- Deadline
- 18 days left
- Entry fee
- Free
- Award
- Residency in Buenos Aires
- Location
- Argentina
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Submit a proposal for a 4–8 week exploration residency in Buenos Aires to research and develop projects in visual, sound, performance art, or curatorial work.
About ´ace
´ace (arte contemporáneo en expansión) is an organization that has been promoting contemporary artistic practices and exploration of their multiple interfaces through residency programs since 2005. The program aims to promote collaborative work, exchange, debate, and experimentation, linking different artistic practices and residents with the cultural, urban, and social community of Buenos Aires.
Program Overview
The Exploration Residency program is aimed at professional and emerging artists from any discipline who want to work on visual, sound, or performance art research, or who wish to have a space for reflection to create, investigate, or write. Residents receive tutoring, mentoring, accompaniment, and work critiques from the ´ace team and specialized professionals. Exploration Residencies may include an open studio format presentation or other possibilities opening up their process for the local public.
Eligible Disciplines
Animation, Art Education, Art History, Book Arts, Criticism, Digital Media, Documentary, Drawing, Ecology, Electronic Arts, Environmentalism/Conservation, Graphic Design, History, Illustration, Installation Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts, Journalism, Mixed Media, Moving Image, Multimedia Arts, Painting, Paper Arts, Performance Art, Photography, Printmaking, Public Art, Science, Social Practice, Sound Art, Textile & Fiber Arts/Weaving, Visual Arts.
Residency Details
- Length: 4–8 weeks
- Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese
- Average artists in residence at a time: 5
- Open to artists from any country; any career stage eligible
- Individual applications required; may apply as a team
Facilities & Support
Residents have access to private studios, shared studios, and dedicated studio/shop spaces with part-time technicians. Facilities include painting workspaces, drawing benches, printmaking workshops, book arts facilities, etching press, silkscreen studio, lithography studio, and light tables. Housing options include private apartments off-campus or private bedrooms in shared housing on campus.
Fees & Costs
- Residency fee: $2400 USD (varies by age, duration, and additional services)
- Sub-30 artists receive reduced fees
- Fee includes: studio access (10am–6pm Mon–Fri), technical and conceptual guidance, portfolio reviews, common materials and tools, WIFI, transportation card (SUBE), accident insurance, welcome/farewell meals, and open studio presentation
- Fee does NOT include: inbound/outbound flights, visas, lodging, health insurance, special materials, or work shipping
- Some meals provided; access to shared kitchen
Application Timeline
´ace holds four open calls per year with deadlines of January 31st, April 30th, July 31st, and October 31st. Artists are selected through their submitted proposals.
How to Apply
Visit https://www.proyectoace.org/en/residencies/ to apply. Special interest given to proposals that use multiple mediums or dissolve borders between art practices, and to printmaking projects involving traditional and innovative techniques.
- Award
- Residency in Buenos Aires
- Entry fee
- Fees vary according to age (sub-30 artists have reduced fees), duration of residency, and other items such as housing and materials. Basic fee is $2400 USD and includes studio access, technical guidance, some meals, materials, transportation card, and insurance; does not include lodging, health insurance, inbound/outbound flights, or special materials.
- Theme
- Animation, Art Education, Art History, Book Arts, Criticism, Digital Media, Documentary, Drawing, Ecology, Electronic Arts, Environmentalism/Conservation, Graphic Design, History, Illustration, Installation Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts, Journalism, Mixed Media, Moving Image, Multimedia Arts, Painting, Paper Arts, Performance Art, Photography, Printmaking, Public Art, Science, Social Practice, Sound Art, Textile & Fiber Arts/Weaving, Visual Arts
- Eligibility
- Any stage of career — ´ace holds four open calls a year (deadlines are: January 31st, April 30th, July 31st and October 31st), and artists-in-residency are selected through their submitted proposals. The program focuses on expanded art practices (both physical and digital), including visual arts, performance art, sound art, and curatorial projects, with a special interest in proposals that make use of various medium or dissolve the borders between them. Our printmaking workshop fosters the idea of the multiple in a work of art, involving –but not circumscribed only to– traditional and innovative printmaking, installation, photography, artist book, painting illustration, video, stop motion, sound art and new media. Since 2005, ´ace has been working as a driving force that links not only different artistic practices within the cultures that produce them, but also between the residents and the rich cultural, urban and social community of the City of Buenos Aires.
- Audience
- Any stage of career
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