Curation Residencies in Portugal

Aveiro Arts House / VIC AIR is an artist residency located in the former home of multifaceted artist Vasco Branco (1919-) in central Aveiro, Portugal. The residency combines arts, culture, and creative tourism while conserving cultural heritage, offering artists private bedrooms, shared working spaces, and access to the venue's gallery, cinema auditorium, and cultural programming.

AZAN contemporary art

Lisbon, Portugal

AZAN contemporary art is an artist-run project based at Quinta de Molha Pão in Belas, Portugal, offering long-term studio spaces, residencies, and a program of exhibitions, performances, talks, and open studios. The residency welcomes visual artists, curators, writers, and filmmakers to develop their work in an open studio layout while building a network with international artists.

CAAA Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura

Guimarães, Portugal

The CAAA Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura is a nonprofit cultural institution in Guimarães, Portugal, dedicated to supporting artistic creation through interdisciplinary collaboration between visual arts, design, film, literature, media, performing arts, and architecture. Its Artistic Residence Program provides emerging artists, architects, and curators with living/working studios to develop and publicly present projects aligned with CAAA's philosophy of fostering new interdisciplinary opportunities. The facility, a renovated former textile factory, includes studios, galleries, a black-box space, rehearsal room, research library, and more.

RAMA Residências Artísticas

Torres Vedras, Portugal

RAMA – Residências Artísticas is an artist residency program located in the villages of Maceira and Alfeiria in the municipality of Torres Vedras, Portugal, aimed at national and international artists, researchers, and curators for research and experimentation. It promotes interaction between professionals, crossing of artistic practices, sharing of knowledge, and relationships with the local community, culture, traditional crafts, history, and rural landscape. Residencies last 1 to 4 months or longer, offering customized programs with mentoring, studio visits, and options for accommodation plus studio or studio only, hosting up to 4 artists simultaneously.

Zaratan

Lisbon, Portugal

Zaratan AIR offers a multidisciplinary residency in Lisbon for emerging and professional artists, curators, and writers, targeting both international and Portuguese artists living abroad. The program, lasting 4 to 12 weeks, accommodates two artists at a time, fostering an experimental and collaborative environment. Residents are provided with private accommodation, a personal studio, and receive technical and promotional support, though specific technical facilities are not available. Regular interaction with Zaratan's curatorial team is encouraged, along with public presentations of their work. The application process is ongoing, with a selection committee evaluating submissions. The residency, operated on a not-for-profit basis by Zaratan gallery, requires a fee that covers accommodation, studio, and support, with artists often securing funding from their home countries.