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GRAF invites you to be part of the community that allows you to share your programme with the rest of spaces of the platform in order to offer the audience a coordinated and balanced cultural choice.
GRAF is an open, plural and interdisciplinary community of spaces that program contemporary art in Catalonia. They share the same context and contribute to strengthen it.
If you want to be part of GRAF, fill the application form and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible
— Shared calendar
Access to the internal organization tool for GRAF’s spaces. It gathers the information of all the activities planned for the future or in the process of being programmed. The aim of the calendar is to share this information in the mid and long term, in order to generate valuable knowledge and enable the strategic planning of new activities. The advantage of this is the optimization of resources. GRAF provides direct contact with the rest of GRAF’s spaces.
— Public agenda
Bring to light and spread the programme of the spaces in the public access agenda. The agenda offers a quick consultation site of GRAF spaces’ programme, proposals from different fields of contemporary art and from all over the Catalan geography. The aim of the agenda is to make the programme of institutional and independent spaces/projects more accessible and to contribute in the development of new audiences, facilitating the transfer between different disciplines.
— Search engine
Access to all the information related to the spaces and their programmes published in GRAF, both present and past. GRAF generates an archive of the events that have taken place in the context of Barcelona and Catalonia, as well as of the spaces that have been part of them. Thus, GRAF contributes to the collective memory, visibilizes the reality of the context and offers a free access point to check this information.
— Personalized support
Support to the spaces for the publication of its programme in the calendar. The online tool is based on a personalized relationship with each one of the spaces in order to detect their specific needs and to periodically facilitate the entering of your data.
— GRAF meetings
Periodic meetings with the spaces to share their programme, evaluate GRAF and program activities of interest for the spaces and the specialized audience. GRAF is constantly evolving in dialogue with the needs of the spaces.
— Social networks
Support for the visibility of the spaces and the activities that they programme through GRAF’s social networks.
— Monthly newsletter
Information channel, via email, with the monthly programme of GRAF’s spaces. Preview of the spaces’s programme, which is then expanded in detail in the weekly agenda. The Newsletter helps reaching the final user with the information of the spaces
— GRAF Routes
Periodic articles made by external collaborators and/or people linked to GRAF’s spaces. GRAF’s Routes generate a virtual tour of the local cultural scene, including some of GRAF space’s programmes.
— Highlighted space in the agenda
GRAF provides highlighted spaces on the agenda, in the form of banners, to announce special events. The banner is composed of an image and/or a text, in horizontal or vertical format. It works as a link to an external web page and it is visible for as long as you need on the main page of GRAF.net, accompanied by all the programme of the weekly agenda.
— We publish your programme in GRAF
GRAF offers a data entry service for spaces with a high-volume programme. You periodically send us your schedule for the future and we publish it on GRAF’s calendar in order to save time and assure you share your updated and long-term information with the rest of the spaces and with the audience.
— Communication campaign
GRAF designs specific communication campaigns for the spaces. We think about how you can support your special programme with all the facilities of GRAF’s platform.
For more information write to info@graf.cat.
There are many topics to tackle, that may concern various XarxaProd projects, but we have chosen 4, and we have called upon 4 people who we trust that by bringing them into their own terrain, would manage to sharpen their point sufficiently.
To examine the interrelationships that creative production spaces establish and enable between contemporary practice, the audiences they work with and their immediate context, means addressing the very nature and purpose of these structures.
As I recall my travels, and the residencies among them, I think of the contradictions we get caught up in every day, and I’m still unsure if a residency can offer you anything more than a trip as a tourist staying for a limited period of time in a hotel can offer you.
Etymologically, to gestate means to carry in the womb, to think, to develop a plan. In order to gestate, we need seeds, care, shared knowledge, community – «a ruminant temporality» (Massón).
The La Almáciga project is committed to rooted political art, in alliance with scientific thinking and politics that are in symbiosis with the place.
If we pay attention, that is, attend to what we take for granted without question; we may discover that sometimes it actually does us good to stop, open the window, and let the sunshine and the fresh air in. Observe carefully.
Giving continuity to the series of interviews that we began last year together with Barcelona Gallery Weekend, for this edition 2022, the Graf team have travelled the streets and galleries of the city to interview, or directly assault as the case may be, various people linked to the world of contemporary art and who are also linked to the context of galleries, so that they could share with us their views in relation to the experience they’ve had this year at the BGW.
by Gisela Chillida.
Out of all the cogs in the wheel that turns the art world, collectors are often the least conspicuous, despite keeping the machine well-greased to hold it all in motion. For Art Nou 2022, five collectors have, literally, opened their doors to us, so we can spend some time at home with them, talking about their interests, about how they got started, what inspires them to acquire a work of art and how they have gradually built a collection.
I was locked up with my teenage son in the rented flat in Ribes street, where we have been living for fourteen years. It had been a long time since we had spent so much time together. He decided to happily immerse himself in video games, while I, incredulous and naive at the same time, thought that this biodictatorship would not last more than three months.
