Stay up-to-date about activities of AIR organisations in the Netherlands and Flanders
Call for AIR organizations
On-AiR is a two year workshop program on artists in residence opportunities and mobility, developed by Trans Artists in partnership with 17 countries in Europe. For the coming On-AiR kick off seminar in Amsterdam on the 20-21-22th of May, Trans Artistists invites Dutch AIR organizations to team up for a network meeting.
[Pool]: Call for AIR organizations
Sica Trans Artists symposium
January 28th SICA released Dutch Mountains, a new cultural magazine about the reflection on Dutch culture by artists and proffesionals in the cultural field. The presentation was part of a debate about hospitality, tolerance and artist-in-residence programs and took place at Smart Project Space (Amsterdam).
[Pool]: Sica Trans Artists symposium
Trans Artists Guest Studio Meeting 2009
This year the Trans Artists Guest Studio Meeting will take place on Tuesday December 15, at HotelMariaKapel in Hoorn.
Residence opportunities for writers and translators
September 15th 2009, the meeting space at the Dutch Society of Authors in Amsterdam was packed with writers and translators. They listened to first-hand experiences of being an author-in-residence by writers Erik Lindner, Willem Melchior, Rashid Novaire, and translator Jeanne Holierhoek.
Retooling residences
Sep 2009 / Res Artis organizes a regional meeting in Warsaw (Poland) at November 16 - 19, 2009. The conference will provide a platform for the critical reworking of both existing and emerging residency models. Sign up now - it's free!
[Pool]: Retooling residences
Japan F*AIR
At Friday September 11, Trans Artists organized a - one day - Japan artist-in-residence 'FAiR' to introduce Japanese residencies and their 'J-AiR network' to the Dutch art field.
[Pool]: Japan F*AIR
Cairo Residency Symposium
July 2009 / How to develop honest reciprocity? That was the implicit main question during the unique Cairo Residency Symposium in March 2009.
[Pool]: Cairo Residency Symposium
Networking in Istanbul
July 2009 / Network event for artist-initiatives in Istanbul between 10-15 September 2009. The topic of the conference will be 'Alternative to what?' focusing on the very different conditions and ambitions of artist initiatives in various parts of the world.
[Pool]: Networking in Istanbul
Pepinieres program 2009-2010
Trans Artists is the coordinator for the Pépinières in the Netherlands, where Stichting KiK (Kolderveen), MU (Eindhoven) and Binger Filmlab in collaboration with Nederlands Fonds voor de Letteren (Amsterdam), - are participating in the Map program 2008-9.
[Pool]: Pepinieres program 2009-2010
EU offers unique opportunity to artist-initiatives
April 2009 / This is a pilot ptoject to support artists mobility. A special focus in this call is reserved for artist in residence centres (including artist led initiatives). Deadline for application May 15, 2009
Hotel MariaKapel joins freeDimensional
March 2009 / Hotel MariaKapel recently joined the freeDimensional network. Working as a connector between organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights watch on the one hand and Artist-In-Residence venues at the other hand, freeDimensional works to provide resources and safe haven for oppressed artists and culture workers.
RAiR #1 exhibition
February 2009 / RAiR, -the new foundation by international guest studios Bad Foundation, Duende Studios, Kaus Australis, Kunst & Complex and Het Wilde Weten, proudly presents RAiR#1. The exhibition brings together the work of twenty-one visual artists who were artists in residence in Rotterdam between 2003 and 2009.
[Pool]: RAiR #1 exhibition
Thami Mnyele exhibition
February 2009 / Former guest artists of the Thami Mnyele Foundation - residency in Amsterdam, take part in the exhibition of the 'Thami Mnyele and the Medu Ensemble Retrospective' at Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa.
[Pool]: Thami Mnyele exhibition
id11 expert meeting
August 28, 2008 Id11 organized an expert meeting to discuss the possibilities of realizing an artist-in-residency program in Delft. Read all about it in their report.
[Pool]: id11 expert meeting
Joined artist-in-residence forces in Rotterdam
RAIR is the name of the brand new foundation by international guest studios Bad Foundation, Duende Studios, Kaus Australis, Kunst & Complex and Het Wilde Weten. These artist’ run studio buildings join forces, aiming at a cooperation between their different residency programs in order to maximize their potential and to create a platform for international artists in Rotterdam and beyond.
Emerging Program Institute
If you are interested in or involved in launching a new residency program.
[Pool]: Emerging Program Institute
HMK The new lobby
On December 14 2008, Hotel Mariakapel, a residency in the scenic old town of Hoorn, put on a new dress. Besides the refurbishment of the bedrooms, livingroom and office, HMK presented her new year program The Future is Near. And there is more to celebrate, - the publication Appendix - Book Hotel Maria.
[Pool]: HMK The new lobby
Publication - A new look at guest studios
What are the current challenges for international guest studios and residence workshops in the Netherlands and Flanders? This question was central to the project “A new look at guest studios”, organized by Trans Artists and Flemish Cultural Centre De Brakke Grond in collaboration with guest studios in November and December 2007. Read the report!
Citymix plans AIR in Amsterdam
July 2008 / Artist organization Citymix is looking for creatives who want to live and work in a yet to be built complex in Almere Poort, 20 min. from Amsterdam station, who are interested in co- developing and organizing a residency program on site.
