Sobremesa’s residencies are designed as a cross-cultural parallel programme that brings together three distinct contexts through a shared investigation of food as a practice of life, encompassing not only the material, processual, and technē of food but also how it shapes the ways we negotiate with each other. Rather than approaching food as a purely culinary subject, Sobremesa understands it as a medium through which cultures of migration, care, technology, and social organisation can be read and understood.
Hangar Residency via Lisbon Art Weekend | Lisbon, Portugal | 10 October – 30 November 2026
Residents engage with urban neighbourhoods, archives, gardens, kitchens, and cultural institutions, developing situated research that connects historical inquiry with lived, sensory experience. The call is open to artists and practitioners across disciplines, particularly social practice, culinary arts, film and media, archival research, and postcolonial studies.
Food Hack Lab Residency | Donostia / San Sebastián, Spain | 10 October – 10 December 2026
The residency is grounded in Donostia / San Sebastián and in Food Hack Lab’s working culture, which is shaped by food, creativity, technology, and open culture. The call is open to applicants from a wide range of disciplines, including cooking, design, architecture, digital fabrication, programming, publishing, cultural research, documentary practices, crafts, critical technology, and other experimental or transdisciplinary fields.
echoes residency hosted by Fix in Art | Epanomi near Thessaloniki, Greece | 20 October – 20 December 2026
This residency is rooted in Thessaloniki and the Fix in Art community in Epanomi, a self-organised cultural space functioning as a living environment for collective practice, rural self-sufficiency, and solidarity-based living. The call is open to artists, researchers, curators, activists, makers, chefs, and other cultural practitioners.
What the residencies provide (different conditions for each residency)
- Flights
- Accommodation
- Subsistence (for some, up to 2,600 EUR)
- Artist fee (425 EUR per month –1,700 EUR in total)
- Production fee (tailored to proposal, 1,200 EUR, or up to 1,800 EUR)
- Curatorial and organisational support
- Access to local networks
