where is the tomorrow we saw yesterday?

Where is the tomorrow we saw yesterday?

​spazioSERRA will turn ten in 2027.
That's long enough to see a shift in perspective.

In recent years, cities have changed, as have the ways of experiencing public spaces, the timeframe of relationships and cultural production. The way art is viewed and the way artists are asked to exist in the present have also changed.

And in the meantime, we've changed too. Not only in the way we observe, imagine, and curate, but first and foremost, as people. spazioSERRA was born as a place open to experimentation, and we've grown alongside it. But over time, we've begun to wonder if some of the mechanisms of independent art haven't slowly come to resemble what they were trying to distance themselves from. The deadlines, the need to arrive with already defined ideas, the need to know everything before even starting.

We asked ourselves how many possibilities remain when an artistic practice must become immediately exhibitable, performable, and producible. How many attempts disappear because they don't yet have a defined form. And how many ideas, instead, require time, doubt, and error.

This is why the 2026 open call for artists was born from a different desire.

We're not looking for finished projects.
We're not looking for established visions.
We'd like to explore practices. Processes. Obsessions. Still-unresolved questions.

We're interested in understanding your imprints, what informs your research, what tensions drive it, what possibilities it opens and contradicts within the contemporary scene.

Site-specific installations, performances, editorial productions, videos, urban interventions, hybrid collaborations, or still-formless forms: the point is not the format, but the urgency that permeates it.

We hope this open call will be the beginning of a space geared toward future projects, open to anyone willing to engage with shared research that can still slow down, change direction, and remain incomplete long enough to transform itself.

Because perhaps today the most radical action for a public space dedicated to contemporary art is not to reflect immediacy, but to have the courage to support a still uncertain process.