Taguspark and SNBA open Call for Artist Residencies

MAU - Museu de Arte Urbana do Taguspark - Cidade do Conhecimento, in partnership with SNBA - Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, is launching its first call for individual and/or collective artist residencies.

The call, which runs until November 3, seeks to promote artists who want to continue their artistic productions and contribute to the development of contemporary expressions at Taguspark - Cidade do Conhecimento.

To apply for the MAU-SNBA Artist Residencies, the artist can access the respective regulations, present their portfolio, themes to work on and motivations, and send it to ra@taguspark.pt.

Located in the heart of Europe's most civic park, MAU-SNBA Artist Residencies last three months, with the possibility of extension, and involve the execution of a specific artistic project or the continuity of the artist's/collective's body of work, following a theme previously presented in an application.

With the capacity to host artists working with different forms of expression, the MAU-SNBA Artist Residencies showcase the disruptive, bold and urban spirit that is experienced daily in the City of Knowledge. In order to generate new dynamics and artistic stimuli, it is possible for residents to organize events open to the public during their stay.

For Eduardo Baptista Correia, CEO of Taguspark, "The creation of the artist residency program at Taguspark contributes to the consolidation of our path in the world of contemporary art. Support for artistic creation, whether individual or collective, is at the root of MAU - Taguspark's Urban Art Museum. Working with the SNBA is a privilege, a source of inspiration and teaching."

João Paulo Queiroz, president of the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, points out that "These Artistic Residencies, to be held in a place like Taguspark, allow opportunities to be created for emerging and non-emerging artists, at the same time as broadening the access of the community and the Park's workers to other forms of artistic expression".