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Delfina Foundation
PredecessorThe Delfina Studio Trust
Formation2007
FounderDelfina Entrecanales CBE
TypeNon-profit organisation
Location
  • London
Websitedelfinafoundation.com

Delfina Foundation is an independent, non-profit organisation that is dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, partnerships and public programming.[1]

About

Delfina Foundation was founded in 2007 by Delfina Entrecanales CBE, as the successor to Delfina Studio Trust, initially with an intention to nurture artists from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East.[2] The foundation now works internationally with thematic, rather than geographic, programmes that have explored a range of topics including the politics of food, the public domain, autonomy and collecting.[3]

Residencies for artists, writers, curators and collectors[4] form the core of Delfina Foundation's work as it seeks to support and facilitate the professional development of cultural practitioners from emerging to established art professionals. The foundation is London’s largest provider of international residencies[5].

The foundation began working around seasonal thematic programmes in 2014, when it reopened following an expansion of its Edwardian townhouse premises in Victoria, London. These themes are explored through residencies and public programming, which includes exhibitions, talks, performances, screenings and commissions.

It collaborates with other organisations through its residency and public programmes, producing events and exhibitions with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom, Hayward Gallery, and Tate Modern.[6]

Building

Since its founding Delfina Foundation has been located in Catherine Place, in Victoria, London. Initially the foundation occupied the Edwardian house at number 29, but in 2009 the foundation's patron Delfina Entrecanales brought the adjoining property allowing the foundation to expand and span the two houses. The expansion and renovation of the facility at 29-31 Catherine Place in 2014 was undertaken by London-based architects Studio Octopi and Egypt-based Shahira Fahmy Architects, the winners of a competition that promoted design collaboration between architects based in the UK and the greater Middle East. The £1.4m project doubled the residency capacity (from 4 to 8) and created 1,650 square feet of additional exhibition and event space, giving it a combined total area of 4,564 square feet, making it London's largest artist residency provider.[7]

Delfina Studio Trust

Delfina Foundation is the successor to the Delfina Studio Trust which opened in 1988 to provide free studios for artists related facilities for artists at a crucial time in the development of the British art scene[8]. Initially these studios were located in an empty space above a jeans factory in East Stratford. Entrecanales paid the rent and with the RCA invited for free a number of British artists to have a studio there for two years and foreign artists to have a studio and living accommodation for one year. For the first first ten years the trust organised an annual exhibition by resident artists. In 1992 the trust moved to a converted chocolate factory at 50 Bermondsey Street[9]. The new premises provided studio space free of charge to 35 artists for periods of up to two years in addition to an exhibition space[10]. The studios were notable for including a restaurant in the building, at which a communal table was designated for the resident artists who could eat lunch there for £1.[11]

Following a trip to Syria in 2005, Entrecanales realised that artists there were also struggling to find work space. In 2007 the Delfina Studio Trust was reinvented as the Delfina Foundation, opening in its current location in Victoria with a renewed focus on artists from North Africa and the Middle East[12]. Over its 20 years the trust supported over 400 artists over and counts among its alumni artists a dozen Turner Prize winners and nominees such as including Shirazeh Houshiary, Jane & Louise Wilson, Mark Wallinger, Anya Gallacio, Tacita Dean, Glenn Brown, Mark Titchner, Martin Creed, Goshka Macuga, and Tomoko Takahashi.[13]

Collaborations

Delfina Foundation works extensively through international partnerships.

  • A.I.R Dubai: An annual artists residency programme in partnership between Art Dubai, Dubai Culture and Arts Authority and Tashkeel, focused on artists based in the United Arab Emirates.[14]
  • Indian curatorial residency: in collaborations with Charles Wallace India Trust and Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, offering a three-month residency to a curator with Indian citizenship, living and working in India.[15]
  • Brooks International Fellowship Programme: a programme that calls for artists, curators and art historian, in collaboration with Tate modern, to apply for a three-month art residency to be part of Tate team, working at the gallery on a day-to-day basis and taking part in wider activities.[16]
  • Samdani Art Award: A bi-Annual award aims to support, promote and highlight emerging contemporary artists of Bangladesh in collaboration with Samdani Art Foundation and Bangladesh National Academy of Fine and Performing Arts.[17]
  • Mate: An annual residency for a Peruvian artist in collaboration with MATE Museo Mario Testino.[18]
  • The Silent University: a knowledge exchange platform by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants at Tate Modern, started in 2012 by artist Ahmet Ogut. It is led by a group of lecturers, consultants and research fellows.[19]
  • SAHA Association: Partnership with SAHA since 2013 on developing residency opportunities for Turkish cultural practitioners.[20]
  • Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency: An annual residency programme for UK artists and architects in Palestine in collaboration with DAAR.[21]

