about the program
It promotes interdisciplinary exchanges between contemporary artists and scientists, philosophers, and technologists, aiming to overcome the barriers between the fields of art, science, technology, and social studies. With the concepts of Sustainability, Technologies, and Knowledge as central pillars, the residency functions as a hub for exchanges between artists and the museum. In addition to project development, the residency program involves visits to museums, galleries, and independent platforms, regular meetings, discussion sessions with guests, and networking events.
about editing
This year, the residency program is part of the curatorial discussion cycle of the Museu do Amanhã, which has chosen the element of fire as an object of reflection. However, it focuses on the incendiary and unstoppable aspect of new intelligences, aiming to investigate how data flows, algorithmic impositions, new language models, and the relationships between the human and the non-human produce new aesthetic sensibilities.
Considering the survival of fire through digital light, the voracious consumption of information, and the ecosystemic warming brought about by technological progress, this residency opens its doors to six artistic research projects. We seek projects that present ways of composing and contrasting, absorbing and reflecting on these cultural changes. We invite artists and researchers to be affected by the following questions:
How can art navigate the heat of the datasphere?
Where does invention reside in the artificial, and artifice in invention?
What is the role of art when its uniqueness is called into question?
How can we imagine worlds where the organic and inorganic intersect without one of them completely dissolving?
Will be selected:
1 artist from Rio de Janeiro;
1 artist from the southeastern region;
1 artist from the northern region;
1 artist from the Northeast region;
1 artist from the central-west region;
1 artist from the southern region;
timeline
STAGE 1 - REGISTRATION FOR THE PUBLIC NOTICE
April 20th: Publication of the Call for Proposals
April 30th: Jury announcement
May 15th: Registration closes.
STAGE 2 - SELECTION FOR THE ARTISTIC RESIDENCY
May 19 to June 5: Selection for interviews
June 8th: Results of the pre-selection for interviews
June 9-12: Interviews
June 19th: final result
June 22 to July 17: Signing of the Commitment Agreement
July 17th to August 17th: Payment of the 1st installment of the scholarship (60% of the value)
Until August 31st: Payment of the 2nd installment of the scholarship (40% of the value).
STAGE 3 - ARTISTIC RESIDENCY PROGRAM
July 27 to August 7: Online follow-up meetings.
August 17th: In-person residency at the Museu do Amanhã (Rio de Janeiro)
August 18th: Video recording with residents
September 18th: Residency closing event
meet the jury
Froiid
He also works as a mentor for artists in training and mentoring programs, contributing to the conceptual development of projects, poetic maturation, and the construction of careers within the art world.
Since 2014, Froiid has been building a diverse body of work that includes games, installations, objects, videos, photographs, and sound pieces, exploring the relationships between art, technology, and the culture of the Brazilian margins. By experimenting with the rules of games, he investigates tensions between freedom and structure, creation and institution, individual and society.
Cleyton Santanna
Her artistic practice mobilizes Afro-fabulation as a poetic and political method of reinscription, making the image a field of dispute, reparation, and invention of presence. Between archive and historical fabulation, her work elaborates sensitive counter-narratives that interrogate the silences of official history and reclaim other regimes of memory.
At the Museu do Amanhã, she works as a Senior Content Analyst, developing projects and programs at the intersections of art, technology, and society, paying attention to cultural mediations, contemporary imaginaries, and disputes surrounding the understanding of innovation as an act of care.
Ariana Nuala
Holding a degree in Visual Arts from UFPE, she also undertook academic experiences at UNAM (Mexico) and CLACSO. In 2025, she was a curator and researcher at the Emanoel Araujo Afro-Brazilian Museum, as well as curatorial assistant for the exhibition Zumví Afro-Photographic Archive (IMS), curated by Hélio Menezes, and for the Visualizing Abolition project at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences of UC Santa Cruz.
She was Education and Research Manager at the Francisco Brennand Workshop (2023–2024), where she also served as curator (2021–2023), and coordinated the educational sector of the Murillo La Greca Museum (2018–2020). She was adjunct curator of the 38th Panorama of Brazilian Art, alongside Germano Dushá and Thiago de Paula Souza (2024), and resident at the Institute for Postnatural Studies (2025). She has published critical texts for institutions such as the 36th São Paulo Biennial and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo.
