Antía Encisa González
Carmen Suárez Marcos
César Souto Rodríguez
Elsa Bouzas
Juncal A. Castro
Laura Cid Rascado
Lucía Perdiz
Raquel Álvarez Méndez
Sandra Gutiérrez Aldao
Xoel Gómez López

FOREWORD

At the end of 2021, the University of Vigo and the MOP Foundation (a cultural initiative by Marta Ortega Pérez) signed a collaboration agreement with the aim of promoting emerging art in Galicia through an endeavour called Future Stories. It was set in motion thanks to the success of the Peter Lindbergh: Untold Stories exhibition (A Coruña, December 2021-March 2022) and the generosity of visitors who bought merchandise from it. Thanks to that exhibition, which was brought to Galicia by Marta Ortega Pérez’s personal commitment and the collaboration of the Lindbergh Foundation, the Future Stories project was able to offer the students of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Pontevedra ten 4,000 euros scholarships for the development of art projects based on their End of Degree Dissertations. The call for projects also envisaged the resulting works being gathered together in a group exhibition at a major museum space.

During the selection process, the jury – formed by the dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Xosé Manuel Buxán, professors María Covadonga Barreiro and Chelo Matesanz, art critic Ramón Rozas, the director of MARCO, and the MOP Foundation, as promoter of the project – based their criteria on the originality of the proposals, their conceptual and thematic interest, and the formal and technical quality of the works.

The Future Stories exhibition now being shown at MARCO, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo, is the end result of that process. It features the pieces created by the ten selected artists in the gallery spaces on the first floor, in accordance with the main objectives behind this initiative: to promote the professional careers and to recognize the potential of new Fine Arts graduates.

Connections and collaboration between the university ecosystem – the faculty as an “artist-generating factory” – and the Museum, as a means of experiencing a professional environment first-hand in this ultimate stage of their academic training, are essential to achieving these objectives.

One of the most difficult moments for young artists studying Fine Arts is when they leave the classroom. They may discover their own physical space in which to work, but while doing so they may also experience loneliness and miss the proximity of peers with similar interests.

This moment, moreover, usually marks the first step towards professionalism, and there is no doubt that showing their work will be a major new public challenge.

The MOP Foundation (a cultural initiative of Marta Ortega Pérez) has granted scholarships to ten students in their final year of Fine Arts and has extended the support by organizing the exhibition of their works at MARCO. Future Stories is a project that aims to give young artists a helping hand at the start of their professional careers.

Xosé Manuel Buxán Bran, dean Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Vigo
Miguel Fernández-Cid, director MARCO, Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo

Documentary dossiers

Parallel to the exhibition, MARCO's Library-Centre of Documentation has prepared a series of documentary dossiers about the artists, accessible from MARCO's website www.marcovigo.com [15] in the sections Library/News and Exhibitions/Current.

Visits and workshops for Schoolchildren

In collaboration with: Fundación “la Caixa”
Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10am to 1pm / Registrations required tel. 986 113900 Ext. 100/ 986 113908

Workshops for children and other activities

The MARCO’s educational department will set up a number of activities related to this exhibition and addressed to specific groups.

Information and guided tours

The exhibition staff is available for any queries or information regarding the exhibition, in addition to the usual guided tours:

Every day at 18.00
Visits on demand for groups, by appointment on tel. +34 986 113900 / +34 986 113908

Interactive routes via Vigo App

The new system of interactive routes via Vigo App allows visitors to access all kinds of content about the exhibition (videos, images, specific information about the works), either in the space itself through the beacons or bluetooth devices located in the rooms, or anywhere else, following the route on your phone’s screen after downloading and installing the application, or on your computer through the website of the Concello de Vigo.