Espacio Cartuja – AIR Program
AIR Program is an international artistic residency programme at Espacio Cartuja, a new creative space based in Granada (Spain), whose aim is to provide a space for contemporary artistic creation, supporting the current artistic sector of emerging international art.
This project takes over the baton from Espacio Lavadero’s LAV residency programme, also located in Granada, collaborating with its organisers and founders.
The residency offers accommodation, work space and also an exhibition space. AIR Program provides a comfortable and convenient place, based on coexistence and community, with work areas and an exhibition room for specific events.
Many artists have passed through LAV, AIR’s predecessor, to develop their projects. Here you can see the archive of the artists and their creations.
Residency
Cartuja AIR Program offers a house divided into two independent spaces: a space for creation and at the same time for the exhibition of the pieces created during the stay, and another for accommodation.
The residence is called LA CASA DE LOS PINTORES. It is a traditional Andalusian house on two floors, with three independent bedrooms, one of them double, a living-dining room, two bathrooms and a beautiful patio with a summer lounge. It has air conditioning in the three bedrooms and the living room, wifi, and all the windows are exterior facing, offering plenty of natural light to each room. The house has an excellent location in the Cercado Bajo de Cartuja neighbourhood, at the foot of the Cartuja University Campus, 300 metres from the Cartuja Monastery, very close to the emblematic Albaicín neighbourhood, a World Heritage Site since 1984, and only 10 minutes walk from the city centre.
The house comes with bed linen and towels, plus a spare set, washing machine and fully equipped kitchen. Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén Airport, the nearest airport, is 16 km away.
The workplace is located in the other independent space, but situated in the same building. Espacio Cartuja is a well-lit space, at street level, ideal for creating. The predecessor of this space is Espacio Fuentenueva (@espaciofuentenueva), an alternative exhibition space run by the same organisers for the last five years until the founding of Espacio Cartuja.
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The creation room will serve as an exhibition room for the final exhibition.
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Work may be performed only in the workplace, excluding the rest of the house.
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Travel expenses, subsistence allowance and creation materials are not included in the residency.
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The accommodation expenses (water, electricity and wifi) are included in the membership fee
Granada
The residency programme is located in the centre of the city of Granada, situated on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the region of Andalusia. It is famous for its great examples of medieval Andalusian architecture, in particular La Alhambra, the most visited monument in the country and considered the eighth wonder of the world.
Granada is a city with a great historical heritage and a culture based on diversity. An ideal place to explore and create, with access to local archives, libraries, museums, theatres and the university.
Granada is an ideal setting for creation, being a multicultural, open and accessible city. Its location puts us close to inspiring neighbourhoods and enclaves such as El Albaicín, El Realejo, La Alhambra, Sierra Nevada and La Alpujarra. The tropical coast of Granada is only 45 minutes away by car, where you can enjoy beautiful beaches and whitewashed villages such as Salobreña and Almuñécar.
Membership fees & Availability
◉ FREE SPACE ◉ OCCUPY
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The minimum stay is 4 weeks and the maximum 8 weeks.
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Payment will be made by Wise. The fees derived from the transaction will be assumed by the beneficiary.
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It will be necessary to contribute 50% to formalize the reservation. The remaining amount will be contributed at the beginning of the stay.
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Once the reservation is made, the date may be modified as long as the date is available. In the case of cancellation, refunds are not contemplated due to management costs.
Open Call 2024
To participate in our open call, make your application in the residences easily through this form. Then we will send you an email where you can follow the next steps.
If you have any questions, here you can ask us anything: espacioartecartuja@gmail.com
- The response time is from Monday to Friday, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM (Spanish time).
Application
Conditions
APPLICATION
To make your registration in the residences you can send us an email to espacioartecartuja@gmail.com or fill the application form.
Then we will send you an email where you can follow the following steps:
- Evaluation of the application proposal.
- Response and explanation of the conditions.
- Payment and reservation of the residence.
The response time is from Monday to Friday, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM (Spanish time).
PAYMENT AND RESERVATION
- Payment will be made by Wise. The fees derived from the transaction will be assumed by the beneficiary.
- It will be necessary to contribute 50% of the membership fee to formalize the reservation. The remaining amount will be contributed at the beginning of the stay.
- Once the reservation is made, the date may be modified as long as the date is available.
- Travel costs, subsistence allowance, accommodation and creation materials are not included in the residency.
CANCELLATION
- In the case of cancellation, refunds are not contemplated due to management costs.
RESIDENCE
- The residency is designed so that three, four or five artists can stay simultaneously.
- The entire residency is considered a coexistence between artists, so it is important to be respectful and polite to others.
- The beneficiaries of AIR undertake to make good use of the facilities of Espacio Cartuja, as well as to treat the people who make up the space and the neighbours adjacent to the accommodation and Espacio Cartuja well.
