This conversation seeks to explore forms of collecting that expand the traditional notion of a collection and go beyond the possession of physical objects. Rather than focusing on the artwork as a material good, it discusses practices that prioritize long-term accompaniment, relationship-building, and shared care. From private foundations and hybrid...

This session brings together galleries from Swab’s general program that are rethinking their models toward the territorial, the emergent, and the processual. These initiatives show a will to expand and diversify the role of the gallery. Through close engagement with geography—whether rural contexts, second venues, or long-term relationships with artists—these...

As part of Polar & Tropic, the central curatorial program at Swab connecting art scenes between Northern Europe and the Southeast Pacific, this roundtable focuses on emerging contemporary practices within the Southeast Asian context, with a particular emphasis on Taiwan as a reference and exchange node. In recent years, Taiwan...

In recent years, independent spaces have ceased to be an exception or anomaly within the artistic ecosystem and have become an active and increasingly visible part of the cultural landscape. These spaces often emerge from necessity, urgency, intuition, or resistance, and over time they consolidate as places of production, thought,...

A conversation among spaces founded by Latin American cultural agents who, from different trajectories, are generating new artistic, affective, and collaborative communities rooted in displacement and migration. Historically, Spain has been one of the main entry points into Europe for Latin American artists and cultural workers—due to linguistic, historical, familial,...

Juan Hidalgo, founder of ZAJ, the pioneering collective of this language in Spain, once stated that performance is an art of space and action. A body that does something for a period of time, and yes, in a specific space. A space that has very often, of course, been an...