2025 Programmes
ARTESANTANDER 2025 completes its offering with exhibitions and activities of its own production: WAYS TO COLLECT, two initiatives that integrate everything from production to marketing, accompanying the entire work process with the artists - OPEN CALL, solo exhibition of an artist from the Balearic Islands - ARTESANTANDER Editorial - ARTESANTANDER Talks - ARTESANTANDER Espora.
WAYS TO COLLECT: THE PRINT SUBSCRIBERS CLUB
The Print Subscribers Club is a project by Benveniste Contemporary (Madrid) celebrates its 25th anniversary presenting its latest Books for Subscribers at Artesantander.
One of the most internationally recognized contemporary artists, Doris Salcedo (Colombia, 1958), is represented through three of her most emblematic projects: Palimpsesto, Disremembered, and Atrabiliarios.
These three prints together demonstrate Doris Salcedo’s commitment and coherence to the victims and, moreover, serve to generate a dialogue between different situations of violence, often systematized, in which, through the beauty of the pieces themselves, recognition of the importance of the existence and suffering endured by the most vulnerable is demanded, and the situations that cause them are denounced.
Seeing Through is the work of Varda Caivano (Argentina, 1971), one of the most prominent conceptual painters on the current scene whose work has been presented in numerous international exhibitions.
On this occasion, Caivano experimented with etching, stripped of sketches, in a surprising and unconventional manner. The trilogy of prints she presents sets a narrative that becomes an experience: a journey through the history of line.
WAYS TO COLLECT: 6-FOREST STUDIO
6-Forest Studio is an initiative of the Solo Collection, based in Madrid and Cantabria, which produces, supports, and shares contemporary art, promoting experimentation and creation.
6-Forest Studio is a creative organization that provides artists with a multidisciplinary team for projects related to art, animation, illustration, and character design for the creation and manufacturing of sculptures and art toys. Offering its services as a specialized consultancy, 6-Forest Studio collaborates with internationally recognized artists in all steps of the creative process, approaching a wide variety of materials in a daring combination of art, craftsmanship, and technical innovation.
The Laminati series of angels and devils by Ana Barriga (Spain, 1986), the sought-after Bubble Boy of the Infinite by Ryan Heshka (Canada, 1970) and Green Botijoman by Sergio Mora (Spain, 1975), and the Jet Thunder «Laminate» by Motohiro Hayakawa (Japan, 1974) are some of the recently released sculptural pieces presented at ARTESANTANDER.
SUSPENDED LANDSCAPES: MARINE STILL LIFES BY JORGE DIEZMA, CURATED BY CRISTINA ANGLADA
The Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics (IEB) is sponsoring the exhibition Suspended Landscapes: Marine Still Lifes at ARTESANTANDER, a selection of recent works by Jorge Diezma (Madrid, 1973). The project revisits and reinterprets a historic subgenre of the Baroque: the marine still life, which emerged in 17th-century Italy. Featuring fish and objects linked to the maritime environment, these still lifes are not only a tribute to this tradition, but also a critical reflection on the processes of transmission, popularization, and reappropriation of pictorial language over the centuries. As the curator emphasizes, the project offers a vision deeply connected to the territory—the sea as a cultural, economic, and emotional landscape—while also connecting with cross-cutting issues such as sustainability, tradition, and the role of art in times of transformation.
Jorge Diezma (Madrid, 1973) lives and works in Bunyola, Mallorca. His practice uses as a starting point the revisiting of some of the commonplaces of figurative tradition, emphasizing the Baroque legacy. He has recently held solo exhibitions at the Union Gallery, London; Galería Alegría, Barcelona; Deborah Bowman, Brussels; Espacio Valverde, Madrid; the non-profit Plat, Amsterdam; the Museo del Reloj Antiguo de la Joyería Grassy, Madrid; and the Jardín Botánico, Madrid. He has participated in exhibitions at the Fundación Cerezales, León; the Casal Solleric, Palma; and the Responsibility Art Space, Basel.
Cristina Anglada (Madrid, 1984) is an advisor to the Calparsoro Foundation. She co-curated the Opening section of ARCOmadrid in 2024 and 2025. Since 2022, she has been a visiting professor for the Master’s in Art Business at CEU San Pablo University, Madrid. She is a member of the jury for the call for Catalan cultural participation in the Eventi Collaterali program of the 2026 Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition and the second edition of the BCK Rhodes Biennial.
ARTESANTANDER
Editorial
TURNER
Madrid
CARMEN ALONSO LIBROS
Santander
CENDEAC
Murcia
PLANABOOKS EDITORES
Madrid
HEADS TAKE AWAY
Mutilva, Navarra
CAJA NEGRA EDITORA
Buenos Aires / Madrid