Research Residencies in Brazil

Associação Cultural Videobrasil

São Paulo, Brazil

The Videobrasil Residency Program, run by Associação Cultural Videobrasil in São Paulo, Brazil, supports artists and researchers primarily from the Global South through scholarships, commissions, and exchanges tied to its festivals and international partnerships. It fosters connections between artists, organizations, and communities across five continents, enabling participants to enrich their practices by engaging with new contexts and interlocutors. Established with pioneering efforts since 1989, the program helps map new artistic cartographies via a network of national and international partners.

Capacete

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

CAPACETE is Brazil's oldest artist residency program, founded in 1998 in Rio de Janeiro by Helmut Batista, operating as an independent, discursive platform for researching and documenting aesthetic, social, and political processes in Brazil and South America. It integrates residents into the local context through seminars, talks, workshops, and exchanges, with programs lasting typically 3 to 12 months. The residency emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, intercultural exchange, and community involvement, including 8 hours weekly maintenance of the space.

Curatoría Forense is an itinerant contemporary art residency program founded in that operates across multiple Latin American countries, with Uberbau_house in São Paulo serving as its primary base since . The program focuses on research, documentation, and reflection on contemporary art as a political tool, emphasizing collaborative work, public interventions, and exchange between participants and local cultural agents throughout Latin America.

ILHABELA ISLAND, BRAZIL

Ilhabela, Brazil

Casa na Ilha is a retreat space to devote time and focus to your creative pursuits in an ecological paradise. Artists can intensely dedicate to their work in progress or develop new projects. The main goal is that artists are able to focus on their ideas and projects, enhancing creativity and inspiration and connect, between them, the local community and nature. Casa na Ilha Art Residency Program takes place in the island of Ilhabela, at the north coast of the state of Sao Pablo, Brazil. Located at 200 km from the city of Sao Pablo, is the largest island of an archipelago formed of this and other of minor dimension. Ilhabela is an ecological paradise, covered by Mata Atlantica (atlantic rainforest) home of unique fauna and flora, with more than 73 beaches and 27 waterfalls. Artists work on a self-directed residency: you will have uninterrupted, self-directed work time. However, during your stay there will be a tutor on location 24/7 to discuss ideas, projects and progress of work during the duration of the residency time, respecting artists pace and direction. Each sessions hosts 2 – 6 artists at the same time, from different disciplines, giving the opportunity to artists in residency to gain new ideas and insights that can be applied to creative exploration and the development of their work through peer interaction and discussion groups. Common spaces will be conceived to promote not only collaboration between the artists, but to empower ideas between them.

Manifesta Art and Culture

Manaus, Brazil

LABVERDE is a transdisciplinary art and ecology platform based in the Brazilian Amazon that promotes artistic creation through intensive 10-day residencies combining seminars, workshops, forest tours, and boat trips. The program, developed in association with Manifesta Art and Culture and the National Institute for Amazonian Research, aims to foster innovative artistic language while exploring environmental issues and the Amazon's biodiversity.

Sacatar Foundation

Itaparica, Brazil

Instituto Sacatar is the longest continuously-operating artist residency in Brazil, founded in 2001 on the island of Itaparica across the bay from Salvador, Bahia. The residency provides fully-funded fellowships to artists of all disciplines from around the world, hosting up to eight artists at a time across five annual sessions. Since its inception, Sacatar has awarded residencies to over 550 artists from more than 75 countries.