SPACE Residency lab is the first Bratislava residency programme for artists, curators and cultural operators aimed to endorse international confrontation and exchange. We invite foreign artists, curators to come to live and create in Bratislava, and we send out Slovak artists to residency stays abroad /Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, New York, Leipzig/. The programme is organized with the financial support of the International Visegrad Fund, the Mnistry of Culture of the Slovak Republic and the Goethe Institute in Bratislava. So far we have cooperated with the following institutions abroad: Futura in Prague, Lumen Foundation, Studio for Young Artists /FKSE/ in Budapest and a-i-r laboratory at  the Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw. SPACE residency lab was founded in 2006 at Lazaretska Street, it continued on Štefánikova Street and 7/A Velehradská Street. Currently it is situated on 52 Riazanská Street.

Residency lab project results from a long absence of programs of that kind in Slovakia. Initiation of creative stay in the inspiring context of new environment has rather positive influence upon invited author’s work. Even more important is the significance of such residency stays for cultural development of the region. Initiation of cultural communication and exchange, gaining information about cultural differences and bonds, as well as prospects of a long-term co-operation give the residency programme even greater importance. SPACE Residency lab is designed for young emerging artists – painters, writers, actors etc., and for young art theoreticians from different regions of Slovakia (at least 30 per cent of participants are of Slovak origin) as well as for young foreign artists experimenting in various fields of contemporary art (mainly art projects which go beyond one particular field of art), and also for young art theorists from abroad. Residency is primarily intended for artists and theoreticians active in the field of multimedia and visual media (installations, site-specific art, context sensitive art, videoart, photography, painting, VJing, DJing, sound art, light art, computer art, stream art, performance. At the end of a residency stay, each artist has a public presentation of his/her work, exhibition and presentation of his/her artwork created during the stay. In the case of a theoretician, a study or a research conducted during the stay is presented at the end. Both artists and theoreticians are provided with adequately equipped studio or study room. From generation point of view, the project is focused first and foremost on the support of young emerging authors who are seeking their place in the structures of the world of art after they have finished their studies. In the course of its 6-year-long existence, residency programme SPACE Residency lab has introduced many intriguing foreign and domestic artists and theoreticians to the Slovak public. Important connections with influential foreign artists and curators have been established,a lot of lectures,presentations and exhibitions have been organized, which introduced actual trends in the contemporary art to the Slovak public and initiated many discussions about various forms of art among both the professional and lay public. In 2009, SPACE gallery and its residency programme were involved in an international network of institutions organizing residency programmes RES ARTIS.

2006 > Antonino Musco : : Giuliano Cangiano : : Sebastiano Greco /I/ :
: Dorota Sadovská /SK/ Radek Váňa /CZ, NL/ : : Tanja Ostojić /SRB/
Special guests > Jiří David : : Martin Dostál /CZ/ : : Kasia
Krakowiak /PL/ : : Cesare Pietroiusti /I/ 2007 > Matúš Lányi /SK/ : :
John Cake : : Darren Neave /GB/ : : Jiří Skála /CZ/ Alexandra Croitoru
/RO/ : : Katarzyna Skupny /PL/ 2008 > Eva Jiricka /CZ/ : : Adel
Abidin /FIN, IRQ/ : : Viviana Checchia /I/ : : Sona Abgaryan /ARM/
Eugenio Percossi /I, CZ/ 2009 > Vaclav Magid /CZ/ : : Marta Racz /HU/
: : Laura Pawela /PL/ 2010 > Ivan Sloboda /CZ/ : : Jakub
Jasiukiewics /PL/ : : Szabolcs Suli-Zakar /HU/ : : Matěj Smetana /CZ/ 
2011 > Janek Rous /CZ/ : : Lado Darakhvelidze /GE/ : : Peter Szalay
/HU/ : : Allard van Hoorn /NL/ : : Ola Lewin /GER, LT/ : : Alice
Schivardi /IT/ 2012 > Kamila Szejnoch /PL/ : : Aleš Čermák /CZ/ : : Júlia Vécsei /HUN/