PADA Studios

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

 

OPEN CALL

BOLSA PADA 2025

A bursary for artists with Portuguese nationality and/or permanent residency in Portugal to participate in PADA's international residency programme. Application deadline is the 12th February 2025 and artists will be notified by 21st February 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

Here are some photos from yesterday’s crits, preparing towards the exhibition that will be on view tomorrow, curated by Frederico Vicente. We will also host this season’s Open Studios. + Aqui ficam algumas fotos das ‘crits’
Next Saturday, starting at 5pm, we are once more opening our studios. It is the end of the first quarter of the year, which means we are not only saying goodbye to the 10 international artists of PADA 50, but also to our first artist under Bolsa Barr
Next Saturday, we are hosting in our gallery the final exhibition of PADA 50, curated by Frederico Vicente. This season we are opening a little earlier, starting at 5pm. All invited! + No próximo sábado, acolhemos na nossa galeria a e
+ @artandenvironment Emma Arnold, PhD is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and writer born in Montréal, Canada and based in Oslo, Norway. She leads the Institute for Art & Environment, an independent research platform conducting pr
Here is a sneak peak into the studio work that has been going on at PADA. On 29th of March we’ll be hosting PADA 50’s final exhibition, curated by Frederico Vicente, along with the Open Studios which are a good opportunity to get to know
+ @fredericovicente_ Frederico Vicente is the guest curator for PADA 50. A few days ago, Frederico visited PADA, gave a short talk about his projects, reminded us all the importance of 25 de Abril and Portugal’s 51 years of democracy, followed
Last week our artists in residence visited a metal recycling plant located in the same industrial park as PADA. The plant mostly recycles the metal part of electrical cables. The plastic, which is difficult to separate and process back into raw mater
A PADA Studios está a recrutar uma pessoa para se juntar à equipa nas funções de Comunicação. A candidatura deve ser feita através do formulário disponível no nosso site. Recepç&at
Last week PADA’s artists in residence visited a selection of exhibitions in Alvalade. This is one of the activities included in the residency programme and aims to encourage dialogue and showcase some of the Portuguese art scene. We appreciate
+ @thomaskleinhorsman Alumni Studio Thomas Klein Horsman (1995) lives and works in Utrecht, The Netherlands. He studied Product Design at the University of the Arts Utrecht (HKU), and he graduated in 2020. Since then his work has had an autonomous f
@yvettekaisersmith + PADA 50 Yvette Kaiser Smith, a Chicago-based artist, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her mixed-media works combine languages of mathematics, sculpture, embroidery, and weaving. “Employing sequences from numbers pi or e
@naturescardigan + PADA 50 Susan is Canadian British artist who divides her time between the two countries. “My work explores the physical and metaphorical spaces we inhabit, focussing on how domestic interiors reflect and absorb our emotions,
@richellegreabeiel + PADA 50 Richelle Greabeiel (b. Alberta, lives and works in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, installatio
@philipdufva + PADA 50 Philip Dufva is a Swedish-born artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. His practice moves through drawing, sculpture, and installation, exploring how power structures, control mechanisms, and materials shape movement and performa
@mmargie__ + PADA 50 Margie Reisert is an American artist based in Philadelphia, exploring the cross-section of painting, sculpture, and fiber art. Margie uses process experimentation, remembered color, and sewing to detail her experience of climate
@margaridanortondematos + PADA 50 Margarida Norton de Matos, born in Portugal is a visual artist based in Lisbon “My work comes as a result of experiments carried out over time with different materials, exploring its qualities and limits. The

 

PADA´s Youtube Channel.

Every month we like to share our current Artists-in-Residence practice and development.

Here you can see an introduction into their practice as well as events and other projects that are happening at PADA.