OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS & CURATORS |
2026 / 2027
Location:
Lisbon city center - between Bairro da Graça and Penha de França.
Transports and local shops at our door step. Several galleries and cultural spaces near by.
Dates:
> Open Call: May 30th
Late applications are subject to availability
> Confirmation: June 05th
> Residency Periods: from September 2026 to March 2027
The resident must select the complete months (4 weeks) in which he/she wishes to attend the residency, considering the following periods:
> SEPTEMBER: 07th to October 02nd
> OCTOBER: 06th to 31st
> NOVEMBER: 02nd to 27th
> DECEMBER: 30th of Nov to 11th of Dec (2weeks only)
> JANUARY: 04th to 29th
> FEBRUARY: 01st to 26th
> MARCH: 01st to 26th
*Applications for the curatorial program will be considered case by case
DETAILS OF THE PROGRAM: Link in bio (please go through it)
Accommodation:
DUPLEX does not provide accommodation. However, we will be happy to help you find one.
Cost:
650 € per month (December 50%)
+ 50€ maintenance fee (single payment)
+ 150 € per month - Duo Fee (fee for Duos of artists or curators with a history of working in partnership)
Application:
- Portfolio (up to 15 pages)
- CV
- Brief project (1 page)
- Indication of the intended months for the residency
SEND IN A SINGLE PDF TO [email protected]
+INFO: link in bio (please read all the info on the website before applying)
Portuguese artists are welcome to apply.
* Image: Duplex studios
#duplexair #opencall #opencallforartists #artresidencyprogram
RESIDÊNCIA SATÉLITE /// SATELLITE RESIDÊNCIA
Artistas com base em Lisboa / Lisbon based artists
* DUPLEX | Residência Satélite é um desdobramento da DUPLEX | Artists in Residence, que permite que artistas com base em Lisboa participem do programa de residências, prescindindo do uso de um estúdio no interior da DUPLEX, mas usufruindo das mesmas actividades e acompanhamento dos artistas em residência.
>>> É necessário que o residente satélite tenha um estúdio em Lisboa.
* DUPLEX | Satellite Residency is an outspread of DUPLEX | Artists in Residency, which allows artists based in Lisbon to participate in the residency program, without having to use a studio inside DUPLEX, but enjoying the same activities and mentoring as artists in residency.
>>> It’s mandatory for the satellite resident to have a studio in Lisboa
OPEN CALL ABERTA EM PERMANÊNCIA
Sugerimos que cada candidatura seja feita com 2 meses de antecedência face ao mês de residência pretendido
RESULTADOS | ATÉ 2 SEMANAS APÓS CANDIDATURA
O QUE ESTÁ INCLUIDO
-Programa de apresentação de portfolios, conversas, vistas de convidados, e visitas organizadas a atelieres ou outros espaços culturais
-Acompanhamento e discussão de projecto
-Visita ao atelier do artista residente
(Cerca de 2 actividades por semana. Cada ocupará 2/3h)
CUSTO
300,00€ p/mês
MAIS INFO >>>> Link na BIO
///
ONGOING OPEN CALL
We suggest that each application be submitted 2 months in advance to the desired residency month.
RESULTS | UP TO 2 WEEKS AFTER APPLICATION
WHAT’S INCLUDED | ARTISTS - Program with portfolio presentations, conversations, guest visits to the residents’ studios, and organized visits to artist studios and other cultural spaces
-Project discussion and follow up
- Visit to the studio of the satellite residents
(Around 2 activities per week, occupying 2/3h each)
COST
300,00€ p/month
MORE INFO >>>> Link in BIO
#duplexair #opencalllisbon #residenciasatelite #satelliteresidencie
ECOTONES: STATES OF PROXIMITY
Maria Renée Morales Lam @maria.renee.morales.lam
Text/Texto: Matt Finch
Inauguração/Opening:
14.04.2026
Exposição/Exhibition:
24.04.2026 / 22.05.2026
| Horário: visitas por marcação/visits by appointment
María Renée Morales Lam
“When I was Little, Dad Took Me to the Circus”, 2026
Steel cone, magnifying glass, float glass, organic object, drawing - collaboration with Paulo Quiroga Devia.
