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OASis Lisbon Artist Residency Program

OASis is a European project that brings together international authors with local communities. Promoted by Gerador in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon, OASis Lisboa is part of the European project OASis – Open Art Spaces in Synergy, which aims to create a network of open and free creative spaces, with the goal of reducing entry barriers to the art world. It involves 13 interdisciplinary spaces across 10 countries, supporting cultural centers that blend local practices with international exchange.

O OASis Lisbon wants to strengthen the Goethe-Institut's connection to the local community, with Focus on people aged 50 and over. 

Visit from November 12 to December 12, 2025, at the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon, to see the exhibition “How to be a place of neighborhood”.This exhibition showcases the works from the first artistic residencies of this project. Learn more about the works below.

Read the synopses of the works here.

The exhibition “How to be a place of neighborhood” is on display from November 12th to December 12th at the Goethe-Institut, Lisbon.

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Taking on the role of an attentive onlooker, Beatriz Brajal observes and sketches life unfolding in the Campo dos Mártires da Pátria (Field of Martyrs of the Fatherland). All sorts of people, a mix of roosters and hens, coming from every corner, gather in this garden and share its shade. It was this diversity that she sought to capture in her drawings, paying attention to the details that subtly reveal themselves – a ring on the left index finger, a scribbled notebook, a distant gaze – stories told by simply being there.

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Beatriz Brajal nimmt die Rolle einer aufmerksamen Beobachterin ein und zeichnet das Leben, das im Campo dos Mártires da Pátria erblüht. Menschen unterschiedlichster Herkunft, begleitet von Hühnern und Hähnen, versammeln sich im Garten und teilen seinen Schatten. Diese Vielfalt versucht sie in ihren Zeichnungen einzufangen – mit Blick auf die subtilen Details: ein Ring am linken Zeigefinger, ein bekritzeltes Notizbuch, ein ferner Blick – Geschichten, erzählt durch das bloße Dasein.

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This three-channel audiovisual installation explores the suspended temporality of waiting as an act of presence, not absence. The work delves into the metaphor of knitting as a representation of time and reflects on how it is consumed and circumvented through the process. scroll Verticality in contemporary digital culture. The piece inverts this gesture, making the images move downwards instead of upwards, interrupting temporality as a... feed From mobile interfaces. All the visual layers—knitting hands, moving clouds, eroded cliffs—are superimposed, creating a stratified and immersive flow of gestures, lightness, and density. The act of knitting, traditionally associated with patience and domestic space, is recontextualized to explore the themes of waiting, transformation, and the passage of time. By focusing on the repetitive and meditative nature of knitting, the work invites the public to reflect on the rhythms of daily life and the intervals between moments of action.

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Audiovisuelle Installation auf drei Kanälen, die das Warten als Akt der Präsenz und nicht der Abwesenheit erforscht. Die Arbeit nutzt das Stricken als Metapher für Zeit und reflektiert über den digitalen Scroll-Gestus. Die Bilder bewegen sich nach unten statt nach oben und unterbrechen die gewohnte Zeitlichkeit mobiler Interfaces. Hände beim Stricken, ziehende Wolken, erodierte Klippen – all diese visuellen Schichten erzeugen einen immersiven Fluss aus Gesten, Leichtigkeit und Dichte. Das Stricken, traditionell mit Geduld und Häuslichkeit verbunden, wird neu kontextualisiert, um Themen wie Warten, Wandel und Zeitfluss zu erkunden.

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From encounters, a poem is born. From two weeks of creation and dialogue, many poems were born. From today to tomorrow, from gatherings to paper, from writing to each person's voice, from the present to the future. We are pairs. Part of a whole. We feel it and we write about it. We are the ones who will save the world. Encounter by encounter. The future is now. Tomorrow will rhyme.

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Aus Begegnungen entstehen Gedichte. In zwei Wochen voller Dialog und Kreation entstanden viele davon. Vom Heute ins Morgen, von Gesprächen aufs Papier, vom Schreiben zur Stimme, vom Jetzt in die Zukunft. Wir sind ein Teil des Ganzen. Wir fühlen es und schreiben darüber. Wir sind es, die die Welt retten werden. Begegnung für Begegnung. Die Zukunft ist jetzt. Das Morgen wird sich reimen.