[Pool]: Citymix plans AIR in Amsterdam
AIR on at Wiels
June 2008 / Artist-in-residency program of Wiels in Brussels has started! Wiels offers 9 individual studios (about 45m2 each) to Belgian and foreign artists for a 4-month period. The residency is accompanied by a program of meetings with art professionals, academicians and the local public.
[Pool]: AIR on at Wiels
id11 prepares residency in Delft
June 2008 / id11 Foundation aims to start an artist-in-residence program in Delft. A series of projects set out this idea by investigating the possibilities, exchanging expertise and involving artists and local parties in Delft. Check out the program!
[Pool]: id11 prepares residency in Delft
Res Artis General Meeting
Trans Artists organized the Res Artis 2008 General Meeting and Conference "Artists in Dialogue, Transforming Communities", in Amsterdam from October 9 through 11, 2008.
Arts Collaboratory offers opportunities
Nov 2007 / Arts Collaboratory is a programme for the support to visual artists’ initiatives in Africa, Asia and Latin-America. Furthermore, it aims to deepen and support exchange between the diverse initiatives (in collaboration with Dutch initiatives) and provide links with the Dutch visual art world. Arts Collaboratory is developed by two Dutch foundations: Hivos and Stichting DOEN. The programme is carried out in co-operation with the Mondriaan Foundation.
Investigation around residences NL 2005
Oct 2007 / At the beginning of 2005 Heidi Vogels and Hanna Sohier, intern with Trans Artists, started with “Around Guest Studios 2005”: an investigation into diversity in the offerings of guest studio initiatives in the Netherlands.
Art course finds guest studio: St. Joost in De Klokkenberg
Around 70 students from Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving (Academy for Art and Design) St. Joost worked for 10 weeks in the empty former medical centre De Klokkenberg. From 15th-17th July 2007, they will present their vision of the past, present, and future of De Klokkenberg.
[Pool]: Art course finds guest studio: St. Joost in De Klokkenberg
Gastateliers in de stedelijke context
"Jullie hebben een sterke troef in handen!", zo begon Giep Hagoort, lector Kunst en Economie aan de HKU te Utrecht zijn verhaal aan het begin van deze expert meeting bij Stroom in Den Haag. "Maar om de rol van gastateliers in grote steden te verstevigen, zullen we eerst onze visie drastisch moeten veranderen", stelde Hagoort vervolgens.
Gastateliers in de landelijke context
Eindelijk rust, denk je bij een verblijf in een gastatelier op het platteland. Eindelijk tijd ook voor concentratie, vanwege de ruimte, de stilte, de natuur, de frisse lucht. Dat beeld klopt. Maar niet helemaal. De verschillen tussen gastateliers op het platteland zijn groot. Het maakt nogal wat uit of het atelier is gevestigd in een afgezonderd gelegen melkfabriek, zoals bij Stichting KiK in Kolderveen, of in een statig boerenhuis in een trots dorp, zoals Kunsthuis Syb in Beetsterzwaag. Zo bleek bij de expert meeting over gastateliers op het platteland, bij Stichting KiK in Kolderveen in mei 2006.
In de maak?
Marres is in ontwikkeling. We willen de overgecodeerde werkelijkheid van een presentatie-instelling ter discussie stellen en de kernfunctie - de presentatie - verrijken met inzichten die niet eenduidig door de actualiteit worden gevoed. De artist-in-residence formule kan een van de manieren zijn om tegemoet te komen aan de wens om binnen een presentatie-instelling artistiek onderzoek een plek te geven en nieuwe vormen van artistieke productie op gang te brengen.
[Pool]: In de maak?
Tussen wijk en wereld in Het Domein
Onder de naam Guestroom nodigt Museum Het Domein Sittard sinds 2005 instellingen uit om een presentatie te verzorgen. Ze zijn bij het museum te gast. We kiezen voor instellingen waarmee het museum zich verwant voelt, of voor instellingen met een (inter)nationale opdracht of werking die in de regio echter te weinig zichtbaar zijn.
Vrij Glas
Nog niet zo lang geleden stond de monumentale loods op het Hembrugterrein in Zaanstad vol bommen en granaten. Nu is dit voormalige munitiedepot de werkplaats van Stichting Vrij Glas. Het ruikt er al naar gesmolten zand: de ovens om glas te blazen, zijn onlangs in gebruik genomen.
In image we speak
Het grafiek uitwisselingsproject "In image we speak" tussen 15 beeldende kunstenaars namens Gravura Brasileira te São Paulo en 15 beeldende kunstenaars namens het Amsterdam Grafisch Atelier ging in maart 2005 van start. In het online verslag vertelt de Nederlandse kunstenaar Raquel Maulwurf over haar ervaringen.
A.I.R-'Agonism'
Hyunjin Kim (Seoul, South Korea) was the first participant at the research and curator-in-residence program of the van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. Young international curators are invited to stay 6 months up to two years to develop new projects starting from the collection of the museum. Trans Artists asked ms. Kim about her motivs and experience as curator-in-residence.
Kunsthuis Syb publicatie
Uitgave van de stichting Syb ter gelegenheid van het vijfjarig bestaan van galerie Hellinga, met uitspraken van en interviews met Syb Hellinga, gedichten over en brieven aan Syb Hellinga, werk van en informatie over 60 bij Kunsthuis Syb betrokken kun stenaars.
Meeting residences 2005
2/12/2005 The meeting took place at Hotel Mariakapel in Hoorn. A divers program adressed the topics of the Trans Artists research on the diversity of residences throughout the Netherlands, collaborations between residences and universities and international exchange projects.