Curation Residencies in Barcelona

BAR Project

Barcelona, Spain

BAR Project is an independent, mobile, non-profit curatorial organization in Barcelona that promotes artistic exchange through international residencies for artists and curators, focusing on transdisciplinary dialogue, hospitality, and collaboration. It offers 3-month residencies where participants develop projects related to the city, utilizing partner-provided apartments in the Eixample district and studios at Fabra i Coats, along with material and economic support.

Blueproject Foundation

Barcelona, Spain

The Blueproject Foundation, based in Barcelona, Spain, was a non-profit organization operating from to that supported emerging national and international artists through a residency program open to all creative disciplines, including visual arts, music, performing arts, and gastronomy. Residents received access to a dedicated studio space (El Taller), production support, financial grants, and opportunities for exhibitions or performances at the foundation's venues. Since late , the foundation has no permanent space and focuses on delocalized projects, podcasts, and collaborations, with the residency program appearing inactive.

R.A.R.O. Barcelona (RARO)

Barcelona, Spain

R.A.R.O. Is a itinerant Artists in Residence program created in order to generate spaces for exchange, creation and dissemination of work. R.A.R.O. introduces a format that has the particularity of being itinerant, receives national and international artists, curators, and cultural managers to develop their projects in the different R.A.R.O. workshops from the city of Barcelona at the same time that generates talks, meetings, visits and exhibitions that complement each project.

Sant Andreu Contemporani

Barcelona, Spain

Sant Andreu Contemporani (SAC) in Barcelona offers the International Curatorial Residency Programme, targeted at international curators who join the jury for the Miquel Casablancas Prize for the Visual Arts and develop a curatorial project featuring selected Catalan artists. The residency provides a working space at Fabra i Coats – Fàbrica de Creació de Barcelona, accommodation, travel budget, fees, and production funds totaling around €4,000 (subject to taxes). Projects are integrated into SAC's exhibition program and may be presented internationally.