Foundation OBRAS
runs an art residencies program.

We aim to provide an atmosphere for inspiration and effective working. The focus is on residencies for (emerging) professional artists. Disciplines include visual art, music, dance, and writing. Occasionally exhibitions, concerts and site-specific performances are organised.

Most activities take place in a rural area of Portugal, in a carefully renovated quinta with eight apartments, two cottages and five artists’ studios. The region is full of culture and history, and the nature is inviting and mysterious. The weather is warm in summer (with cool, starry nights) and mild in winter.
In Holland OBRAS has an auxiliary establishment: a beautiful mansion with place for two artists, in a village surrounded by nature and with good connections to bigger cities.

Since 2004 OBRAS hosted 450 artists from 40 countries for residencies of 3 to 10 weeks and organized 75 cultural events.

latest news:

Hester de Heus (Holland) just finished a work of land art. Have a look:
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Proximidade  was an installation made by Dasha Sitnikova (Russia) in the fortress of Evoramonte, Portugal. She used hundreds of paper tubes and light to get shadow lines and 3d forms. See a 30 seconds video. 
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During her residency Kimberly Trowbridge (USA) was designing the installation "Physical Memory". It is now presented until March 2015 on the 3rd BAM Biennial "Knock on Wood" in Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle, USA. 
Recently she was informed that she is among the four finalists of the Neddy Award, a major arts competition in the US. Listen to an  interview with her. 







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Nuno Veiga (Pt, living in London) and Melina Peña (Mexico, living in Barcelona) presented AIANDO:  a multimedia event (performance, sound, images) in the Castle of Evoramonte. The project took the visitor through a sensory experience, inspired by the landscape of Alentejo. A video compilation is in preparation.
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Poong-gyung in Evoramonte is the name of the dance performance by the Korean Artists collective BARINAMO ( Bari Kim and Namo.  With Poong-gyung the artists investigated how to feel and express the moment. A video compilation is in progress.
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Dutch poet Gerry van der Linden has been invited to present her Portuguese poems in January in the Hortus Botanicus of Amsterdam, Holland. She created these poems during three residencies in the past two years. We are working on a follow up that may include publication in a new anthology in Portuguese in combination with photos by Luís Branco.
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