BiennialDecember 18, 2020
Barcelona Manifesta 15 Host City 2024
Manifesta announced that Manifesta 15 will take place in 2024, in the City of Barcelona and ten Metropolitan cities in Catalonia, Spain.
The decision to select Host Cities a long time in advance, in order to understand future strategies, is a manner in which Manifesta can rethink alternative models of cultural institutionalism in a post Covid society. Manifesta strategy continues to be focused on how art and culture can fight polarization and division. The Bid of Barcelona aligns with the mission of Manifesta, as it seeks to build upon the common objective of involving citizens, different entities and groups, in the common task of rethinking our world through artistic creativity and social commitment.
“This experimental process looks to make Barcelona a laboratory for the creative design of artistic prototypes that drive a new cultural institutionalism. It seeks to explore a structural overhaul of the relationship between contemporary arts and territorial and community contexts, the systematic incorporation of arts in educational settings that promotes critical thinking and imagination, the democratization of the governance of cultural institutions themselves and the inclusion of artists into productive ecosystems outside the art world.” Quote from Barcelona’s bid.
It had already been announced in 2019 that Manifesta 14 2022, will be Pristina, capital of Kosovo, as the first Balkan host city. Pristina presents a unique location from which to look at the past and think about the present challenges Europe is facing from unexpected and heterogeneous perspectives. This fast-changing urban center at the crossroads between Southern and Eastern Europe will allow Manifesta 14 to investigate how contemporary culture and social practices can address the identity of a country that is as composite as it is polymorphic.
For more information visit: https://manifesta.org/
The decision to select Host Cities a long time in advance, in order to understand future strategies, is a manner in which Manifesta can rethink alternative models of cultural institutionalism in a post Covid society. Manifesta strategy continues to be focused on how art and culture can fight polarization and division. The Bid of Barcelona aligns with the mission of Manifesta, as it seeks to build upon the common objective of involving citizens, different entities and groups, in the common task of rethinking our world through artistic creativity and social commitment.
“This experimental process looks to make Barcelona a laboratory for the creative design of artistic prototypes that drive a new cultural institutionalism. It seeks to explore a structural overhaul of the relationship between contemporary arts and territorial and community contexts, the systematic incorporation of arts in educational settings that promotes critical thinking and imagination, the democratization of the governance of cultural institutions themselves and the inclusion of artists into productive ecosystems outside the art world.” Quote from Barcelona’s bid.
It had already been announced in 2019 that Manifesta 14 2022, will be Pristina, capital of Kosovo, as the first Balkan host city. Pristina presents a unique location from which to look at the past and think about the present challenges Europe is facing from unexpected and heterogeneous perspectives. This fast-changing urban center at the crossroads between Southern and Eastern Europe will allow Manifesta 14 to investigate how contemporary culture and social practices can address the identity of a country that is as composite as it is polymorphic.
For more information visit: https://manifesta.org/
