CCCB Resident
International residency programme
The CCCB’s international residency programme invites outstanding personalities from the domains of thought, creation, and journalism to live in Barcelona for a period of two to three months. During their stay, the guests curate projects at the CCCB and create active links with the city’s cultural agents.
With an initial duration of three years, the programme aims to promote discussion of excellence and the creative relationship between Catalonia and the world. It also plans to provide comfortable medium- and long-term working spaces that will favour the forging of deeper relations between the guests and the local cultural context, as well as fostering more sustainable international mobility. The “CCCB Resident” programme is structured around two content areas. In the first, it invites journalists who are renowned for their defence of freedom of expression and a quality public sphere as the ultimate guarantees of democracy and essential for confronting authoritarianism. In the second, thinkers and creators from the global South are invited to enrich the public debate on contemporaneity and shift it into other domains.
This project has been made possible thanks to support and financing from the Mir-Puig Foundation, and support of the Open University of Catalonia.
Residents 2024
Patrick Radden Keefe, investigative journalist and a reference in literary non-fiction. In the months of June and July 2024, Patrick Radden Keefe will curate a lecture series on the question of truth and the current situation of the mass media, as well as participating in several public events.
Eliane Brum, journalist and climate activist. Brum lives and works in the Brazilian Amazon, in the Middle Xingu region, one of the core areas of rainforest destruction. Besides being an advisor to the exhibition “Amazonias: The Ancestral Future”, she will give a seminar and curate a series of lectures contemplating the world with Amazonia as its centre.
Coming residencies (2025-2026)
Tsitsi Dangarembga, writer, film director, and feminist activist. Tsitsi Dangarembga was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where she currently lives. Her works, many of which have won international awards, capture the heterogeneous social reality of Africa from a feminist perspective.
Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, writer, linguist, translator, researcher, and activist. She studies and promotes linguistic diversity, in particular the original languages of Mexico, including her own mother tongue, Ayuujk, which are at risk of disappearing.
Participants: Patrick Radden Keefe, Eliane Brum, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil
