Top Artist Residencies in Barcelona
Barcelona is nothing short of a creatively stimulating city, boasting impressive artist residency programs for those working across all disciplines.
Here are a few of our favorites open to international artists.
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B-MURALS| Residency Program 2027
B-MURALS opens a space with the capacity to receive 6-8 artists to carry out studio work in a RESIDENCE for a standardised period of 3 months. The call is mainly aimed at visual 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.
Cost: €550 per month + 21% VAT
Fee Covers: Studio, exhibition, accommodation, and more
Unmaking Art | Residency Program
Unmaking Art Studio offers an immersive artistic experience right in the centre of Barcelona's vibrant El Raval neighbourhood. They invite artists to spend their days immersed in creativity in the heart of Barcelona. Not only will you have the chance to live like a local artist, you will be supporting other local artists as you do so.
Cost: €220 per week or €650 the entire month
Fee Covers: Studio, exhibition, and more
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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.
Stay up to date on application deadlines via their ArtConnect profile.
Rewards: Accommodation, material costs, group exhibition and more.
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.
Applications often close in late May, stay up to date on their ArtConnect profile.
Rewards: Free residency program, accommodation, studio, and workshop
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.
Track open calls on their ArtConnect profile.
Rewards: Accommodation, studio, exhibition, support varies depending on the program
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.
Their annual open call usually closes at the end of January, stay up to date on their ArtConnect profile.
Rewards: Stipend, collaboration with scientists, and access to facilities
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.
Stay up to date about upcoming open calls on their ArtConnect profile.
Rewards: accommodation, studio, exhibition and more
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