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Call for applications for the residency landscape project P.A.I.R. at former camp Westerbork starting in September.


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


Annual Report 2008

Read the Trans Artists' annual report 2008! (Dutch only)

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Deadlines 

Check out the latest upcoming deadlines.

Action! by MFA St. Joost artists Pacôme Beru and Samir Mougas
Action! by MFA St. Joost artists Pacôme Beru and Samir Mougas

Apply now for 2009-2010 MFA-Master of Fine Art courses in the Netherlands 

Master Fine Art Courses in the Netherlands and beyond.

Writers' Section 

Residency opportunities for writers and translators.


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XIV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean


The BJCEM is preparing the Skopje Biennial 2009!

New: Prologue Network 

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.

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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.

Res Artis General Meeting 

Trans Artists organized the Res Artis 2008 General Meeting and Conference "Artists in Dialogue, Transforming Communities", in Amsterdam from October 9 through 11, 2008.

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Welcome

Trans Artists is a knowledge centre on artist-in-residence opportunities. Here you can find all about facts, use and value of international artist-in-residence programs as well as other opportunities for artists to stay and work elsewhere 'for art's sake'.

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Pépinières: New Residency Opportunities!

The Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes launched their new call, offering 9 residency opportunities between September 2009 and December 2010. The call is addressed to young artists working in any discipline, between 18 and 35 years old, living in one of the partner countries.

Cairo Residency Symposium: Pursuit of Reciprocity

How to develop honest reciprocity? That was the implicit main question during the Cairo Residency Symposium, a three-day gathering of 86 representatives of the artist-in-residence sector from the Middle East, Africa and Europe, in March 2009. Trans Artists participated and shares this report with you.

Cairo Residency Symposium

Trailerpark Summer Academy: mobile interventions in public space

Last week of August Kunstfort at Vijfhuizen organizes the 'Trailer Park Summer Academy'. With mobile art projects as its main theme, the academy offers a five-day hands-on and theoretical program: a week of encounters with artists and other experts in the field of art and public space.

Inge Roseboom: Bar Raketa (left) & Cascoland: Mobile Highway Restaurant (right)

Register for entry right now at: Trailerpark Summeracademy

Apply Now for Flax International Residency

Flax Art Studios offers three 2 month residencies at their studio complex in the heart of Belfast. Established in 1989, Flax is positioned in the cultural hub of the thriving Cathedral Quarter. The residency programme runs from 1st April 2010 to 31st March 2011. Successful applicants will receive a studio, accommodation and monthly stipend towards materials and day-to-day living. 

In June 2003 the building in which the studios where housed was destroyed by fire. In 2004 Flaxart moved into new premises on Corporation Street in Belfast City Centre.

Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival

The 26th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival is calling for entries for films, videos, installations and audiovisual performances. Artists, filmmakers, distributors, producers, gallery owners, universities or institutions are invited to submit latest works and projects to the different sections of the festival.

Film stills from the 2008 edition

transmediale Award 2010

transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) are inviting submissions to the transmediale Award Competition 2010 and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010. Invited are art works, projects and positions that respond to the challenges of our rapidly changing digital, technological and networked cultures. Submissions of art works for both festivals participate in the transmediale Award 2010 while theoretical abstracts, papers and research oriented positions are invited for the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, with prizes totaling 10.000 euro.

Everybody Hates A Tourist

Everybody Hates a Tourist is a one week symposium with a diversified interdisciplinary programme of round tables, talks and workshops, with the idea of displacement as a central concept. Relating, by force of its specific condition, with concepts like migration, tourism, exile, decentralization or sustainability. The final objective is a public presentation (exhibition and/or publication).

NIMk Artists in Residence 2010

The Artist in Residence programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute supports the exploration and development of new work in digital/interactive/network media and technology based arts practice. This is a practice based residency designed to enable the development and completion of a new work. For the AiR program 2010 the focus is on technology and mobility that can change habits and inhabitation of public spaces.

Space Beam AiR Programme

Space Beam started out as a local art study group in 1995, and have performed various activities including hosting seminars, publishing art magazines, and planning exhibitions. This alternative art community offers an artist-in-residence program to support international artists who wish to pursue creative activities in Baedari region.

Belgium, Antwerpen, studio - offered

Luminous studio in old diamondfactory, suitable for painting and different media except sculpting. Lively neighbourhood, close to central station and to the local art scene.

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