Meet the featured artists
Luiza Crossman
She conceives of her practice as a conceptual space for questioning the role of natural and artificial agency at different scales: from human subjectivity to planetary futures. Recently, she has focused on thinking of the sky as an interface for new forms of collectivity. Crosman has exhibited and developed projects with the Austrian Cultural Forum NY, the Asian Cultural Center, INHOTIM, La Casa Encendida, MediaLab MATADERO, Casa do Povo, Área, the 33rd São Paulo Biennial, WIELS, CAC Vilnius, SFMoma, among others.
Recent articles have been published in Passepartout Journal, TANK, Strelka Mag, and Arts of the Working Class. She was a fellow of The Terraforming, Strelka Institute (2020) and REALTY at the Sommerakademie Paul Klee (2017–2019). She holds a degree in graphic design, a master's degree in Arts and Culture (UERJ, 2014, Rio de Janeiro), and a post-master's degree in Performativity Studies (apass, Brussels, 2017). She is a member of the board of Weird Economies.
Gabriel Massan
Through machinima techniques, he develops simulations of control, conflict, and survival systems, questioning dominant perceptions about the Global South. Massan has held solo exhibitions at BOZAR – Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels, the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the Serpentine Galleries, and The Photographers’ Gallery.
Her work has also been exhibited at institutions such as Centre Pompidou-Metz, MAAT, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Bangkok Art Biennale, HEK Basel, and the Hong Kong Design Institute. She has received commissions from Serpentine Art Technologies, X Museum, Instituto Moreira Salles, and the Geneva Public Art Programme (MIRE), and has collaborated with Apple, Madonna, and Bulgari. She was an artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and a guest artist at institutions such as the New Museum, La Biennale di Venezia, Royal College of Art, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, and HAU Hebbel am Ufer. She received the Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica in 2024 and was a finalist for CIRCA in 2021 and 2024.
Massan's work is part of the collections of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and the Museu Nacional de Brasília. In 2026, he will have a solo exhibition at Frieze Seoul and will undertake a commission for Factory International at the Manchester International Festival (MIF) (2026–2027).
Roberta Carvalho
Founder of 11:11 Arte and the Amazônia Mapping Festival, winner of the FUNARTE Women in Visual Arts Award and nominated for the PIPA Prize 2023.
Creator of the immersive installations Ajuri and Esfera, at the Museu das Amazônias 2025, her work circulates in prominent national and international contexts: artistic direction of NAVE at Rock in Rio 2022, visual direction of Amazônia: An Immersive Experience at COP28 in Dubai, direction of projects at COP30 — including immersive dinner and installations —, curatorship of the Pororoca project in Times Square and Central Park in New York, and co-direction of the documentary Mestras, selected for the Gramado Film Festival.
meet the curator
Lucas Albuquerque
He was the curatorial coordinator of the Eva Klabin House Museum (Rio de Janeiro), promoting dialogues between its collection and contemporary art. He was the organizing curator of the Aymoré Gallery (Rio de Janeiro). As curator of the artistic residency program at the Inclusartiz Institute (Rio de Janeiro), he worked establishing connections with artists, curators, and researchers between Brazil and the United Kingdom (Delfina Foundation), France (Frac Bretagne), Spain (Homessessions), and the Netherlands (Rijksakademie).
She curated the curated section “Transe” (2026), linked to SP–Arte Rotas; “Save and Continue” (2025), at Galerie Imane Farès (Paris, France); “Rosana Paulino: Novas Raízes” (2024), at Casa Museu Eva Klabin (Rio de Janeiro); “Muamba: Brazilian Traces of Movement” (2023), at Ruby Cruel (London, U.K.); “Whispers from the South” (2023), at Lamb Gallery (London); “Ustão” (2023) and “Ultramar” (2023), at Casa Museu Eva Klabin (Rio de Janeiro); “O Sagrado na Amazônia” (2023), with Paulo Herkenhoff; in addition to other solo and group exhibitions. She also curated the Artistic Residency “Post-natural and Other Ecologies” (2026), at the Museu do Amanhã