Rampa

PROYECTO RAMPA

2010 - 2016

RAMPA is a group of people interested in spending hours talking about curiosities, about animals, cherry-cokes, philosophy, gossip or footnotes.

PROYECTO RAMPA was an hybrid art space located in Madrid, in the neighbourhood of Carabanchel. It functioned as an art studio and a place for exchange and cultural production through a variety of activities and events.

The project responded to the scarcity of non-institutionalised spaces for exhibition and cultural discussion in the city of Madrid. Thus, Rampa offered a space to devise, host and co-produce projects that approached and questioned contemporary culture at large.

PROYECTO RAMPA. International friendly visitors: curators, artists, classrooms... (photo:IKT visit)

PROYECTO RAMPA. Publications

PROYECTO RAMPA. Presentations of artists and their work (photo: artist Oliver Feigl)

Ficus is a publication arising from Rampa, whose lifespan is still uncertain. It stems from the basic premise of speaking through figures by approaching the sign as a plastic element capable of differenciating but also of misleading.

The first issue, Ficus [0] ‘fig.ures of re.hearsal’, is a bilingual edition (English-Spanish) shaped by a group of actors, some characters and a bit of atrezzo. It has been edited by Belén Zahera and includes contributions by Manuel Ángel & Carolina Rito, Nora Barón, Beatriz Ortega & Alberto Vallejo, Julián Cruz, Silvia Cuenca Sanz, Carlos Fernández-Pello, Marian Garrido, Karlos Gil, María Ángelica Madero, Mira Loew, Mikel Escobales, Moyra Montoya Moyano, Cristina Mejías and Teresa Solar.

If you want to get a copy please contact us at info@proyectorampa.net

2011-2014

THEGYM was an artistic program for Theory & Practice.

THEGYM contains a vowel in denial. It was also a study programme, a residency and a research centre associated with Proyecto Rampa in Madrid. From the threshold and overlapping of theory and practice, THEGYM emerged as an international platform for intellectual contamination, production and interdisciplinary critique on the modes of doing and thinking related to art.

In 2014, THEGYM has been funded by Ayudas a la Creación Injuve.

THEGYM. "Gymnast" Cristina Mejías during THE GYM

THEGYM. Workshops with critics and artists (photo: the artist Heath Bunting during THEGYM programme)

THEGYM. Talks about different topics: sicence and art, the notion of telepathy, the birth of aesthetics and art history as disciplines that subsume sensations under the primacy of ideas, the notion of non-knowledge as a productive element to create fictions through strategies such as stupidity, Latour’s circulating reference...