PADA Studios

Art Residency & Gallery based
in a post-industrial site near Lisbon

 

OPEN CALL
AUTUMN/WINTER 2025/26

INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY

The international residency at PADA welcomes applications from artists in a variety of media for a duration of 1 or 2 months. Artists are provided with large studio space and accommodation in a private double bedroom. Being the main art residency programme at PADA, the international residency hosts 10 artists each time. At the conclusion of the residency, artists are invited to showcase their work in PADA’s gallery as part of a group exhibition, which will run in conjunction with open studios.

Application deadline is the 4th May 2025 and artists will be notified by 16th May 2025.

Next open call in May

RESEARCH RESIDENCY

This programme is designed to appeal to those who want to spend time with the community at PADA but don't need a studio space. Aimed at writers, curators, researchers or desk based artists this residency will provide accommodation and a work space at PADA studios.
The open call for Autumn/Winter 2025/26 Research Residency will be held in May 2025.

Next open call in July

BOLSA PADA 2026

A bursary for artists with Portuguese nationality and/or permanent residency in Portugal to participate in PADA's international residency programme. This includes studio space and access to all PADA facilities, accommodation, programme of activities, curatorial and technical support, final group exhibition, open studios and other events, plus professional documentation of their work.

Next open call in August

BOLSA BARREIRO 2026

PADA Studios with the financial support of Câmara Municipal do Barreiro has developed a bursary for visual artists originally from and/or based in Barreiro. This bursary is focused on supporting three emerging local artists who would benefit from PADA ́s residency programme and facilities. At the end of the annual cycle, the 3 artists will feature in an exhibition in PADA Gallery.

The open call for Bolsa Barreiro 2026 will be held in August 2025.

INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY

Our International Residency Programme welcomes artists from different disciplines to stay from 1 or 2 months. We will favour artists who have researched and propose projects suitable to the residency and the surrounding environment.

BARREIRO BURSARY

PADA Studios with the financial support of Câmara Municipal do Barreiro has developed a bursary for visual artists originally from and/or based in Barreiro. This bursary is focused on supporting three emerging local artists who would benefit from PADA ́s residency programme and facilities.

RESEARCH RESIDENCY

The Research Residency is designed to appeal to those who want to spend time with the community at PADA but don’t need a studio space. Aimed at writers, curators, researchers or desk based artists this residency will provide accommodation and a work space at PADA studios.

ALUMNI STUDIO

The Alumni Studio programme provides the opportunity for PADA alumni to return to continue a project they started or simply to come back to visit us in Barreiro.

Articles & Conversations

PADA Experiences

“My time at PADA was an important in many ways. It allowed a month to focus on my practice in a new context, introduced me to a new ecosystem of artists and curators, offered respite through a difficult period in life and opened a door to a new city. Im thankful for my time with my fellow residents and the PADA team.”

Alastair Gordon

“An amazing opportunity to leave behind your routine and focus on making work in a new environment with new people. I think that the amount of social events that are initialised are also great, and gives artists the opportunity to experience some great parts of Lisbon + Barreiro, as well as engaging with other artists and residencies.”

Lawrence Calver

“My time at Pada was very productive, I started the residency with lots of ideas but quickly realised I had to experiment more. The setting of the residency gets under your skin and it helped me seeing my work in a different light. The incredible light in Barreiro has also been a key part of the work I made there.”

Josephine Rowntree

Part of the residency programme is to introduce the local art scene to the artists in residence. Last week we visited a few contemporary art galleries, independent art spaces and artists’ studios in Xabregas and Marvila, Lisbon. This is one of
+ @yang_ha.site PADA 51 Yang-ha (b. 1994) is an artist based between Amsterdam and Seoul. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from Ewha Womans University in 2018 and completed her MFA in Painting at the Frank Mohr Institute in the Netherlands in 2021.
+ @nhensey PADA 51 Noel Hensey lives and works in Co. Kildare, Ireland. He is a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist working primarily in; photography, sculpture, sound, video and installation. His art practice is concerned with philosophical explor
+ @nateg.myers PADA 51 Nathanael Myers is an architectural bio-designer, interdisciplinary creative, and dancer from the Sonoran Desert currently working between the cities of New York and London. An advocate for interdisciplinary craft, Myers pursu
+ @mayaberkhof PADA 51 Prior to becoming an artist, Maya Berkhof (1989) worked as a tailor in the textile industry. The influence of that is obvious in the sculptures she has been making over the past year. Berkhof uses leftover stocks of truck tarp
+ @jueonwoo PADA 51 Jueon Woo, born in South Korea and based in Paris, France, is a multidisciplinary artist who engages in diverse media experiments, including video, documentary, performance, web, installation, and drawing. Her work is rooted in i
+ @ines_s___ PADA 51 Ines Sacof (b. 1999) is an artist from Bristol, U.K.�Working primarily in ceramics, metalwork, and photography, she often draws inspiration from family heirlooms. 'Live for Me the Same Way I Live for You', her first major projec
+ @ines_batata_quente PADA 51 / Bolsa PADA Inês Quente (1992, Avintes, Portugal) is a visual artist based in Porto. She is an image maker who works with light in a multidisciplinary way, using alternative and historical photography, film, and
+ @audeparichot PADA 51 Aude Parichot is a French-born interdisciplinary artist working between Australia and France. Her practice explores the interplay between artistic process and life dynamics. Through process-driven projects, she questions our
+ @alexandracentmayer PADA 51 Alexandra Centmayer is a German visual artist whose painting practice explores the interplay of colour, form, and materiality. She sees her work as a metabolic process—a cyclical transformation where materials and
The new artists in residence at PADA have already arrived. On their first week they were introduced to the surroundings: the residency, the industrial park and industrial museum, Barreiro. Here are some photos of the first week, when we also said goo
Time flies! A new group of artists has already arrived at PADA and just recently PADA 50 was here with us. Here are some images of the time spent in residence during the months of March and April. + O tempo voa! Já um novo grupo de artistas
Here are some photos of the last open studios, at the end of last month. In this open studios, visitors were able to learn more about and meet all artists in residency at PADA, this includes 10 artists of the international residency, first resident u
Last set of photographs documenting the final show of PADA 50. Thanks to everyone who was involved in this two-month residency, from the beginning to the very end. Great work was produced during this time, all of which we are proud to have presented
Some more photos of last end-of-residency group exhibition, featuring Anna Lawrence, Bárbara Prada, Chaeri Kim, Goof Kloosterman, Margarida Norton de Matos, Margie Reisert, Philip Dufva, Richelle Greabeiel, Susan Jessop and Yvette Kaiser Smith
March ended with the final show of the 50th international residency at PADA. Here is the first set of photos documenting PADA 50’s final show, curated by Frederico Vicente. + Terminámos março com a exposição final
Applications for Autumn/Winter 25/26 International Residency are now open. Application deadline is the 4th May 2025 and artists will be notified by 16th May 2025. Make sure you read and familiarise yourself with the program and the residency guideli