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 took place in Barcelona and 11 surrounding cities ot its metropolitan region.

David Adjaye, TZ

Metallic foil laminated in toughened clear float glass exhibited at Ex Alumix in Bolzano

In conceiving Europolis ,the Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye extracted information from some of the key capital cities of the European Union and condensed it into a single entity. Europolis is not a traditional city but the idea of the city as a phenomenon. Its organic form incorporated all the information about those cities from which it was drawn material texture, population, time, economic power and geographical scale and occupation.