- Espacio Cartuja is an exhibition and coworking space, so it is a place of shared work between several members of different disciplines.
- Espacio Cartuja showroom will be available for specific events, such as fairs, exhibitions, congresses, presentations, etc.
- Residents will be able to show their work in a group exhibition in the gallery at the end of their stay.
ACCOMMODATION
- The accommodation is a spacious two-storey shared house, with three bedrooms, living-dining room, kitchen, bathroom, patio, etc.
- It is located in the centre of Granada, in the same building as Espacio Cartuja.
- The house is equipped with the basic equipment and is in optimal conditions for the stay.
- Residents will share the accommodation with other tenants (men and women).
EXHIBITION
- The exhibition showing the results of the residency will take place on the last weekend of the stay (Friday, Saturday and Sunday).
- The exhibition will show the pieces produced by the residents of that month, so it is a group exhibition. Thus, the exhibition may also contain possible collaborations with other artists outside the residency.
- The gallery space will be equally distributed so that both residents have the same exhibition space. This aspect may vary depending on the exhibited works, and may also be negotiated between the residents themselves.
- The pieces produced by the artists during their stay will be the full property of the creators.
- In the case of sale of work, either through the exhibition or through another means in which AIR Program acts as an intermediary, Espacio Cartuja will receive 30% of the total sale.
COMPANIONS
- Companions will be allowed, assuming an extra expense.
- Pets will not be allowed during the stay.
DATA PROTECTION
- The use of personal data collected will be exclusively reserved for the residence.
- Similarly, residents accept the use of their data and images, as well as the documentation related to their stay, for purposes related to AIR Program, such as dissemination on social networks or the creation of the web archive of resident artists.
- Any use beyond the named will be previously notified to the resident.
ACCEPTANCE
- The artists and creators benefiting from the AIR Program undertake to fully accept the rules when participating, as well as the transfer of images and documentation of the project to be carried out for their dissemination in the media.
NON-COMPILANCE
- Faced with the non-compliance of the aforementioned conditions, the AIR Program organization will be forced to expel the beneficiary from the residence, having 3 days to leave the Espacio Cartuja facilities and the accommodation.
FAQ
The selection process is carried out by the Espacio Lavadero team, and parameters such as the solvency of the proposal and other premises such as originality, theme, needs, etc. are taken into account.
Yes, companions are allowed as long as they share a room with the resident, and assuming an extra cost per week.
We are sorry but we cannot allow this option as the residents’ accommodation is not our property.
Residents’ accommodation is located in the same building as Espacio Cartuja, a 10-minute walk from Granada city centre.
Normally there will be three, four or five artists working in the residency simultaneously.
The booking is formalised by making a deposit of 50% of the total fee. The process is done through the WISE platform.
The membership fee includes accommodation, work space and the possibility to exhibit your work at the end of the month in a group exhibition. Electricity costs for accommodation are included.
There is no additional cost, but a deposit will be requested for the accommodation, which will be returned at the end of the stay if there are no problems.
The deposit is returned the following week after the end of the stay at the residence hall, once everything has been checked to ensure that everything is in order.
In the event of any incident, such as breakage or damage, this will have to be covered with the money from the deposit of the person responsible.
No refunds are contemplated due to the management costs.
AIR PROJECTS
RESIDENTS 2024
SYRINE DAIGNEAULT
01.07.2024 – 31.08.2024
Syrine Daigneault is a visual artist based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke (Canada) whose pictorial exploration responds to a need to understand her representations and lived experience. Her reflections are informed by her own experience, but also by the study of socio-cultural phenomena with a critical eye. A search for historicity, drawn from both Western and Middle Eastern culture, due to her dual Syrian and Canadian origins, enables her to track down the social norms and forces that influence her representations and vision of the world. Syrine Daigneault holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in visual and media arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal.
At the age of 20, during a long trip to France, Spain and Morocco, Syrine chose to stay in Granada for a few months because she felt at home there, recognizing herself in the city’s cultural mix. Syrine will take advantage of two months of research and creation at Espacio Cartuja to visit cultural sites such as the Alhambra. She is highly interested in the history of Al-Andalus and the great figures who lived there, such as Averroes, Lubna of Cordoba and Ibn Tufayl. This research will provide the inspiration for her studio work.
Syrine Daigneault es una artista visual afincada en Montreal/Tiohtià:ke (Canadá) cuya exploración pictórica responde a una necesidad de comprender sus representaciones y su experiencia vivida. Sus reflexiones se nutren no sólo de su propia experiencia, sino también de un estudio crítico de los fenómenos socioculturales. Una búsqueda de la historicidad, extraída tanto de la cultura occidental como de Oriente Medio, debido a su doble origen (sirio y canadiense), le permite rastrear las normas y fuerzas sociales que influyen en sus representaciones y su visión del mundo. Syrine Daigneault posee una licenciatura y un máster en artes visuales y medios de comunicación por la Université du Québec à Montréal.
