Joaquim Jordà Residencies. Fourth Open Call 2025-2026

Study CentreResearch ResidenciesThese are centralised through the Study Centre, with the Museo Reina Sofia welcoming, facilitating and accompanying different research residencies related to the Museo’s programmes and departments, and in collaboration with other international cultural institutions. The aim is to foster dialogue between different areas of the institution and to progress reflections around critical questions of concern. Esteban Vicente - Museo Reina SofíaResearch ResidencyMás informaciónEsteban Vicente, N.º 3, 1959. Donation of Harriet and Esteban Vicente Foundation, New York, 2017As part of the collaboration with Harriet and Esteban Vicente Foundation, Museo Reina Sofía calls for an annual research fellowship. The aim of the fellowship is to promote research into the work and career of the artist Esteban Vicente (Turégano, Segovia, 1903 – Brigdehampton, New York, 2001), as well as his context, influences, and role within the international modern and contemporary art scene. It also seeks to foster participation in a process of critical reflection situated both within the areas of interest of the Harriet and Esteban Vicente Foundation and within the research framework of the Directorate of Studies of the Museo Reina Sofía. Studies ConstellationAnnual FellowshipMore informationThe annual fellowship Studies Constellation invites key thinkers in the history of contemporary art and theory to develop and constellate an annual research project around some of the questions that encourage the intellectual engagement of art, culture, and the museum with the present. The fellowship is conceived as a space for sustained, generative and expansive exchange that adopts different intensities and rhythms, combining in-person activities at the museum, including internal seminars and public presentations, with time for preparation, collection, rest and digestion outside the museum. This programme is part of the commitment and responsibility of the Museo Reina Sofía's Study Directorship as a space for cultural production and exchange with the different research contexts in which it is involved. The ICAC Research ResidencyView the 2026 CallEach year, the Museo Reina Sofía Foundation awards an annual ICAC Research Fellowship, which includes financial support and mentorship from the Museum, for the development of an original research project on Central American art. The fellowship lasts ten months and has the following main objectives: The development of an independent research project that explores in depth the questions that define and shape the scenes and histories of art in Central America. The fellow receives guidance and support from the Museum’s Study Center, which provides tools, resources, and networks, as well as a space for exchange and research alongside other residents. Active exchange with the Collections teams and with the Library and Documentation Center, with the aim of expanding knowledge of Central American artists within the Museum’s holdings. Collaboration with the departments of Museo Tentacular, Film and New Media, and Public Programs. Joaquim JordàSince 2022, the Museo Reina Sofía, FIDMarseille, and Doclisboa have been organizing this annual residency program aimed at filmmakers and artists who work in the field of film essay, experimental cinema and in all those manifestations shaping contemporary’s non-fiction cinema. The joint residency between a museum and two international film festivals offers the possibility of articulating different phases between the idea and the materialization of the audiovisual work. The objective of the program is to support the conception, development and production of film projects in the field of non-fiction cinema, finance their execution and partake in the international debate on this field of artistic endeavor. Joaquim Jordà Residencies. Fourth Open Call 2025-2026From 2025 to 2026Joaquim Jordà Residencies. First Open Call 2022–2023From 2022 to 2023Joaquim Jordà Residencies. Third Open Call 2024-2025From 2024 to 2025Joaquim Jordà Residencies. Second Open Call 2023-2024From 2023 to 2024Sustainable Art ProductionResearch Residencies of L'Internationale project Museum of the Commons – ClimateMuseum of the Commons is a four-year project (2023 to 2026) implemented by the confederation L’Internationale and financed by the European Union through the Creative Europe Programme (Grant Agreement 101100021). The proyect centres on three main focal points: the climate emergency, decolonial perspectives and situated institutionalism. As a member of L’Internationale, Museo Reina Sofía calls for, amongst other activities, four research residences whose objective is to foster research through artistic and cultural practices and participation in research networks bound to Museum of the Commons – in particular to its first work line, which focuses on the current planetary climate crisis, the sustainability of institutional, artistic and cultural practices and the urgency to transform our politics, societies, cultures and ways of living towards ecologically sustainable models. Sustainable Art Production. Second CallFrom 2026 to 2027Sustainable Art Production. Research Residencies of L'Internationale project Museum of the Commons – ClimateFrom 2024 to 2025Residencies for artistic research projects related to the aims and activities of the MuseoRecovery, Transformation and Resilience PlanView CallIn 2025, the Museo Reina Sofía will host a total of thirteen artistic research projects that offer new reflections on the institution’s activities, aims, and collections by drawing on its resources and discourses. The residencies are part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. The research residencies aim to support artistic research processes, contributing to the strengthening and professionalization of cultural production. They also seek to promote, support, and make visible contemporary artistic practices, creating a space for cultural exchange and fo