Architecture Residencies in Buenos Aires

cheLA / Fundación exACTa

Buenos Aires, Argentina

cheLA (Centro Experimental Latinoamericano)cheLA offers an open, project-based residency program active throughout the year.The residency proposes immersion in an active experimental ecosystem housed in a 5,000 m² former industrial complex in Buenos Aires. The building operates simultaneously as laboratory, rehearsal space, fabrication workshop, audiovisual production site, and public venue. Residents enter a context where artistic research, technical experimentation, and coll

We host three residency programs a year, each lasting between 4 to 8 weeks. We also receive artists all year long to work in private studios for up to 6 months. For each program, we select a group up to 10 international and local artists, curators and researchers. The group shares working spaces and participates in a number of activities as each one immerse in new or ongoing projects. During the program public presentations are organized and the residency culminates in an open studio which is an integral part of our program of exhibitions. The exhibition is open to the public for the last days of the residency, during which special visits and presentations are coordinated. Each program have a guest curator who participates in the selection of the candidates, propose a concept or activities, follows each project, participate in the work meetings and the public presentations. Residents also have the assistance of both a production coordinator and the directors of the project. The schedule of activities also includes visits to relevant art spaces in Buenos Aires and visits from other educational programs, artists, curators, and critics.