Björkö Konstnod (BKN) is an artist run space where the forest meets the sea in the Northern Stockholm Archipelago Sweden, welcoming artists of diverse ages, backgrounds, and disciplines in the exploration and expansion of their creative practices. You get your own studio with accommodation for 1-2 months. We practice “Thinking Together Learning Together.” The main objective of BKN is to provide an opportunity to within the stay, focus on, the artistic practice while immersed in nature and embedded in a community of international artists. Resources: nature, colleagues, share sessions, darkroom, crafts studio/wood workshop, loom etc founder of WAP/walking as practice.
Since 2009 the artist collective Medea Electronique has organized annually a 10-day experimental artist residency, Koumaria, near Sparta in Greece, focusing on improvisation and new media practices. Artists from all over the world, inspired by the Greek natural landscape, come together to create a multicultural and cross-media ‘dialogue’ culminating in a collective presentation at the end of the residency. The cross-cultural dialogues that the residency engenders both create new artistic speculations and smelt older assumptions. Past residents have formed lasting friendships and new artistic partnerships. Medea Electronique, being an eclectic art collective, is interested in people from diverse cultural and artistic backgrounds. For us the residency serves as a model for future creative endeavors.
The ELPA Art and Design Residency emerged from the challenge of finding a new location for the Rucka Artist Residency after it vacated its previous space and deciding the future of a small natural farm following the passing of its last owner. The convergence of these two factors laid the foundation for the new residency space, situated in a picturesque natural environment nearby Līvāni town in Eastern part of Latvia. The name of the residency is derived from the Latvian word "elpa," which translates to "breath." This symbolizes the concept of taking a breath, the act of breathing in and out, and the idea of giving something a second life. The ELPA Art and Design Residency is a space for the exchange of ideas, the acquisition of new knowledge, and the implementation of ideas that arise from these intersections.
In 2002 a collective of young artists founded NGO Interdisciplinary Art group SERDE. SERDE developed the public workshop centre with technical equipment for experimental and innovative projects, and every summer SERDE residencies and workshops centre hosts international artists with different art backgrounds and projects. Many of them have an impact to the local environment and give input to the local community – sculptures and a mural in town, open studios and performances, etc. and offers residencies for local and international artists, culture workers, activists, managers and scientists. During the residencies for additional cost we offer a certain amount of professional assistance for creation of work, technical help and consultations. This has to be discussed and negotiated before the residency. At the end of residence we offer our technical equipment and premises for a concluding exhibition or presentation in Aizpute.
"MASSIA is based in the Estonian countryside, near the Baltic sea, about 180 km south of Tallinn, and 140 km north of Riga (Latvia). The residency is located in the old school house of Massiaru, a little village with about thirty inhabitants, surrounded by forests, fields and bogs. MASSIA is a project and residency space for individuals and groups from any field – artists, practitioners, researchers, scientists, activists, etc., who seek to examine and determine their own conditions of work. It is a self-organised residency that operates without staff and asks for participatory ways of being. MASSIA is for people who can motorize their own artistic and knowledge production, not only responding to the opportunities given by the institutional market. Initiated and run by artists, researchers and practitioners themselves, MASSIA is a user-created informal residency. There is no selection process and it is open to anyone as long as there are rooms available and as long as prospective participants agree with the basic principles laid out in MASSIA basics. (https://www.massia.ee/massia-basics/)
[Photo: Kitchen and herbal apothecary, photo by Rasmus Jurkatam]"
KORDONair facilitates art in dialogue with architecture and environment. It explores social and artistic dimensions of space, diversity of culture and wilderness. The interdisciplinary residency is located in the UNESCO biosphere reserve on the border of Kärdla city, the capital of Hiiumaa island. The mission of the residency is to initiate discussions on the relationship between the built and natural environment, to create an international network and to involve the inhabitants of Hiiumaa island. KORDONair was founded in 2018 at the historical border guard house (anno 1830). It offers residency possibilities to artists, architects, filmmakers, researchers etc to critically engage with the surroundings. Residents are encouraged to finish their residency period by finding ways through exhibition, workshop, and open studio to meet the local community. [Photo: KORDONair]
The Horse and Art Research initiative is a unique residency program since 2015 and was established for those interested in combining equine knowledge and visual arts. We are looking for artists, art historians and researchers, who are interested in horse and the place of the horse in art, however we also welcome riders, who are not artists but are open for it. The short (1 or 2 weeks duration) intensive summer course include theory, lectures, talks and discussions, daily practice and lessons of horsemanship, horse archery and riding, as well as there is an opportunity to make studio based work. We plan to organize the program regularly with different research themes each year. It is our intention to offer the opportunities for artists with practices coming from both western and eastern traditions and to open up connections for artists, riders and researchers internationally with the possibility of developing professional collaborations. We would also like to explore points of connection between equine culture, art and sustainable development issues. [Photo: official website]
Built out of the ruins of a 1790s pre-famine village atop a cliff face overlooking the Atlantic, Cill Rialaig offers artists, writers and other creative professionals an opportunity to get away from everyday career pressures and the demands of 21st century life in order to focus entirely on their artistic practice. Its cottages are living-work spaces that provide for residents’ essential work and living needs, without television, telephones or internet. Residencies are offered free of charge, although there is a small service fee for utilities. Residents provide their own transportation, food and supplies. Seven studios, a meeting house and library and a utility house have been completed at the village. [Photo: official website]
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation is a registered Irish charity that provides a residency award - The Fellowship Programme - enabling Irish and international artists to spend time working in rural Ireland to benefit both the artist and the community. Since 1992, the Foundation has facilitated hundreds of artists from the United States, Europe, and Asia to come to the small coastal village of Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland to experience the same inspiration. We invite Visual artists throughout the world with professional standing in their fields (painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, sculpture) and emerging artists of recognized ability are eligible for residence. No particular style is sought. Period of Residency: The period of residency is generally around 4 weeks, but can be increased slightly depending on the time of year. [Photo: Nuala Clarke]
40mcube houses an exhibition space, a production workshop, a residency for artists and curators. 40mcube produces works, present them in the form of exhibitions or interventions in the public space, artists’ residencies, accompanies the commission of works, promotes and mediates them to the public. 40mcube welcomes artists in residence for a time of reflection, conception, realization of their project and production of their works. Professional workshops equipped with tools, machines and materials, offering a suitable environment for creation. In addition to residencies in its premises in Rennes and Liffré, 40mcube implements artists residencies in companies, on the brittany territory and in schools. [Photo: Hélène Bertin, Éléonore False, Ingrid Luche, Bertfalhe, 2019, vue de l’exposition. Commissariat: 40mcube. Production : 40mcube / Cnap. Photo by Margot Montigny]
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Res Artis: Worldwide Network of Arts Residencies is a 30 year old network of arts residency, and the network comprises more than 650+ vetted Members in over 80 countries.
organized by DuchCulture and it aims to combine and share knowledge and experience on artist-in-residence programmes and other international opportunities for creative professionals to temporarily stay and work elsewhere.
