Artistic Research and Methodological Experimentation Grant – Barcelona Crea

Introduction
The “Barcelona Crea – Fàbriques de Creació 2025” grants are an initiative of the Xarxa de Fàbriques de Creació, supported by the Institut de Cultura, to assist the pre-production phases that accompany the creation of artistic projects: conceptualization, development, research, experimentation, documentation, and rehearsal. These grants aim to help sustain the cultural and scientific momentum of the city by providing resources to develop processes of artistic research and innovation.

Hangar’s mission is to maintain (that is, to generate, update, revise, repair, and sustain) the necessary conditions for facilitating artistic production and research. These are understood as practices and critical forms of speculation capable of responding to contemporary debates and urgencies. Hangar regards art as a knowledge-producing practice, and thus recognizes artistic research as a legitimate research modality, endowed with its own specific forms of discovery and knowledge production. Experimentation with unconventional methodologies, the transfer of scientific or technological practices, and the opening to innovative forms of documenting and sharing work processes are all essential to the center’s ecosystem.

Hangar announces a Barcelona Crea – Fàbriques de Creació 2025 grant to support an artist in carrying out an artistic research process focused on methodological experimentation. Through this grant, Hangar provides funding, space, and the appropriate technical conditions for developing artistic research centered on experimental methodologies and contributing to its dissemination in a professional environment.

1. Objectives
General:
— To support artists in the development of their projects, focusing on the experimentation, design, and prototyping of unconventional methodologies for artistic research.
Specific:
— To provide and facilitate the necessary resources for artistic research focused on methodological innovation.
— To encourage the documentation, publication, dissemination, knowledge transfer, and exchange in the field of artistic creation.
— To contribute to defining and characterizing the notion of artistic knowledge.

2. Funding and Resources
Hangar will provide the selected applicant with:
— Honorarium: €6,000 gross, including the cost of all materials needed for the research.
— Technical support, mentorship, and access to tools. Antonio Gagliano, responsible of research at the center, will support the development of the selected project.
— Workspace at Hangar.
— Hangar will connect the grantee with its network of collaborators: cultural agents, technicians, technoscientific research centers, or other relevant artistic and cultural institutions.
— Hangar will support the dissemination and public presentation of the project as part of one of its public programs.
— Please note: This grant does not cover travel expenses to Barcelona, nor accommodation or living costs.

3. Eligibility
— Artists, researchers, and collectives of any age and nationality working in the field of artistic research with a connection to the city of Barcelona or its metropolitan area. This connection will be considered valid if at least one of the following conditions is met:
• The subject of the proposal relates to Barcelona or its metropolitan area.
• The applicant resides in Barcelona or its metropolitan area.
• The applicant is linked to Barcelona’s cultural scene, as demonstrated in the submitted documentation.

4. Duration
The selected project will be developed over a three-month period between September and November 2025.

5. Requirements
— Each applicant (individual or collective) may submit only one project.
— The project will be assigned a dedicated workspace at the center.
— The proposal must be in a phase of ideation, research, prototyping, rehearsal, or pre-production, meaning a stage of methodological exploration or development prior to production.
— None of the phases covered by the grant (i.e., the pre-production development of the artistic proposal) should have been previously completed.
— The proposal must not have been publicly presented before by the applicant or any other individual or institution.
— The proposal must not have received any funding from the Barcelona City Council or any previous Barcelona Crea grants.

6. Responsibilities of the Selected Project
— Conduct a public presentation or open sharing of the methodological experimentation process or its provisional results during the residency at Hangar, as part of a public event at the center.
— Submit a final project report and residency evaluation within two months after the residency ends.
— The artist will grant Hangar the rights to publicly communicate the research worldwide, for purposes of dissemination and communication (e.g., publications, press kits, the center’s website, social media, etc.).

7. Application Process
To apply, send an email to antonio(arroba)hangar.org with the subject:
“Beca_Recerca_NAME_SURNAME”,
and attach a PDF dossier containing the following:
— Personal details: Full name, date and place of birth, photo of ID or passport, contact email, phone number.
— Curriculum Vitae (max. 1,500 characters including spaces).
— Project description, including:
— Project summary (up to 2,500 characters including spaces)
— Objectives (up to 1,000 characters)
— Methodology (up to 2,500 characters)
— Motivation for undertaking the residency and its connection to Hangar’s research lines (up to 2,000 characters)
— Project documentation strategy (up to 2,000 characters)
— Timeline and work plan (up to 2,000 characters)
— A maximum of 10 images of the project

IMPORTANT:
— Applications that do not include all required information or exceed the character limits will not be accepted.
— Applications may be submitted in Catalan, Spanish, or English.

8. Deadline and Timeline
— Application deadline: Tuesday, July 15, 2025, at 00:00 h (GMT +1)
— Selection results: July 31, 2025
— Residency period: Three consecutive months between September and November 2025

9. Selection Committee
The selection committee will consist of:
— One invited artist or cultural agent
— One member of Hangar’s Permanent Jury
— Antonio Gagliano, Responsible of Research at Hangar
The jury may contact shortlisted candidates for an interview.

10. Evaluation Criteria
Projects will be evaluated based on:
– Submission of all required documents and materials, in the correct format and within the stated limits.
– Relevance and coherence of the project in the context of the artist’s or researcher’s career.
– Pertinence, consistency, and overall methodological interest of the project.
– Feasibility and potential for development at Hangar.
– Willingness to open up the project and share its development process with Hangar’s community.
– Alignment of the proposal with Hangar’s research lines.

11. Data Protection
— In accordance with data protection laws, personal data will be processed by Hangar to manage participation in this call. For legal reasons, the data will not be shared with third parties. Applicants have the right to access, rectify, and delete their data, and to exercise other rights established by applicable data protection regulations.
— Submission of a project implies presumed authorship, and the applicant is solely responsible for any claims that may arise regarding authorship.

12. Acceptance of Terms and Jury Decision
Participation in this call implies full acceptance of these guidelines and of the jury’s final decision, as well as any future changes caused by factors beyond Hangar’s control.

For further information
Antonio Gagliano
antonio@hangar.org
+34 933 084 041

Image: Manglar