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Rooms available at artist-in-residence Kunstenaarslogies in Amersfoort.


Urgent deadlines for independent residencies in Belgium and the Netherlands: Deadlines Low Countries

Unesco Aschberg Residencies 

Every year the Unesco Culture and Promotion Fund offers a unique bursary programme for artists from all disciplines. Many host organisations all over the world are announcing special residency calls as part of the Unesco Aschberg Fund.

Writers' Section 

New: Trans Artists guide into residency opportunities for writers and translators.

'The Prologue Papers'
'The Prologue Papers'

'The Prologue' 

How can European art schools, art organisations and AIR programmes contribute to professionalise the artist' career of a young European artist? And what kind of education and information is needed to make them more aware of the international opportunities? Trans Artists invited several European partners to talk and discuss the topics mentioned above.

BJCEM 2008 

Bari, Italy. Weather forecast: 39 degrees Celsius. I push away the wobbly curtains and look out of the window of our shuttle bus. The sun trembles nervously at the end of the sky.

Tell us your stories 

Send us your experiences! Your story will be published on our online newsletter and will help other artists to make better decisions about where to go.

Annual Report 2007 

How popular were Dutch residencies in 2007? How many hits scored the Trans Artists website? What about the Trans Artists workshops? Curious? Read it all in the Trans Artists annual report 2007!

MFA Masters of Fine Art Courses & Postgraduate Institutes 

Applications for postgraduate art institutes in the Netherlands and beyond


Find information on residences in the Netherlands> Platform Dutch Guest Studios

Deadlines 

Check out the latest upcoming deadlines.


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Residency Programs in Japan

Step Beyond

The European Cultural Foundation offers Step Beyond, a mobility grant for artists, cultural operators, journalists, translators and researchers active in the cultural field. STEP beyond can be applied for all year long.


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What to wear as an artist in residence? Don't be shy and order this fashion statement made exclusively for Trans Artists. Wear it. Be it!

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Studios offered & wanted world wide.

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Welcome

FIND your residence HERE

Trans Artists is an independent foundation that informs artists of any discipline about international artist-in-residence programs and other opportunities for artists to stay and work elsewhere 'for art's sake'.

Res Artis 11th General Meeting

Artists in Dialogue, Transforming Communities is the theme of the 11th Res Artis General Meeting, hosted by Trans Artists. The conference provides a forum for international exchange among the professionals who work in artist residency centers worldwide.

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Apply now for Est-Nord-Est

EST-NORD-EST is a centre for the production and presentation of contemporary art whose primary objective is to support artists in the process of research and exploration through residencies. The residencies offer visual artists an opportunity to step outside their daily lives in order to work in a cultural space that is different, vibrant, and stimulating.

One World Documentary Film Festival

One of the leading festivals dealing with the issue of human rights in Europe, One World strives to provide complex and balanced information and to offer the possibility for deeper understanding of the connections and the important foreign-political and social themes. The festival is open to filmmakers from all over the world. In selecting films, organizers will concentrate equally on both artistic merit and human rights content.

Summer Literary Seminars

The Summer Literary Seminars engage the participants in workshops in fiction, poetry, non-fiction, playwritings, translation, travel writing, lectures and readings with leading writers from around the world, as well as include exploratory excursions of the surrounding areas. Winners of the 2009 Literary Contest will have the choice of attending anyone of the SLS programs.

SLS Creative Writing Workshops are held in Italy, Kenya and Russia

Spiro Artist Residencies

Spiro Art's AIR program grants artists the opportunity to live and work as part of a creative community. The AIR sessions run from April through May each year, featuring artists selected from an applicant pool working in a variety of genres and mediums. The center is dedicated to supporting artists, researchers, writers and composers in the creation of new works by offering an environment that promotes risk-taking and innovation.

Szpilman Award 2008

The Szpilman Award is awarded annually to works that exist only for a moment or a short period of time. The purpose of the award is to promote such works whose forms consist of ephemeral situations. A group exhibition for the selected participants will be organized.

The prize winner receives a challenge cup, 10 days of accommodation in Cimochowizna (Poland), and
a sum of money in cash.

Jean-Claude Reynal Scholarship

The Jean-Claude Reynal Foundation, under the auspices of the Foundation of France, in collaboration with the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux, offers an annual grant of 10,000 euro to enable a young artist, who works directly on paper, to travel to a country of his/her choice for a period of six months maximum.

La Chambre Blanche Artist in Residence Program

La Chambre Blanche is an artist-run centre with a mandate to promote installation and site-specific practices. It is particularly interested in works which, like works-in-progress, consider time as a medium. During their residency, the selected artists are invited to create a unique, ephemeral work, in the context of an actual live laboratory.

European Media Artists in Residence Exchange

The European Media Art Network will host 16 European Media Artists in Residence Exchanges within 2008 and 2009 and organise a final exhibition in 2009 in Halle (Saale). Europe based Media Artists in the fields of digital media are invited to apply for a two months artist residency at: IMPAKT, the Netherlands; Interspace, Bulgaria; VIVID, United Kingdom; Werkleitz, Germany.

Germany, Berlin, studio - offered

Temporary or permanent Studio working space in Berlin/Kreuzberg, 100 m² loft to share with female artists and designers. Located in an old industrial building in the heart of Kreuzberg, this 4th floor studio with parquet flooring and large windows, offers great working conditions in a bright and large space environment. Studio facilities are large working tables, wi-fi internet connection, fully fitted kitchen/dinner and bathroom. Next to tube station and all kind of amenities.

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