
The map programme, initiated by the Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes is now open for applications.
État d'un lieu: Call for Applications
Recently settled in the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud, the Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes will present "état d'un lieu" in autumn. Pépinières offer residencies to artists over 18 years old and from all artistic field (visual arts, performing arts, transdisciplinarity), to develop an artistic project related to human, urban, social and economic environment and the context of this place.
- The residencies will take place in the friche PRIAM in the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud between September and October.
- Application deadline: June 30th
hito - turismo creativo en los Pirineos
hito, turismo creativo en los Pirineos, proposes to set up a network of artists residencies, on each side of the Pyrenees, which will be the starting point of several trans-pyrenean discovery routes by means of original and unique artistic propositions. This project is open to candidates from all fields of artistic expression (performing arts, visual arts and transdisciplinarity), residing in France or Spain, developing an approach in relation with the human, social, economical and environmental context they encounter. Their propositions must coincide with the living environment of the hosting creation sites and meet the general requirements of the hito project.
- Application deadline: July 24th
What does 'Pépinières' mean?
'Pépinières' is French for nurseries or greenhouses.
Physicology

Yael Schmidt
Cécile Wesolowski
Sean Branagan
June 4th - July 18th 2010
Gooden Gallery, London
Pépinières 6 booklet online
Online now: true stories & great projects of the 6th Pépinières program 2002-2004.
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At the European Ceramic Work Centre
The Swedish visual artist Etta Säfve has been selected for a residency stay at the European Ceramic Work Centre in Den Bosch, withing the framework of the European Pépinières Programme for Young Artists. Read her personal notes on her residency experience.
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Pépinières Experiences

Cécile Wesolowski, Digital collage
Cécile Wesolowski's Art Journals
Mayke Nas at Aldeburgh Productions, UK
Life after the Pépinières: Sara Pape
Gwenn-Aël Lynn at De Overslag
Gwenn-Aël Lynn at Villa de Bank
Travel Tales by Meris Angoletti
'Rose Marie' by Christel Boertjes European Pépinières program for young artists
Every three years the European Pépinières organisation launches a residency program for artists under 36 years old. The application is set up as an international competition. Laureates are offered a grant for a working period at residential art centers and art institutes throughout Europe and Québec in Canada.
The Pépinières residency program is set up in close collaboration with national, regional and municipal authorities. Host institutes are responsible for training and for the presentation of the artists' projects. The cities where the host institutes are located, offer the artists' accommodation.
Trans Artists is the coordinator for the Pépinières in the Netherlands
Currently 26 countries participate in the Pépinières program. Each country has a national coordinating organization, which is responsible for carrying out the program for its own country.
NOW! applications MAP 2010-2011open
- Only artists between 18 and 35 are eligible
- Former map programme laureates are not allowed to candidate.
- deadline: 16th of August 2010 at midnight (Brussels time).
The Netherlands
- When: November - December 2010 or July - August 2011
"The Artist in Residence at KiK is intended for young artists who see the country-side and the architecture as a challenge in dynamics and/or innovation. The project or the portfolio should provide an insight into that..."
Read the technical form for KIK here.

KiK Artist residence (left) & the former dairy plant (right)
- When: October 2010 - March 2011
"The residency is focused on new media. The visiting artist is encouraged to propose an idea for a project that involves experiment. Rather than fixed ideas we would like to see the artist to arrive at ArtEz with a project based on an idea as a starting-point of investigation..."
Full technical info on AKI / ArtEz

"Here as the Centre of the World banquet" with local food from Twente and Overijssel.
Portugal
- When: October - November 2010 (for 1 or 2 artists)
"The hosting organization Plataforma Revólver is a non-profit association for the contemporary art, its main goal is the development of cultural activities, to produce, to spread and to participate in events, promote exhibitions, conferences, contests, inquiries and other cultural activities..."
Read the technical form of Clube Portugues de Artes e Ideias here.

Now in the Netherlands:
Trans Artists is pleased to announce that the following artists are carrying out a residency The Netherlands:
- Maayke Schürer is selected for the residency grant at Stichting KIK in Nijeveen
- Erik Krikortz and Kapwani Kiwanga are selected for a residency stay at MU in Eindhoven.
Demonstration Aesthetics
A public art project created during a workshop at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, initaited by Erik Krikortz.
The installation is currently on display at the
Van Abbemuseum until May 13.

Demonstration Aesthetics Workshop in Van Abbemuseum Studio. Photos: Boudewijn Bollmann
Demonstration AestheticsAt the European Ceramic Work Centre
Etta Säfve writes about her residency experience at the European Ceramic Workcentre:
At the European Ceramic Work Centre
telephone: +33 (0)1 41 12 29 30
fax: +33 1 39171109
e-mail:
website: www.art4eu.net
Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes
BP 80132, Domaine national de Saint-Cloud
92216 SAINT-CLOUD Cedex
France