Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.

Manifesta 15 Barcelona will be taking place in Barcelona and 11 surrounding metropolitan cities

Jan de Cock, BE

Urban space intervention in Ondartxo

Belgian artist Jan de Cock took over a space in the neighbourhood of Ondartxo, a former shipbuilding warehouse and an emblematic site that was the subject of municipal efforts to revitalise the city’s port. Denkmal 2 evolved in relation to the architectural features of the building’s interior and the more polemical reality of its exterior. Working without plans, over a period of two months, the artist obscured basic architectural features by developing an intricate construction that complicated conventional readings of interior and exterior, upper and lower.