//Artist photographer //February 2026 Juanita Carrasco Suescún is an artist-photographer, founder and director of Taller FAN LAB Fine Art Printing Laboratory. She holds a Master's degree in Photography Art and Technique from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (2010) and is a specialist in Multimedia Creation from the University of the Andes, Bogotá (2006). In 2005, she graduated from the Javeriana University with a Master's degree in Visual Arts, specialising in pl

//Musician/Educator/Artistic Director //February 2026 Sam Davies is Artistic Director/Founder of the Untold Orchestra. A Manchester based orchestra that places collaboration at the centre of its impact, in efforts to make orchestras more accessible to underrepresented communities. Over the last 4 years under his leadership they have performed over 1200 shows, established a community women's choir, curated performances in care services, transitioned into a charity, and collabo

//January-February 2026 //Painter and illustrator Carmine (Bogotá, 1981) lives alternately between Colombia and France. She currently has a studio in Paris. Before painting, she studied philology and languages at the National University of Colombia and conference interpreting and translation at the École Supérieure des Interprètes et Traducteurs in Paris. For several years (2022-2025), Carmine attended the Parisian workshop Savoir dessiner , where graduates of the Paris Schoo

/ /PhD candidate in Modern Languages, University of Alcalá de Henares, Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences and Master's degree in Hispanic American and Caribbean Literature //Lecturer and researcher //January 2026 Photo: Henry Navarro John William Archbold (1990). Afro-Caribbean. Born in Barranquilla with roots in southern La Guajira and the island of Providencia. He currently resides in a highland region that, to his own surprise, has become his home. He is a lecturer and r

//Dancer and performer //January -February 2026 Gabriel Olivella is a dancer and movement performer originally from Colombia, currently based in Montreal. His practice crosses contemporary dance and performance, drawing on a multidisciplinary vocabulary that integrates dance, oral storytelling and photography. With an initial background in human geography, Gabriel broadened his career by studying dance and improvisation in Canada and Germany, before going on to study contempo

//January-February 2026 //Artist Samuel is a Colombian-born artist living in diaspora for the last 15 years between Australia, Germany, and the US. His work responds to the consumption of art, the lack of sacredness in contemporary culture, and the disconnect from history and its colonial legacy. Through painting, sound recording, and ritual facilitation, he cultivates spaces of co-creation that invite reflection upon systems of power while finding new ways to be in silence t

//Intern, fellow //January-June 2026 Foto: Chloé Cheneval A graduate in tourism from the University of Deusto (Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain), Francisco Javier (Xabi) is a fellow of the Global Training Scholarship programme run by SPRI, the Basque Business Development Agency. Xabi will be with us at El Boga this semester and aims to help raise the international profile of our artist residency programme and our cultural accommodation services. Xabi will support the internation

//January 2026 //PhD in Literature, reading mediator and literary workshop leader Photo: Estefanía Sáenz Natalia Guzmán Reyes (Bogotá) has a PhD in Literature, is a reading mediator and literary workshop leader, with sixteen years' experience in teaching literature. Her practice lies at the intersection between pedagogy, cultural mediation and literary research, with a special interest in reading as a collective, present and meaningful experience. For more than fifteen years,

//Afroeste resident scholarship holder //Sponsored by AECID //January-February 2026 Photo: @taina.villa_lobos Frekwéncia (Rio de Janeiro, 1997) is a multimedia artist whose compositional and speculative practice articulates performance, sound, visual and textual art. She mobilises family archives as a field for critical storytelling, investigating memories, black socialities and the silences of the archive in a fleeting listening that traverses the worlds of the living and th

//Researcher, writer, and sociocultural facilitator //Host Resident February 2026- Lauren Ortiz Rodríguez is a daughter of the Greater Caribbean. She is a researcher, writer, and sociocultural facilitator. She studied social communication and journalism and holds a master's degree in socio-spatial studies from the University of Antioquia. Her professional and community career has focused on strengthening research, artistic, pedagogical, and organisational processes from an an

// Chef, cultural activist and network weaver //January 2026 Lina Ruiz (Bogotá) is a cook, cultural activist and network builder. She has been living in Barcelona since 2021 and her practice lies at the intersection of art, cooking and cultural mediation, using food, stories and dining as devices to activate collective processes around memory, identity, the body and territory. The experience of migration runs through her work, from which she asks how to inhabit a food culture

Retired Pastor/Painter/Musician November// December 2025 Martín, a Swiss and German citizen residing in Switzerland, held various positions within the Protestant (Lutheran/Reformed) church before retiring. He lived in Latin America for eight years and in North America for three. Residence in El Boga In Mompox, which he visited in 2024, he believes to have found the right place, surrounded by interesting and friendly people, to give and receive, to share art, everyday life and

Educator// Writer  October/november 2025 Born in Saint Astier, France, Françoise Audouin arrived in Colombia in 1982. She has worked for nearly thirty years as a preschool teacher at the Lycée Français Louis Pasteur in Bogotá and as a translator. After retiring from teaching, she enrolled in a Master's programme in Creative Writing at the National University in Bogotá and wrote a novel, Suave como la muerte (Soft as Death), which was published by Planeta in November 2020. El

//Multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, director, producer and screenwriter //September-October 2025 A multidisciplinary artist focusing on audiovisual experimentation, he began his career as a filmmaker in 2014 with his debut film Las moscas también duermen (Flies Also Sleep), a video acquired by the art collection of the Banco de la República de Colombia. He continues to direct and produce numerous short films, both fictional and experimental. Ricardo has managed to constr

//Gardener, farmer and landscape designer //September-october 2025 Jenny Miranda is a gardener, farmer and landscape designer, creator of La Suculentería, a botany school founded in Bogotá in 2016 that has introduced more than 2,000 people to the world of plants through workshops on planting vegetable gardens, bonsai, orchids, terrariums, medicinal preparations and more. El Boga Art Residency During her Art Residencies, she will explore the medicinal plants of the region and

//Painter //August-October 2025 Ernesto Soto studied fine arts and art history at the University of Los Andes (2016) and specialised in painting at the University of the Arts London (Camberwell College of Arts, 2025). He has exhibited his work and participated in residencies in Colombia and abroad and has experience in curating, archiving, as a studio assistant and as a teacher. Ernesto uses painting in relation to landscape, a traditional genre that refers to the illusion of

//Graphic artist, facilitator of collective creation processes // September 2025 For more than 20 years, Juliana has been creating graphic narratives through handcrafted lithography. She lives and works in the mountains near Manizales, Colombia, the landscape has been the main subject of her engravings, which feature both observed and imagined landscapes. The centre of her creative process lies in opening up the unconscious in images, discovering narratives in the images she

//Singer, artist, cultural manager //August 2025 María Andrea Rodríguez is a singer, multidisciplinary artist, and cultural manager born in Sincelejo. Her work intertwines music, the body, memory, and territory from a sensitive and critical perspective. Moving between opera, Caribbean music, and performance, she explores how art can be a place of transformation, dignity, and resistance. El Boga Residency During her residency at El Boga, María Andrea will develop Voces Femenin

//Saxophonist and composer Photo: Daniela Murillo David Sánchez is a Puerto Rican saxophonist and composer, GRAMMY Award winner, and...

// Philosopher, singer, songwriter Manuela is a philosopher and singer-songwriter from Antioquia. She currently lives in La Ceja and...