Open Call 2025-26
Balearic and European call for proposals, held in two phases, that promotes artistic mobility and exchange between different contexts
Residency programme presented at La Carpintería. The resulting projects can be visited until October 2026.
The Open Call 2025–26 is an open call —Balearic and European— designed to foster artistic mobility and exchange across different contexts, supporting professional development at every stage of an artist's or curator's career. Conceived as a space for reflection and experimentation, the residency accompanies the projects from their initial immersion in the territory through to their materialisation and public presentation.
The application period closed in 2025, and Ses12naus announced the three artists selected for this edition: Diogo da Cruz, Gala Knörr and Marina Marón.
In late autumn, Gala Knörr, Diogo da Cruz and Marina Marón met in Ibiza and shared time at La Carpintería within the framework of the Ses12naus Open Call 2025–26. After a pause, a second encounter in spring allowed their projects to find their final shape. In each case, the works articulate an attentive gaze towards different aspects of the place: the salt flats, payesa architecture, nightlife culture and the forms of community that still endure.
The exhibition does not seek to function as a conventional presentation of processes, but rather as a fragmented cartography of Ibiza past and present: a region traversed by temporal leaps, partial memories, fictions, architectural remnants and forms of contemporary melancholy. Moving between the documentary and the intuitive, the works trace connections between different ways of inhabiting the island and projecting upon it desires and collective imaginaries.
Gala Knörr's project approaches club culture and Ibizan nightlife of the recent past, where collective experience, music and certain forms of celebration intertwine. In Marina Marón's research, the payesa house is presented as a form of knowledge and transmission, linked to family memory and to the relationships between body, refuge and nature. Diogo da Cruz's work moves towards the salt flats and coastal landscapes as territories crossed by multiple temporalities, through walks, recordings and experimentation with salt and ceramics.
The exhibition does not aspire to function as a conclusion, but as the natural continuation of a process still open: the possibility of approaching a place without trying to pin it down entirely.
Team and process
The jury was composed of Elise Lammer (director of Halle Nord, Geneva), Javier Aparicio (director of El Chico Gallery, Madrid) and Ángeles Ferragut (director of Ses12naus). The selected artists also received the mentorship of Cristina Anglada, independent art curator and cultural manager based in Mallorca, who has curated the exhibition.
The residency unfolded in two phases:
Phase 1 (Research): 23 November – 14 December 2025
Phase 2 (Production): 18 May – 8 June 2026
Artists
Marina Marón
TAULA-01, Open Call 2025-26
Marina Marón lives and works in Ibiza. Her practice spans abstract and spatial forms, working with oil on natural linen and clay sculpture to connect primitive and modern worlds.
During her residency, she investigates the elemental form of the casa payesa, understood not only as vernacular architecture but as a way of inhabiting the landscape. Through an analysis of its structures, proportions, and rhythms, she explores how primary geometry continues to evoke refuge, calm, and harmony, and how these qualities can be translated into a contemporary artistic language without losing their essence.
Residency: Open Call 2025–26, TAULA-01
Web: marinamaron.com
Diogo da Cruz
Open Call 2025-26
Diogo da Cruz is an artist who lives and works between Berlin and Lisbon. His practice encompasses sculpture, installation, and film, often unfolding through partially fictional scenarios rooted in socio-political concerns—past, present, or speculative futures. His work invites critical reflection on established systems of thought and power.
During his residency, he explores the layers of life and memory embedded in Ibiza’s landscapes, particularly its salines and coastal formations. From this crystalline archive, he investigates what endures beneath accelerated, ephemeral surfaces, and how slower rhythms of land and sea continue to shape the island.
Residency: Open Call 2025–26
Site: diogodacruz.net
Gala Knörr
Open Call 2025-26
Gala Knörr’s work engages with navigation, resistance, and survival within our transformed digital reality. Through multidisciplinary installations combining image, painting, video, performance, and writing, she examines the construction of shared narratives and collective consciousness through media and popular culture.
In her residency, she focuses on the emotions, symbols, and languages that emerge within temporary autonomous zones linked to club culture, dance, and collective celebration. She observes how the dancing body reshapes architecture, how shared rhythms generate emotional bonds, and how the party—viewed critically—can operate as a political gesture, an emotional refuge, and a space where cultural narratives are negotiated.
Residency: Open Call 2025–26
Web: galaknorr.com
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