Javier Montes | Artistic residency at CAPACETE 2025
Javier Montes, Artist Selected for the AC/E Residency at CAPACETE
Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) is pleased to announce that Javier Montes has been selected for the 12-week artist residency at the prestigious contemporary art center CAPACETE in Rio de Janeiro, taking place between August and November 2025.
This exceptional open call, a collaboration between AC/E and CAPACETE—Brazil's oldest artist residency program with nearly 30 years of experience—offers a deep immersion in a unique creative environment. The residency will provide Montes with the opportunity to further his research, establish international collaborative networks, and explore Brazil's vibrant art scene through interdisciplinary exchange and experimentation.
Javier Montes is a renowned writer, essayist, and art critic, author of twelve books, including Luz del Fuego (Fósforo, 2023), Varados en Río (Anagrama, 2018), and contemporary art essays such as El misterioso asesinato del arte moderno (Wunderkammer, 2020) and Visto y no visto (Machado Libros, 2022). His extensive career includes teaching Art History, collaborations with prestigious publications like Artforum and El País, and curating exhibitions, solidifying his profile as a key figure in the reflection on art and culture. Recognized with awards such as the British Library/Hay Festival Eccles Prize and the Anagrama Essay Prize, his selection reinforces the residency's goal of strengthening ties between the Spanish art scene and international cultural institutions.
About CAPACETE:
CAPACETE is an institute located in Rio de Janeiro with the oldest artistic residency program in Brazil. Its activities reflect long-term interdisciplinary initiatives as a mobile and independent artistic space. With diverse programming, it facilitates research, contacts, and documentation of aesthetic, cultural, social, and political processes in Brazil and other South American countries, also establishing dialogues in contexts outside the continent. Topics related to politics, history, topography, the environment, and society provide vital laboratories to investigate and create within contemporary complexities.
Call for Applications: March 25 - May 4, 2025
For submission of documentation and requests for information: xow.rumi@gmail.com
What does this residency offer you?
- Immersion in a unique creative environment: CAPACETE, with nearly 30 years of experience, is the oldest artistic residency program in Brazil, a space for interdisciplinary exchange and experimentation.
- Professional development: The residency provides you with the opportunity to deepen your research in a professional context, establishing collaborative networks with artists and cultural agents from around the world.
- Exploration of the Brazilian art scene: Immerse yourself in the vibrant culture of Rio de Janeiro and participate in dialogues on politics, history, environment, and society.
- Space for research and reflection: CAPACETE offers you a favorable environment for experimentation, research, and reflection, fostering exchange, listening, and accompaniment.
- Strengthening international ties: The residency seeks to consolidate the ties between the Spanish art scene and international cultural institutions.
Who can participate?
- Curators, writers, and contemporary art researchers over 21 years of age.
- Non-student professionals, of Spanish nationality or residents in Spain, with a relevant trajectory in the Spanish artistic scene in recent years.
- Professionals seeking to develop their research in a professional context, through projects that involve experimentation, research, and/or reflection based on exchange, affective listening, and accompaniment for their practices.