Making and Materiality will be hosting a public programme of talks, workshops and gatherings that opens out the thinking, processes and material approaches within the participating artists’ practices.
Bringing together a cohort of artists working across embodied, inherited and experimental forms of making, the programme considers material not just as a medium, but as a way of thinking. It creates space to explore how practices are sustained over time, how value is produced and understood, and how different cultural and ecological lineages shape approaches to making.
Rather than treating craft as a fixed or medium-specific category, the programme positions it as a critical and evolving field of knowledge production. One that sits at the intersection of labour, history, technology and lived experience.
Shaped collaboratively with the artists, the season will evolve across the programme, with contributions developed through an open, responsive process and brought together into a public-facing series that remains flexible and practice-led.
PUBLIC PROGRAMME
ABOUT MAKING AND MATERIALITY
For our Spring Season 2026, Delfina Foundation will launch a brand-new thematic programme – Making and Materiality.
Building on the legacies of our earlier thematic programmes, such as The Politics of Food and Collecting as Practice, Making and Materiality will explore the intersection of fine art, craft and design practices. For the first time, Delfina will create a cohort of artists and makers to explore research-led material practices from a diverse range of geographical and conceptual perspectives. It is an opportunity to bring a new community of creative practitioners into the Delfina family, encouraging artistic exchange and generating new knowledge.