50 x 17 x 14 cm
📷 Bruno Lopes
In collaboration with @lo_invisible_studio
#duplexair #ecotones #mariareneemoraleslam #soloexhibition artistrunspace
ECOTONES: STATES OF PROXIMITY
Maria Renée Morales Lam @maria.renee.morales.lam
Text/Texto: Matt Finch
Inauguração/Opening:
14.04.2026
Exposição/Exhibition:
24.04.2026 / 22.05.2026
| Horário: visitas por marcação/visits by appointment
“(…) María Renée Morales Lam’s work has long concerned itself with unseen forces and past dynamics that make themselves visible and palpable in moments of encounter and contact. The concept of the ecotone, which lends its name to this exhibition, describes regions of transition between ecological communities - including tidal areas, estuaries, and the riparian zones which mark the edges of rivers, streams, and lakes against the land. In each of these places, materials - and life itself - may flow and exchange in valuable ways.
Here, we are invited to the meeting point of the everyday world and an artspace in which Morales Lam’s principal medium, glass, toys with our perceptions of material properties. Her work has been influenced from the beginning by the interaction of energy and matter, and all the consequent phenomena arising therefrom.
Glassworking is also an art of crisis, in the sense that its practitioners face difficulty and danger, working under pressure of time as the material relentlessly cools and even the tools which shape the glass grow, eventually, too hot to handle.
Morales Lam’s recent experience as a factory glassworker deepens this awareness of the conditions and limitations within which this art is frequently practised, and the sense of glasswork itself as an ecotone where art, craft, and industrial production meet. (…)”
📷 Bruno Lopes
In collaboration with @lo_invisible_studio
#duplexair #ecotones #mariareneemoraleslam #soloexhibition #artistrunspace
ECOTONES: STATES OF PROXIMITY
Maria Renée Morales Lam @maria.renee.morales.lam
Text/Texto: Matt Finch
Inauguração/Opening:
14.04.2026
Exposição/Exhibition:
24.04.2026 / 22.05.2026
| Horário: visitas por marcação/visits by appointment
María Renée Morales Lam
“Mom Brought me a Gift from the Sea”, 2026
Pâte de verre, steel rod
20 x 11 x 17 cm
📷 Bruno Lopes
In collaboration with @lo_invisible_studio
#duplexair #ecotones #mariareneemoraleslam #soloexhibition artistrunspace
ECOTONES: STATES OF PROXIMITY
Maria Renée Morales Lam @maria.renee.morales.lam
Text/Texto: Matt Finch
Inauguração/Opening:
14.04.2026
Exposição/Exhibition:
24.04.2026 / 22.05.2026
| Horário: visitas por marcação/visits by appointment
María Renée Morales Lam
“Even the River Cries”, 2026
Glass casting, brass structure, volcanic sand, Tejo water 85 x 31 x 20 cm
📷 Bruno Lopes
In collaboration with @lo_invisible_studio
#duplexair #ecotones #mariareneemoraleslam #soloexhibition #artistrunspace
ECOTONES: STATES OF PROXIMITY
Maria Renée Morales Lam @maria.renee.morales.lam
Text/Texto: Matt Finch
Inauguração/Opening:
14.04.2026
Exposição/Exhibition:
24.04.2026 / 22.05.2026
| Horário: visitas por marcação/visits by appointment
María Renée Morales Lam
“D(encounter)”, 2023
Pâte de verre, steel rods
35 x 44 x 35 cm
📷 Bruno Lopes
In collaboration with @lo_invisible_studio
#duplexair #ecotones #mariareneemoraleslam #soloexhibition #artistrunspace
ECOTONES: STATES OF PROXIMITY
Maria Renée Morales Lam @maria.renee.morales.lam
Text/Texto: Matt Finch
Inauguração/Opening:
14.04.2026
Exposição/Exhibition:
24.04.2026 / 22.05.2026
| Horário: visitas por marcação/visits by appointment
María Renée Morales Lam
“The Ocean Will Remain”, 2026
Wood box, glass castings, steel structure, stones from the harbour in Lybster, Scotland
85 x 86 x 30 cm
📷 Bruno Lopes
In collaboration with @lo_invisible_studio
#duplexair #ecotones #mariareneemoraleslam #soloexhibition #artistrunspace
ECOTONES: STATES OF PROXIMITY
Maria Renée Morales Lam @maria.renee.morales.lam
Text/Texto: Matt Finch
Inauguração/Opening:
14.04.2026
Exposição/Exhibition:
24.04.2026 / 22.05.2026
| Horário: visitas por marcação/visits by appointment
“(…) María Renée Morales Lam’s work has long concerned itself with unseen forces and past dynamics that make themselves visible and palpable in moments of encounter and contact. The concept of the ecotone, which lends its name to this exhibition, describes regions of transition between ecological communities - including tidal areas, estuaries, and the riparian zones which mark the edges of rivers, streams, and lakes against the land. In each of these places, materials - and life itself - may flow and exchange in valuable ways.
