The 2026 artistic programme revolves around a condition of transhumance, of change, and develops through the concrete search for a space consistent with the needs and practices of the association.

From this need – complex but rich in potential – a nomadic, at times wandering, flexible path takes shape, encountering new places, friendly spaces and similar realities, united by a conception of culture as a critical, collective tool in constant dialogue with the present.

What is a space when it ceases to be just a place? It can become a blank sheet, a trace, a hypothesis. Georges Perec, in Specie di spazi, writes that “space is a doubt, something to be identified, designated, conquered”.

Drawing on this idea, mobility is understood as an opportunity to give new meaning to the contexts traversed, activating devices capable of generating fluid forms of encounter between art, territory and community. The project adopts a curatorial approach, through which space becomes a mental construction of temporary living: an affective mapping, a cartography in progress, which moves between institutions, independent settlements and public spaces.

The programme consists of performative actions, participatory practices, celebrations, temporary exhibitions and an international residency. Each intervention will be a spatial narrative, made up of relationships, interdisciplinary processes, gestures and temporary presences.

This new arrangement is not a renunciation, but an opportunity. In La Rada's thirtieth year of existence, temporarily inhabiting other people's spaces allows us to intensify existing relationships, activate new ones and rethink the ways in which art is produced and enjoyed in a dynamic and cohesive way, while remaining a point of reference for independent artistic research.

At a time when physical space is lacking, the conceptual space expands. And even if it is only there where we are not yet, we will still be there.