The “Barcelona Crea Grants – Creative Factories 2026” are an initiative of the Network of Creative Factories, with the support of the Barcelona Institute of Culture, to support the pre-production processes that accompany the creation of artistic proposals: conceptualization, gestation, research, experimentation, documentation and essay. These grants seek to contribute to maintaining the cultural and scientific momentum of the city by offering resources to develop processes of artistic research and innovation.

Founded in 1997, Hangar is an artistic governance project that aims to maintain—that is, generate, update, revise, repair, and sustain—the conditions necessary to facilitate artistic production and research, understanding them as practices and forms of critical speculation that have the capacity to respond to contemporary debates and emergencies. Hangar understands art as a knowledge-producing practice and, therefore, defends artistic research as a research modality in its own right, endowed with a specific modality of discovery and production of knowledge. Experimentation with unconventional methodologies, leaps of mastery from scientific or technological fields, and openness to new ways of documenting and sharing work processes are fundamental to the center's ecosystem.

Hangar is offering a Barcelona Crea – Fàbriques de Creació 2026 grant to support an artist or researcher from any field in carrying out an artistic research process focused specifically on methodological experimentation. With this grant, the center provides the beneficiary with the budget, space and appropriate support conditions for the development of a proposal that explores and implements unconventional research methodologies, contributing to their dissemination in a professional environment. The selected proposal will be carried out at Hangar during a five-month residency, between May and September 2026.

1. Objectives The Hangar methodological experimentation grant investigates possible ways to structure, model and make artistic research practices replicable. It seeks to understand how intuitions or sensitive learning are transformed into methodologies transferable to other languages ​​or fields of knowledge. At the same time, it investigates the limits or excesses that arise from paradigms that seek to maximize the transparency of practices, detecting what cannot be modeled, what, due to its uniqueness, resists being replicated and sometimes requests to remain hidden in order to be protected. Therefore, the general objective of the program is to promote the documentation, systematization and publication of unconventional modes of research that incorporate an operational reflection on their own scope, contributing to the characterization of the notion of artistic knowledge.

2. Benefits and allowance
Hangar will make available to the beneficiary: – Fees: €6,000 gross, which will include the purchase of all the materials necessary for the research. – Conceptual and technical support for the proposal. – A workspace at the center. – Access to tools and common spaces. – Hangar will support the dissemination and public presentation of the project within the framework of one of the center's public programs. – These grants do not cover travel expenses from the place of residence to the center, nor accommodation or subsistence expenses.

3. Recipients
– Artists, researchers and groups of any age and nationality who work in the field of artistic research in relation to the city of Barcelona or its metropolitan area. The relationship will be understood as accredited when at least one of the following conditions is met: – That the object of the proposal is related to the city of Barcelona or its metropolitan area. – That the candidate person or entity has their residence in the city of Barcelona or its metropolitan area. – That the candidate person or entity is linked to the cultural fabric of Barcelona or its metropolitan area and that this is evident from the content of the documentation submitted.

4. Duration
The grant project will be developed for a period of five months between May and September 2026.

5. Requirements
– Each person or group can submit to the call with only one project. – The proposal must be in a phase of ideation, research, prototyping, testing or pre-production, that is, in the exploration and methodological design phase, prior to production. – None of the phases covered by the grant (development of the artistic proposal prior to production) must have been carried out. – The proposal must not have been previously presented in public, either by the person or entity participating in the call or by other people or entities. – The proposal must not have received any type of grant from Barcelona City Council at any stage of its development or any Barcelona Crea grant.

6. Commitments of the selected project with Hangar
– Make a presentation of the process carried out or an opening of its provisional methodological results during the period of residency at Hangar, participating in a public event of the center. – Deliver a final report of the project and an evaluation of the residency during the two months following its completion. – The artist will assign to Hangar the rights of public communication of the research for any country in the world, for dissemination and communication (publications, press kit, center website, social networks, etc.).

7. Application process
The application must be sent in a single PDF to this form , including the following information (in Catalan, Spanish or English): 

1– Personal details (full name, date and place of birth, photo of the ID card or passport, email, telephone number). 

2– Brief biography specifying the applicant's main lines of research (up to 500 characters) 

3– Curriculum vitae (up to 1500 characters) 

4– Description of the proposal, including: — Title. — Summary of the proposal (up to 2500 characters). — Objectives (up to 1000 characters). — Comprehensive methodological description (up to 2500 characters). — Motivations for doing the residency and relationship with specific lines of research of the center (up to 2000 characters). — How the research will be documented (up to 1500 characters). — Calendar and work plan (up to 2000 characters). — A maximum of ten (10) images.

8. Submission deadlines and calendar
– Application deadline: Sunday, March 15, 23:59 (GMT +1). – Application form: https://cloud.hangar.org/apps/forms/s/Noo9LX8N6N2RtyfRYZo7Y5k5 – Selection process results: early April 2026. – Residency period: five consecutive months between May and September 2026.

9. Selection Committee
The selection committee will be composed of: – A member of the Hangar Stable Jury, – a guest artist or cultural agent, – Antonio Gagliano, Hangar's research manager.

10. Assessment criteria
The selection committee will assess the projects according to: – The consistency, relevance and level of experimentation of the proposal, as well as the investigation into disruptive, non-conventional research methodologies. – The will to bring together knowledge from different disciplines or fields of knowledge in the research practice. – The willingness of the proposals to open up and share their development process with the communities that inhabit the center. – The artistic journey or research experience of the candidate. – The fit of the proposed research with Hangar's research lines, and its technical feasibility according to the center's available resources. – The presentation of all documents and materials requested by the call, in the required format and with the indicated extension.

11. Data protection
– In accordance with data protection regulations, it is reported that personal data must be processed by Hangar to manage participation in the framework of this call. Due to legal obligation, the data will not be transferred to third parties. You have the right to access the data provided, rectify it and delete it, as well as to exercise the other rights established in the current data protection regulations. – The presentation of projects within the framework of this call will imply the presumption of authorship, being the responsibility of whoever has presented the project any eventual claim that may arise.

12. Acceptance of the rules and the jury's decision
Participation in this call implies acceptance of the rules and the jury's decision, as well as any changes that may occur later due to factors beyond Hangar's control.