Add and Update Your Residency

The DutchCulture | TransArtists Database provides an overview of artist-in-residence programmes worldwide that host international artists on a regular basis. Our database currently contains more than 1.500 artist-in-residence opportunities.

We welcome new residencies in the database on an ongoing basis. We include residency programmes focusing on a wide range of artistic disciplines (visual arts, performing arts, applied arts, crafts, curating, research, music, literature, digital media art and cross-disciplinary).

The main criteria for artist-in-residences to be included in our database are:

• offering a residency opportunity that is not only a one-time opportunity. For one-time opportunities, there is another process to get published on our website – read more about it here.
• to be a professional opportunity (no B&B, resort, etc.), and not intending to make profit out of the residency programme. We understand that there are costs related to running a residency programme, but we also consider a residency not to be a hotel/hostel facility.
• if the artists need to cover (partially or completely) the costs of their stay in the residency, that fee to be reasonable and realistic to the place where the residency is located
• to accept applications from artists (not per invitation only and preferably not only through bilateral exchanges).
• to accept international artists (not only from the country in which you are based, and to be open for more than a few nationalities).
• We typically list programmes where accommodation is provided, or where the hosts provide concrete help to find accommodation facilities, as our target audience is mostly international. We rarely list studio-only opportunities. If you have a studio-only programme next to your residency programme, we can mention it in your listing.

You can always edit your residency profile, to update the description, costs, technical information, deadlines or to add new pictures (up to 5, maximum file size 600 MB).

On the left column on your residency page, click the Update form.

If your residency programme is suspended or if you are no longer active, please get in touch with us to remove your listing.

If you have questions, need more information on how to update your residency, or have a new open call or other relevant updates for us: please get in touch!

Please note: We are a small team and that publishing a profile in our database may take 1-2 weeks. Our team process each submission manually, checks them and will contact you if we have any questions. We reserve the right to remove a listed programme if we receive at least three similar complaints about your programme or in case of a legitimate doubt about the activities of the residency programmes.