Applications open for Swab Barcelona

Swab Barcelona 2019 opens the application process for its twelfth edition, an event that, following the line of previous years, will host international projects that bet on innovation and creativity, and will be selected by a selection committee that will be published soon. As always, Swab aspires to generate an artistic sample representative of the current scene, a space for meeting and market for professionals of contemporary art. Do you lack reasons to apply? The Swab team offers you a few:

Its artistic proposal

The team of Swab seeks, edition after edition, to reflect the latest trends in the art world, thus generating a new and fresh proposal every year.

Its selection committee

The Swab Barcelona 2019 committee, composed of 4 collectors and 4 curators of great relevance in the contemporary art scene.

Its professionals

Swab Barcelona is an encounter and meeting point between relevant art professionals of the current panorama.

Its awards and acquisition program

As every edition, Swab presents its 6 prizes from Banc Sabadell Foundation, DKV, Mango, Lluis Coromina Foundation, Marset and Diezy7. In addition to the acquisition programs of the Vila Casas Foundation and the Olor Visual Collection.

Its activities

Swab promotes artistic exchange between the city of Barcelona and the world, that is why to generate synergies it organizes diverse activities that facilitate contact and cultural collaboration with the international scene.

Its curator

Swab is committed to curated work, presenting at the fair several specialized programs apart from its general programming, thus creating an exchange and vision on the part of all the groups that make up the artistic fabric.

Its initiation to art

Swab Barcelona continues with its Kids space, reaffirming the importance of art in education, thus creating the acceptance of art as a daily necessity in the growth of children as a personal expression.

Its debates

One more edition Swab presents Thinks, a series of talks and debates about art and current events.

Its city

Barcelona, ​​in addition to sun, beach and mountains, is culture, and Swab proposes to reclaim the city as a creative center.