South America

Malba, Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires, Argentina, announces is calling for applications from international writers for the five-week 2025 Writers Residence organised by its Literature department.

‘Fragments, Space for Art and Memory’, through the Ministry of Culture and the National Museum of Colombia, invites Colombian or international visual artists to carry out an artistic intervention in the museum.

Solanas Art Experience (SAE) is calling for applications from artists with an intermediate career, based in Latin American countries including Uruguay, to live for one month in SAE, Punta del Este (Uruguay).

The ‘Fluid Boundaries International Residency Programme: The Interplay of Water, Art, Science and Indigenous Knowledge Systems’ is now accepting applications for three residencies, of which the first part will take place from March to May 2025. In autumn 2025, the second part of the residency (Third Space Residency) will be taking place with all participants in the Southern Part of Switzerland.

The Creative Europe-funded project CONTESTED DESIRES: Constructive Dialogues (CDCD) is calling for applications from visual artists who are passionate about unravelling colonial legacies and who are based in Tunisia, Ghana, Hungary, Chile, Portugal, Italy, Cyprus, Spain, the Netherlands or the UK.

CIMAM’s 2023 Annual Conference will be held from 9-11 November 2023, hosted by the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina. CIMAM will award over 50 travel grants to attend the CIMAM 2023 Annual Conference, titled ‘The Co-Creative Museum: Social Agency, Ethics, and Heritage’. Grants are addressed to modern and contemporary art museum directors and curators, researchers, and independent curators whose field of research and specialisation is contemporary art theory, collections, and museums.

Associação Cultural Videobrasil and Sesc São Paulo invite artists and/or collectives who are from the Global South, from the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), or who have lived in these regions for at least five years, as well as indigenous artists of any nationalities to participate in the open call for the 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil. Presented works will be eligible for a number of awards including residency prizes.

Orbitals is a recurrent programme which takes four curators and researchers from or living in the Arab world to an international location to learn about a different artistic context. This year’s edition of Orbitals, taking place over ten days in November, is an introduction to some of the art activity in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Los Goethe-Institut en Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brasil y Colombia junto a Espacio Checoeslovaquia, el Centro de Creación y Residencia NAVE en Chile, el Instituto Nacional de Artes Escénicas de Uruguay y la Akademie für Theater und Digitalität Dortmund hacen un llamado abierto a grupos interdisciplinarios de Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brasil y Colombia, integrados por creadores/as y realizadores/as de las artes escénicas y de disciplinas técnicas y mediales para presentar proyectos escénicos que exploren el uso de medios y tecnologías digitales.

The City as Forest Residency Programme offers immersion for research and experimentation, meant for artists and scientists interested in developing their work in the urban environment of Rio de Janeiro. The programme will run 16 May – 4 June 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Applicants from Brazil, Germany and Switzerland are invited to apply.