Grants for Artistic Creation

Grants for Artistic Creation is sponsored by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal). The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation offers grants to support artists with unique and relevant artistic creation projects in Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Cinema, and Cross-Disciplinary projects within Portugal.

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Start date 12 Jan 2026 / 16:00 End date 06 Mar 2026 / 12:00 To apply you must have a MyGulbenkian account. Call Conditions, in Portuguese (PDF - 1.

1 MB) The following artistic areas are supported: Performing Arts: dance, theatre and new circus; Visual Arts: drawing, sculpture, photography, performance, painting and video; Cinema: screenwriting and directing; Cross-Disciplinary Projects: projects that integrate at least two different disciplines, the main one being one of the artistic areas defined for the competition (Performing Arts, Visual Arts or Cinema), and cannot focus on the fields of architecture, design, publishing or music.

Support will be granted for the execution of: Projects for the creation of a work in Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Cinema or Cross-Disciplinary projects; Projects that correspond to a part of the creative process in the areas referred above, without the obligation to present a finished work. Candidates can apply for the following support levels: €4,000; €8,000; €12,000, and €16,000.

National and international artist-authors can apply, in their individual capacity, or through private Portuguese non-profit organisations with which they collaborate in the implementation of the project. International artists must reside in Portugal and be part of the Portuguese artistic community.

Projects must be initiated and executed between 1 September 2026 e 31 December 2028; Each artist can only submit one application per year; Applications will only be accepted online and in Portuguese. Before submitting the application form, check all the eligibility criteria.

We advise you to read the Regulations and Frequently Asked Questions (available in the Documents area, in Portuguese only) Applications can only be submitted once all the mandatory fields of the form have been completed and the documentation required by the Regulation has been uploaded; After filling the form, click on the ‘submit application’ button.

In order to prevent difficulties in submitting applications, avoid submitting your application in the last few days of the deadline. Results will be communicated until 17 July 2026 through MyGulbenkian. Loja Lisboa Cultura provides support to these applications, by appointment , (click on ‘Apoio a Candidaturas’, ‘Marcação de Atendimento’ and select the option ‘Apoio a Candidaturas’ on the page, below).

Curator, producer e researcher in performing arts. In 2009, after 10 years as a director of alkantara, she became a nomad, assuming the curatorship of several projects in Spain (El Ranchito), Brazil (Festival Panorama) and Chile (Movimiento Sur). Back in Portugal, between 2018 and 2021, she curated Festival Verão Azul.

In 2018, she launched the project Linha de Fuga – an international creation laboratory and arts festival. Author of several articles on the performing arts field, she works as an advisor and artistic mentor to artists and organisations in Europe and South America. Creator, cultural programmer, professor and researcher.

PhD on the subject of Community Artistic Practices and Civic and Political Participation in Brazil and Portugal, he is a guest lecturer at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Évora and at The School of Dance – IPL. He works as an artistic advisor to institutions and national and international project in programming and cultural policies.

He was artistic director of Festival Imaginarius and MEXE and a curator in different projects and contexts. Currently, he is the director of DESEJAR – Movimento de Artes e Lugares Comuns and 'O que fazemos com isto?' , Braga 25 – Portuguese Capital of Culture.

Learn more Programmer of performing arts at Teatro do Bairro Alto (2019-2025). With a degree in Psychopedagogy and postgraduate degree in Cultural Management, she was part of the programming team of Teatro Maria Matos as a programming assistant (2009-2018), having collaborated in curating projects in the field of contemporary performing arts.

During that period, she was responsible for managing an international network of theatres and festivals financed by the EU Creative Europe Programme, focusing on the support of artistic creation, the promotion of cultural mobility and the diffusion of cooperation and exchange between different cultural contexts. Brazilian sociologist and transdisciplinary artist, director, curator and poet.

Master in Artistic Photography (2022) and Sociology (2007), PhD in Sociology of Cinema (2019), she is the co-creator of the Nêga Filmes Cultural Association, which develops transdisciplinary projects in visual arts, cinema, curatorship, education, photography, poetry and performance. She is one of the creators of the KUBATA – Casa de Potencialização Artística project.

Since 2016, she has coordinated and curated several film cycles and exhibitions. Deputy coordinator of ICNOVA – NOVA Institute of Communication, assistant professor at the Autonomous University of Lisbon and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University and film programmer.

In 2023, she was awarded the Hélio and Amélia Pedroso Chair / Luso-American Foundation in Portuguese Studies, at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her research focus on colonial visuality and coloniality, film propaganda and censorship in Portugal, women in decolonisation movements, and militant uses of images. Visual artist, curator, programmer and art educator.

She has a degree in Anthropology from UNL/FCSH and a postgraduate qualification in Performance from FBAUP. She develops her practice at the intersection between performance, video, photography, text, curation, research, and education, while also developing visual arts curatorial projects in independent spaces and in partnership with cultural institutions. She is one of the founding artists of UNA – União Negra das Artes.

Curator, architect and cultural advisor the Cabo Verde Embassy in Portugal. Executive Master's degree and PhD candidate in the MIT Portugal programme, he works at the intersection between artistic practices, space and cultural mediation in Portuguese-speaking countries and territories. In architecture, he has developed projects on various scales, for which he has received distinctions and awards.

He is the curator of the 11th São Tomé and Príncipe Art Biennial. He has collaborated with cultural centres and museums in curating, programming and strategic consulting. Curator at CACE – Coleção de Arte Contemporânea do Estado since 2022, she has a degree in History of Art and a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Lisbon, her career being closely linked to contemporary art, as a teacher, researcher, or exhibition curator.

If you have any questions after consulting the FAQs and the regulations, please contact the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation at [email protected] . An information webinar will be held on 19 February 2026 at 12:00 (Lisbon time) to address any queries.