mais uno +1 is a curatorial, project, and research collective that acts in search of the transformative power of art through the creation of incremental relationships/ecosystems between artists, communities, and territories
This collective emerges from a common will to...
- Complement and create new alternatives for the institutional contemporary art circuits;
- Expand art practice to territories and groups that are usually not included in the cultural scene;
- Research, create and try new, more free and sustainable, models for the art market;
- Reflect on the active role of art practice as a continuous project that creates new imaginaries and communal dynamics, and answers to the current and future environmental and urban challenges;
- Develop more accessible structures for researching, documenting, and sharing knowledge (creative commons);
- Diversify and enrich the socio-cultural tissue of a territory and its mutual support;
- Create more horizontal and democratic art systems based on collaborative and transdisciplinary relationships;
- Foster aggregating, experimental, emancipated, and critical art practices.
focus areas
— curatorship
— curatorship
- exhibition organization;
- alternative communal forms of exhibitions, residencies, and creations: the exhibition as a space for encounter, a public space, a neighborhood space, an online space;
- support and follow-up for exhibitions (materials, production, texts, documentation, publication);
- selling art: fair, exhibition, alternative ways, and spaces.
— project
- ongoing projects: art as a project;
- support for projects;
- artistic consulting (development of residency and project networks: art residency spaces in national entities + collaboration with international networks).
— research
- education;
- documentation, metrics, indicators, and publication;
- development and sharing methodologies: commercial/non-commercial).
who are we?
The collective mais uno +1 fuctions under a free, open, and horizontal structure. Any person can enter the collective upon approval, and exit whenever they want. New members are always welcome to join as long as they express: willingness to work collectively in a non-hierarchic manner, interest for the topics approached by the collective, motivation, and empathy.
active members
Aino Garcia Vainio(FI)
— cultural manager.comic writer
Aurélie d’Incau (LU)
— visual artist
Carolayne Ramos (PT)
— artist. blogger. podcaster. writer.
Eugenia Bianchessi (IT) — graphic designer
Francesca Mora (IT)
— Cultural researcher. cultural manager. illustrator.
Joyce Ward (FR)
— cultural manager
Julia Dżbik (PL)
— cultural manager
Kalle Hübel (GE)
— cultural manager
Karina Zelonka (LV)
— cultural manager
Lígia Fernandes (PT)
— visual artist. curator
Nicole Sánchez (PT)
— photographer. visual artist. curator
Ricarda Oldekop (DE)
— cultural manager
Riddhi Varma (IN)
— architect. urbanist. curator. researcher.
Sophia Niederkofler (IT)
— architect. explorer.artist.but not finally define