Collection.
Alba Yruela, Alberto Gil Cásedas, Anna Moreno, Antonio Menchen, Antonio Ortega, Cristina Mejías, Daniel Toca, David Mutiloa, Elena Lavellés, François Curlet, Fuentesal Arenillas, Irene de Andrés, Javier Arbizu & Karlos Martínez B., Jorge Méndez Blake, Julia Gorostidi, Julia Llerena, Marc Larré, María Tinaut, Marina Glez. Guerreiro, Mario Santamaría, Martín Llavaneras, Martín Vitaliti, ME-MO, Michal Martychowiec, Michele Welke, Mikel Escobales, Pablo Rasgado, Pedro Torres, Rasmus Nilausen, Raúl Lorenzo, Serj, Sinéad Spelman, The Perfect Lover
Curators
Renato Della Poeta, Aurélien Le Genissel
Venue
Utopia 46
C. Sant Pere Més Alt 46, Barcelona Opening hours: Monday to Friday, from 11 am to 1:30 pm and 4:30 to 7 pm
Since its inauguration in September 2013, the Blueproject Foundation has been building up and consolidating a collection of an open and varied nature. This selection of over 30 works by both young and established artists is now to be shown in public for the first time. The show is drawn mainly from the donations made by the artists who have taken part in the Foundation’s Residency Programme (2013-2020), but it also includes work issuing from the Production Grants (2020-2022) and a few one-off acquisitions resulting from our collaboration with institutions and events within the artistic context of the city, such as the Barcelona Gallery Weekend.
Because of the conditions in which it has taken shape, our collection is not presented as a homogeneous or thematic unity structured by a particular format or specific curatorial focus. On the contrary, each of the works presented here has a very close link with the investigations and subsequent exhibitions proposed by the artists when they applied as candidates for our residences or production grants.
We have therefore thought it important to avoid a neutral exhibition in the classic white cube, which would have obliged us to overlay the show with a somewhat artificial narrative, and opt instead for an almost inhabited space with its own visual and formal specificities, where the works could stand in their own right while engaging in dialogue with the authentic character of the venue. The result is a kind of collector’s salon in which we have played at imagining what it would really be like to display our collection in the everyday surroundings of what is almost a family home.
We wish to express our thanks for the kind collaboration of all the artists, both men and women, with work forming part of our collection, which we trust will continue to grow in the coming years.