Materiais Diversos maintains a partnership with the Estúdios Victor Córdon (EVC) focused on hosting artistic residencies, providing the artists it supports with conditions for research, creation, and the development of their projects in Lisbon.

In the autumn of 2026, three professional gatherings will take place as part of a cultural cooperation strategy between France, Spain and Portugal, co-curated by Materiais Diversos and the Institut français du Portugal.

Who Gets to Leave for Mars?
Mobility, Institutions and Cultural Futures

18 September 2026
10:00–18:00

Free admission, subject to venue capacity and registration via the link.

Conceived as a utopian conference, this inaugural gathering, co-organised with Culturgest, uses art as a critical catalyst to reflect on the present and the possible futures of European cultural institutions, fostering strategic imagination and long-term cooperation. Taking La Distance by Tiago Rodrigues as its point of departure, the event proposes a collective exercise in anticipation, imagining a world shaped by precarity, climate change and the prospect of exile to Mars, shifting institutional thinking away from short-term imperatives.

Gaya de Medeiros and Piny pitch during the materiais adversos weekend.

Materiais Diversos maintains a partnership with Estúdios Victor Córdon (EVC) for the hosting of artistic residencies, providing the artists it supports with the conditions for research, creation and development of their projects in Lisbon. Natacha Campos is one of the artists taking part in materiais adversos weekend, which will take place in October 2026 in Minde and Alcanena.

November — Lisbon, with and during Alkantara Festival
The third gathering, taking place within the framework of Alkantara Festival, focuses on artistic circulation, exploring festivals as strategic infrastructures for visibility, value creation, a fairer distribution of resources, and sustainable international cooperation.

Materiais Diversos maintains a partnership with Estúdios Victor Córdon (EVC) for the hosting of artistic residencies, providing the artists it supports with the conditions for research, creation and development of their projects in Lisbon. Luísa Saraiva is one of the artists taking part in materiais adversos weekend, which will take place in October 2026 in Minde and Alcanena.

FUTURΛ is an invitation to reinvent curatorial practices: a peer-to-peer space for imagining possible futures with courage, care, and an openness to what has yet to be named. A seminar for programmers, artists and cultural practitioners, FUTURΛ offers a space for listening, critical exchange and experimentation, responding to the urgent need to rethink curatorial practice today. From an intersectional feminist perspective, it brings together professionals from the performing arts in a gathering dedicated to curating as an artistic, political and social practice.

Full programme will be announced in September.

Artists in residency from 14 to 25 October 2026:
❦ Bibi Dória
❦ Connor Scott
❦ Grilo & Inês Campos
❦ Luísa Saraiva
❦ Marga Alfeirão
❦ Miguel Bonneville & Sofia Dinger
❦ Natacha Campos
❦ Pedro Barreiro
❦ Reina del Mar

Materiais Diversos maintains a partnership with Estúdios Victor Córdon (EVC) for the hosting of artistic residencies, providing the artists it supports with the conditions to research, create and develop their projects in Lisbon. Filipe Pereira was the artist invited by Materiais Diversos to lead Clube das Flores, which took place between February and June 2026 in Minde and Alcanena.