Deadline: July 31, 2026. ´ace (arte contemporáneo en expansión), a Buenos Aires-based organization promoting contemporary artistic practice through residencies, runs its Production and Exploration residency open calls on a quarterly cycle (deadlines Jan 31, Apr 30, Jul 31, and Oct 31) — so the next window closes in just a few days. The programs support expanded art practices, both physical and digital, spanning visual arts, performance, sound art, and curatorial projects, with an explicit interest in proposals that use multiple mediums or dissolve the borders between them. Production Residencies run four weeks and back emerging and professional artists making new bodies of work or developing works in progress.
Why it’s a fit for this audience
The reason to flag ´ace for a creative-technology readership is its cross-medium mandate. A lot of residencies are organized by discipline — a painting residency, a sound residency — which quietly discourages the hybrid, in-between work that defines much of contemporary media art. ´ace inverts that: the “special interest in proposals that dissolve the borders between mediums” is an open invitation to exactly the kind of practice that mixes code, sound, performance, and installation. For artists whose work doesn’t fit a single box — a sound artist working with sensors, a performance maker using real-time video, a coder making installations — that framing is the point, not a caveat.
What “expanded practice” means here
The Exploration and Production split is worth understanding: exploration-oriented residencies favor research and open-ended development, while production residencies are geared toward making a finished body of work or pushing a work-in-progress to completion over the four-week term. Both sit under ´ace’s broader “arte contemporáneo en expansión” philosophy — contemporary art in expansion — which treats medium as something to stretch rather than settle into. Buenos Aires also brings a specific regional art-scene context that’s a change of frame for artists used to the usual North American / Western European residency circuit.
The essentials
- Deadline: July 31, 2026 (the quarterly cycle repeats Oct 31, then Jan 31 / Apr 30)
- Length: four-week Production Residency (Exploration track also available)
- Eligible practice: visual arts, performance, sound art, curatorial — especially cross-medium/hybrid work
- Host: ´ace (arte contemporáneo en expansión), Buenos Aires
- Details: via the Artist Communities Alliance listing and ´ace directly
With the deadline only days out, this is a near-term option — and if you miss it, the quarterly cadence means the October 31 window comes around soon after. As always, read the full call for fees, eligibility, and what the residency covers versus what you fund yourself before applying.