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A community-based mural and drawing project exploring the emotional connection between food and memory. During her residency, illustrator and muralist Ieva Ragauskaitė worked with Lisbon residents aged 50 and over to collect personal stories, recipes, and food-related memories. Over a series of relaxed workshops, participants drew and pasted food from their past, from childhood dishes to meals shared with loved ones. These visual memories were transformed into a large-scale mural, turning the wall into a living archive of shared memories, emotions, and experiences.

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Ein gemeinschaftliches Wandbildprojekt, das die emotionale Verbindung zwischen Essen und Erinnerung erforscht. Ieva Ragauskaitė sammelte persönliche Geschichten, Rezepte und Erinnerungen von Menschen über 50 aus der Gemeinschaft. In entspannten Workshops zeichneten und klebten die Teilnehmenden Lebensmittel aus ihrer Vergangenheit – von Kindheitsgerichten bis zu gemeinsamen Mahlzeiten. Diese visuellen Erinnerungen wurden zu einem großformatigen Wandbild, das die Wand in ein lebendiges Archiv gemeinsamer Erfahrungen verwandelt.

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Hidden, veiled, invisible, silent, fragmented, scattered, reassembled, remodeled, reborn. Emotions are traced and come to life on paper through the typewriter, in an attempt to understand, materialize, and capture in words that which is so difficult to express.

Although people, places, and experiences change over time, some of our deepest feelings persist. The feelings we hold for certain people, moments, or things defy the passage of time. This project manifests this timeless reality by presenting a suspended kaleidoscope of emotions, inspired by the people of Lisbon and reflecting what we all share.

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Versteckt, verschleiert, unsichtbar, still, fragmentiert, verstreut, neu zusammengesetzt, umgestaltet, wiedergeboren. Emotionen werden auf Papier durch die Schreibmaschine zum Leben erweckt – ein Versuch, das schwer Aussprechbare in Worte zu fassen.

Auch wenn Menschen, Orte und Erfahrungen sich wandeln, bleiben manche Gefühle bestehen. Dieses Projekt zeigt ein schwebendes Kaleidoskop von Emotionen, inspiriert von den Menschen in Lissabon und dem, was uns alle verbindet.

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A collection of memories and experiences from people over 50 years old in the community, captured through analog photography. Each image reveals traces of time, personal stories and affections, transforming individual memories into a sensitive and poetic collective narrative.

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Eine Sammlung von Erinnerungen und Erfahrungen von Menschen über 50, eingefangen durch analoge Fotografie. Jede Aufnahme zeigt Spuren der Zeit, persönliche Geschichten und Zuneigung – und verwandelt individuelle Erinnerungen in eine poetische kollektive Erzählung.

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STÜTZPUNKTE / Support Points materializes in an installation of bamboo structures – supports – that allude to agricultural imagery, but which acquire a poetic and sculptural function in the Goethe-Institut Garden in Lisbon. Reacting to the scale and morphology of the garden, the installations question how artificial support interacts with organic growth, activating the garden and its plant population in a playful and visual way. The project aims to highlight the garden as a typology of space for mutual support and growth, between plants, people, and the city.

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STÜTZPUNKTE ist eine Installation aus Bambusstrukturen – sogenannten „Tutoren“ – die an landwirtschaftliche Bilder erinnern, aber im Garten des Goethe-Instituts eine poetische und skulpturale Funktion erhalten. Die Werke reagieren auf Maßstab und Form des Gartens und stellen die Frage, wie künstliche Unterstützung mit organischem Wachstum interagiert. Der Garten wird als Raum gegenseitiger Unterstützung und des Wachstums zwischen Pflanzen, Menschen und Stadt neu gedacht.

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Between September 22nd and October 3rd, the +50BPM workshop took place at the Goethe-Institut Lisbon, led by musician and performer Alex D'Alva Teixeira, who invited people over 50 from the community to explore the world of DJing as a new form of personal expression and sharing of individual narratives.

Over two weeks of daily three-hour sessions, participants learned how to use professional Pioneer DJ equipment (CDJ and mixer), acquiring practical knowledge about the use of Rekordbox, musical structure, BPM, and transition techniques.

More than just technical training, +50BPM sought to create an intergenerational meeting space where music served as a tool for communication and creative freedom. At the end of the course, participants were invited to present their DJ sets to the public, celebrating the diversity of voices, memories, and stories translated into sound.

