Itinera Arte’s International Artist Residency Program — Expanded Field will take place in Rio de Janeiro from October 5 to November 30, 2026.

This third cycle of the program proposes a critical and sensitive investigation into artistic practices that take shape at the intersection of languages, media, and regimes of visibility. The title refers to Rosalind Krauss’s seminal essay Sculpture in the Expanded Field (1979), in which the author identifies the collapse of traditional artistic categories and the emergence of practices operating across expanded territories.

The residency welcomes artists whose research challenges stable disciplinary boundaries, moving between painting, sculpture, photography, performance, video, sound, writing, installation, and other hybrid or experimental practices. It also encourages artists who wish to use the residency period to reinvent their poetics through experimentation with new media, materials, and processes.

At the same time, this cycle understands the expanded field beyond a strictly formal dimension, relating it to geographic and symbolic expansion. We are interested in how contemporary artistic practices engage with multiple territorialities, questioning notions of belonging, displacement, borders, and coexistence.

Ten artists will be selected to take part in the program. Throughout the residency, participants will have access to studio space in downtown Rio de Janeiro, weekly curatorial guidance, portfolio reviews, critical follow-up, conversations with invited curators, artists and art professionals, visits to studios, galleries, exhibitions, and cultural institutions, as well as institutional promotion through Itinera Arte’s communication channels.

The program is coordinated by curators Thiago Fernandes and João Paulo Ovídio and culminates in a collective exhibition and open studio presenting works and processes developed during the residency.

Applications are open from June 18 to July 20, 2026. Pre-selected residents will be contacted by July 31, 2026.