Dilalica gallery. Photo: José Hevia
Activity
Thursday, May 8, 2025
The Artwork Journey II: Visit to Dilalica
Exclusive activity for Collection Friends and MACBA Friends
The role of galleries in the journey of works of art
The second session in this series takes us to the Dilalica gallery to find out about the role of galleries in the journey of artworks, from their creation through to their institutionalisation, as well as contemporary mediation and circulation practices.
Following our visit to the studio of artist Stella Rahola, this second session in the series shifts the focus to another key figure in the art circuit: the gallery.
How do galleries help to construct value and meaning? What tensions are generated between curating practice and the market? And what is their place among the new ways of legitimising and consolidating artistic careers? At this session we’ll be opening up a critical conversation about the –often invisible– mechanisms that determine what is conserved, what circulates and what is institutionalised in the contemporary art world.
We’ll be visiting Dilalica, a space for collaborative curating practice in Barcelona, to find out how works pass through the gallery sphere before possibly moving on to institutions.
Dilalica works through exhibition formats, publications and online projects, as well as collaborating with other institutions. While this is not its only line of work, it stands out for its sustained interest in computational practices, the photographic image, collaboration and questioning of individual authorship.
The gallery staff will share its projects and experiences, exemplifying an approach based on experimenting with forms and concepts, and on flexible roles within the art ecosystem. We will also be visiting the current exhibition to see how the meaning of works is constructed at this venue.
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