Artist Residencies in Argentina
A curated guide to residency programs, production spaces, and research-based initiatives supporting contemporary art in Argentina.
The residency landscape in Argentina has developed largely outside of state infrastructure, shaped by the resourcefulness of artist-run spaces, independent foundations, and university programs that have built durable platforms for production and research despite recurrent economic instability. Buenos Aires concentrates the densest cluster of programs, from print-based and graphic residencies to studio-led initiatives anchored in the city's southern neighborhoods and the Tigre delta, where proximity to the river has fostered slow, place-based research formats. The Programa de Artistas at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, founded in the early 2000s, remains a defining reference, structuring a year-long pedagogical residency that has shaped a generation of practitioners and curators. Outside the capital, smaller programs in cities such as Córdoba and Rosario, along with rural initiatives in Patagonia and the Andean northwest, have created a more dispersed circuit that emphasizes site, landscape, and regional histories.
Argentine residencies tend to privilege long stays, peer dialogue, and critical accompaniment over short-form production schedules, partly as a response to the limited commercial pressure exerted by the local market. Many programs combine studio time with seminars, open studios, and editorial outputs, building close relationships with institutions such as public museums, foundations, and independent project spaces that absorb the resulting work into exhibitions, publications, and collections. International artists arriving in the country are often integrated into ongoing curatorial conversations rather than placed in isolated production settings, while Argentine artists use research-based residencies abroad—within the Southern Cone and across Europe—as a structural part of their careers. The result is a residency ecosystem oriented less toward output than toward sustained inquiry, where contemporary art production in Argentina is closely tied to writing, archival work, and translation across the wider Latin American context.
Selected Artist Residencies in Argentina
A curated selection of residency programs supporting contemporary art production, research, and international exchange.
URRA
URRA is an independent residency program founded by artist Romina Casile, based on an island in the Tigre delta near Buenos Aires. It hosts international and Argentine artists in a remote ecological setting, supporting cross-cultural exchange, studio production, and public-facing open studios. Its program connects daily life on the delta with sustained dialogue around contemporary artistic practice.
URRA has become one of the most internationally recognized residency platforms in Argentina, anchoring the country's residency map through its sustained engagement with foreign artists and Latin American networks.
Proyecto'ace
Founded by Alicia Candiani in 2005, Proyecto'ace is a contemporary art residency in Buenos Aires specialized in print-based and hybrid media practices. The program combines well-equipped print and digital workshops with curatorial guidance, supporting both international and Argentine artists in producing new bodies of work. Open studios and exhibitions punctuate the year, integrating residents into the city's broader contemporary art conversation.
Proyecto'ace gives the Argentine residency landscape one of its most technically grounded production environments, linking experimental printmaking with international contemporary practice.
Programa de Artistas - Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
The Programa de Artistas at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, founded in 2003 by Inés Katzenstein, is a year-long pedagogical residency that has structured the trajectories of a generation of Argentine and Latin American artists. Built around studio work, group critiques, and seminars with curators and writers, it operates less as a production residency than as a sustained framework for critical formation within Buenos Aires.
Widely considered the most influential pedagogical residency in the country, it has shaped Argentina's contemporary art discourse and supplied much of its current curatorial and artistic leadership.
Residencia Corazón
Residencia Corazón is an independent international artist residency based in La Plata, the cultural and university capital of Buenos Aires province. It hosts visual artists, writers, and researchers for periods of focused production within a converted house close to the city's museums and art schools. Open studios, exhibitions, and exchanges with local artists structure each cycle.
Residencia Corazón extends Argentina's residency map beyond Buenos Aires city, connecting La Plata's strong public university tradition to ongoing international art exchange.
El Basilisco
El Basilisco is an artist-run residency in Avellaneda, on the southern edge of Greater Buenos Aires, founded by a group of Argentine artists in the early 2000s. It hosts visual artists for periods of focused production in a converted house, organising studio visits, exchanges with local practitioners, and occasional public presentations. Its scale and peer-to-peer model have shaped its identity within the country.
One of the longest-running artist-run residencies in Argentina, El Basilisco has been formative for a generation of artists and is part of the country's independent residency canon.
Casa Río Lab
Casa Río Lab is a research-based platform on the shore of the Río de la Plata in Punta Lara that brings together artists, scientists, and writers around questions of ecology, territory, and freshwater ecosystems. Its residency activity is embedded in longer-term programmes of fieldwork, publications, and public encounters, situating contemporary art within environmental and political research on the region.
Casa Río Lab has become a key reference for ecological and territorial art research in Argentina, expanding the residency format toward sustained interdisciplinary investigation on the river.
Casa 13
Active since the early 1990s, Casa 13 is one of Argentina's longest-running independent art spaces, based in central Córdoba. Its residency activity has unfolded alongside exhibitions, workshops, and editorial projects, hosting artists working across drawing, installation, and performance. Operating outside the Buenos Aires circuit, it has played a structural role in articulating contemporary art production in the country's interior.
Casa 13 anchors contemporary art in Córdoba and stands as a counterweight to Buenos Aires-centric narratives, sustaining a distinctly local infrastructure for artistic practice and exchange.
Munar
Munar is an independent contemporary art space in Barracas, in the southern part of Buenos Aires, programming exhibitions, residencies, and editorial projects. Its residency activity hosts artists working across painting, sculpture, video, and installation, integrating studio time with public openings and conversations. The space has consolidated as one of the southern neighborhood's reference points for emerging contemporary practice.
Munar represents the recent generation of independent Buenos Aires platforms combining residency, exhibition, and editorial work, contributing to the southern axis of the city's contemporary art map.
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