BAR project’s residencies operate on an invitation system and the selection-committee is composed by BAR project’s founding members. There are two type of residencies:

Artist residencies

These are 3-month residencies in which artists and curators are invited to develop a specific project related to the city of Barcelona. The residency covers for transportation, accommodation, workshop and food expenses as well as for providing the artist with a production budget. During the residency there is a special emphasis on the exchange produced with the local context through the artists presentations of their work, studio visits, public events and several exchanges between artists and local agents. In the case of the curators, they are invited to develop a project in collaboration with BAR’s team over. This is a kind of residency that aims to further develop the residency program of BAR project, as well as to look for collaborations between international agents that could encourage it and thus create future collaborations within the fields of curating and research. At the end of each residency there is a public presentation of the artworks that have been produced on a particular space that has been selected in order to suit the work its best.

Visits

These are invitations given to three or four curators within periods that run between 5 and 10 days only, during which the participants have the possibility to meet artists as well as different agents and institutions of Barcelona. The selected curators will be provided with a program that is organized having in mind their research interests. In addition to this program, they have the possibility to do several artists studio visits on an individual level following BAR project’s guidelines. The main objective is to allow for a personal knowledge of the artistic and cultural context of the city in order to encourage future collaborations between local and international agents. The residency covers for accommodation and travel expenses.