From 21 to 29 September 2026, Fundación Botín will host in Santander the workshop Gardens of Delirium, led by Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa. The artist proposes an immersion into her artistic practice, which is deeply rooted in the earth and the cycles of nature. This workshop is structured as a space for visual, philosophical and poetic explorations […]

Yuko Mohri will lead a workshop in Santander from June 1 to 10, 2026, titled Moré Moré (Leaky): Santander and organised by Fundación Botín. Participants will first explore Mohri’s exhibition Entanglements at Centro Botín, which entail an ad-hoc bricolage and the “Beauty of Use” (to borrow Japanese philosopher Soetsu Yanagi’s term). For Yuko, finding beauty […]

Fundación Botín offers one grant a year to Spanish professionals who wish to complete their training in contemporary art abroad. These grants provide maximum funding of €30,000 for specialised training in exhibition organisation (curatorship) theory and techniques as well as museum management.  

Since 1993, Fundación Botín has awarded Art Grants each year, aimed at artists of any nationality. Each grant provides funding of 23,000€ and promotes and supports those artists who need resources to carry out a research project or training. The result of this process is displayed in the Itinerarios joint exhibition and in a catalogue.

Shimabuku will lead a workshop in Santander from February 3 to 14, 2025, titled Edible Sculpture. Organised by Fundación Botín, the workshop will explore the relationship between art, cuisine and food, as well as the diverse methodologies that exist around the world. For Shimabuku, cooking can be conceived as a site-specific exhibition experience, where order […]

Cooking Sections, Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe, will direct in Santander, from 9 to 17 September, 2024 a workshop under the title Reading Ocean Imprints. Organised by Fundación Botín, Reading Ocean Imprints is a workshop led by Cooking Sections that will trace signs and signals of extractivism in a scarred planet. How do surfers […]

Shilpa Gupta, in collaboration with Renata Cervetto, will lead a workshop at Fundación Botín, from March 11 to 16, 2024, under the title The Ground Slips Between Us. The Ground Slips Between Us is a workshop that encourages the sharing of practices and experiences in art and education based on the work of the artist […]

The workshop, led by Roni Horn in collaboration with Isabel de Naverán, will be held at Fundación Botín from March 20 to 24, 2023, under the title Being Where You are When You’re There. There will be an initial online session to take place early March. Each participant will produce a ‘log‘, which is defined […]

The mask workshop, led by Damián Ortega, will be held at Fundación Botín from 21 November to 2 December, 2022. This will be a dynamic space for improvisation, learning and collective reflection, where participants can share their own insights, skills and experiences. It will explore the construction of masks using everyday objects and the creation […]

A cyanotype workshop led by Ellen Gallagher and Edgar Cleijne will be held at Fundación Botín – located in the in the historic port-city of Santander by the Cantabrian Sea, on the North coast of Spain – from the 11th to the 21th of July 2022. Participants will have the opportunity to learn how to […]

Since 1994, the Fine Arts Workshops have brought young artists from all over the world to Santander to train alongside consolidated figures from the world of art. Miroslaw Balka, Lothar Baumgarten, Tacita Dean, Carlos Garaicoa, Paul Graham, Mona Hatoum, Jannis Kounellis, Julie Mehretu, Antoni Muntadas, Gabriel Orozco, Juliâo Sarmento, Juan Uslé, Cristina Iglesias and Martin […]