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NOSYMMETRIES / 2026-27
Deadline for open call 26/07/2026
IDENSITAT + La Capella Centre d'Art (Barcelona)

NOSYMMETRIES is an investigative project activated through artistic processes, exploring the intersection of the concepts of social inequality, violence, and care. These issues, fueled by politics based upon threats and fear, accelerated by contemporary capitalism, directly impact upon rights, identity, gender, race, and class. and contribute to the degradation of democratic values.

Since 2024, Idensitat, as part of the Concentric programme at La Capella Centre d'Art, has deployed artistic practices impacting on social and cultural contexts. A working group composed of six people will be created through this open call. A group whose participants must agree to take part in the scheduled sessions, and in the public presentation of the results deriving from them.

This initiative has been conceived as a space for sharing methodologies, for deploying processes, and for implementing projects with the aim of working towards a collective exhibition and the creation of a collective glossary. This 2026-27 edition aims to continue analysing and interrogating the concept of democracy, taking into account that we are living through a time of asymmetric growth between classes, of conflicts and polarisations, of loss of rights, of the expansion of ultranationalisms; a set of elements that converge in an accelerated degradation of life in collectivity. This line of research opened up last year by a working group and several guest artists. Their work was formalised in an exhibition entitled Vuestro orden está levantado sobre la arena. Nosymmetries.

From October to December 2026, and January and February 2027, monthly meetings will be held with the working group and with invited guests. These sessions will combine presentations, workshops, and group activities which aim to share experiences and knowledge, as well as supporting participants in defining their individual or collective project. The resulting productions will be presented in a collective exhibition open at La Capella Centre d'Art in March 2027.

Artists who wish to take part in this working group will be compensated and must submit a research and production proposal for an artistic project related to the programme's theme. Idensitat will take part in this process as promoter, mediator, and curator. Together with the guest artists, and La Capella Centre d'Art .

Artists participating in the open call will be required to communicate a working methodology and their position with regard to questioning the concept of democracy, while taking into consideration social inequality, violence, and care, fueled by the politics of threat and fear.

SESSION SCHEDULE
There will be two monthly meetings, one in person and the other online. The face-to-face meeting will last all day, while the online meeting will last an hour and a half. In some of the sessions, invited artists, organisations, or cultural professionals, will intervene in the process through group workshops.
Tuesday 15th September - 10.30a.m.- 2p.m / 3p.m. - 6p.m. - Working group session (in person)
Tuesday 29th September - 4.30p.m. - 6p.m. - Working group session (online)
Tuesday 13th October - 10.30a.m.- 2p.m / 3p.m. - 6p.m. - Working group session (in person)
Tuesday 27th October - 4.30p.m. - 6p.m. - Working group session (online)
Tuesday 10th November- 10.30a.m.- 2p.m / 3p.m. - 6p.m. - Working group session (in person)
Tuesday 24th November - 4.30p.m. - 6p.m. - Working group session (online)
Tuesday 15th December - 10.30a.m.- 2p.m / 3p.m. - 6p.m. - Working group session (in person)
Thursday 17th December - 4.30p.m. - 6p.m. - Working group session (online)
Tuesday 12th January - 10.30a.m.- 2p.m / 3p.m. - 6p.m. - Working group session (in person)
Tuesday 26th January - 4.30p.m. - 6p.m. - Working group session (online)
Tuesday 9th February -10.30a.m.- 2p.m / 3p.m. - 6p.m. - Working group session (in person)
Tuesday 23rd February - 4.30p.m. - 6p.m. - Working group session (online)

WHO IS THE CALL AIMED AT?
Open to artists interested in joining the working group, who are willing to agree to the following terms: to attend the monthly sessions, to complete the proposed creative process, and to participate in the collective exhibition

RESOURCES OFFERED
- 1,500 euros in fees (taxes included).
- The project includes a joint allocation of 3,000 euros to cover production costs.The budget will be evaluated between the organisation and the working group, taking into account the project's rationale and the exhibition material that is already available.

DOCUMENTATION TO BE PRESENTED
The proposal must be submitted digitally using the provided form, completing all fields and attaching the following documentation in a single PDF document (maximum 8 megabytes):

  • Proposal: Written document defining the applicant's position on the proposed working themes, as well as the basic guidelines for project development. This may include working methodologies and possible formalisation methods. (Maximum 2 pages)
  • Portfolio: A C.V. and a selection of up to two previous projects or work, contextualised with text and images to facilitate understanding. If necessary, web links can be added as supplementary material.
  • Motivation: Short text that answers the question: What is your motivation for participating in this combined research and production working group?
  • Contact information: Full name, telephone number, email address, and postal address.

> ACCESS TO THE REGISTRATION FORM
Project written in English, Spanish or Catalan.

SELECTION CRITERIA
A member from Idensitat, another from La Capella Centre d'Art, and one of the project's guests will participate in the selection process. The selection criteria are:
– The quality, clarity, and viability of the proposal.
- Its consonance with the proposed theme.
- And a commitment to participate in person in the working group and in the scheduled sessions

DATES
- Open call deadline July 26th, 2026.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Selected participants will be provided with a fee and production support in accordance with the commitment to adhere to the established programme and to present results in the final exhibition. Selection implies acceptance of the commitment to participate in group meetings, workshops, and presentations part of the programme.

Submitting applications to this call implies acknowledgment and acceptance of these rules.

The selected projects will remain property of the creator(s). IDENSITAT and La Capella Centre d'Art, as collaborating organisations in the NOSYMMETRIES project, may reproduce and disseminate all or part of the programme's results with online or printed publications, always citing the respective creators and collaborating agents. IDENSITAT will archive all documentation resulting from this call and from the development of the project as a whole. Whenever the resulting work is made public, the creators of the projects (artists and working group) must cite: NOSYMMETRIES, a programme promoted by IDENSITAT and La Capella Centre d'Art.

 NOSYMMETRIES 2026-27
Picture from the call of submissions made by María Kastillejof, an artist participating in the Nosymmetries 2025-26 working group

A project by Idensitat in collaboration with La Capella Center d'Art. Supported by Generalitat de Catalunya, Department de Cultura, and Ajuntament de Barcelona.