Top Artist Residencies in Barcelona
Barcelona is nothing short of a creatively stimulating city, boasting impressive artist residency programs. Here are a few of our favorites open to international artists.
DOM | International Art Residency
The International Art Residency at DOM is run once a year, and the timeframe is one month. Each residency revolves around a specific theme, encouraging artists to engage with pressing social, political, or cultural issues. DOM takes a unique nomadic approach, changing locations regularly, allowing artists and organisers alike to meet new viewers and investigate new contexts.
Duration: 1 month
Rewards: Accommodation, material costs, group exhibition and more.
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Hey Human! | Autumn / Winter / Spring Residency
Launched in 2021, Hey Human! is a non-profit artists-in-residence program located at the heart of Barcelona that provides time and space for inventors, artists and researchers to create, experiment, and cultivate new directions in their practice. They award independent projects exploring the relation between data, art and people through the use of music, gastronomy, sculpture, visual arts, poetry, film or any other kind artistic representation.
Duration: 3 weeks
Rewards: Free residency program, accommodation, studio + workshop
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Hangar. Org | Various Residency Programs
Hangar is a centre for art research and production, offering support to artists with open call for various artist in residence programs launched throughout the year. During a residency at HANGAR in Barcelona, resident artists have accommodation access to a studio as well as the resources that Hangar provides.
Duration: Varies
Rewards: Accommodation, studio and exhibition included. Paid residency with fees, although some grants are available.
Image: Hangar. Org
Institute for Research in Biomedicine | Artist in Residence Program
IRB Barcelona's Artist in Residency Programme aims to connect artists with an interest in interdisciplinary science with the wide range of research, scientists, data and infrastructure available at the Institute. It provides a unique opportunity for artists to immerse themselves in the IRB Barcelona community for a free exchange of ideas and to explore, learn, and form relationships with our scientists and stakeholders.
Duration: 3 months
Rewards: €5,000 grant, collaboration with scientists and access to facilities.
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B-MURALS | Residency
B-MURALS opens a space with the capacity to receive two artists to carry out studio work in a RESIDENCE for a standardised period of 3 months. The call is mainly aimed at visual and plastic artists, but also multidisciplinary artists who can apply their work to public space: urban art, visual arts, artistic research and interdisciplinary projects, especially those that seek a relationship and dialogue with the territory and the public space
Duration: 3 months
Rewards: Studio, exhibition, accommodation, and more.
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Homesession | Residencies for Artists and Curators
Homesession offers a residency program for artists and curators mainly based on open-calls in collaboration with art centers from different countries. The programme, includes accommodation, a working studio and an exhibition, as well as the support of our team.
Duration: 2 months
Rewards: accommodation, studio, exhibition and more.
Image: Homesession
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