Visions of Catalonia: Crafting Art

The application period is now open to participate in the third edition of the Biennial of Contemporary Crafts Visions of Catalonia: Crafting Art, corresponding to the period 2025-2026. The biennial is a platform for international visibility for 21st century (Art)esania created in Catalonia.

This year, the curatorial direction will be in charge of the art critic and cultural manager Ricard Planas Camps , founder of bonart cultural. It will consist of an exhibition at the Artesania Catalunya center and several international tours, with all the participants or with a selection of them. The call is aimed at artists, craftsmen and designers with an operational establishment in Catalonia who develop new expressions of contemporary art and craftsmanship. The deadline for submitting candidacies will end on March 20, 2025, when a committee of experts will be in charge of selecting the candidacies from the accepted proposals, especially valuing those that stand out for their creativity, innovation, quality and professionalism.

Seed, German Consetti (2014)

The Biennial will promote and give visibility to contemporary crafts from Catalonia, highlighting both the technique and the artisanal process as well as the concept behind each work. This event seeks to place Catalan crafts on the international artistic scene, reinforcing their prestige and facilitating the creation of synergies and business opportunities for professionals in the sector.

The main objective is to seek the maximum interrelation between Art (Creativity) and (Art)esania. To look for proposals that work with essential materials of craftsmanship such as, for example, textiles, wood, ceramics, iron, glass, etc. Based on these elements, we look for contemporary authors who have strategically allied themselves with these materials and have made them the flagship of their creative corpus . We will also go a little further and look at the processes to arrive at creations using concepts such as circular economy -to reuse everything-, sustainability, climate emergency, total creativity outside the limits of the codes of fine arts, beauty -with the infinite codes we have of beauty-, we propose an edition where the limits are tense, dialogue, break if necessary. This is the first and last intention of this edition, sewing universes while we play with going to the limits that no one knows quite where they begin and end. This is the maximum interest of this proposal, to continuously raise questions.

For more information and to submit applications, you can consult the following link .

Simoom, Ricardo Tena (2020)