Barcelona Producció is an annual public competition aimed at the art scene in Barcelona for grants to develop artistic projects. Structured into a series of diverse categories – individual exhibitions, curatorial projects, research initiatives, publications, off-site projects and performances – its contents form the core of the programming at the Centre d’Art La Capella.
Barcelona Producció aims to reflect the diversity of disciplines and languages characterising contemporary artistic practices by adapting to the working registers and temporalities that artists and other agents in the sector employ or seek in the ways in which they make art. The competition focuses on the procedural part of artistic work, generating production resources that later lead to exhibitions, performances, digital proposals, publications, off-site projects or the presentation of research. The essence of La Capella is therefore to look after these production processes, accompanying them from dossier to final form.
Barcelona Producció invites artists, curators, critics, researchers and other professionals involved in contemporary art and thinking to participate in this open competition, the outcome of which is the selection of a total of 17 projects chosen per season by an independent jury.
In this manner, the Centre d’Art La Capella offers support to meet the needs and wishes of the art scene in Barcelona through a twofold objective: firstly, to help the emerging or newly established art sector to gain professional experience; and secondly, to do so through a variety of processes and presentation formats that are attuned to the artistic practice linked to the city.
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This category is for exhibition projects and is directed towards artists. Its aim is to support the production of a new project, establishing the procedural dynamics required for the final presentation of the project as an exhibition in Espai Capella.
Espai Capella is the centre’s iconic space, the central nave of an old hospital chapel, measuring 380 m2, with stone walls.
This is aimed at people interested in curatorial practice who wish to present an exhibition in Espai Capella. All manner of proposals are welcome for both group and solo shows that place the emphasis on the exhibition aspect, as well as on the different temporalities of the exhibition event (engaging audiences by means of activities, gatherings, workshops, etc.).
Espai Capella is the centre’s iconic space, the central nave of an old hospital chapel, measuring 380 m2, with stone walls.
Projects of an exhibition nature aimed at artists. The goal is to encourage the production of an unpublished project by establishing the dynamics of the process required for the final presentation of the project as an exhibition at Espai Rampa.
Espai Rampa is a smaller-scale space that acts as a laboratory in which to test exhibition proposals of a more experimental nature. It is a neutral exhibition hall with white walls and non-monumental dimensions.
Espai Rampa is suited to curatorial proposals for solo or group shows adapted to the dimensions of this gallery space. Its smaller scale also allows other types of projects, one of which the relationship with the architecture is not such a determining factor.
Espai Rampa is a smaller-scale space that acts as a laboratory in which to test exhibition proposals of a more experimental nature. It is a neutral exhibition hall with white walls and non-monumental dimensions.
These are projects that are developed and completed outside the exhibition venue. The proposals can therefore be extremely diverse and varied, from those carried out in other places or in the public space to those that experiment with temporalities that go beyond an exhibition proper (interventions in other institutions, activities with a strong performative component, links with other fields of knowledge, etc.).
This category covers the presentation of projects that stem from any field of research related to contemporary artistic practices, including projects that focus on theory as well as those that involve research prior to undertaking an artistic project. The aim is to provide support to research processes by offering time and money to conduct research without the pressure of the need to arrive at a final outcome. Nevertheless, a public return is requested as a way to bring the research to a close, which may take the form of a talk, a workshop, a publication or any other format suited to establishing certain conclusions concerning the research.
This encompasses projects presented as a visual, textual, sound or other publication on a physical support or in any other language. The aim is to encourage the issuing of a publication concerning the visual arts. There are no restrictions regarding theme or format, and publications may range from an essay to a work of fiction or photography book but also any other type of experimental project that is not published in book form.
This includes performance and/or action art projects, action poetry and other intermedia performing arts proposals that do not require any form of temporary exhibition other than an ephemeral public presentation. The grants awarded in this category are intended for specific performative happenings that will make up a programme of performances organised at La Capella. The pieces must not have been shown before and must be presented in the La Capella space. In the case of performative works that must be staged elsewhere, applications should be submitted in the off-site projects category.
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