Call for Applications: Residencies 2023 at Jan van Eyck Academie

The Jan van Eyck Academie is committed to exploring the agency, roles, and civic significance of art, design, and other creative practices in relation to the climate crisis, environmental breakdown, and their manifold effects. This institutional focus aims at creating a common ground that embraces a diversity of practices and allows for a multitude of voices.

As a post-academic institute, the Jan van Eyck Academie supports this myriad of artistic endeavours by offering participants the time, space, and expertise to further develop, materialise, and disseminate their artistic research in a critical and reciprocal relationship with each other and the world.

The academy provides each selected participant with a private studio, guidance of our advisers, access to our library and labs – Photography & Audiovisual, Material Matters, Food, Printing & Publishing, and Future Materials; expertise of departments for Nature Research, Art & Society and Research & Education. Next to their individual projects, participants are encouraged to collaboratively develop an In-Lab project and to contribute to the Jan van Eyck public programme.

As a multi-disciplinary post-academic institute, the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands, offers residency programmes to those who wish to broaden their artistic horizons, develop their art practice in-depth, and discover new perspectives. Every applicant shares our belief that insight comes through exchange with the other: insight in the meaning of things, in your own practice, in the (art) world. The multiform character of the Jan van Eyck Academie appeals to the artistic and intellectual versatility of the artists and enables them to deepen and ramify their talents and skills in the short and long run. The work of the artists testifies to an art practice that is investigative and committed. Furthermore, the Jan van Eyck encourages exploration of the agency, roles, and civic significance of art, design and other creative practices in relation to climate change, environmental breakdown, and their manifold effects. This institutional focus aims at creating a common ground that embraces a diversity of practices and allows for a multitude of voices.

To carry out their projects, each participant is equipped with a private studio, can count on the guidance of our advisers and make use of the expertise of our library and labs – Photography & Audiovisual, Material Matters, Food, Printing & Publishing and Future Materials. The departments for Nature Research, Art & Society and Research & Education support the artists in realizing their projects in collaboration with external parties and further their artistic and academic research. Next to their individual projects, participants are encouraged to collaboratively develop an In-Lab project and to contribute to the public programme.

About the residency:

• Residency lasts 11 months, starting in November. Upon successful acceptance into the programme, the exact starting date of your residency will be determined

• 32 up to 35 spots are available each year

• The enrolment fee amounts to €2.750/year excluding VAT. You will receive an invoice well before the starting date of your residency

• Participants receive a monthly stipend of €1.000 and a working budget of €2.000 annually

• Duos or collectives can apply with 1 project proposal for 1 residency at the Jan van Eyck. If selected, they will share 1 studio and receive an adjusted stipend of minimum 1,5 and maximum 2 stipends. The enrolment fee has to be paid only once

• Artists with child(ren) are welcome to apply. The academy strives to support participants with a family to the best of its abilities

• Participants are expected to settle in Maastricht or direct surroundings (in a radius of 10km) during their stay at the Jan van Eyck

• The languages of communication at the academy are Dutch and English. We expect you to master the English language sufficiently to be able to converse and collaborate with fellow participants and staff members

• The Jan van Eyck Academie is not an educational institute. Consequently, the institute does not provide degrees or certificates

You can find all information about the application and selection procedure as well as the digital application form here.

If you live in Flanders, Belgium, you also have the opportunity to apply for a residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie through the Flemish Government. Please find all info here.