Foundation DaST Rural Landscapes Lab artist residency programme ‘FRIGÉNIA’ will be held from 6 October to 19 November 2026 at Convento da Terra in Torrão, Alentejo, Portugal.
FRIGÉNIA – Rural Landscapes Lab, an international multidisciplinary artistic research residency, invites artists to research and create in dialogue with the landscape, oral heritage and community of the Alentejo. This includes the ‘cante alentejano’ (UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2014) and the oral poetry of the region’s oldest generation of rural women.
The residency welcomes artists working in interdisciplinary research, landscape and ecology-based art, documentary practices (photography, film, sound), and literature, theatre or performance.
Applicants must be legal residents in a Creative Europe country other than Portugal, and they must be available for the full duration of the residency.
The residency provides a daily allowance and travel allowance (covering cross-border travel costs) funded by Culture Moves Europe. Accommodation, working spaces and mentorship provided by the host. There are no participation fees.
