Art Residency
Conceived as an extension of the Del Arco Collection’s curatorial vision, the residency is a context-specific initiative that supports female artists whose practices engage critically with questions of gender, visibility, and representation. Located in Barcelona and Berlin—two cities with rich, layered cultural histories—the residency offers an environment for focused research, material experimentation, and conceptual development.
Fully supported and by invitation only, the program provides living and working spaces, production resources, and structured access to a network of curators, thinkers, and cultural practitioners. The residency is not only a place of making, but of positioning—offering artists the intellectual and relational tools to navigate and challenge existing structures of the art world.
Artists are carefully selected through a process that considers their work within the broader discursive framework of the collection. The residency is made possible through PRIOR, a shared project of Del Arco Collection, in collaboration with long-standing institutional and independent partners.
2025
IRENE MOLINA
Born in Spain 1997, Irene Molina’s practice unfolds at the intersection of the digital and the physical, navigating the porous boundaries between virtual environments and sculptural materiality. Through photogrammetry, 3D printing, and digital animation, she constructs speculative landscapes and hybrid bridges between the screen and the object, the ephemeral and the enduring.
2023
JINHEE KIM
Born in 1985 in South Korea and currently based between Seoul and Berlin, Jinhee Kim works across photography, installation, and spatial intervention. Her practice has evolved to explore the relationships between image, architecture, and memory. Her works often respond to specific sites, tracing the presence and absence of human activity within built environments. Through subtle shifts in scale, structure, and perspective, she creates immersive experiences that invite viewers to reflect on how space is seen, felt, and inhabited.
2021
KRISTY CHAN
Born in 1997 in Hong Kong and currently based in London, Kristy M Chan creates vivid, emotionally charged paintings that blur the line between abstraction and figuration. Working primarily with oil and oil stick, her canvases are layered and expressive—what she describes as “visual archives of intense personal interactions.” Her work draws on themes of migration, cultural hybridity, and urban disorientation, translating fleeting moments and psychological tensions into bold, kaleidoscopic compositions that feel both intimate and expansive.
2022
SOPHIE KRICHTON
Born in 1993 in Toronto and based in Barcelona, Sophie Crichton creates layered abstract paintings that channel the rhythms and textures of urban life. Combining oil stick, spray paint, charcoal, and acrylic, her gestural compositions draw on the visual language of graffiti, signage, and street debris. Her work explores themes of movement, memory, and transformation, positioning abstraction as a site for emotional and spatial mapping.
2022
LA RUMAN
Born in Spain in 1993, Isabel Mirallas Pindado—also known as La Ruman—develops a practice rooted in painting but expanded through sculpture, installation, and digital collage. Her work explores the symbolic weight of everyday Spanish imagery, weaving together childhood memories, religious iconography, and popular culture. Through what she calls “Stately Costumbrismo,” she constructs contemporary altarpieces where acrylic, wood, and irony converge in a visual language both devotional and profane.