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Residency Programs

The Blitz Valletta Team

Blitz Valletta’s Digital Residency is open to highly motivated individuals from all artistic disciplines, including (but not limited to) new media, digital platforms, film, photography, performance, painting, sound, architecture, electronic music, installation, and will be selected through a competitive open call. Selected applicants must have recently graduated (2017 onwards) from an arts-related postgraduate degree and are requested to present a proposal for an original artwork to be produced and exhibited on our digital platform OPEN, dedicated to Blitz’s digital programme of exhibitions, talks and activities.

The residency will include a research and production phase of approximately one month, during which the resident artist will be in a conversation with Blitz’s curatorial team while participating in a mentorship programme with Art Critic, Writer, Digital Art Specialist Valentina Tanni, together with a minimum of three international visiting professors and project-specific technical experts. The production phase will be followed by the launch of the proposed new artwork, which will be exhibited online for a minimum of two months. Public engagement is crucial to the residency programme, taking the form of virtual open studios, a workshop and/or a talk for a community of artists, researchers, educators, professionals and students. All these activities will be performed virtually and must form part of the applicant’s proposal.

Blitz’s curator will be in discussion with the residents prior to and during the residency about their work and intentions. The curator’s role will be to guide, discuss and work with the residents towards an idea or concept that is agreed upon by both parties. Each resident has access to Blitz staff and associates, who will offer guidance and support, and introduce the resident to the institution’s network. Our aim is to foster and encourage collaborations that are sustainable beyond the framework of the residency.

Blitz Valletta is offering three online residencies for the duration of three months each, starting February 2022, June 2022 and October 2022. One of the three residencies is exclusive to a Maltese artist. Each residency will follow the timeline below:

Month 1 – mentoring programme, lectures with three international visiting professors, research and production of the artwork, virtual open studio

Month 2 – launch of the artwork on Blitz Valletta website, virtual press conference

Month 3 – duration of the online exhibition and public programme (talk / workshop)

Applicants from all over the world may apply and contact hours will be adjusted to facilitate the participation of artists in various time zones. Blitz Valletta reserves the right to determine the order of the selected candidates for the three residencies in order to ensure a smooth implementation of the programme.

February 2022
1st residency research and production

March-April 2022
1st residency exhibition

June 2022
2nd residency research and production

July-August 2022
2nd residency exhibition

October 2022
3rd residency research and production

November-December 2022
3rd residency exhibition

Alexandra Pace

Sara Dolfi Agostini

Valentina Tanni

Oliver Laric

Budget per artist,  which includes an artist fee of €500 and a production budget for the artwork proposed in the application.

INTERNATIONAL ONLINE RESIDENCY

Cordts Art Foundation

Women are underrepresented in art. Sculptor Franziska Seifert wants to change this and, together with her husband Tim Cordts, she established a charitable foundation to support female artists through a residency programme. In the house on Schwanenwerder at the Wannsee lake in Berlin female artists from all over the world can work undisturbed and rent-free for two to ten months and carry out projects dear to their hearts. What a fantastic opportunity …

What do you do with a house in a very exclusive location that you don't want to use yourself? Sculptor Franziska Seifert (55) set up a residence for female artists in the house of her late mother.

What makes the house special is not only its new use but also its location: Schwanenwerder – Berlin's expensive island with a dark past. Industrialists, merchants and bankers lived here, many of them were of Jewish origin and were expelled after 1933. Thereafter, the island was firmly in the hands of the Nazi leadership. After 1945 American military men and the German publisher Axel Springer resided here.

Rent-free in 1935 house on Schwanenwerder at the Wannsee lake in Berlin

Women Artists in Residence 2023

Stadt Dübendorf

Artists in Dübendorf wanted! For the 18th time, the city of Dübendorf is awarding a studio to promote visual artists from May 1 to October 31, 2022.

During the stay in the studio, the willingness and desire to actively deal with the city of Dübendorf and its population is desired. A jury will decide on the selection of an artist in early 2022.

