(creating) Situations

Every four months, the Santa Mònica arts centre develops an exhibition cycle through collective creation processes. These processes are driven by a close and radical curatorial practice, understood as a form of accompaniment and care. Through this exercise of institutional de-hierarchisation, the new Santa Mònica embraces methodologies that encourage diverse situations of horizontal participation.

Along the same lines, (creating) Situations offers a context for collective learning and research that analyses exhibition cycles and their creative processes from the inside and, in turn, generates new situations for approaching them. A tool designed to understand and become immersed in these methodologies from within.

With this programme, the Santa Mònica opens its doors to people interested in artistic practices and in the configuration of these exhibition processes, based on joint and situated co-creation with curators, artists and other agents involved. The aim is to interpret and reactivate different situations within the exhibition device.

The title (creating) Situations is inspired by approaches that displace the model that establishes a game between "author, work and public", inherited from modernity and still very present in our shared imaginary. Thus, the character of collective involvement not only permeates each of the Santa Mònica's exhibition cycles, but also aims to be the vehicle of this programme, with the aim of activating artistic thought and research from a common construction committed to our present reality. This is why the programme also aims to go beyond the Santa Mònica by establishing connections with other cultural proposals in the city of Barcelona.