Founded:
2015
Language(s):
English, French
Duration:
3-6 months

HECTOLITRE covers the costs of shared working spaces, communication, networking, coordination and project and building management. HECTOLITRE has no budget allocated for production, but will assist with available material and help will come from the professional community working and living in-situ.

Residents provide the private accommodation costs, which are:

  • 200 Euro/month for the small private room on the 4th floor,
  • 400 Euro/month for the big private room on the 4th floor,
  • 500 Euro/month for the room in House Ateliers on the 1st and 2nd floor.

HECTOLITRE provides an invitation letter, but cannot search for external residency funding.

Application guidelines:

In order to answer the open call, please prepare the following info/documents, and email them to [email protected] with the subject: “Residence of Reflection”:

Portfolio ( visual or writing; .pdf or the URL)- max 10 pages
CV (.pdf or the URL)- max 2pages
Residency intention (few words about your needs and type of work)- max 1 page
Specify the private space you are applying for (big or small private space)

Availability:

HOUSE ATELIER- OPEN- (500eur per month per person, for 2 people all in total 1000eur per month) on the 1st floor
This is 110m2 private unit with two private rooms in each unit and a private working area for two residents to share. The unit has a private kitchen, bathroom, and toilet and it is equipped with basic everyday life furniture (beds, washing machines, refrigerators, cookers, cutlery, etc.)
The call is opened for individual applications or for a duo.
Duration: 5 months

Available from 1st of December 2025 until 31st of May 2026

SMALL ROOM-OPEN- (200eur per month, for 1 person)on the 3rd floor
This is a small unit about 30m2, furnished with a bed, desk, closet, chair. Other communal spaces like kitchen, bathroom, toilet, working spaces, livingroom and teracce are shared with 2 other artists living and working on the 3rd floor.
Duration: 3-5months

Available from 1st of December 2025 until 31st of May 2026

2 BIG ROOMS-OPEN- (400eur per month) on the 3rd floor
These are 2 big units about 50m2, furnished with a bed, desk, closet, chair.It has it's own terrace and fire place. Other communal spaces like kitchen, bathroom, toilet, working spaces, livingroom and teracce are shared with 2 other artists living and working on the 3rd floor.
Duration: 3-5 months

Available from 1st of December 2025 until 31st of May 2026

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HECTOLITRE

HECTOLITRE

Residence of reflection
Description

Hectolitre is an art-space dedicated to artists and cultural workers who wish to delve deeper into their projects, experiment with transdisciplinarity and connect their art form/research to the neighborhood. They offer living residencies, meaning that artists that come will be living and working in the at HECTOLITRE. They are taking part in the project's community rings, together with involved neighbors, socio-cultural activists, and local and international artists/curators.

They are open for applications for artists from all branches: VISUAL artists, TRANSCDISCIPLINARY artists, PERFORMANCE artists, RESEARCH artists, SOUND artists, DANCERS, COREOGRAPHERS, WRITERS. They nourish meeting and crosspollination of different art practices that overlap and compliment each other. The openness and willingness to interact with other resident artists and share your art practice, methodologies, questions, achievements and struggles is highly appreciated. Ideally artist sharing the space form a temporary small community that functions as a time to time support for each others individual practices.

Hectolitre is also an unusual building in the heart of the Marolles neighborhood (Brussels) undergoing a radical change of identity. Former swingers club, then storage for antiques, the space is filled with peculiar Art Brut interventions, resembling a kind of «memory forest». The visually and symbolically complex surrounding is not perceived as an obstacle but as a living system that accepts, associates, questions, and experiences. Hectolitre hosts exhibitions, performances, musical encounters, film projections, debates and other initiatives; the complementarity among its artists, curators, creatives and neighbors inhabits the place and catalyzes exchange.

Outcome

The research should be an independent and site-specific initiative, adjusted for a 3 to 6 months residency. The outcome is free of a specific form and depending on the type of work and activities undertaken, it can come through an exhibition, performance, installation, screening, podcast, workshop, concert, talk or web publication.

Accommodation Information

There are two options for nighttime accommodation:

  • Two “HouseAteliers” on the 1st and 2nd floor. These are 110m2 private units with two private rooms in each unit and a private working area for two residents to share. Both units have all private kitchens, bathrooms, and toilets and are equipped with basic everyday life furniture (beds, washing machines, refrigerators, cookers, cutlery, etc.)
  • Two big rooms and one small room on the 4th floor. These three rooms share one private bathroom and toilet on the fourth floor, while the kitchen is situated on the 3rd floor, alongside an open working space, meeting rooms, an edit room and quite a crazy terrace.

There is also a bike local with one shared bike.

Studio Information

Each resident is assigned a private working space, which depends on the private residency unit and type of the activities performed. Aside from that, common working spaces are located throughout the building, being accessible via a shared calendar. Those are Trait d’Union (open community and workshop space at ground-level), Reactor (rehearsal and tryout/performative space at ground level), Edit room (shared video and sound station at the 3rd floor), Other room (multifunctional spaces with podcast setup at the 3rd floor), Shared art studio(for drawing, painting, visual work at the 3rd floor) and Meeting room.

Technical Information

An atypical building with venues adaptable to shared studios, exhibitions, performing arts, encounters and presentation, vitrine art, co-working. The project’s audio-video equipment and material is available for use (projectors, sound system, podcast system, power tools, etc.)

Location

Artists/thinkers-in-residence will have access to private working space at Trait d’Union (open community space), or a desk-based working station, depending on the nature of the work. Residency takes place at Studio Hectolitre, an hybrid living&working space oriented towards art, culture and film which is found on the 3rd and 4th floor.

Contact information
Email
residence [at] hectolitre.space
Phone
32498920124
Website
http://hectolitre.space/index.html