About
“We would like PADA to be known and respected as a destination for artists. A supportive community focused on producing exciting and ambitious artwork.”
About PADA
PADA is an artist-led, non-profit arts organisation based in Barreiro in Lisbon’s South Bay, located within the old Companhia União Fabril (CUF) industrial park. Create in 2018, PADA provides artists a space to develop their practice, interact with other artists, and explore new approaches in a post-industrial environment.
The PADA Residency Programme is run in conjunction with the Studio & Gallery Programmes. By providing studios for local artists alongside the residency, we aim to encourage the interaction of national and international artists. Artists-in-Residence benefit from the mutual exchange across art-forms and the post-industrial surrounding.
At PADA, we promote interaction with the local community through projects and artistic interventions that engage with their environment. We aim to create a more sustainable residency and encourage artistic practices that share this ethos.
Over the last six years, PADA has worked with over 400 artists from more than 30 countries. As part of the Studio & Gallery Programmes, PADA has organized more than 50 exhibitions and every month, we open our doors for a collective exhibition showcasing the work developed by the current Artists-in-Residence.
PADA was founded by the artists Tim Ralston and Diana Cerezino.
Team
Tim Ralston (Director) (b. 1982, London, UK) grew up in South-London and has been working in the arts for nearly 15 years. As a classically trained painter, he is mostly interested in the fabrication and the technical aspects of art-making and supports Artist-in-Residence with his extensive technical skills. View Tim’s work here.
Tânia Geiroto Marcelino (Curator) (b. 1989, Lisboa, PT) holds a degree in Painting from FBAUL (2013, Lisboa, PT) and a Master in Contemporary Art Practices from FBAUP (2017, Porto, PT). As visual artist, she has been showing her work regularly since 2012, in solo and group exhibitions, projects and artistic residencies. Through the years, she has also been developing other practices within contemporary art, such as project managing, production and curatorship. View Tania´s work here.
Mariana Ferreira (Admin. and Financial Management) (b. 1994, Lisboa, PT) has a degree in Economics from ISEG (2016, Lisboa, PT) and a Masters in Art Markets from ISCTE (2018, Lisboa, PT). Working in the field of cultural production and project management since 2017, in institutions such as MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology and Experimentadesign, she has also been focusing simultaneously on her academic research in the field of Art History, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon.
Documentation by Celso Rosa and Samuel Duarte
Exhibition posters by Carolina Festa
Guest Curators:
Reina del Mar
Laura Gama Martins
Catarina Real
Frederico Vicente
Past Curators / Mentors:
Manon Klein
Susana Pomba
Julia Gros
Phil King
Kasia Sobczak Wróblewska