Christian Lagata

2024

Vera Mota

Portugal

fiberglass, iron, metal workshop, resin, laser cut, welding machine, chamfering, grinder

2021

Tyries Holder

England, Jamaica

glass, painting, resin

Home by Ronan Mckenzie

2021

Tomás Abreu

Portugal

iron, wood, electronic material, stone

2019

Tiago Ângelo

Portugal

audiovisual material, iron, laser cut, electronic material, copper, welding machine

Sonoscopia

2018

Tiago Madaleno

Portugal

aluminium, audiovisual material, laser cut

2021

Tiago Lêdo

Portugal

iron, electronic material, painting, audiovisual material

Pedreira

2024

Sofia Mascate

Portugal

glass, acrylic, painting, aluminium, iron

Revista Umbigo, Covipor

2022

Sebastián Baudrand

Chile

fiberglass, iron, glass, audiovisual material

Galeria Lehmann + Silva

2019

Sara Bichão

Portugal

iron, stainless steel, textil, rubber, welding machine, painting, motorization, acrylic

Porto Post Doc

2024

Rudolfo da Silva

Portugal

laser cut, iron, painting, wood, welding machine, acrylic, resin, metal workshop, carpentary, composite workshop

2019

Rita Morais

Portugal

audiovisual material

Porto Post Doc

2018

Rafael Yaluff

Chile

painting, glass, aluminium, plaster, electronic material

2025

Pedro Moreira

Portugal

aluminium, laser cut, grinder, welding machine, metal workshop

Festival Barlos

2019

Marryam Moma

Tanzania, Nigeria, USA

glass, fiberglass, iron, aluminium, drill, chamfering, plasma cutting, painting, grinder, circular saw, handsaw, welding machine, resin, metal workshop, painting booth

Atlanta Beltline

2019

Maria Trabulo

Portugal

plasma cutting, painting, aluminium

Correntes d'escritas

2024

Maria Constanza Ferreira

EUA, Venezuela, Portugal

aluminium, laser cut, audiovisual material, motorization, painting, glass

Covipor

2018

Luísa Jacinto

Portugal

iron, painting, bender

AiR 351

2025

Kyra Nijskens

Netherlands

drill, chamfering, expanded polystyrene, fiberglass, painting, composite workshop, grinder, bender, plastic, welding machine, resin, metal workshop, carpentary

2018

Guilherme Figueiredo

Portugal

chamfering, ceramic, laser cut, iron, wood, audiovisual material, metal workshop, carpentary

2019

Guilherme de Sousa & Pedro Azevedo

Portugal

aluminium, glass

2019

Gil Madeira

Portugal, Switzerland

glass, painting

2023

Frida Baranek

Brasil

steel, stainless steel, brass, iron, cement, rubber, electronic material, bituminous, motorization, stone, welding machine, glass

2018

Francisca Carvalho

Portugal

iron, welding machine, glass

Câmara Municipal Póvoa de Varzim

2025

Filipa Tojal

Portugal

chamfering, aluminium, drill, plasma cutting, iron, stainless steel, audiovisual material, painting, glass, metal workshop

Escola das Artes, Un. Autónoma de Lisboa

2021

Diogo da Cruz

Portugal

plasma cutting, iron, welding machine

Revista Umbigo

2023

Dayana Lucas

Venezuela, Portugal

plasma cutting, laser cut, expanded polystyrene, iron, painting, composite workshop, welding machine, glass

CIAJG

2023

Cristina Mejias

Spain

glass, wood, iron, electronic material, brass, polyurea paint

Matadero Madrid, BF Glass Studio, Eneida Tavares

2025

Christian Lagata

Spain

drill, chamfering, plasma cutting, expanded polystyrene, iron, wood, stainless steel, painting, bender, grinder, circular saw, welding machine, metal workshop

Christian Lagata

Short-Term Art Residency /

Christian Lagata (Jerez de la Frontera, 1986) lives and works in Madrid. His work explores the tensions between materiality and morphology in productive environments such as industrial zones or urban concentrations, and the different forms of ‘familiarity’ (mnemonic, functional, aesthetic) that we establish with them. He has exhibited at La Casa Encendida, CAAC, CA2M, CCCC, Artnueve, Voloshyn Gallery, ARCO, and ArtBrussels, and has participated in residencies at Matadero Madrid, Hangar Lisboa, and BilbaoArte. His work is part of collections such as Museo CA2M, CAAC, DKV, and Fundació Sorigué.

Christian practice is rooted in the appropriation and transformation of found objects. This familiarity with improvisation and matter facilitated his integration into the industrial environment of ArtWorks. The artist built compositions that suggest ambiguous forms: bodies, shelters, structures oscillating between the organic and the mechanical.
“In my practice there has always been a connection with industrial spaces and abandoned grounds, especially in the peripheries,” he explains.
This relationship dates back to his childhood in Andalusia, marked by disused industrial landscapes.
From that memory arises a tension between the cold and the warm, the sharp and the welcoming — an attempt to find traces of humanity in an increasingly harsh and impersonal urban context.
During the residency, access to tools and technical resources allowed him to deepen his research into how materials respond to gesture and manipulation.
The work developed also served as a starting point for his next exhibition, “Metal del verano”, inaugurated in November at the Centre for Contemporary Creation of Andalusia.

Credits

format: one-off residency
photography & video: ArtWorks Audiovisual

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2025

Charity Hamidullah

USA

acrylic, aluminium, drill, chamfering, cardboard, iron, fiberglass, stainless steel, painting, grinder, welding machine, handsaw, resin, metal workshop, painting booth

Atlanta Beltline