This presentation will delve into the intersection of art and agriculture within the Creative Europe project “Tilling Roots and Seeds,” (2023-2025), led by Quo Artis, highlighting the transformative potential of integrating farming knowledge with cutting-edge artistic practices to address biodiversity loss and the sustainable food system in Europe.

Epicuro Lab and the MHIC invite you to a guided meditation as part of Manifesta 15, centered on rapeseed, a migrant plant that symbolizes the unrecognized work in our ecosystem. The session will feature an immersive soundscape created by artist Robertina Šebjanič, inspired by the Besós River.

Epicuro Lab invites you to “Migrant Crops” at the MHIC, part of Manifesta 15. Explore the connections between plants and social issues through participatory activities focused on biodiversity and urban spaces.Sant Adrià del Besós, 15 October, 2024.

We are excited to announce that the Tilling Roots & Seeds Gender & Equality Plan (GEP) is now available online. This comprehensive plan is a crucial component of our ongoing commitment to fostering gender equality and inclusivity within our project

In her presentation “Tilling Roots & Seeds, the Role of Art in the Future of Agriculture” at ISEA2024, Tatiana Kourochkina highlighted the significant role of the creative community in promoting the EU’s shift towards a sustainable food system.

This publication acts as both a theoretical reader and a detailed catalogue of “A Sea Change” project, covering its diverse activities from 2022 to 2024. Edited by Quo Artis and NeMe, the work offers an in-depth exploration of the intricate interactions among the political, natural, and cultural ecologies in the Mediterranean region.

The partner organizations of Tilling Roots & Seeds received a total of 91 applications from 31 different nationalities. The selection panel included representatives from Quo Artis, Ars Electronica, Kilowatt Bologna, and the University of Barcelona, as well as local co-hosts for the residencies.

From 8 to 12 April 2024, the UN Ocean Decade Week at ICM-CSIC in Barcelona features “The Blue and Us,” with Quo Artis showcasing artists Robertina Šebjanič and Katja Loher as part of the Creative Europe project “A Sea Change”.

To mark the culmination of the project “A Sea Change”, Quo Artis presents the VR exhibition “Beyond a Sea Change. Rethinking the Mediterranean” which will be available online through the Vortic Art platform, the project’s website and at the exhibition space of Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site during the duration of the physical exhibition ” A Sea on Edge” until the 30th of April, 2024.

The opening of our round table event was held on March 7th, from 12:00 to 13:00, as part of the final exhibition of the A Sea Change project. This discussion featured artist Robertina Šebjanič, Kontejner’s curator Davorka Begović, oceanographer Joan Llort, and Quo Artis project coordinator Helena Pérez Guerra.

To finalize the project “A Sea Change”, Quo Artis presents the exhibition “A sea on edge”, which presents a series of works that epitomize the interdisciplinary research collaboration that has been taking place in the two years of duration of this international project.

Join us for the EMAP Artist Talk by Robertina Šebjanič on “aqua_forensic”, the work she created in collaboration with Gjino Šutić, at Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site on March 8th, 2024, 12:00-13:00. Discover how our actions impact oceans; reserve your free seat due to limited space.

Call for 2 artist research- based residencies in rural areas in Italy, in collaboration with Alce Nero, one production grant and one research-based residency in the Barcelona area, in collaboration with Ferrer Sustainability, Tectum Garden and Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera.

Tatiana Kourochkina, director of Quo Artis, presents ‘Challenges and confluences: Quo Artis, towards eco-literacy through art and science’ at the conference promoted by the Institut Menorquí d’Estudis (ME) to promote transversal relations between various disciplines and stimulate the transfer of knowledge.

Quo Artis participates in the panel “Curating Within Crises” which is part of this interdisciplinary event, curated by Dr Suzy O’Hara, University of Sunderland, designed as a gathering of diverse perspectives and experiences to share environmentally-conscious creative practices that deepen understanding of our relationship with our natural world.

In the framework of PUZZLE X, the world’s leading event for Exponential Technologies for the future, on Thursday the 9th of November, Tatiana Kourotchkina, Founder & Director of Quo Artis will present the projects “Roots & Seeds XXI” and “A Sea Change”.

In the framework of RESOURCE, the 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Tatiana Kourotchkina, Founder & Director of Quo Artis will present the project A Sea Change at the opening of the exhibition ‘ Sources @ RE:SOURCE ’, which will take place on Friday, September 15th at Scuola Grande dei Carmini Sestiere Dorsoduro 2617, Venezia, starting at 8 p.m.

Epicuro Lab invites you to join their upcoming participatory event which will take place on the 3rd of June at the MhIC (The Museum of History of Immigration in Catalonia) to explore the unexpected relationships that can be can established between plants and social issues.

On Wednesday the 17th of May at 11 am (CET) Quo Artis presents Epicuro Lab’s  project “Working Plants from Afar” at ISEA 2023- Symbiosis, the 28th edition of the International Sympoisum of Electronic Art. This is a project developed as a series of participatory workshops and an ephemeral installation at the garden of the Museum of the History of Inmigration in Catalonia (MhiC). 

