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title: Second Open Call for 2026 Exploration Residency
description: >-
  4-8 week artist residency in Buenos Aires open to all disciplines and career
  stages worldwide. $2,400 USD fee includes studio, mentoring, meals.
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type: program
status: closed
createdAt: '2026-03-20'
updatedAt: '2026-09-30'
programType: Residency
organization: Proyecto'ace
organizationUrl: 'https://www.artsume.com/o/proyectoace'
deadline: '2026-04-30'
location: 'Buenos Aires, Argentina'
isOnline: false
compensationRange: >-
  No artist stipend or travel stipend provided. Residency fee of $2,400 USD
  covers studio access, mentoring, some meals, and transportation card.
disciplines:
  - animation
  - art education
  - art history
  - book arts
  - criticism
  - digital media
  - documentary
  - drawing
  - ecology
  - electronic arts
  - graphic design
  - history
  - illustration
  - installation
  - interdisciplinary
  - journalism
  - mixed media
  - moving image
  - multimedia
  - painting
  - paper arts
  - performance art
  - photography
  - printmaking
  - public art
  - social practice
  - sound art
  - textile
  - visual arts
careerStages:
  - Emerging artist
  - Established
---

# Second Open Call for 2026 Exploration Residency

**Hosted by:** Proyecto'ace

**Type:** Residency | **Location:** Buenos Aires, Argentina | **Deadline:** April 30, 2026

## About This Program

´ace holds four open calls a year (deadlines are: January 31st, April 30th, July 31st and October 31st), and artists-in-residency are selected through their submitted proposals. The program focuses on expanded art practices (both physical and digital), including visual arts, performance art, sound art, and curatorial projects, with a special interest in proposals that make use of various medium or dissolve the borders between them. Our printmaking workshop fosters the idea of the multiple in a work of art, involving –but not circumscribed only to– traditional and innovative printmaking, installation, photography, artist book, painting illustration, video, stop motion, sound art and new media. Since 2005, ´ace has been working as a driving force that links not only different artistic practices within the cultures that produce them, but also between the residents and the rich cultural, urban and social community of the City of Buenos Aires.

Exploration Residencies provide accompaniment, research resources and local contacts for carrying out projects. All of our residents-in-Exploration Residency receive tutoring and mentoring, accompaniment and work critiques from the ´ace team and specialized professionals, while they enrich themselves by being in contact with their colleagues in residency. This program is aimed at professional and emerging artists from any discipline who want to work on visual, sound or performance art research, or who wish to have a space for reflection to create, investigate or write. Exploration Residencies may include an open studio format presentation or other possibilities opening up their process for the local public.

## Eligibility & Requirements

- **Career Stage:** Emerging artist, Established
- **Geographic Eligibility:** International
- **Disciplines:** animation, art education, art history, book arts, criticism, digital media, documentary, drawing, ecology, electronic arts, graphic design, history, illustration, installation, interdisciplinary, journalism, mixed media, moving image, multimedia, painting, paper arts, performance art, photography, printmaking, public art, social practice, sound art, textile, visual arts

## Compensation & Benefits

No artist stipend or travel stipend provided. Residency fee of $2,400 USD covers studio access, mentoring, some meals, and transportation card.

Residency fees are $2,400 USD and vary according to the age of the resident (sub30 artists have a reduced fee), the duration of the residency, and other items such as housing, materials, and residency project requirements. Fee includes: Studios access from 10am to 6pm Monday-Friday with air conditioner/heating and WIFI; Technical and conceptual guidance, portfolio reviews and critiques; Common materials and tools in workshop; Permanent profile on website; Welcome and farewell meals, beverages, fruits and pastries available around the clock; SUBE card (city transportation card) with initial charge; Accidents insurance during studio work; Open Studio presentation. Fee does not include: Inbound/outbound tickets; Visas; Money transfer commissions; Additional lodging fees; Health insurance; Special materials; Shipping of works.

## What's Provided

- **Housing:** Provided - Private housing off campus (individual apartment/cabin/house) or private bedroom in a shared housing facility on campus available for additional fee.
- **Travel Support:** Available - SUBE card (city transportation card for buses, train and subway) with initial charge paid by the program.
- **Studio Access:** Provided - Private studios and shared studios available. Studios equipped with air conditioner/heating and WIFI. Access from 10am to 6pm, Monday to Friday.

## Timeline

- **Opens:** March 20, 2026
- **Deadline:** April 30, 2026

## How to Apply

Apply at: https://www.proyectoace.org/en/residencies/