Arquetopia Foundation offers three unique and contrasting professional residency and production spaces in Mexico and Peru for artists, art historians, curators, writers, and researchers. Each space features customized residency programs best matched to its location’s traditions, resources, and context.
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Puebla, Mexico
Our renovated 1930s artist compound in the majestic historic district of Puebla, a vibrant cultural capital in the green, temperate highlands of south-central Mexico
Located in the historic center, this site offers a dense urban context shaped by colonial history, industry, and academic institutions. It provides a framework for critical inquiry into material culture, historiography, and the intersections of art, knowledge, and power.
Oaxaca, Mexico
Our Mexican-style villa and traditional studio in the open countryside of Oaxaca, an important arts and cultural capital in southern Mexico
Situated in a rural environment, this space engages with Indigenous knowledge systems, craft traditions, and land-based practices. It supports research into material processes, community, and the relationship between art, territory, and sustainability.
Cusco, Peru
Our Peruvian chalet-style villa and traditional studio in the Valle Sagrado (Sacred Valley) of the Peruvian Andes and the gateway to the renowned Macchu Picchu archaeological site
Based in the Sacred Valley of the Andes, this site offers a context deeply informed by pre-Columbian histories and ongoing colonial legacies. It allows participants to explore questions of extraction, landscape, and cultural continuity within a complex historical and geographic framework.