On the 17th of May, from 12 PM to 1.15 PM, at ISEA in Paris, The Traveling Plant will discover the Nelson Mandela Garden, located right above the ISEA venue at Forum des images. Together with artist Eva-Maria Lopez and the participation of ISEA attendees.

In the framework of the Creative Europe project A Sea Change, the environmental sculptor Joaquín Jara will hold a workshop with an ecological, patrimonial and sustainable perspective from the marshes of Prat de Llobregat (El Remolar).

On the 21st of April l 2023, Quo Artis organizes “Troubled Blue. Weaving hybrid solutions for sustainable marine futures” a symposium about Blue Economy with an interdisciplinary approach to coastal sustainability at BAU, College of Arts & Design, Barcelona.

Quo Artis Guidelines for An Emotional Cartography of a Garden, developed for the project “Roots and Seeds XXI: Biodiversity Crisis and Plant Resistance” is part of the 2023 edition of Sismògraf Festival in Olot from 13 April to 16 April, 2023.

Quo Artis has been invited to curate the first NEO edition of 2023, “Ars Automatica”, which will take place on February 17, 2023 from 7 pm to 11 pm at CosmoCaixa Science museum in Barcelona. CosmoCaixa’s NEO aims to gather different scientific and technological disciplines to bring you closer to the great challenges of today through the most innovative artistic forms and practices.

What is a garden? Is it the same for a scientist, for a philosopher, for a visual artist, for a gardener, for the birds nesting in the trees and bushes, for the worms and bacteria in the soil, for the plants themselves? What is a garden for you?
From September 8 to 12 . Roots & Seeds XXI Participation in Ars Electronica Festival 2021.

Roots & Seeds comes to an end with a closing event in the newest edition of the Ars Electronica Festival, the biggest celebration of art, science in technology in the world. An international audience of artists, curators, and art-lovers will have the opportunity to get to know Roots & Seeds’ outcomes.

In the framework of Roots & Seeds, Quo Artis will travel to Fano (IT) for a dissemination event with the multidisciplinary artist Margherita Pevere, who will undertake an educational workshop on the 30th of July 2022. In collaboration with UMANESIMO ARTIFICIALE.

Organised by Quo Artis in collaboration with the Botanical Institut of Barcelona. This is the first event of “The Traveling Plant” project, in which Artist Paula Bruna will present “Cruel of Tucuman”, an artwork/performance that reflects the ravages of our globalization on ecosystems, as well as the marked binarism and anthropocentrism that characterizes Western thought.

In the frame of Roots & Seeds XXI, Quo Artis organise “Multidisciplinary Garden Cartography BCN”. Based on round tables and transdisciplinary dialogues, we will analyse the biodiversity crisis with the intention of proposing sustainable ways of relating to nature.

Quo Artis participation at the “Festa de la Ciència Barcelona 2021” with the talk: ART, SCIENCE AND BIODIVERSITY, Roots & Seeds XXI. Biodiversity Crisis and Plant Resistance.

Quo Artis and RAED organize the round table “Galapagos Art & Science Journey” to reflect on the relationships between art and science, the climate emergency and the transformative power of artists and scientists working together.

In the frame of Maker Art – the artist Joaquín Fargas, will be presenting Glaciator a robot that helps to compact and crystallize the snow, delaying its thaw.

Quo Artis is invited to take part at Manifestations Festival, Eindhoven. 19-27 October 2019.

As part of Festa de la Ciència 2019 Quo Artis organizes the debate “Reflections on Art and Science through a Woman’s Perspective”.

This panel aims to add a new perspective on the responsibilities that artist might have towards the environment that hosts the human species.

As part of Click Festival 2019, artist Maja Smrekar will present her first Artist Talk about the project !BRUTE_FORCE – produced by Quo Artis (ES) and co-produced by Kapelica Gallery (SI) and The Culture Yard (DK).

Committed to the environment, Quo Artis allocates its resources to the Whater? project, whose name comes from the question of What Water is around us? The artistic-scientific project Whater? Aims to investigate, disseminate and raise awareness about the negative effects of plastic on the environment to the widest possible public. The artistic-scientific project Whater? Aims to investigate, disseminate and raise awareness about the negative effects of plastic on the environment to the widest possible public.

Quo Artis organizes a round table at Sant Pau Hospital (Barcelona) a debate on the problems that the world faces today and the alternatives that we can provide, within the framework of the General Theory of systems.

Quo Artis and Escuela Politécnica Superior of the University of Lleida organise “Art, science and technology: the future of artistic production and the aesthetic perception outside of the planet Earth” will be presented by  Albert Barqué-Duran (artist and researcher of the City, University of London) and  Marc Marzenit (musician, composer and music producer).

In the framework of STEAMConf Barcelona 2018. Quo Artis Foundation joins this initiative to encourage and support women through the example of Ada Lovelace´s life story (London, 1815-1852), the first woman programmer in history.

Workshop with Maja Smrekar for artists and other curious hybrids on reproduction and inter_specie companion. In this workshop we will follow the reproductive process of sea urchins in relation to the work of the artist and the distinction between fertilization, in vitro fertilization and cloning.