa Art Fair

Within the field of the visual arts, the dynamizing role of artistic residency programmes is increasingly evident. The most important European and international art residencies are important hubs of transformation and internationalization in their local context. In Spain, despite significant advances in recent years and even though its prolific artistic scene, there are still only a few programmes specializing in the international exchange of artists and curators.

Faithful to the idea of a residency as a chance to rethink one’s own practice and to make a distinction between the urgent and the important, the three days of the “Residencies Exchange” in Madrid will be used more as a parlor, than as a symposium. The idea is to focus on the quality of prolonged, interpersonal talks and suggest, to meet in constantly changing, small groups for rather private discussions.

We consider that it is good practice to generate a space for exchange among peers in a relaxed and informal setting, talking about new ways to deal with the known issues in our field of work and to think together possible models of residencies and production centres. In a nutshell: we want to bring all those conversations that usually take place at the backdrop of the symposium to the centre of our meeting. We are looking forward to this atomized approach and hope that it will lead to a productive exchange.

With these aims we have invited the following professionals responsible of different artist in residency programmes from Europe and North Africa:

Jordi Antas (Orbital) Alessio Antoniolli (Gasworks) Dominic van den Boogerd (De Ateliers) Xavier Baudoin (Casa Velázquez) Sergi Botella (Hangar) Dani Burrows. (Delfina Foundation) José Campos Alemany (Consorci de Museos de la Comunitat Valenciana) Hassan Darsi (La Source du lion) Cecilia Guida (Cittadellarte-Pistoletto Foundation) Julia Haarmann (CAT Cologne ) Juha Huuskonen (HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme) Vitalija Jasaitė (Rupert) Dina Kafafy (Townhouse) Richard Le Quellec (The Embassy of Foreign Artists) Annelie Musters. (Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten) Chloé Nicolas (La Box_École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges) Andrea Pacheco (Felipa Manuela) Clara Pallí y Floris Kruidenberg (1646) Gabrielle Camuset (Le Cube – independent art room) Alan Quireyns (AIR Antwerpen) Yasmina Reggad (aria) Anna-Louise Rolland (LIA – Leipzig International Art Programme) Ika Sienkiewicz-Nowacka (Ujazdowski Castle - Centre for Contemporary Art) Manuela Villa Acosta (Matadero Madrid) Marc Vives (Nauestruch).

A project of: Feria Estampa

Curated and produced by: hablarenarte:

With the support of: Acción Cultural Española AC/E

Venues: Matadero Madrid and Casa de Velázquez