A los 20 años, tras un largo viaje por Francia, España y Marruecos, Syrine eligió quedarse unos meses en Granada porque allí se sentía como en casa, reconociéndose en la mezcla cultural de la ciudad. Syrine aprovechará los dos meses de investigación y creación en Espacio Cartuja para visitar lugares de interés cultural como la Alhambra. Está muy interesada en la historia de Al-Andalus y en las grandes figuras que vivieron allí, como Averroes, Lubna de Córdoba e Ibn Tufayl. Esta investigación le servirá de inspiración para su trabajo de estudio.
LORA BERG
01.08.2024 – 31.08.2024
Lora Berg is an American poet, learning more about poetry each day. She will be working on a collection that explores and celebrates an interfaith marriage while in Granada at the AIR PROGRAM Residency of Espacio Cartuja. Lora wrote a collaborative poetry book, The Mermaid Wakes, with visual artist Canute Caliste, and publishes poems regularly in literary magazines. She served as a Poet-in-Residence at the Saint Albans School and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University. Lora served as a U.S. Cultural Attaché at U.S. Embassies in Europe and the Arab world for many years. She is a 2022-23 participant in the Poetry Collective based at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver. She is a mom and grandma in a vibrant, multicultural family.
Lora Berg es una poeta estadounidense que cada día aprende más sobre poesía. Ella trabajará en una colección que explora y celebra un matrimonio interreligioso mientras esté en Granada en la Residencia AIR PROGRAM de Espacio Cartuja. Lora escribió un libro de poesía colaborativo, The Mermaid Wakes, con el artista visual Canute Caliste, y publica poemas regularmente en revistas literarias. Se desempeñó como poeta residente en la Escuela Saint Albans y tiene una Maestría en Bellas Artes de la Universidad Johns Hopkins. Lora se desempeñó como agregada cultural de Estados Unidos en las embajadas de Estados Unidos en Europa y el mundo árabe durante muchos años. Participa en 2022-23 en Poetry Collective con sede en Lighthouse Writers Workshop en Denver. Ella es madre y abuela en una familia vibrante y multicultural.
IVÁN GUZMÁN
01.08.2024 – 31.08.2024
Iván is an artist from Venezuela who lives and works in Barcelona (Spain).
His work explores natural phenomena and their most delicate and sublime features. The names of each series invite an event, an event in motion.
Iván offers a new vision about something we know, perhaps a landscape or an experience.
The presence of gesture in his work generates an image of abstract expressionism balanced between the delicacy of technical detail together with the sensitivity of the body and human imagination.
Explore the creative process using spray paint in a free space, where intuition and improvisation guide the aesthetic language. This practice is influenced by techniques and movements from his graffiti experience, allowing him to interpret materials, tools, dynamics and processes to participate in a new conversation about the relationship between divine nature, urban nature and us as a link.
Through painting he reflects the matter and phenomena of divine nature and human nature, capturing images of a place or a moment that we recognize: a space with light, shadow, breeze and sand.
In this vital journey through time and space we use play as a driving force and the senses as tools, highlighting ideas, moments and spontaneous and genuine expressions, inherent to the nature of each of us.
Iván es una artista de Venezuela que reside y trabaja en Barcelona (España).
Su obra explora los fenómenos naturales y sus rasgos más delicados y sublimes. Los nombres de cada serie invitan a un acontecimiento, a un evento en movimiento.
Iván ofrece una visión nueva sobre algo que conocemos, quizás un paisaje o una experiencia.
La presencia del gesto en su obra genera una imagen de expresionismo abstracto equilibrada entre la delicadeza del detalle técnico junto a la sensibilidad del cuerpo e imaginario humano.
Explora el proceso creativo utilizando pintura en spray en un espacio libre, donde la intuición y la improvisación guían el lenguaje estético. Esta práctica está influenciada por técnicas y movimientos de su experiencia en graffiti, permitiéndole interpretar materiales, herramientas, dinámicas y procesos para participar en una nueva conversación sobre la relación entre la naturaleza divina, la naturaleza urbana y nosotros como vínculo.
A través de la pintura refleja la materia y los fenómenos de la naturaleza divina y la naturaleza humana, capturando imágenes de un lugar o un momento que reconocemos: un espacio con luz, sombra, brisa y arena.
En este recorrido vital a través del tiempo y el espacio utilizamos el juego como motor y los sentidos como herramientas, resaltando ideas, momentos y expresiones espontáneas y genuinas, inherentes a la naturaleza
de cada uno de nosotros.
Cartel de la exposición STILL HERE . Residentes de AIR PROGRAM 2024