Where is the tomorrow we saw yesterday

In 2027, spazioSERRA will turn ten.
A period long enough to see a way of looking change.
 

Over these years, cities have changed, as have the ways we inhabit public spaces, the time of relationships, and the time of cultural production. The way art is viewed has also changed, as has the way artists are asked to exist in the present.
 

And, in the meantime, we have changed too. Not only in the way we observe, imagine, and curate, but first and foremost as people. spazioSERRA was born as a place open to experimentation, and we grew alongside it. But over time, we began to ask ourselves whether certain mechanisms of independent art had also slowly come to resemble what they once sought to distance themselves from: deadlines, the need to arrive with already-defined ideas, the need to already know everything before even beginning.

We have questioned how many possibilities remain alive when an artistic practice must immediately become exhibitable, performative, producible. How many attempts disappear because they do not yet have a defined form. And how many ideas instead need time, doubt, and error.

For this reason, the 2026 Open Call for Artists stems from a different desire.

We are not looking for completed projects.

We are not looking for already stabilized visions.

We would like to encounter practices. Processes. Obsessions. Questions that are still open.

We are interested in understanding your imprints, what runs through your research, what tensions drive it, what possibilities it opens up and contradicts within the contemporary landscape.
Site-specific installations, performances, editorial productions, videos, urban interventions, hybrid collaborations, or forms that are still undefined: the point is not the format, but the urgency that runs through it.

We would like this open call to be the beginning of a space projected toward future projects, addressed to those willing to engage with a shared research process that can still slow down, change direction, and remain incomplete long enough to transform.

Because perhaps today, the most radical action for a public space dedicated to contemporary art is not to reflect immediacy, but to have the courage to support a process that is still uncertain.