Vreni Spieser

Laura A. Kingsley

Brigitte Fries

Gianin Conrad

Michael Eul

Ramona Proyer

Lydia Wilhelm

Olga Titus

Rahel Hegnauer

Simone Etter

Artist Studio Grant 2022

Atelier Josepha

In partnership with ARS BALTICA Crazy4Culture supports
TWO ARTIST RESIDENCIES AT VILLA JOSEPHA AHRENSHOOP, GERMANY - AUTUMN 2022

Atelier Josepha invites artists of all disciplines to Ahrenshoop, whose work critically reflects on the historical and current circumstances of the Baltic Sea region.

Atelier Josepha brings together nature and art under the central theme 'Baltic Sea'. It promotes critical reflection on the historical and current circumstances of the Baltic Sea region. The residency stands in a tradition of cultural cooperation and exchange within this area. It is also inspired by the need to reflect on our mutual environment and shared seas – both as forces of nature and in their increasing vulnerability.

Residency period: A period of three weeks between September and December 2022. The residency requires the artists´ full-time presence at Atelier Josepha.

Helen Adkins

Marcus Hagemann

Vera Neukirchen

Torsten Ruehle

Charlotte Streck

Call for Residencies 2022

The registration fee amounts to €65 (excl. VAT) or €78.65 (incl. VAT). The payment procedure is included in the online application; when finalizing the form, you will be redirected to Paypal. Please make sure you have an active Paypal account and that you have your login code at hand. Upon redirecting, you will be asked to sign in.  The application fee is waived for applicants from and living in the Least Developed Countries, Low Income Countries and Lower Middle Income Countries and Territories on the DAC list. Please see the DAC list attached on our website.

Liva Laure / Solange Roosen

Artists, curators, designers – ranging from graphic and fashion to food and social design –, researchers, writers, and architects are welcome to apply for an  11-month residency starting in November 2022.

As a multi-disciplinary post-academic institute, the Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, NL) is committed to exploring the agency, roles, and civic significance of art, design and other creative practices in relation to the climate crisis, environmental breakdown, and their manifold effects. This institutional focus aims at creating a common-ground that embraces a diversity of practices and allows for a multitude of voices.

The academie offers residency programmes to those who wish to broaden their artistic horizons and develop their art practice in depth. Each participant is equipped with a private studio, can count on the guidance of our advisers and make use of the expertise of our library and Labs – Photography & Audiovisual, Material Matters, Food, Printing & Publishing and Future Materials. The departments for Nature Research, Art & Society and Research & Education support the artists in realizing their projects in collaboration with external parties and further their artistic and academic research. Next to their individual projects, participants are encouraged to collaboratively develop an In-Lab project and to contribute to the public programme.

The enrolment fee amounts to €2,750 per residency year, excluding VAT. You will receive an invoice well before the starting date of your residency;

Each participant is equipped with a private studio, can count on the guidance of our advisers and make use of the expertise of our library and Labs – Photography & Audiovisual, Material Matters, Food, Printing & Publishing and Future Materials.

Call for Applications 2022/2023

Julius Thissen

Imagine: Museum Arnhem is a sandbox.

The museum is a tangible material. You can play with, and in it; you can dissect its sand. Will you play together, or steal each other’s sand? Where does the sand come from? Whose is it, and who placed it here? How is it distributed, who has access to it? Perhaps you are on the outside of the sandbox, perhaps the sides of it have simply been designed too high. What would playing mean if there was no such thing as bullying? Will you bring in new toys, or will you empty the box? Will you break down the box, or build a world within it?

Museum Arnhem and Julius Thissen invite transgender and queer people for a residency in the museum.

This project focuses on various questions relating to access and representation. The museum’s collection will be utilized for it. It contains over 25.000 objects: diverse works about power, love, identity and more. Which stories appeal to you and which ones put you off? Which artists or works are hidden or missing? You will work on these themes alongside the Museum Arnhem team. The outcome of this project will be an exhibition that opens at the end of 2022.

The residency starts in January 2022 and involves biweekly group meetings until May 2022. The group will meet monthly in September and October 2022. The planning takes place in consultation.

The interpretation and thematic development of the exhibition depends entirely on the group of residents. Julius Thissen will mentor them in this process.

