PADA Studios

Galeria e Residência Artística localizada numa zona pós-industrial na margem Sul de Lisboa

 

CHAMADA ABERTA

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.

Artigos & Conversas

Experiências PADA

"O tempo que passei na PADA foi importante em muitos aspectos. Permitiu-me um mês para me concentrar na minha prática, num novo contexto, introduziu-me num novo ecossistema de artistas e curadores, ofereceu-me uma pausa durante um período difícil da vida e abriu uma porta para uma nova cidade. Estou grato pelo tempo que passei com os meus colegas residentes e a equipa da PADA."

Alastair Gordon

"Uma oportunidade incrível de deixar para trás a rotina e concentrar-me em produzir novos trabalhos num novo ambiente e com novas pessoas. Gostei da quantidade de eventos sociais promovidos, dando aos artistas a oportunidade de conhecer algumas partes de Lisboa e do Barreiro, assim como conhecer novos artistas e fazer novos contactos.

Lawrence Calver

"O tempo que passei na PADA foi muito produtivo. Comecei a residência com muitas ideias mas rapidamente percebi que tinha de experimentar mais. O cenário e envolvente da residência ajudaram-me a ver o meu trabalho sob uma luz diferente. A incrível luz no Barreiro foi também uma parte fundamental do trabalho que lá criei."

Josephine Rowntree

+ @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
@goofkloosterman + PADA 50 Goof Kloosterman is a Dutch artist working between Brussels, BE, and Utrecht, NL. His interdisciplinary practice focuses primarily on sculpture and installation. “In my work, I investigate the influence of digital im
@chaerik1m + PADA 50 Chaeri Kim (b. 1995, Busan, South Korea) is a visual artist currently residing in Seoul, South Korea. Her practice explores new rhythms of relationships between spiritual and fantastical personal episodes in a progressively comm
@pradaisbarbara + PADA 50 “My artistic practice is rooted in the research on cultural exchange and shared human values through researching the politics and anthropology of gastronomy. Guided by food anthropology, projects like *The Edible Lib
+ @annie__larry PADA 50 Anna Lawrence is a multidisciplinary artist, and film curator currently based in Glasgow, Scotland. Using a playful and irreverent comedic approach, her work explores the weighted ideas of grief, mental health and memory. He
Last week, a group of students of Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, in Switzerland, visited PADA and joined our monthly tour to the Industrial Park. These students are working in the area of Barreiro for their diploma project, focusing on a val
Últimos dias para a recepção de candidaturas para a Bolsa PADA 2025!! Esta é uma bolsa destinada a artistas de nacionalidade portuguesa e/ou com residência permanente em Portugal para participarem no programa interna
Here are a few images from the first days in residence for PADA 50. In this first week, the new artists are introduced to PADA facilities and surroundings, including local fabricators and the industrial park. It is also when everyone gets to know for

 

Canal do Youtube

Todos os meses partilhamos o trabalho desenvolvido dos actuais Artistas em Residência.  No nosso canal do Youtube, pode ver uma introdução à sua prática artística, bem como eventos e outros projectos que estão a acontecer na PADA.