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"We focus our interest in contemporary art and promote initiatives involving major national and international cultural agents"

These are our objectives and commitments

Objetivos

We promote the work in red and we constitute it in a platform for debate, exchange of ideas and reflection within the artistic field. Likewise, we promote and encourage the development of exhibition projects of interest, with an aim on studying possible opportunities for collaboration.

Compromiso

Our commitment is with people, with artists who are passionate, strive to continue growing and do not cease in the search for new formulas of knowledge and artistic expression.

The Painted Word

Artist Book

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Shirin Salehi, winner of the II Artist Book Award

The project “Bailando con el carcelero” by the iranian artist Shirin Salehi (Teherán 1982) is the winner of the second Ankaria Award to an artist book. Highlighted by the jury for its perfect adaptation to the concept of artist’s book with elegance in form and graphic art, among 256 participants. Meri Tancredi, second position, with …

Expectation and memory. Bringing banks closer

With ‘Expectation and Memory’, the foundation aims to provoke a reflection on Spanish-Moroccan exchanges from the past century. This exhibition wants to establish on a global overlook, the prolonged influences between two related cultures on two opposite continents. Re-visiting the past decades, from the early twentieth century until today, the exhibit starts out by the …

II Ankaria Artist Book Award

The Ankaria Foundation, in collaboration with the University of Cantabria has set up the II Ankaria Artist Book Award, an initiative that started last year with the Painted Words exhibition. The main aim of the award is to boost the creation of Artist’s Books among the creative community, and after the fruitful last edition, the …

Bellver Planet

Retrospective exhibition on Madrid artist Fernando Bellver on the ocasion of his 60th birthay taking his self-portraits as a conduct to take a look at the entire work of the painter, sculptor and printer. Self-Portrait is both a classic and contemporary genre and it not only enables the observer to appreciate the artist’s transformations on …

Winners of the PHotoEspaña Grant for portfolios viewing

After the portfolio viewing session organized by the Foundation in Tangier, the following photographers have been selected to participate in the portfolio viewing programme of Discovery Weekend by PHotoEspaña: Raïd Laabi Abdelmohcine Nakari Bilal Touzeni Yasmine Tafferssiti Our congratulations to the ones chosen, and our thanks to all participants. We hope they all had a …

Portfolio viewing in Tangier

The Foundation, in collaboration with PHotoEspaña (PHE) – the international photography and visual arts festival – and Tanger’s Cervantes Institute, organizes a photography portfolio viewing next May 6th, 2015 at the Cervantes Institute premises in Tangier. The portfolio viewing is a training programme conceived as a way for moroccan photographers that are developing a body …

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