De Liceiras 18
DE LICEIRAS 18 is an experimental, independent, artist-run space located in an old residential house in the historical center of Porto, Portugal. Every month we host a group of international artists forming an ever-changing, dynamic temporary art community. It is run by the non-profit cultural association Eklipsefémero - Núcleo Artístico Independente.
De Liceiras 18 is a monthly-based project, open for visual artists, designers, conceptual gardeners, experimental writers, sound hunters, improvisatory singers, performers, philosophers and (...) who would like to create in an old wood house in the centre of Porto. They welcome the creatives who are enthusiastic about spending one (or more) months within an exchange-based micro-art-community - learning, teaching, discussing and breaking any preconceptions; who are not afraid to erase barriers between private and public, to live and create in the same space; who are able to take inspiration from both possibilities and impossibilities, obstacles and miracles brought about by creating in such an informal, experimental, no-budget and anti-white-box space.
Every month, DL18 hosts between 4 and 7 artists with diverse backgrounds, forming an ever-changing, dynamic temporary art community in the city of Porto.
Open Studio Exhibition, Pop-up show, Solo Exhibition, etc.
Each participating artist receives their own simple habitable atelier.
They have a little garden in the Musas community gardens that you are also welcome to use as a studio or a venue for your project.
The DE LICEIRAS 18 is located in a very old, two-story house in Porto, Portugal which seems to organically adapt to the form of the city itself, consisting of no perpendicular lines, with floors sloping and sounds of human and seagull daily life entering through wooden old windows, creating in the interior a constant quasi-musical blend of noises. The house is situated in a very particular place; although right in the middle of the city, its entrance stays hidden in a tiny bystreet, overlooked by tourists and bustling with local life. The everyday reality of the bystreet is even more curious due to a very particular combination of the house’s neighbours, formed of an old shoemaker's workshop, a motorcycle club and a traditional bar. The second façade of the house faces a brothel.