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Meet Bauhaus of the Seas next week in Barcelona! 💧 Join us for "Liquid Conversations," an inspiring event exploring innovative connections with water bodies as part of ‘The Ocean Speaks’ exhibition taking place next week on Wednesday, February 13, 2025, at 6 PM at the Disseny Hub Barcelona. 🪼 The evening will feature a dynamic program showcasing groundbreaking artistic practices, including SUPERFLEX STUDIO's lecture on "Art As Infrastructure," Fahrenheit 180's presentation on the Bauhaus of the Seas Sails Lisbon Pilot's Blue Maker Space, and a critical cartography of underwater Barcelona by Institute for Postnatural Studies and Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano joined by Jose Luis de Vicente (Museu del Disseny) and Markus Reymann (TBA21). Don't miss this unique opportunity to engage with leading thinkers in ecological art and design. Free admission with pre-booking required. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/d3fh8AJY #BauhausOfTheSeas #EcologicalArt #Sustainability #OceanConservation

We are honored to announce that on Friday, February 7, TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space was awarded the Innovation and Sustainability in Art prize at the inaugural Flash Art Italia Awards. The award, created by Flash Art in collaboration with Arte Fiera, aims to recognize an artistic or cultural project that has been able to connect Innovation and Sustainability by positively impacting the environment and society. The jury selected Ocean Space for the category winner, as “demonstrating how art can be a powerful tool for raising awareness and understanding of contemporary ecological challenges, the project stands out for its ability to translate complex environmental issues into engaging and meaningful art experiences”.  Since its opening in 2019, Ocean Space has served as a dynamic hub for artistic and scientific collaboration, advocating for ocean literacy and climate action through exhibitions, research initiatives, and public programs. At TBA21, we are dedicated to fostering fostering a deeper cultural and artistic engagement with pressing planetary concerns. Thus, this recognition is an important confirmation of the value of art as a tool for cultural and social transformation. We would like to once again thank Flash Art Italia and the jury for believing in our mission and all of you for your enthusiasm and commitment.

🦠🎙️ We took part in one of the round tables of the #PÚBLICA25 program of the Fundación Contemporánea: ‘Reimagining institutions for climate action’. During the presentation, three key projects for the Foundation were presented, which invite us to continue working on new ways of understanding institutions: 1️⃣ The Zoöp model, an initiative of Nieuwe Instituut, born in a cultural institution to rethink the governance of institutions by giving representation to non-humans. 2️⃣ Oceanofuturisms. A project that fuses scientific rigour and speculative fiction to transcend catastrophic scenarios and imagine other possible futures for the ocean. This project is developed within the framework of the Independent Study Program Organism | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies. 3️⃣ Bauhaus of the Seas Sails, in the framework of New European Bauhaus. A multi-agent and multi-scale interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together cultural institutions, administrations, universities and scientists in sustainable design processes. The speakers delved into each of the initiatives to explain all the details to those present and emphasize the work of TBA21 in its commitment to the more-than-human. 💭 Participants: Jon Aranguren Juaristi (part of the Organismo team), Eduardo Castillo (architect and curator), Rosa Ferré (Co-director of TBA21), Marina Avia Estrada (Head of Exhibitions and Public Program of TBA21), Uriel Fogué Herreros and Eva Gil (part of the Bauhaus of the Seas Sails team).

¡Así ha sido la primera jornada de PÚBLICA25! En ella hemos dado la bienvenida a nuestros asistentes para hablando de la cultura como refugio y hemos podido comprobar cómo el arte, la literatura, el cine y el teatro no sólo acompañan en momentos difíciles, sino que transforman vidas. También hemos abordado la mesa "Reimaginar las instituciones para la acción climática", donde TBA21  ha presentado tres proyectos visionarios que nos invitarán a seguir trabajando en nuevas maneras de entender las instituciones. En "Ciudad sostenible y pensada" hemos observado la ciudad como si fuera un ser vivo, en una aproximación a nuestro hábitat distinta a la tradicional visión que tenemos sobre las urbes. El speed networking nos ha llevado a conocer proyectos y personas que refuerzan día a día y con su trabajo el sector. La banda Maneky nos ha hecho disfrutar del cierre y coger fuerzas para la segunda jornada de PÚBLICA. ♾️ Y mañana continuamos...

✨TBA21 among ‘The Best of Culture’ in 2024! We are honored to be featured in the 2024 edition of the Observatory of Culture, elaborated by la Fundación Contemporánea, an initiative of LA FABRICA, and supported by CREA SGR. 🎖️ We are grateful and excited to be on the list of institutions with the greatest social commitment, among other great entities in the art world. All activity at TBA21 is fundamentally driven by artists and the belief in art and culture as a carrier of social and environmental transformation, ultimately contributing to the creation of spaces for peace and justice, placing social commitment at the heart of all our work. 📖 Read the full report here: https://lc.cx/evcINb #TBA21 #BestOfCulture #SocialCommitment #ArtForChange #ObservatoryOfCulture

🌊 OPEN CALL: Webs of Water An OCEAN / UNI online activation series  🚨Application deadline: February 5 ⚡️ In collaboration with Tactical Tech’s “Exposing the Invisible” and artist-researcher Federico Perez Villoro, we invite applications for “Webs of Water”, an online activation series exploring the relationship between technology infrastructures, freshwater scarcity, and water distribution issues in the Caribbean. Taking place from March to May 2025, the program will welcome journalists, researchers, artists, scientists, and activists to collaboratively investigate the environmental impact of tech industries on water access through workshops and collective mapping. 1️⃣ What? Five workshops and skill-sharing sessions (5x 2h 20 min). 2️⃣ For whom? Practitioners with experience in journalistic and citizen investigations, cartography, data science, hydrology, geology, artistic interventions around water access, evidence-based campaigning. 3️⃣ How to apply? Via link in bio, or at https://lnkd.in/dDHeVwnS

