transforming bricks and mortar

Konsthall C’s AiR-platform The Research Station welcomes artists, researchers, writers and activists to apply for Transforming Bricks and Mortar, our two upcoming residencies focusing on the transformative potential in building a decolonial art institution from inside and out.

The objective of the residency is to address Konsthall C as an infrastructure and explore possible futures for an organization that wants to work not only with decolonization but in a decolonial way. Applicants should demonstrate innovative methods based on mutual learning and joint exploration of new ideas and approaches.

The resident will work in close proximity to the staff and our program through engagement with Konsthall C’s history, its future ambitions, relevance in the community and its approach to (re)presenting art.

Selected applicants are invited to work with any aspect of Konsthall C’s organisational structure and program to help uncover new ways of building an accountable and open institutional structure. We are searching for proposals that engage directly with ideas of how art institutions should organise their work to not mute and devalue the artistic decolonial practices exhibited within its program. We want to explore the relationship between decoloniality and contemporary art. We have started to identify the injustice and structural issues in our institution, then how do we unlearn the practices and behaviors that have emerged from these conditions, and seek to build anew along antiracist and decolonized lines.

We will select two residents to work alongside us for eight weeks during the winter and spring of 2022. Your background should display hybrid modes of thought, research, and practice within a decolonial framework. You can come from anywhere in the world.

Residency periods: 1: February 1 – March 13

The stay is six weeks with two weeks at home for writing and reflection on the process and residency. 2: May 11 – June 26