The Residency
The Bantaba Residency is a project in development near Rome. It is being built to give artists working with reclaimed material the space, the material supply and the technical support to make work at a scale most studios cannot.
The residency is not yet operating. Everything described on this page is our plan for it, not a description of facilities currently in use. We will publish dates, costs and application terms before opening applications.
From industrial
remnant to
cultural artifact
The residency is designed to place artists alongside the material stream itself — observing, selecting and working with material as it arrives, rather than receiving it pre-sorted and stripped of its history.
Each cohort is intended to close with a public exhibition and catalogue, with every work documented for material provenance and issued a certificate.
Applications opening soon
The Bantaba Residency opens soon. We welcome artists across all disciplines who share a commitment to material transformation and to circular-economy principles.