Season 1

Spring 2026

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.

Through a global open call that attracted over 1,200 applications, we have selected an exciting group of seven emerging artists, makers and researchers that together exemplify and expand the theme. From Africa, Latin America, Europe, South Asia and Asia Pacific, their practices span tapestry, weaving and crochet, biomaterial research, ceramics, sculpture, and durational performance, and investigate questions of environmental waste and sustainability, new technologies, material decay, community, ancestral and embodied knowledge – all realised through a deep focus on the concept, practice and skill of making.