Notes on the Retirement System for Artists in Spain 

A conversation about pensions between Roc Martínez, representing the pensioners’ committee of the CGT trade union, and Montserrat Moliner. 

In Value Production: Years Worked ≠ Years of Contribution, Montserrat Moliner wonders about the job of the artist, in which existing systems of protection do not guarantee basic care when one reaches retirement age. Many artists cannot make regular social security contributions, as they cannot afford to pay the monthly rate for self-employed people, and therefore face a future without a decent pension. This is no exception, but a feature of unregulated occupations that depend on extremely random demand, in which they must improvise through side activities depending on their chosen discipline or field. Most artists who want to live from their work have insecure finances, unless they can live on unearned income or have secure financial backing. 

this activity is part of

Value Production: Years Worked ≠ Years of Contribution 

activity

05.02.2025 – 21.04.2025

participants

Confederació General del Treball (CGT)

Montserrat Moliner

In 2021, MACBA launched the triennial Panorama, which aimed to “deepen its collaboration and dialogue with local artists and cultural agents”. [contra]panorama, the second edition of Panorama retains the same aim but works towards it through a year-long series of interventions that take the project’s title literally, in order to question both the continuing relevance of the triennial (or biennial) format and its capacity to offer a panoramic image of the present.

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exhibition
From October 24, 2024 to April 21, 2025

Epilogue

[contra]panorama