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Zwischen on 22. September and on 3. Oktober milk Musiker and Performer Alex D'Alva Teixeira in Workshop +50BPM at Goethe-Institut in Lissabon. Menschen über 50 aus der Gemeinschaft wurden eingeladen, DJing als neue Ausdrucksform zu entdecken.

In täglichen dreistündigen Sessions lernten die Teilnehmenden den Umgang mit professionellem Pioneer DJ-Equipment (CDJ und Mischpult), erhielten praktische Einblicke in Rekordbox, musikalische Struktur, BPM und Übergangstechniken.

Mehr als eine technische Schulung war +50BPM ein intergenerationeller Begegnungsraum, in dem Musik als Kommunikationsmittel und kreative Freiheit diente. Am 12. November präsentieren die Teilnehmenden ihre DJ-Sets öffentlich – eine Feier der Vielfalt von Stimmen, Erinnerungen und Geschichten in Klang übersetzt.

Selected proposals

Discover here the proposals and artists of the first artistic residency and exhibition at OASis Lisboa.

Ieva Ragauskaite

Archived Appetite

Lithuanian illustrator based in Lisbon. Her vibrant and emotional work explores the relationship between food, memory, and identity. With experience in editorial, murals, and live painting, she combines bold compositions with playful details. She draws on intuition and narrative, inspired by travel, everyday rituals, and visual diaries. She has collaborated with magazines, social organizations, and galleries.

Ines Abreu

STÜTZPUNKTE

Inês Abreu is a Portuguese-Goan landscape architect based in Berlin. She studied at the University of Lisbon and completed an exchange program at the Technical University of Berlin. For 10 years, she has worked on public spaces, playgrounds, and gardens in Germany, Portugal, and France. She also develops artistic projects, both solo and with Kollektiv Von Null, combining botany, art, and urban studies, always striving for a poetic result.

Julia Lehmann

Inner Landscape: Emotions Typed in Lisbon

German visual artist and author based in Sarnadas do Marmeleiro, Portugal. With a master's degree in Philosophy (FU Berlin), she explores text, materiality, and language using the typewriter as an artistic medium. She researches female voices and transforms writing into images. She also works as a translator (English, Spanish, and Portuguese). Her main works include typed images, glass sculptures, and postcards. She recently exhibited at Mercado Pla Arte, Lisbon (2024), Suboart magazine (2024), and the Pachamama cultural space in Pedrógão Grande.

Martina Di Gennaro

SUSPENSION≠ECLIPSE

Naples, 1994. She is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in printmaking, photography, and visual research. She holds a bachelor's and master's degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Rome, where she lives, works, and teaches. In her artistic and academic practice, she explores time, memory, and archive through experimental printmaking techniques and artistic conception processes. In 2024, she was a resident artist at the Fondazione Il Bisonte in Florence. She has exhibited in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Portugal, and since 2018, one of her works has been part of the permanent collection of Arte no Metro in Naples.

Naina Costa

Memory Fragments

An audiovisual artist, photographer, and cultural producer, she works between Brazil and Portugal. In her work, she creates visual narratives that explore image, sound, and memory, connecting everyday life with space and time. With an authorial approach, she develops projects that combine technique and sensitivity, seeking to provoke emotions and reflection in audiences. She is also a cultural producer, facilitating connections between artists, spaces, and audiences in the audiovisual field.

Alex d'Alva Teixeira

DJ 50+

Alex D'Alva Teixeira is the lead singer of the Lisbon pop trio D'ALVA and co-creator of the experimental rock project ALGUMACENA. With Brazilian and African roots, he grew up in Portugal surrounded by diverse musical influences. In his DJ sets, he spans decades and continents, blending pop, electronica, and Afro-Latin rhythms in an open, unlabeled format, creating an authentic and diverse musical experience.

Beatriz Brajal

Garden Inside

Illustrator, cartoonist, and animator, she studies Illustration and Comics at Ar.Co. Her first animated short, "Perto Ou Longe," premiered at the IndieLisboa festival in 2023. Her comic work is primarily autobiographical and explores intimate and everyday themes, sometimes featuring the character Mr. Solha, her imaginary friend. She recently exhibited her comic book Soliloquio at Ar.Co's 2024 summer exhibition.

