We're delighted to share that we, Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna, have renewed our Active Membership with the Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) for 2025–26, marking our fourth consecutive year. Over this time, we’ve continued to integrate environmental sustainability practices into the way we work, following GCC’s guidelines while focusing on practical, achievable actions within our means as a small independent organisation.

Each of us submitted a yearly CO2e report. Together, our carbon emissions totalled 16.18 tCO2e in 2019 (our baseline year), with subsequent years at 3.66 tCO2e (2022), 1.91 tCO2e (2023), 1.63 tCO2e (2024), and 4.45 tCO2e (2025). Our carbon footprint reporting covers emissions from our activities: air and surface travel (long-distance and regional trains, coaches, taxis, cars, metro, buses, and ferries), accommodation (hotels and self-catered properties), energy consumption (electricity and gas), and, since 2024, digital usage (web hosting, cloud storage, email traffic, and video calls). We use the GCC Carbon Calculator to conduct annual audits and ensure consistent, accurate reporting.

Sònia Hernández, Minister of Culture of the Government of Catalonia, today announced the Department of Culture’s 2025 acquisitions: 46 contemporary artworks by 40 artists that will enter the Government’s National Collection. The Collection spans contemporary art (from the 1970s onwards), photography, cultural artefacts, comics, illustration, postwar art, and works from the second avant-garde. The acquisitions follow an extensive review of more than 700 applications, assessed by a committee across eleven two-hour meetings.

The 2025 Committee was presided over by Íngrid Llopart, Deputy Director General of Cultural Promotion; Manel Guerrero, a specialist in contemporary art at the Directorate General for Cultural Promotion and Libraries and coordinator of the commission; Marta Gustà, Director of the Visual Arts Area at the Catalan Institute for Cultural Enterprises and coordinator of the commission; Ester Martínez, responsible for support programmes for artistic creation and visual arts; Sònia Blasco, Head of the Museums and Movable Heritage Protection Service; Claudia Segura, Head of Collections at MACBA; Àlex Mitrani, Contemporary Art Curator at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC); Jesús Navarro, Director of Morera – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Lleida and representative of the Network of Art Museums of Catalonia; Gisel Noè, Director of M|A|C Mataró; Manel Margalef, Director of Museu d'Art Modern Tarragona (MAMT) of the Diputació de Tarragona; Frederic Montornés, independent curator, nominated by the CoNCA National Council for Culture and the Arts; Álvaro Hernández, Technical Officer of the Management Service of the Directorate-General for Cultural Promotion and Libraries, acting as secretary. Closing the list, Mariana Cánepa Luna of Latitudes, as an expert in contemporary art, proposed by the Plataforma d’Arts Visuals de Catalunya (PAV).

One of the online work sessions.

The 2025 acquisitions were made with a total budget of €983,677.13. In this round, the committee selected 46 works by 40 artists—20 men, 18 women, and two collectives—reflecting a broad range of practices. Just over half of the works (23) entered the collection via galleries, while the remainder were acquired directly from the artists or their rightful owners (17).

Evolution of the acquisition budget since 2018.

Works by mid-career artists such as Carles Congost, Pep Agut, Tom Carr, Pep Duran, Begoña Montalbán, Núria Güell and Oriol Vilapuig, amongst others, have been deposited on long-term loan in twelve museums across Catalunya. With the budget increase to 1 million over the last two years, it has been possible to acquire works by established artists such as Antoni Muntadas, Sílvia Gubern, Nazario, Dorothée Selz, Marga Ximénez, Teresa Gancedo, Magda Bolumar and Joan Fontcuberta, to mention a few. Works by younger generations have also been purchased by artists such as Anna Moreno, Paula Artés, Gerard Ortín, Luz Broto, Eva Fàbregas or Agnès Essonti.

The meetings for the 2026 edition of the Acquisitions are currently underway until the summer, and will be the third and final year that Mariana serves as Advisor. 

Gerard Ortín Castellví​'s “Bliss Point”​ (2023), a 26-minute film, is now on long-term loan to MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. This completes his food trilogy, which is also deposited in the museum (“Future Foods” (2021) is a long-term loan of the Barcelona City Council; and “Agrilogistics” (2022) was a 2024 purchase by the same Generalitat Committee).

Luz Broto, “Contactar cristales enfrentados” (2023), now long-term loan at the Museu de Granollers.

Nazario, Història de Turandot, (1988-1990) 47 original drawings. Now on long-term loan at the MORERA. Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Lleida.

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• Latitudes’ Activities (Writing, Lectures, Learning, Awards, Affiliations, Juries, Residencies, Visitor Programmes)
• Mariana Cánepa Luna in the 2024 Acquisition Committee of the Col·lecció Nacional d'Art Contemporani of the Government of Catalunya, 19 Mar 2025
• Panorama traces, a year on, 21 Oct 2022
• Panorama in Madrid and Córdoba, 14 June 2022
• “Panorama 21: Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls”, MACBA, October 2021–February 2022

Nos alegra compartir que hemos sido invitados por Hangar, el centro de producción e investigación artística en Barcelona, a participar en la primera edición de PEEP que se celebrará el 12 y 13 de marzo de 2026. El evento combinará presentaciones, conversaciones y sesiones de feedback, y ha sido planteado como “un espacio de encuentro, diálogo y experimentación entre lxs artistas residentes de Hangar, profesionales invitadxs del ámbito local, nacional e internacional y el público general” con el objetivo de “explorar y profundizar en los procesos creativos de lxs artistas, compartir metodologías y generar nuevas conexiones profesionales”. 

