A program of Fundación Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure · submitted to the UNESCO IFCD 2026 call · Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela
A platform to document, train,
and open access to culture.
Fundación Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure, with conceptual and methodological development by Exodus & Resilience, builds a 12-month platform for documentation, training, mediation and public access to Venezuelan contemporary culture from Acarigua-Araure, an interior territory where a regional museum can sustain education, public memory and a living archive beyond a single funding cycle. The project has been submitted to the UNESCO IFCD 2026 call; this wording identifies submission status only and does not indicate approval, endorsement or funding by UNESCO.
A cultural program that documents, trains and mediates public access to Venezuelan contemporary art from Acarigua-Araure.
Acarigua-Araure, Portuguesa State, through a regional platform designed for national visibility and digital access.
Fundación Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure implements the project; Exodus & Resilience contributes the conceptual and methodological framework.
Document · Train · Mediate · Open digital access through archive, public programs, educational materials and online resources.
It strengthens cultural infrastructure outside the capital and turns documentation, education and mediation into reusable public resources.
Support the program · Partner · Request the dossier through the public channels of the Acarigua Chapter.
Venezuela's cultural sector has been deeply affected by economic instability, institutional weakening and migration. Outside the capital, cultural institutions often operate with limited resources, reduced technical capacity and fewer opportunities for sustained visibility, training and exchange.
Source: Project context — UNESCO IFCD 2026 application
Why this program exists
Venezuelan contemporary culture continues to evolve through new forms of creation, circulation and community engagement shaped by displacement and reconfiguration. But this transformation has not been matched by equivalent growth in documentation systems, public mediation tools, or long-term cultural infrastructure capable of connecting artists, institutions, young people and wider audiences.
What the Acarigua Chapter does
Operating from Portuguesa State, the program builds a single platform that links four functions usually approached in isolation: documentation of artists and works, training for cultural workers and youth, mediation with local communities, and digital tools for public access.
Fundación Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure is the implementing institution responsible for administrative, financial and cultural execution. Exodus & Resilience contributes the conceptual framework, curatorial research structure, narrative design and strategic advisory support.
What the program actually delivers.
Documentation & Archive
Systematic documentation of artists, artworks and practices shaped by migration, diaspora, memory and cultural reconfiguration — building an open, locally rooted record of Venezuelan contemporary practice.
Training & Professional Development
Workshops, seminars and structured learning paths for artists, cultural workers, educators and young participants — strengthening regional capacity beyond the capital.
Mediation & Public Programs
Public programming designed to broaden access to contemporary culture: talks, encounters, community sessions and inclusive activities with particular attention to youth participation.
Digital Tools & Public Access
Public-facing digital resources that make content, methodologies and learning materials freely accessible to wider publics, researchers, institutions and digital communities.
to April 2028
archive, training, mediation, digital access
Fundación Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure
from UNESCO IFCD 2026
Artists · workers · youth · educators
4 · 10 · 16 · 17
Two complementary roles, one cultural platform.
Fundación Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure
Applicant entity and institution responsible for the administrative, financial and cultural implementation of the project. Founded in 1988, the regional experience of Fundación Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure in exhibitions, education, mediation and community engagement situates the program in a territory where cultural infrastructure needs continuity, visibility and strengthening.
Exodus & Resilience — Conceptual and methodological partner
E&R contributes the project framework, curatorial research structure, narrative design and strategic advisory support. The partnership allows the project to address Venezuelan contemporary cultural production in relation to displacement, memory and reconfiguration in a systematic, publicly accessible way.
Transparency commitment
Project expenditure follows documented internal controls, expenditure tracking and periodic review against the proposed budget. All expenses are supported by invoices, receipts, contracts or equivalent accounting documentation. UNESCO reporting requirements will be fully met if the project is approved.
Germany Partnership Development
In August 2026, Exodus & Resilience initiated a first institutional outreach round to ten cultural organisations in Germany working across contemporary art, migration and exile memory, archives, artistic research, residency programmes and international cultural exchange.
Following the first outreach round, one German cultural organisation has expressed interest in exploring a possible collaboration around migration, memory, artistic research and participatory archive practices. An online conversation has been proposed for mid-September to explore potential areas of cooperation.
No German institutional partnership has yet been confirmed.
The purpose of this outreach is not primarily to seek direct financial sponsorship. It is to identify an appropriate German artistic and institutional partner with whom to collaboratively develop the first phase of The Living Archive of Displacement — Venezuela ↔ Germany Artistic Research & Exchange.
The proposed exchange would bring one Venezuelan curator or cultural mediator and one Venezuelan visual or media-art practitioner currently living and working in Venezuela to Germany for a short working visit.
Potential areas of exchange include artistic and curatorial research, engagement with archives and cultural practices, professional dialogue, a participatory workshop or working session, and a public or semi-public presentation.
A central objective is to develop an initial Living Archive methodology connecting contemporary artistic practice, cultural memory, migration, local histories and community participation.
Exodus & Resilience is also exploring ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen / Artists’ Contacts as a potential future mobility-funding pathway once an appropriate German partnership and jointly developed artistic framework are established.
Explore the Living Archive approachConfirmed Partners
Museum-based learning for cultural resilience.
A chapter with its own educational mandate
The Acarigua Chapter includes an educational and cultural mediation dimension designed for young people, educators, artists and local communities. This line strengthens public access to Venezuelan contemporary art through the museum, without representing, replacing or claiming continuity with previous programs by other institutions.
A practical platform for Acarigua-Araure
The chapter translates the museum’s local role into a structured platform for today’s needs: documentation, training, mediation, public programs and digital access. The goal is not only to preserve cultural memory, but to make the museum a practical space for learning, participation and public access to contemporary culture.
Who the platform is designed for.
Artists & cultural workers
Documentation, professional development, visibility and access to a structured platform for sustained artistic practice in Venezuela.
Young people & educators
Training, mediation activities and educational resources, with particular attention to youth participation and inclusive access to contemporary culture.
Wider publics & institutions
Researchers, cultural institutions and digital communities will access new resources, documentation, methodologies and public-facing content.
A platform built to last beyond the funding period.
Documentation records, training materials and digital resources are designed for continued institutional use. Your support helps consolidate a regional cultural platform that strengthens civil society's role in Venezuelan cultural life.