Black Brazil Art Opens Applications for 2025 Virtual Artistic Residency and Individual Mentorship

Black Brazil Art has announced the opening of applications for its 5th Virtual Artistic Residency, themed "Decolonizing the Five Skins." This program aims to foster critical and collaborative artistic practices aligned with decolonial perspectives. Applications are open from April 15 to May 25, 2025, and are available to artists, curators, designers, performers, and creatives globally.

The residency offers two participation options:

• Residency Program: A collective experience with weekly online sessions, including workshops, lectures, and collaborative projects. The participation fee is R$150.

• Individual Mentorship: Personalized guidance for artists with ongoing or completed projects, focusing on curatorial development. The mentorship fee is R$600.

Participants will engage in weekly sessions held on Saturdays via Zoom or Google Meet, covering topics related to the five thematic axes inspired by Friedensreich Hundertwasser's theory:

1. Skin (epidermis): Artistic investigations on the skin as a sensitive boundary between self and environment, considering decolonial issues of race, gender, corporeality, identity, and ancestry.

2. Clothing (body): Works that critically reflect on the body and its social and cultural representations, clothing as cultural and political expression, dissident corporalities, identity manifestations, and performative aspects.

3. Home (space): Artistic research discussing inhabited spaces as places of memory and resistance, territories and territorialities, migratory processes, forced or voluntary displacements, belonging, and forms of occupation and reoccupation of space.

4. Social Environment: Explorations of community dynamics, social interactions, and collective identities within various cultural contexts.

5. Global Environment: Artistic practices addressing global issues, environmental concerns, and the interconnectedness of societies.

The residency will culminate in a virtual exhibition and contribute to the upcoming Black Biennial, scheduled for 2026. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, with limited spots available. Interested individuals can apply through the official Black Brazil Art website.

Sources:

• Black Brazil Art – Residência Artística Virtual Compartilhada

• Fato Amazônico – Black Brazil Art abre inscrições para Residência Artística e Mentoria Individual