Las jornadas culminarán con una programación pública que incluirá charlas, proyecciones, visitas a los estudios y una performance colectiva.

Para esta edición 2026, Hangar reunirá a Devrim Bayar (senior curator, KANAL-Centre Pompidou), Barbara Horvath (curadora, PART International Art Residency), Caroline Dumalin (directora artística, Morpho, y curadora del Pabellón de Bélgica en la Bienal de Venecia 2026), Jesús Alcaide (Córdoba), Ane Rodríguez Armendariz (responsable de Arte por venir, programa de la Fundación Carasso), Ismaël Chappaz (galería House of Chappaz), Mariana Cánepa (Latitudes), Max Andrews (Latitudes), Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz (directora de exposiciones y de la colección, Centro Botín), María Montero Sierra (Madrid/Londres), Olivier Collet (galería Prats Nogueras Blanchard) y Rosa Lleó (curadora independiente, Barcelona).

Asimismo, participan lxs artistas y proyectos residentes: Ali Arévalo, Oriol Arnedo Casas, Kate Bohunnis, Ari Cardozo, Mourae, Eduard Ruiz, Laura Sub1, Silvia Zayas, Huaqian Zhang, Victor Pérez-Pallarès Setó, Aura Roig, Sara Miravet Núñez, Grandeza Studio, Efe Ce Ele, Lara Campos, Lumbung Press, #Blendícete y Hamaca.

jueves, 12 de marzo de 2026

9:30–18:30 h Visitas de estudio

19:30 – 20:30 h | Hamaca, un archivo a contrapelo: proyecciones de Jaione Camborda, Raquel Friera y Cecilia Barriga

El archivo se sostiene sobre unos puntales que llamamos taxonomías; al mismo tiempo, por dentro lo recorre una malla invisible que, a contrapelo, es capaz de reconectar todo. Desde la inmensidad del fondo audiovisual de Hamaca, este programa hilvana tres piezas que abren mundos marcados por la austera relación entre cuerpos. La intensidad física y simbólica de un ritual ancestral en Rapa das Bestas (Jaione Camborda, 2017), filmado de cerca con la sensibilidad que favorece la película; la vulneración de derechos y el vacío legal de los CIE que denuncia 1.432.327 m² (Raquel Friera, 2012), cuestionando, al mismo tiempo, el papel de la artista mediadora; y, por último, el torrente de afectos que retrata Im Fluss (Cecilia Barriga, 2007), acompañando con una handycam a dos mujeres que piensan la pérdida mientras celebran una vida compartida.

viernes, 13 de marzo de 2026

10:30 – 13 h Visitas de estudio

17 – 19 h | Talleres Abiertos

Ali Arévalo / Oriol Arnedo Casas / Kate Bohunnis / Ari Cardozo/ Mourae / Eduard Ruiz / Laura Sub1 / Silvia Zayas / Huaqian Zhang / Víctor Pérez-Pallarès Setó / Aura Roig / Sara Miravet Núñez / Grandeza Studio / Efe Ce Ele / Lara Campos / Lumbung Press/ #Blendícete / Hamaca

19 – 20 h | How Do You Do?

Conversación con Caroline Dumalin, Devrim Bayar y Barbara Horvath

La charla “How Do You Do?” explora, a partir de su doble sentido —“¿cómo estás?” y “¿cómo lo haces?”— las prácticas y valores institucionales que no siempre son explícitos ni debatidos públicamente, así como las dinámicas que sostienen las programaciones, las relaciones entre el contexto local y el global, y los procesos colectivos que definen las identidades institucionales.

20:30 – 22 h | Sentía voces dentro de mi cabeza, sí, nos susurraban

Performance con Ali Arévalo, Ari Cardozo, Aura Roig, Kate Bohunnis, Eduard Ruiz, emocee, Lara Campos, Laura Sub1, Mourae, Oriol Arnedo Casas y Victor Pérez-Pallarès Setó.

Lxs artistas residentes de Hangar proponen una performance colectiva que activa un espacio de escucha e imaginación compartida. A través de reflexiones, relatos fragmentarios y derivas mentales, las voces individuales se entretejen hasta configurar un cuerpo colectivo que susurra, piensa y resuena dentro y fuera de la cabeza.

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• Latitudes' Mariana Cánepa Luna concludes her role as Secretary of the Board of Hangar, 24 February 2020
• Visita de la Comisión de Programas de Hangar a los estudios de los artistas residentes 24 April 2013
• Performance 'The Museum of Incest' de Simon Fujiwara, 19 septiembre, 19 h en Hangar 15 Septiembre 2009