Multidisciplinary Residencies in Colombia

ArteSumapaz Artist Residency

San Bernardo, Colombia

ArteSumapaz is a non-profit arts and culture center located on a former coffee plantation in the Andes Mountains of Colombia, offering self-directed artist residencies of 4-24 weeks for visual artists, musicians, writers, architects, clay artists, performers, and other creative makers. The residency provides studio spaces, accommodation in a hundred-year-old hacienda, and opportunities to engage with an alternative school and local community through workshops and exhibitions.

Fundacion Mahanahaim Centro Rural

Santander, Colombia

Fundación Mahanaim Centro Rural, located 3 km from Barichara in the vereda Los Cauchos, Santander, Colombia, offers artist residencies focused on rural experiences, nature communion, and engagement with local creators. Artists typically stay six weeks in Casa Mahanaim, visiting regional artists and developing projects in fields like painting, stone carving, and ceramics. The program partners with Colombia's Ministry of Culture for national stimuli and accepts self-funded international participants with fees.

Virreina

Oicatá, Boyacá, Colombia

Virreina's LOMA SERENA residency program is aimed at artists, writers, curators, cultural managers, filmmakers, architects, and designers whose practice is critically engaged with the cultural sector. The program fosters exploration and collective questioning, offering participants space to rethink possibilities of exhibition, circulation, production, and development of both material and theoretical projects while immersing in an experience tailored to the local cultural ecosystem. Located in the Oicatá valley in Boyacá, one of the most emblematic regions of the Cundiboyacense highlands, the residency takes place in a colonial-style house with three internal courtyards surrounded by large green areas. Participants have access to workshop areas equipped for large-scale work and a 5-hectare complex ideal for agricultural work. The program includes field trips to locations offering creative possibilities from lagoons and deserts to artisan workshops and gastronomic events, plus studio visits with regional cultural agents.