Some months ago we announced the winners of three new artists' residencies in Venice, [Carlos Casas, Nandita Kumar and Adelita Husni-Bey] organized in the context of the STARTS Residency Program dedicated to water sustainability and innovation. This is our second collaboration with the European Commission initiative as a Member of the Consortium. 🤝 (Waag Futurelab, OGR Torino, Camargo Foundation, PiNA, biennale . wien) 🧑🔬👩🎨 The residencies are designed to allow an in-depth exploration of the Venice Lagoon's ecologies, connecting a network of local partners and experts with situated artistic inquiry. Over the course of nine months 🗓️, the three selected artists will develop new artistic commissions focused on the lagoon's ecosystem and its multi-species inhabitants, investigating the role of the ports ⚓ from different perspectives. 📢 Stay tuned to hear more about the development of their projects! Video by Maco Film and Communication

🌊 2025 is off to a great start! We’re delighted to welcome Adhwana Centre for Sustainable Development (India), Fondation de la Mer, Ocean As Common, OceanoScientific and VPB: Vétérinaires Pour la Biodiversité to the Let’s Be Nice to the Ocean movement. With just five months until the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, support for #ocean protection is growing stronger at this crucial time. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d9cifrwc A big thank you also and always to our partners Dona Bertarelli Philanthropy, TBA21, Tara Ocean Fondation, MedPAN, Fondation Prince Albert II de Monaco and the Ocean & Climate Platform —none of this would be possible without you! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/euwVmAAe #LetsBeNicetotheOcean 🦈 🪸 🐚 🦞 🐟 #OceanProtection #UNOC3 #UNOC2025

Et si l’art était aussi un moyen de protéger nos océans en jouant ce rôle d’éveilleur des consciences ? 🌊 En mai, Nice va se transformer en un véritable centre artistique autour de la thématique de l’Océan, en lien avec la 3e Conférence des Nations Unies pour l’Océan, prévue en juin. Plus qu’un événement culturel, cette biennale des Arts et des Océans sera l’occasion de sensibiliser le plus grand nombre à la protection des océans. Sous la direction de Aillagon Jean-Jacques et Helene Guenin, pas moins de 11 expositions proposées dans nos 7 musées de Nice autour du thème « La Mer autour de vous ». Et grande nouveauté cette année : la Biennale s’étendra à travers toute la ville ➡️ sur la Promenade des Anglais et du Paillon, des œuvres vous inviteront à la réflexion ; des lieux emblématiques comme le 109, la Villa Arson, la Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules-Cheret et la Villa Masséna, notamment, accueilleront des expositions qui déploieront différentes facettes de la mer, la faune et la flore sous-marines tout en ouvrant sur les urgences écologiques contemporaines. Une belle occasion de redécouvrir Nice tout en sensibilisant le public à la beauté et à la fragilité de nos océans. Un grand merci à la fondation Bloomberg Philanthropies, mécène engagé à travers le monde entier pour les Arts et l’écologie, et aux côtés de noté ville pour cette 6e Biennale. Aymeric Jeudy Johanne Lindskog Sylvain LIZON Stéphane TALLON Bertrand Roussel Helene Jacquart Jean-Pierre Barbero Musée Matisse Villa Masséna, musée d'Art et d'Histoire Musée Palais Lascaris Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret Musée de Préhistoire de Terra Amata Musée de la Photographie Charles Nègre - Nice Villa Arson Nice Fondation Tara Océan TBA21 Drassm UNESCO Nice Côte d'Azur Tourisme COMPAGNIE HUMAINE Heritage Malta

🌊 TBA21, Fondation Tara Océan and Villa Arson present the exhibition ‘Becoming Ocean. A social conversation about the Ocean'. This exhibition is part of the program of the Nice Biennale of Arts and the Ocean, in the framework of the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) 🌐. 🖼️ From 7 May to 24 August, more than 20 artists from the TBA21 collection and the Tara Ocean Foundation residency program will exhibit their work at Villa Arson through critical and documentary approaches, as well as more sensorial, poetic or speculative expressions. 🎨 The exhibition will feature artists such as Seba Calfuqueo, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Simone Fattal, Sonia Levy, Armin Linke, Ingo Niermann, Diana Policarpo and Allan Sekula, as well as participants in the Tara Ocean Foundation's artist-in-residence program such as Samuel Bollendorff, Nicolas Floc'h, Christian Sardet, Robertina Šebjanič and Laure Winants. In addition, a rich public program will be presented at Villa Arson. 🌍 In this context, TBA21 has been designated by the host country of the UNOC3 (United Nations Ocean Conference 2025) to enable the integration of the connection between art and science in areas such as political dialogue and negotiations. In addition, the foundation supports the design and implementation of the cultural program of the conference with the participation in the Biennale and the ‘Année de la Mer’, reflecting TBA21's commitment to fostering the role of art and culture in multilateral policy processes related to sustainability 🌿. 📸 : Ingo Niermann With Anna María Millán, Roman Bayarri, Ville Haimala, Franziska Aigner and Dan Bodan. Sea Lovers. Commissioned by TBA21–Academy. Still: Courtesy the artist.