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Residencies Reflected

16-18 November 2016, Helsinki, Finland

We are looking forward to the symposium Residencies Reflected which will take place in Helsinki, Finland on November 16-18, 2016.

TransArtists’ highlights in BK-informatie

July 2016, in print version of BK-informatie

The team of TransArtists highlights one residency program for visual artists in each BK-informatie issue from July 2016 onwards. Our aim is to show a diverse range of international programs to which Dutch (and other) visual artists can apply.

TransArtists workshops in 2016

Throughout 2016

This year we continue our collaboration with art schools, academies and other art organisations to provide workshops for artists about artist-in-residence opportunities worldwide and other forms of mobility.

AiR Platform NL supports Platform Werkplaatsen

Platform Werkplaatsen is a joint venture between Dutch and Flemish workshops and labs for artists and designers. This platform is co-founded and supported by AiR Platform NL, platform for artist-in-residence programs in the Netherlands.

Meet our new colleague!

June 2016

Léon Kruijswijk joined our team earlier in March this year, a great addition to our long-term staff members Marie, Heidi, Bojana and Lotte. We are so grateful for the dedication, insights and energy he brings to our work. He is introducing himself and the various tasks he handles in this article.

Launch Platform Werkplaatsen website

20 May 2016, The Hague, The Netherlands

At Festival Analog at Grafisch Atelier in The Hague, Platform Werkplaatsen launched its new website. All technical workspaces aboard!

CulturalBase Major Stakeholder Conference

11-13 May 2016, at Hangar, Barcelona, Spain.

TransArtists participated in the Major Stakeholder Conference of the CulturalBase project, aiming at bringing researchers and practitioners together to identify and analyse some of the main debates and controversies around culture, specifically in the fields of Heritage and European Identities. Working groups were organised on different topics, such as inclusion, memory and creativity.

Falling in love: residencies and communities

Spring 2016

TransArtists' Bojana Panevska wrote together with Sepake Angiama (Documenta) for the engage Journal of Visual Arts in their 37th issue entitled "Time and Place: Hosting and commissioning artists"

AiR Platform NL visiting New Orleans

5-7 April 2016, New Orleans, USA

The Alliance of Artists Communities organized its 2016 Emerging Program Institute at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. AiR Platform NL took part in sharing experience for AiR organizers from the artist perspective in small workshops sessions.

Seminar on residencies, MeetFactory, CZ

10-11 March 2016 in Prague, Czech Republic

On invitation of MeetFactory and the Goethe Institute in Prague, TransArtists joined a seminar on residencies focused on current practices in Central and Eastern Europe.