Interdisciplinary Residencies in Cape Town

Cape Town Art Residency

Cape Town, South Africa

The Cape Town Art Residency is an invitation-only international program in Woodstock, Cape Town, supporting emerging and established contemporary artists from Africa and worldwide through creative production, cultural exchange, and networking with global art networks. It offers vast open studios, adjoining accommodation with kitchen and terrace, stays typically ranging from 1-3 months, and culminates in exhibitions for broader audience engagement.

Greatmore Studios

Cape Town, South Africa

Greatmore Studios is an artist-led residency program in Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa, established in 1998 to provide studio spaces and foster collaboration between local and international artists from diverse cultural backgrounds. It offers residencies that encourage creative experimentation, professional development, and community outreach through exhibitions, workshops, and public events. The program supports both sponsored and self-funded artists with facilities including studios, exhibition spaces, and a digital resource center.

Space Between A-I-R

Cape Town, South Africa

Mini-retreat on the Garden Route offering wellness, movement, and creative space in a glass-and-wood building overlooking the Indian Ocean and Tsitsikamma Mountains.

The Artists House is a residency on the lower slopes of the Constantiaberg mountains in Cape Town, offering a focused creative retreat with studios, grounds and shared space for exchange. Facilities include a traditional printmakers’ press, a potter’s wheel and a creative work area, with a separate exhibition venue on the same grounds. The house sits among mature trees in a largely indigenous garden — a birding hotspot — which also holds a geodesic dome and a natural swimming pool. Residents have the space to develop new work or deepen an existing practice, with mentorship, collaboration and shared learning part of the experience. Practical infrastructure includes uninterrupted power, electronic security, video access control and fibre internet.