Live the islands
Spend time in Puerto Ayora and across the islands with a pace that leaves room for observation, conversation, and creative practice.
Artistic & touristic residency · Puerto Ayora, Galápagos
Galapagos Under The Skin
An invitation for artists from every discipline to experience the Galápagos Islands through creativity, connection, and meaningful travel.
Since the early 2000s
An island experience for artists who want to go deeper.
Galápagos Under the Skin is an artistic and touristic residency in Puerto Ayora, Galápagos. Since the late 1990s at Casa de Mathias, it has welcomed artists from around the world to encounter the islands through attentive travel, creative exchange, and time in community.
The experience
Create in context
Meet local voices, landscapes, and stories through an experience organized with care and respect for the place.
Connect across practices
Share work, questions, and perspectives across disciplines in a residency shaped by exchange rather than extraction.
A residency with a living history.
Galapagos Under the Skin is a Puerto Ayora–based cultural and travel-inspired project that reveals the living soul of the Galapagos Islands. Beyond iconic wildlife and landscapes, it invites visitors and residents to connect with local stories, ocean life, conservation, culture, and the emotions that make Galápagos unforgettable. It is not only about seeing the islands—it is about feeling them, respecting them, and carrying them with you.
Puerto Ayora, Galápagos
Come with your practice. Leave with a deeper connection.
Whether you work in visual arts, performance, writing, music, design, research, or another creative discipline, you are invited to bring your practice into conversation with the islands.