Cultures d'Avenir 2024

This year’s edition invites 15 young filmmakers and audio-visual artists from Catalonia, France and Germany, chosen in an open call, to share visions, dreams and perspectives of the contemporary city and to reimagine ways of inhabiting it.

With a series of 3 workshops of 3 days each (in Berlin, Paris and Barcelona), the program invites young filmmakers and audio-visual artists to rethink how artistic practices address and intersect with societal issues and how art and culture can play a role in approaching global contemporary challenges. The aim of the programme is to provide the artists with spaces to meet and reflect together with other professionals and experts, in order to rethink the way artistic practice addresses and intersects with societal issues.

Support and mentoring

For six months, the selected artists will share their projects, reflect on their own work, and learn and try out new creative paths. This collective learning process is supported by a large group of experts and mentors, who will help the young artists reflect on how they can put their artistic approaches into practice more effectively. The programme takes the form of three in-person meetings in Berlin, Paris and Barcelona:

• Programme of the workshop at the HKW, Berlin (1–5 July 2024)
• Workshop at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (11–15 September 2024)
• Workshop at the CCCB, Barcelona (19–23 November 2024)

During the course of this program, the four international art institutions are collaborating with a commitment to critical thought and experimental inquiry while providing their structural support and knowledge.

Workshop at the CCCB, Barcelona (19 – 23 November, 2024)

For this final stage of the “Cultures d’avenir” programme, we propose group sessions and activities to explore the materiality and collective perception of cities. What are cities made of? What impacts do they generate? How do they extend beyond their borders? We examine their infrastructures, driving forces, consumption, transport and food distribution, and we also analyse the global connections established between urban centres. Barcelona is our case study and the starting point for reflecting on other cities in the world. Through an immersive tour of the Raval neighbourhood, we will look at the links between architecture, social life and urban identity. A series of sessions to investigate what cities reveal to us today and how the collective imagination, our perceptions, myths and ideals end up influencing the way we inhabit and remember cities. 

With the participation of Judit Carrera, David Bravo, Gerard Ortín, Marina Otero, Filipa Ramos, Violeta Kovacsics, Alba Cros, Romain Rampillon and Feda Wardak.