Description & Background
Founded in 2017 in the Carabanchel neighborhood of Madrid, #Ey!Studio is an independent, self-organized, and artist-run contemporary art space, residency program, and exhibition platform. Run by visual artists and curators Garcia_Fernández (SomosNosotros), the studio is situated in one of Madrid’s leading centers for contemporary artistic production and has welcomed dozens of international residents to develop projects within its vibrant urban context.
Objectives
The organization aims to provide time and space for research, experimentation, and the development of creative projects, with a dedicated emphasis on fostering, supporting, and promoting the visual, performing, and emerging arts. #Ey!Studio seeks to highlight the memory of the Carabanchel district and the city of Madrid by linking the local neighborhood fabric through situated artistic practices. They focus on supporting practices that generate critical discourse and engage with their context through lines of inquiry such as historical memory, feminisms, interdependence, precarity, migration, environmentalism, decolonialism, urbanism, gentrification, and interculturalism. Ultimately, the platform is driven by a mission to make contemporary art and critical thinking accessible to local residents while upholding a firm commitment to gender parity and best professional practices.
Programs / Opportunities
- Artist Residencies: Including specialized residency models such as:
- “#Ey!Studio AiR” Program: An international residency open to practitioners looking to undertake a personal project connected to the Madrid context.
- “#Ey!MAD Residencies”: A curated research residency program specifically for Spanish and Latin American artists to develop projects rooted in and addressing issues of the Carabanchel neighborhood.
- Exhibitions & Public Activities: Programming public activities, events, and exhibitions designed to showcase residents’ work and connect with the local community.
Target Community
- Creative Practitioners: Emerging and established international artists, researchers, curators, and cultural practitioners from a wide range of disciplines—including visual arts, performance, writing, music, audiovisual practices, and interdisciplinary projects.
- Geographic & Local Community: Spanish, Latin American, and international creatives (spanning countries such as Russia, the US, Portugal, Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Mozambique, Chile, Australia, Ecuador, Sweden, and Colombia), as well as the local residents and neighborhood fabric of the Carabanchel district.
