9th Edition of Lluerna, Festival of Highly Emerging Arts
Take part in the ninth edition of Lluerna, Festival of Highly Emerging Arts, from May 14 to 16. This event combines invitation-only professional sessions (the first two days) with a public opening for anyone who wants to hear the artists talk about their projects and processes (Saturday 16). The programme brings together 10 highly emerging artists, a mentoring team of 5 artists and curators, and a Row 0 of professionals invited to the public session.
During the professional days, 10 artists selected through a process combining an expert committee and an open call will meet with art-sector professionals to receive feedback, guidance, and connections for their practice. They will also have the chance to learn about the preparation and installation of complex exhibitions at the Foundation and to test ways of publicly presenting their processes.
This year, the guests responsible for selecting the artists and conducting the mentorships are the independent curator Cristina Anglada; the director of Fluent (Santander) and curator of Espai 13's 2026 season, Alejandro Alonso Díaz; the director of Cordova (Barcelona), Cory John Scozzari; the artist Lydia Ourahmane; and the artist Arash Fayez.
On Saturday, May 16, the day will open with a roundtable discussion and continue with Studios on Stage, an afternoon where work processes move onto the stage. The 10 artists will present short live pieces-not necessarily completed-that may combine performance, moving image, music, text, or hybrid formats, within a dramaturgy that sits halfway between a studio visit and a stage situation.
The roundtable will bring together Manuel Segade (Museo Reina Sofía), Martina Millà (Fundació Joan Miró) and David Armengol (La Capella), among others, with the aim of analysing how contemporary art and its ecosystem in Catalonia have changed since the research underlying The Question of the Paradigm (2011)-Segade's exhibition and publication that shifted the focus from artist lists to the analysis of the devices, agents, and relationships that produce "emergence", offering a genealogical and critical reading-while incorporating more recent perspectives such as Armengol's Emerging Art: The Harvest and the Journey (2023) and the historical trajectory of Espai 13.
