Twice a year, Palmyra invites an artist to live and work on-site, developing a project with a focus on stone, ceramics, and sculptural practice, shaped by the surrounding natural environment.
Set within our wild Sculpture Garden, the residency offers time, tools, and space to dive deeply into material processes while drawing inspiration from the rhythms of nature and the raw Mallorcan landscape.
Artists from around the world have spent a season at Palmyra, using the residency to refine their practice, explore new directions, or respond to place through form. Whether you come with a clear project or seek to be moved by the creative energy of the site, we welcome your vision.
To enquire about our residency program, email: contact@palmyra.es
Artists In Residence
Video Palmyra x Julie van Riel
“I’m curious as an artist to make something and give it to time, to the environment, to the weather and see what happens.”
Autumn - Winter 2024 | Julie van Riel
Born in 1999 in The Hague, Netherlands, Julie explores the concept of time in her art. In particular, the process of decay. She has a fascination for how colors and textures in nature develop over time. This evolution is visible and stimulated by chemical reactions that show a transient process. She looks for contrasts by showing an interplay between impermanence and growth, cruelty and tenderness. She works with different materials such as metal, textiles, seaweed, soap, stone, and sulphates. As an artist, she brings her sculptures to life, only to surrender them to the irreversible effect of time while embracing simplicity.
Spring 2023 & Spring 2024 | Dan Mandelbaum
Dan Mandelbaum was born in 1994 in Westfield, New Jersey, USA, and graduated with a BFA in ceramics from Pratt Institute in 2016.
Dan, a Brooklyn-based New York ceramicist, came in the Spring of 2023 to experiment with sculpting in stone at the Palmyra artist-in-residence.
After his residency, he decided to base himself in Mallorca, Spain.
He established a ceramic workshop at Palmyra.
Autumn and Winter 2023-24 | Christin Amann
Christin Amann, born in Germany in 1989, is a Berlin-based, multidisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher with a background in weaving. After four years spent living abroad in Greece, where her sincere passion and profound knowledge of weaving are rooted, she studied textile/surface design and product design at Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Berlin, graduating in 2020. While still a student, she was a member of the design team on the Hella Jongerius and Jongeriuslab project "Interlace – Woven Research”.
Through her work, she attempts to deconstruct and disassemble common processes, thereby allowing the experiment to become the catalyst for new ideas and methods. Her background in crafts and formal training as a designer has heavily informed Christin’s research approach, leading her to constantly question the relationship between crafts and design and society's relation to materials and the methods through which they are processed.
