Residency Call Visual and Multidisciplinary Art Spring-Summer 2026

Can Serrat is a farmhouse located in El Bruc (Montserrat), 45 km from Barcelona. Since 1989, it has been home to one of the oldest international residency programs for artistic and literary projects in Catalonia.

The organization focuses on supporting and advising the creative process through individual and collective gatherings, and an extensive professional cultural network. The house can accommodate up to 35 people from various countries and disciplines, allowing for a multitude of enriching exchanges.

Can Serrat receives support from the Generalitat de Catalunya, and is a member of both Xarxaprod, a network of artistic production centers in Catalonia, and TAV-CC.

Selection Criteria:

• Uniqueness of the Proposal

• Relevance of the Project: Connection between your project and the Can Serrat program, as well as the surrounding environment. Projects that engage meaningfully and originally with the cultural, social, and natural context of the region.

SCHOLARSHIPS and IMPORTANT DATES

Residency Dates: May – July 2026

Application Period: April 30 – May 21, 2025

Invitations:

• • Full Grant for six weeks +  artist fee (May – June)

  • Full Grant for one month (July)

  • 20 Partial Grants

CONDITIONS

Included for all selected individuals in residence:

• Full access to all shared spaces and resources
  You will be free to use the common work areas, available equipment, and creative spaces at Can Serrat.

• Participation in all activities
  You will be an active part of a dynamic community: activities, outings, meetings, and shared moments.

• Travel covered for organized activities
  We take care of transportation for the visits and events organized by Can Serrat.

• Connection with the local environment
  You’ll have the opportunity to connect with artists, collectives, spaces, and initiatives in the region.

• Visibility of your project and process
  We will share your work through our social media and communication channels to highlight your participation.

• Publication in the digital project archive
  Your process will become part of the collective archive of residents and will be available on the residency website.

• One-on-one follow-up meetings
  Personalized support sessions with a team member to talk about your process, needs, or concerns.

• Studio Visits
  We invite a local cultural professional to visit and talk with the visual or multidisciplinary artists about their work.

SPECIFIC CONDITIONS:

Full Grant + artist fee:

• Accommodation at Can Serrat (private room for six weeks between May and June)

• Meals: 2 prepared community dinners per week, basic food supplies (coffee, tea, condiments, and some dry goods depending on availability)

• Artist Fee 2250€

Full Grant :

• Accommodation at Can Serrat (shared room for one month during July)

• Meals: 2 prepared community dinners per week, basic food supplies (coffee, tea, condiments, and some dry goods depending on availability)

Partial Scholarship Options:

• Minimum residency duration: one month

• • Option 1 Shared room: €998.70/month (shared with up to 3 people)

  • Option 2 Private room: €1578.90/month

  • Option 3 Studio only (no accommodation or meals included): €274.50/month *

*Options 1 and 2 include 2 prepared community dinners, basic food items (coffee, tea, condiments, and some dry goods depending on availability)

JURY:

• Tamarind Rossetti and Stephen Wright
  Usership Coordinators (artistic directors) of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, where their artistic programme, One Usership: agriculture is the future of art, is based on an integrated, eco-systemic vision of human and other-than-human artistic and aesthetic agency. This approach draws directly on their experience on a 1:1 scale agroecological test site in the Corrèze called Ferme au Sauvage, growing organic fruits and vegetables, offering farm-to-table meals and farm-to-panel ‘ideaseeding’ workshops, all documented through art. As usership coordinators, they see their role as an opportunity to metabolize ideas gleaned over the years from usology and permaculture within an art institution, making way for usership in the broadest sense.                                                                                                                                                          
• Gizem Karakas 
  Her practice focuses on the struggles, ironies, comedy, and poetry of everyday life, often through semi-fictional narratives of individuals navigating interpersonal and context-based relationships. Her photo, video, sound, performance, and text-based works explore the concept of sincerity in relationships through the ambiguous areas left between the intimate and the public, reality and fiction, art, and life. Her creative process embodies collaboration, hospitality, and camaraderie, transforming relationships from mere concepts within her work into an integral part of her methodology.

• Sophie Blais: Director at Can Serrat (non-voting voice)
• Sarah Goodchild Robb: Activities Coordinator at Can Serrat (non-voting voice)