Maria Caetano Vilalobos

Spoken World

She holds a degree in Theater and a Master's in Acting and Artistic Direction. She created shows such as "Em Geral Não" and "Mulher, Posso e Mando" (Woman, I Can and I Command), and is the author of the book of the same name published by Urutau. With poetry planted in her childhood, she is now a national Poetry Slam champion, having won the People Prize at the 2024 European Championships. She was also a finalist in the international Martelive Europe competition, the National Young Creators Showcase, won the Cantar Abril competition (Declamation category), and participated in the Got Talent Portugal 2024 program.

Events 

Discover here the open days with the artists in residence and details about the final exhibition of the first edition of OASis Lisboa at the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon.

November

12

18 hours 00/XNUMX

Goethe-Institut in Lisbon.

Opening of the exhibition "How to be a neighborhood place?"

Between August and November, eight national and international artists participated in an artistic residency at the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon, collaborating with people aged 50 or older from the local community. Through meetings, workshops, and open days, a shared body of gestures, memories, and voices has been woven together, now occupying various spaces within the historic Valmor Palace, from the entrance to the café, the library, and the garden..

Beatriz Brajal observes and sketches life unfolding in the garden of Campo dos Mártires da Pátria. Martina Di Gennaro reverses the scrolling gesture and reclaims waiting as presence. Maria Caetano Vilalobos transforms encounters into poetry spoken in the present tense. Ieva Ragauskaitė gathers recipes and memories to compose a mural of affections around the table. Naina Costa brings together portraits and traces of time in a collective narrative. Alex D'Alva Teixeira uses DJing as a tool for expression and freedom. Julia Lehmann translates memories and emotions into typewritten images, and Inês Abreu rethinks gardens as spaces of mutual support.

This exhibition, which can be visited from November 12th to December 12th, brings together a collection of previously unseen works, seeking to reflect encounters with the community and a new way of inhabiting the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon.The process is the thread that unites the various works, and the relationship between artists and the community is what gives them meaning.

Inauguration program on November 12th

18:00 – Opening
18:30 PM – Brief presentation of the project
19:00-20:15 – The Future Will Not Save the World, an artistic project by Maria Caetano Vilalobos with the community: a poetry reading session and open micLocation: Auditorium
20:30 PM - 22:30 PM – DJ Set +50BPM, an artistic project by Alex D'Alva Teixeira with the community. Location: Auditorium

Free admission

November

7

15:00p.m.-17:00p.m.

Goethe-Institut in Lisbon

Walk and open conversation

Ines Abreu
Landscape architect

What if a garden was also a meeting place?

As part of the OASis Lisboa artistic residency program, landscape architect Inês Abreu proposes a walk and open conversation based on her work STÜTZPUNKTE/Pontos de Apoio, which will be on display at the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon from November 12th.

The route, which begins at 15 p.m. in the gardens of the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon, will pass through the gardens surrounding Campo de Santana, from Campo dos Mártires da Pátria to Jardim do Torel, inviting visitors to observe their shapes, rhythms and uses, and to reflect on the role of these green spaces in urban life.

The walk will be a moment of sharing and collective reflection: how does the garden, as an urban space, sustain us? And how can we, as a community, give back and care for these places?

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October

24

19:00p.m.-20:30p.m.

Goethe-Institut in Lisbon

What if waiting could become presence?

Martina Di Gennaro
Multidisciplinary artist

What if waiting could become presence?

As part of OASis Lisboa, the artist Martina Di Gennaro is in artistic residency at the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon to create the work SUSPENSION≠ECLIPSE. This audiovisual installation explores waiting not as a void to be filled, but as a suspended experience..

During the residency, the artist has been leading a knitting circle with people aged 50 and over, where the slow, repetitive gesture becomes a space for shared attention. Together, the group is creating a textile structure that will accompany the visual and soundscape of the final art installation.

On October 24th, between 19pm and 20:30pm, the residency opens its doors for an open day. Circulation is free: come in, follow the process, and, if you'd like to learn more, chat informally with the artist and participants.

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October

13

17:00p.m.-19:00p.m.

Goethe-Institut in Lisbon

Memories at the Table under construction

Ieva Ragauskaite
Artist

What if a memory at the table could become a work of art?