Exhibitions

Year Month Exhibition Title Artists Curator Location
2017 Sep-Nov Private Collection: Unperformed Objects[22] Geumhyung Jeong - Delfina Foundation
2016 Sep-Nov That Ends that Matter Jean-Paul Kelly - Delfina Foundation
2016 Mar-Apr Of Dice and Men Didem Pekün - Delfina Foundation
2015 Oct-Nov Then For Now Anna Barriball, Simon Bill, Ian Dawson, Tacita Dean, Ceal Floyer, Anya Gallaccio, Lucy Gunning, Chantal Joffe, Margherita Manzelli, Ishbel Myerscough, Danny Rolph, Eva Rothschild, Mark Titchner, Mark Wallinger, Martin Westwood, Jane & Louise Wilson, and Richard Woods Chantal Joffe and Sacha Craddock Delfina Foundation
2015 Jun-Aug Echoes & Reverberations Jumana Emil Abboud, Basma Alsharif, Anas Al-Shaikh, Samah Hijawi, Magdi Mostafa, and Joe Namy Aaron Cezar and Cliff Lauson with Jane Scarth, Eimear Martin, and Dominik Czechowski Hayward Gallery Project Space
2015 Jul-Aug A Prologue to the Past and Present State of Things Doa Aly, Marwa Arsanios, Coco Fusco, Emily Jacir, Mona Hatoum, Sharon Hayes, Mohammed Kazem, Xiao Lu, Hassan Sharif, Wael Shawky, Sharif Waked, Lin Yilin, and The Yes Men with Steve Lambert Aaron Cezar with Barrak Alzaid, Ala Younis, and Jane Scarth Delfina Foundation
2015 May-Jun Stirring the Pot of Story: Food, History, Memory Cooking Sections, Leone Contini, Mella Jaarsma, Christine Mackey, Mounira Al Solh, and Raul Ortega Ayala Nat Muller Delfina Foundation
2014 Nov-Dec Tales of an Imagined City Hou Chien Cheng, Roy Dib, Virgínia de Medeiros, Jurandir Müller and Kiko Goifman, and Luiz Roque João Laia Delfina Foundation
2014 Oct-Nov In the Year of the Quiet Sun The Otolith Group - Delfina Foundation
2014 Feb-Mar Let it not be said they were naively, fearfully, simply, just making art Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri - The Showroom
2014 Jan-Feb The Politics of Food Abbas Akhavan, Gayle Chong Kwan, Leone Contini, Candice Lin, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Senam Okudzeto, Jae Yong Rhee, Zineb Sedira, Tadasu Takamine, and Raed Yassin - Delfina Foundation
2013 Oct-Nov Bodies that Matter Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Bashar Alhroub, Mustafa al Hallaj, Jeremy Hutchison, Jawad Al Malhi, and Olivia Plender Rebecca Heald Galeri Manâ
2013 Jun-Jul Points of Departure Bashar Alhroub, Bisan Abu Eiseh, Jeremy Hutchison, and Olivia Plender Rebecca Heald with Mirna Bamieh Institute of Contemporary Arts
2013 Apr-May Seep Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi - Chisenhale
2013 Mar A.I.R. Dubai 2013 Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Ammar al Attar, Dina Danish, Reem Falaknaz, Joe Namy, and Yudi Noor Bérénice Saliou House 11, Al Fahidi Historic Neighbourhood, Dubai
2012 Jun-Jul Or Whistle Spontaneously Ahmet Ögüt - Delfina Foundation
2012 Mar-May Social States Baptist Coelho and Nadia Kaabi-Linke - Pump House Gallery
2012 Mar A.I.R. Dubai 2012 Zeinab Alhashemi, Hadeyeh Badri, Fayçal Baghriche, Magdi Mostafa, Nasir Nasrallah, and Deniz Üster  Alexandra MacGilp House 11, Al Bastakiya, Bur Dubai, Dubai
2011 Jun-Jul The Knowledge - Stop 3: Alexandria Wael Shawky - Delfina Foundation
2011 Mar House 44 Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Shamma Al Amri, Shaikha Al Mazrou, Abbas Akhavan, Rana Begum, Hind Bin Demaithan, Nisrine Boukhari, Tobias Collier, and Nathaniel Rackowe - House 44, Al Bastakiya, Bur Dubai, Dubai
2011 Jan-Feb Raed Yassin
2010 Nov-Dec Tayfun Serttas
2010 Oct The Knowledge - Stop 2: Tehran
2010 Jul-Aug The Spacemakers - Edinburgh Art Festival
2010 Jun-Jul Jawad Al Malhi - New Works
2010 Mar-Apr Nathaniel Rackowe
2010 Mar Workspaces
2010 Fev-Mar Rana Begum
2010 Jan Ala Younis
2009-2010 Jul Manal Mahamid
2009 Oct-Nov Tobias Collier
2008 Sep-Oct Ismael Iglesias
2008 Apr Yazan Al-Khalili
2007 Dec Khrp
2007 Dec Sonia Boyce

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  20. ^ program, iscp. "open call: iscp - saha association residency for artists from turkey | iscp | international studio & curatorial program". www.iscp-nyc.org. Archived from the original on 18 June 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-18. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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