Public Open Call of the Museu Tàpies and Graner, Center for the Creation of Dance and Living Arts, for the «Archival Body» artistic research residency
«Archival Body» is an artistic research residency, jointly promoted by the Museu Tàpies i Graner – Centre for the Creation of Dance and Living Arts, which seeks to create a space for exchange and experimentation between artistic practices focused on the body and the museum’s exhibition contents, linked to the collection. The project is part of the shared desire of both institutions to promote artistic research, the activation of critical thinking and the creation of new stories through interdisciplinary practices.
This residency offers the selected artist the framework, time and resources to develop a research process with the methodological, technical and curatorial support of the two institutions, which will culminate in a public presentation at the end of the residency.
The «Archival Body» call was born from a fundamental question that the two institutions ask themselves: how can the body activate, inhabit and transform the material memory of a museum? In this context, the body, conceived as a living archive, as a place of memory and at the same time as a tool of interpretation, becomes an active agent in the construction of meaning. Thus, the body reads, questions, remembers and projects, becoming a channel in relation, in this case, to the content and format of the exhibition.
«Archival Body» aims to establish a new relationship between the exhibition space and the body as a space of knowledge, delving into some ideas such as materiality, gesture, memory and the disciplinary border. The project will emphasize the documentation of the creative process, with the aim that this material becomes shared and leaves a mark both in the Museu Tàpies itself and in Graner.
In this first edition, the exhibition on which this artistic research residency will revolve is Antoni Tàpies. The Perpetual Movement of the Wall, which will be open from February 12 to September 6, 2026. The research process will culminate with a public activation that will take place at the Museu Tàpies (Barcelona, Catalonia) on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at 6 p.m.
You can consult the rules of the Public Open Call.
The deadline for submitting candidacies is February 16, 2026
