For the first time in the history of Vigo's MARCO, the museum presents an exhibition that is not a group show as such. Under curator Gerardo Mosquera's leadership, it has been possible to gather a group of eight artists, most of them top-class with undeniable international reputation, in order to organize an exhibition that is the result of combining eight individual projects.

‘7+1 PROJECT ROOMS' was motivated by MARCO's ground floor structure, with its seven large rooms that can be used as independent spaces to show a project by a different artist in each one of them. Hence, the exhibition consists of seven individual exhibitions held at the same time and that can be visited under one single roof, but that still keep their independence. The façade of the Museum joins them all. Thus a total of 7+1 Project Rooms where the artists develop their proposals.

All the art pieces have been created specifically for each space in MARCO's ground floor and for this particular project, whether they may be ex novo or the re-creation or adaptation of pre-existing works, which in the context of ‘7+1 PROJECT ROOMS' acquire a new meaning.

In this case, the curator's role does not consist on intertwining a specific themed or conceptual content, but on selecting artists and art pieces, capable of achieving outstanding individual presentations, placing them in the most appropriate space for each one of them, guaranteeing a consistent and propositional group show, and on controlling the dialogue and general coexistence amongst participants, environments, artworks and public. This approach meets the current curatorial view that tends toward freer and more flexible schemes, and that understands exhibitions as spaces for non-controlled events. This pioneering tendency represents a reaction against the excessive intellectualisation of exhibitions and the overbearing dominance held by curators in recent times.

However, the participants have been selected so that a general coherence can be maintained: artists capable of responding to MARCO's spaces in what we could idealise as a ‘project room spirit' (free, experimental, inquisitive). The predominance of installations that configure specific environments in each of the rooms also provides formal unity to the show. The selection has been focused on artists from different nationalities and different experiences and ages, but all sharing an inclination towards social topics (politics, power, violence, gender, urban environment...) and the investigation about art itself, its means and morphology, as a way to construct and deconstruct complex meanings. The result is a collection of exhibitions with a marked critical spirit.