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 organized.

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 700 artists from 51 countries for residencies of 3 to 10 weeks and organized 105 cultural events, such as exhibitions, concerts and performances.

latest news:
see newsletter for information on
residencies and events in 2019

From 7 march until 7 April Sherry Wiggins exhibited part of her Portuguese works in the RedLine Contemporary Art Center in Denver, Colorado (USA). She showed results of her collaboration with Luís Branco.  More info is in the newsletter.

Karen Bernard (USA) had a nice interview about Poolside, an installation/performance that she largely created during her residency at OBRAS in 2018 and that was brought to stage in February in New York. The newsletter has more info. 

Phyllis Akinyi had a dance performance in Copenhagen. She developed this performance last year at OBRAS-Portugal, In June Phyllis will return for a similar performance and for an exhibition with Rob Monaghan (Ireland) in which a video will be shown of her  performing in an abandoned marble quarry. The newsletter has for more info.

Jacobien de Rooij heard that the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) will buy five of her pastel crayon drawings. Two of them are x-sized. Jacobien takes nearly every year a residency at OBRAS since 2014 and we organized three exhibitions for her (see newsletter for more info).

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