Here, we are invited to the meeting point of the everyday world and an artspace in which Morales Lam’s principal medium, glass, toys with our perceptions of material properties. Her work has been influenced from the beginning by the interaction of energy and matter, and all the consequent phenomena arising therefrom.
Glassworking is also an art of crisis, in the sense that its practitioners face difficulty and danger, working under pressure of time as the material relentlessly cools and even the tools which shape the glass grow, eventually, too hot to handle.
Morales Lam’s recent experience as a factory glassworker deepens this awareness of the conditions and limitations within which this art is frequently practised, and the sense of glasswork itself as an ecotone where art, craft, and industrial production meet. (…)”
📷 Bruno Lopes
In collaboration with @lo_invisible_studio
#duplexair #ecotones #mariareneemoraleslam #soloexhibition #artistrunspace
MEET MARIA MANUEL LYRA resident artist at Duplex
@_mlyra._
Maria Manuel Lyra is a visual artist based in Lisbon, born in the 1971.
She graduated in Landscape Architecture from the Higher Institute of Agronomy (Lisbon, 1997)
and completed postgraduate studies in Image and Communication at the Institute of Visual
Arts, Design and Marketing (Lisbon, 2003). Since 2021, she has been attending the engraving
and printing course at “A Base Escola de Artes”, where she has also been part of an artistic
residency.
Over the past few years, she has deepened her practice in printmaking through various
specialized training courses. In 2025, she also completed a photogravure workshop with
Rebecca Holmes at Atelier Citrina (Sintra).
In 2025, she assumed the presidency of the Água-Forte Association (AGAF), dedicated to
printmaking.
Her practice explores the body as a site of fragility, resistance, and symbolic violence, focusing
on female experience, vulnerability, and care through drawing, painting, and printmaking.
Image 1: “Cold water”, 2024
Oil on canvas
38 x 46 cm
Image 2: “Hormones”, 2024
Oil on canvas
90 x 70 cm
Image 3: “Nervoso Miudinho”, 2025
Oil on canvas
28 x 20 cm
#duplexair #artistsinresidence #mariamanuellyra #lisbon artistrunspace
MEET KRISTEN DIEDERICH resident artist at Duplex
@kdiederichstudio
Kristen Diederich (b. 1994 Tallahassee, Florida) is a painter based in Portland, Oregon.
Diederich’s characteristic abstract painting style emerged during periods spent in coastal
Maine, Oregon and Europe. Reminiscent of 19th century compositions, her bright and layered
contemporary abstracts enter cinematic depths of field with an empathy for that which isn’t
human. Titles for Diederich’s paintings reveal her study of creative writing at Portland State
University, which are sourced from her ongoing poem document that spans the last ten years.
Diederich exhibited during Frieze week LA 2025 with Lobster Club gallery, hung a solo in
November 2024 at Chefas Projects in Portland, Oregon and recently opened Summer season
with a solo show at Carver Hill Gallery in Camden, Maine May 2025. Diederich has shown and
collected in Georgia, Washington State, Montana, New York City, Oregon, Maine and is
Internationally collected with works placed in Mexico City and Toronto, Canada.
”I am an abstract landscape painter whose poetry informs a unique artistic language influenced
by the natural world. During this residency, I’m interested in continuing to collaborate with
partner Devin Ludwig on crafting one of a kind floating style frames onsite for every piece
included in the culminating exhibition if parameters allow”.
Image 1: “A Procession of Magnolias in a Field of Granite”, 2026
Acrylic on canvas
Image 2: “Even Flowers Carve Names for Themselves”, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
Image 3: “You and Me in the Dying Light”, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
#duplexair #artistsinresidence #kristendiederich #lisbon artistrunspace
