ORTE Architekturnetzwerk Niederösterreich 2025

ORTE Architekturnetzwerk Niederösterreich in cooperation with AIR – Artist in Residence Niederösterreich awards three scholarships each year to creative artists from the field of building culture for a period of either 1-3 months. The
scholarship, financed by the state of Lower Austria, is endowed with EUR 1,300 per month. Studio and accommodation are provided free of charge.
The prerequisite for a successful application is a degree in an architectural relevant discipline (architecture, design,
landscape planning, city planning, urban planning, spatial planning, traffic planning, theorists and curators focusing their work on architecture or urbanism etc.).
The scholarship is linked to a final report, and the organisers are aiming for a public presentation. German or English are assumed as languages of communication, travel costs will not be refunded. Austrian citizens and/or residents of Austria are excluded from the program.

ORTE is dedicated to contemporary architecture education and building culture issues in Lower Austria and is interested in practice-related projects. They are looking for concepts that focus on environmental and climate issues as well as the living environments and local interaction, and are less interested in purely theoretical and scientific work or ones that address international phenomena not directly or clearly related to Lower Austria. The organisers are happy to discuss the topics of your proposal before you apply. If you wish, please get in touch.

ORTE offers an approximately 40 m² exhibition space in the Walter Zschokke Library in Krems. This "smallest building culture gallery in Austria" can offer space for the works of the artists in residence and present their artistic and analytical view of building culture and landscape themes in the region. Suitable exhibition displays are available for this exhibition space.

The online application portal for the 2025 residency will be open between March 4th and April 30th, 2024. The deadline to apply for the 2025 residency is April 30th, 2024, 23.59 h. The application needs to include the following

• Portrait photograph (JPG format, max. 1 MB)
• CV (PDF format, max. 1 MB)
• Portfolio (PDF format, max. 15 pages, max. 7 MB)
• Planned project (max. 4.000 characters)
• Optional: links to media (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.)