Nagaré Willemsen

Simon(e) van Saarloos

Residency for transgender & queer people

The Vonk Team

VONK is looking for artists who work on the border between visual art and performance.
Are you a visual artist making the crossover to the performing arts or are you a performance artist who works very visual?
And are you looking for a workspace? Then this open call might interest you.

Once the artist has a finished product, we can look at different possibilities to present it. This within the VONK infrastructure, in the public space, or at one of the VONK partners.

Residency periods can go from 1 week to maximum 2 months.

​Please note that the studio is not technically equipped. We are looking for artists and projects who can present in atypical places where context is more important than technology.

A compensation for a place to sleep if needed.

Residency program for performance artists

Copper Leg Team

The Copper Leg Art Residency is located 18 km from Tallinn city center, in the village of Vaskjala, in an old school building surrounded by fields. The house was constructed in 1934 and was renovated in the summer of 2017. It is a meeting point for creative people, visual artists, musicians, writers, etc. for making their art and showing it to people.

The Residency is managed by the Cultural Centre of Rae and provides residents with accommodation and working spaces, also supporting them in organizing public events, exhibitions, concerts, performances, workshops, and cultural gatherings.

The area is very calm and surrounded by beautiful nature which makes it a quiet space to live and work in. At the same time, the Estonian capital city Tallinn is easily reachable, one can get to the City center in 25 min by bus or in 15 min by car.

The minimum stay is 2 weeks and a maximum of 2 months. According to the agreement, the artist has the obligation to provide workshops, organize events, or hold an exhibition on site.

Residents are provided with accommodation and working spaces. 

Open Call Winter / Spring 2022


Every year, Amant Studio & Research Residency Program awards artists from around the world with research-oriented residencies in its brand new campus in Brooklyn, NY. During the three-month duration of each residency period, four artists are provided with individual studio spaces, an expense allowance, as well as resources to support long-term research projects and archival work.

With experimental practices within the visual arts, cultural theory, writing, filmmaking, and performance, the residents form a central part of Amant’s dynamic multidisciplinary programming. A significant portion of our Study Lines and Ongoing Series are informed by ideas related to the residents’ research, including Brooklyn Through the Eyes Of, Open Exchange, Discoursed & Discussed, and Show Tell Toast.

Amant also supports each resident’s artistic research by facilitating access to relevant institutions, archives, and scholars in New York City. By listening to and engaging with the many perspectives the city has to offer, each artist has the opportunity to enrich their creative practice and gain access to New York’s world-renowned art scene.

Echoing the general ethos of Amant, the Studio & Research Residency Program places a special emphasis on thinking alongside narratives that have not been validated, interpreted, or recorded by art history and history, fostering an active dialogue with local organizations and communities, art professionals, and cultural producers at large.

Above all else, Amant is committed to providing residents with the time and support they need to experiment.

Residencies are awarded by an annual open call. This is the only time artists can apply to the Amant Studio & Research Residency Program.

Amant Studio & Research Residency Program

Julie Hamel

The Currier Museum of Art invites applications for the second annual open call for its Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program, awarding up to two residencies between fall 2022 and spring 2023. This program will provide support for selected self-identified emerging artists or artist groups (of up to three people) focused on social practice. Due to the flexible nature of this program, these residencies can be for a period of 6-12 weeks between mid-October 2022 and mid-March 2023. The AIR program is central to the Currier Museum’s mission of connecting audiences with art and creative thinking. This program deepens the mission through an open call to social practice artists who share the goal of impacting people through the transformative power of art. Applications are open until December 1, 2021.

The Currier Museum welcomes and encourages proposals from Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) as well as members of the LGBTQI community. The museum does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Applicants must demonstrate a history of social engagement in their artmaking practice and production. Successful applicants will develop an innovative project with tangible outcomes that align with the tenets of their own practice, the mission of the museum, and the needs of the community partner(s) with whom they will collaborate. Artists and small collectives (no more than 3 people) working in any media are eligible to apply.

housing in a fully furnished home. In many cases, resident artists may be able to have spouses/children accompany them. Service animals are welcome.

The Currier Museum supports resident artists with a stipend of $1,000 per week.