Trans Artists' Biography
Trans Artists is a knowledge centre on artist-in-residence opportunities. Trans Artists distributes knowledge and experience about facts, use and value of international artist-in-residence programs as well as other opportunities for artists to stay and work elsewhere 'for art's sake'.
Trans Artists operates mainly from the artists' perspective and usually cooperates with a wide range of partners in all world regions, increasingly more in depth within European countries. Trans Artists makes the enormous worldwide residential art labyrinth accessible and usable to the artists, through its website, newsletter, research and workshop programs.
1998: Foundation of Trans Artists in Amsterdam
Launch of the database, with now (2010) 1000 artist-in-residence opportunities worldwide.
1998: European Pépinières Program for Young Artists
Trans Artists becomes the Netherlands coordinator for the European Pépinières Programme for Young Artists: a triennial competition that offers young artists working periods at residential art centers and art education institutes in Europe and Québec, Canada.
2001: hosting Res Artis
Trans Artists starts to host the office of Res Artis, the international network of artist in residence centres and organizations. Trans Artists and Res Artis however are separate organizations.
The difference is:
Trans Artists operates from the perspective of the use and users of AiR programs: primarily the artists.
Res Artis represents the interests of the providers, the members of its own network, residential arts centers themselves.
2004: AiR Platform NL
Trans Artists starts the AiR Platform NL: the platform for information and exchange among AiR programs and international guest studios in the Netherlands. Trans Artists serves the initiatives as their umbrella organization, helps them promote the importance of their work and also connects them to the international networks that Trans Artists actively participates in.
2009: Basic infrastructure of the arts
Trans Artists forms part of the so-called 'basic infrastructure of the arts' of the Dutch Culture Plan 2009-2012.
2010-2012: ON-AiR
Together with 18 partner organizations throughout Europe Trans Artists developed ON-AiR: a trajectory of workshops and training programs for artists about using artist-in-residence opportunities. In the course of one and a half year each partner will host a workshop, so 15 workshops will take place throughout Europe. The workshops will be adjusted to the regional needs of the artists. The ON-AiR project is funded with support from the European Commission.
The ON-AiR partners are:
- Artservis, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Artes e Ideias, Lisboa, Portugal
- Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey
- BJCEM, Biennial for Young artists, GAI Torino, Italy
- CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
- City of Munich, Villa Waldberta, Germany
- Frans Masereel Centre, Belgium
- Glasgow School for the Arts, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Mala Stanica, Skopje, Macedonia
- Pépinières Österreich, Austria
- Stanica, Slovakia
- UNITER, Bucharest
- Workshop Foundation, Budapest, Hungary
Independence
Through all of its history Trans Artists has guarded its independent status, which is of vital importance to function as a reliable source of information for individual artists and as a reliable link for all its different partners.