Artist Ieva Ragauskaitė will create a mural at the Goethe-Institut Lisbon based on stories connected to food and the emotions it evokes. Throughout her residency at this space, she will work with people aged 50 and over who frequent the Arroios area, drawing, sharing and conversation workshop, where each participant is invited to bring a memory and translate it into an image.

On October 13th, between 17pm and 19pm, the residence opens its doors for an open day. Circulation is free: come in, follow the process and, if you want to know more, chat informally with the artist and the participants.

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October

10

16:00p.m.-20:00p.m.

Goethe-Institut Library in Lisbon

Come share the memories you don't want to forget

Naina Costa
Artist

As part of OASis Lisboa, Naina Costa is in artistic residency at the Goethe-Institut Lisboa developing the work Fragments of Memory, an audiovisual installation that investigates time, presence and the delicacy of remembering. Using video interviews and photographic portraits of people aged 50 and over from the local community, the project will build a sensitive archive of stories that have not been fully told or that, when revisited, take on new meaning.

On October 10, between 16pm and 20pm, at the Goethe-Institut Library in Lisbon, the artist will be there to collect the memories you don't want to forget. The contributions will be compiled into a logbook and may be included in the final work.

Entry is free. Join in!

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October

3

9:00p.m.-12:00p.m.

Goethe-Institut Lisbon, 3rd Floor, Room 6

DJ Set Under Construction

Alex D'Alva Teixeira and participants of the artistic residency
Musician

As part of OASis Lisboa, the musician Alex D'Alva Teixeira has been in artistic residency at the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon, accompanied by a group of people aged 50 and over. Throughout this period, he has been working on music and, more specifically, DJing, as a tool for telling stories, expressing emotions and impacting others, creating a space for sharing, learning and creative experimentation.

On On October 3rd, between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm, this residence opens its doors for an open day, where the public is invited to follow this process., from experimenting on the mixing board, transitions, loops, and how everything ultimately comes together in a set. Circulation around the room is free. Just come in, follow along, and if you'd like to learn more, chat informally with the artist and participants.

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September

19

18:00p.m.-20:30p.m.

Goethe-Institut Library in Lisbon

Spoken World: a poetic celebration of the Portuguese language and its diversity

Maria Caetano Vilalobos and participants of the artistic residency
Creator

Artist Maria Caetano Vilalobos is in artistic residency at the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon, as part of the OASis Lisboa project. Over the course of several days, she brought together an intergenerational group to create poetry from personal objects. The starting point was the celebration of the Portuguese language and its multiculturalism, through the writing, rewriting, recording and editing of poems.

On the open day, on September 19th at 18pm at the Goethe-Institut Library in Lisbon, the creator and the participants of the artistic residency invite you to listen to this plurality of voices and watch the reading of the poems created in this collective process.

Participation is free.

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September

5

16 AM -19:XNUMX PM

Goethe-Institut Garden in Lisbon

Come draw and be drawn in Lisbon's most secret garden

Beatriz Brajal
Artist

Artist Beatriz Brajal is in artistic residency at the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon, preparing for the final exhibition of the OASis Lisboa project. Throughout this period, she has been creating illustrated portraits of those who inhabit Campo dos Mártires da Pátria, where routines, fleeting presences, domestic birds, and unlikely encounters intersect.

On Open Day, we invite you to join us in this attentive gaze. Between 16 and 19 p.m. on September 5th, come to the garden of the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon and participate in an observation and illustration exercise: you will draw and be drawn, with the support of the artistYou don't need to know how to draw, you just need to be willing to look more closely at whoever is in front of you.

Participation is free.

Important information

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Important dates

 

  • Applications: April 15 to May 31, 2025, until 20:00 GMT.
  • Notification of shortlisted candidates: until June 20, 2025; digital interviews until July 4, 2025
  • Winners Announcement: 10 July 2025
  • Initial concept and production phase: until October 3, 2025.
  • Artistic residency: 5 working days between October 6th and November 7th, 2025.

 

Regulation

Click on the button below to read in detail the regulations that guide the entire program.

 

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Registration form

Applications closed on May 31st at 20:00 GMT.

The OASis project is made up of a network of 14 official partners and numerous associated organizations. Find out more here.

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