Le Garage Moderne Residencies

For all artists, the residency includes a two-week stay on-site in Bordeaux between October and December 2026. Artists will receive a fee of €1,300 (gross amount; taxes may apply depending on the artist’s legal status) and a maximum of €600 for production expenses, such as raw materials, technical services, or special tools related to the project. During their stay, artists can access the shared tools and spaces of Le Garage Moderne in accordance with the association’s regulations.
Support includes a travel grant (lump sum, with the amount depending on distance and top-ups for green travel options), a per diem of €45/day, and provided accommodation in a self-catering hotel.

Le Garage Moderne is a cultural and capacity-building center located in the Bacalan District of Bordeaux. It is a non-profit car garage and bicycle workshop, a canteen operating as a neighborhood restaurant offering sponsored meals for those in need, and a cultural venue hosting 11 permanent artists, makers, and craftswomen. The venue also operates a versatile space activated for performing arts events, concerts, and community gatherings. It is both a productive space, a public space, and a community-driven common.
Le Garage Moderne has just returned to its 19th-century building after a two-and-a-half-year renovation period spent in a temporary location. The team is back home, machines and workbenches are back in place, and we now have a brand-new playground. We invite artists in residency to take over this space and explore its physical and social possibilities. We are looking for site-specific proposals that play with the verticality, the scale of the space, our community, and the hive-like vibe of the venue—where we all run around, shout, get our hands dirty, and learn in the process.
Any discipline is welcome: design, visual art, performing arts, film, small-scale architecture, emergency architecture, craft-making, street furniture, sound, and interdisciplinary or community-based practices. The organisers especially encourage proposals that combine artistic creation with spatial and social.
Selected artist are expected to be opened to exchange and collaborration with he permanent residents and 3 local artists sourced by Le Garage Moderne in a separate OASIs call.

The residency includes 2 days of masterclass opened to the members and community, where arists are expected to describe and share their practice, technique, context of work to fellow OASIs artists in residencies, to our local artists community, and to our members and staff. Products of the residencies ( record, artworks ...) remain the artist property, but their documentation is up to Le Garage Moderne, and this documentation will be rightfully publicized by us for a period of 3 years after your residency.

The outcome the residency must be made public in a way or another, it doesn’t have to be a big event, but it must be possible for the public to experience your production.

The application is online, with a deadline of September 1, 2026. Pre-selection for interview sessions will take place on September 15, and the final selection will be announced on October 1.
International residencies are organized in 5 overlapping two-week periods. Applicants may choose one or more :

Residency 1 | Nov. 09 – Nov. 22
Residency 2 | Nov. 16 – Nov. 29
Residency 3 | Nov. 23 – Dec. 06
Residency 4 | Nov. 30 – Dec. 13
Residency 5 | Dec 07. – Dec. 20