Artists who started their careers with the help of the Delfina Foundation in London are donating works to a fundraising exhibition that the organisation will stage this autumn. Co-organised by the curator Sacha Craddock and the painter Chantal Joffe (a Delfina studio resident from 1994 to 1996), who is also exhibiting, Then for Now is the foundation’s first selling show (9 October to 14 November).
Among the other alumni contributing works to the exhibition are Mark Wallinger, Tacita Dean, Anya Gallaccio, Mark Titchner, Ceal Floyer and Eva Rothschild. The proceeds will support the foundation’s future residency programmes. “We are a family, in which one generation helps the next,” says Aaron Cezar, the founding director. “Each year, we support nearly 50 British and international artists through our programmes.”
The Delfina Foundation was established in 2007 to promote artistic exchange with the Middle East and North Africa and has since expanded to offer residencies internationally. It grew out of the UK’s largest residency centre for international artists, the Delfina Studio Trust, a registered charity founded by the Spanish patron Delfina Entrecanales in 1988.