Arts & Design

Funded Artists’ Residency Programme in Netherlands Beckons

 

Are you an artist looking for an international residency programme to refine your skills? Look no further as the application period for the Rijksakademie residency year 2025/2026 will kick off from 1 September until 1 October 2024. The Rijksakademie welcomes applications from artists to develop their work over one or two-year periods in Amsterdam.

 

The Rijksakademie houses an international, multi-disciplinary, experimental and critically engaged artist community. Residents are supported with a studio, a work budget and a stipend and benefit from an array of opportunities for exchange. This includes peer-to-peer dialogue and visits from a wide range of leading art professionals. They have access to technical workshops as well as an extensive library and a historical collection. There is guidance by technical specialists, who foster hands-on, innovative and collaborative approaches to making.

 

The goal is to provide space for research, reflection, experiment and exchange. Every year, the residency selects on average 23 artists for a full residency, and most of the artists stay for two years. Roughly half of the group is from the Netherlands, the other half from all around the world.

 

Artists would be tasked to make the most of these resources, develop and challenge themselves, and contribute to the creative community. Spending up to two years in residence, the selected artists enter into an open-ended process where they can deepen their practices and explore new territories in and beyond the art field.

 

The process consists of a pre-selection round, a main selection round and interviews as the final stage.

In the pre-selection round the jury focuses mainly on the visual documentation (uploaded portfolio). Based on the portfolio, the application will go to the next round, or not. In this phase roughly one third of the applicants will be selected to go to the next round.

 

In the main selection rounds the jury will spend more time with every application and there is more time to look at additional information (written texts, motivation and introduction video). Jury members will discuss which candidates they would like to meet for an interview.

 

Approximately 30 candidates from the Netherlands and 30 international candidates will be invited for an interview with the jury, either online or at the Rijksakademie. From all interview candidates approximately one third will be invited for the residency.

A view of the residency studio

During all rounds, the jury is looking for diversity in the community, both in practice as well as in the personal backgrounds of the candidates.

 

Composition of the jury

 

Every year, the adjudication team comprises different juries for the Dutch and International jury processes, and also throughout the different jury rounds. All juries are diverse, and bring together jury members with different backgrounds, ways of working, relations to the Rijksakademie and different levels of experience with our process. Most of the jury members are artists.

 

The jury members in the different rounds for the residency 2024/2025 were: Isabelle Cornaro, Ade Darmawan,Yael Davids, Anawana Haloba, Melvin Moti, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Natasha Soobramanien, Antonio Vega Macotela, Helen Verhoeven and Tirdad Zolghadr.

 

The pre-selection and main selection rounds will take place in November and December 2024. The interviews will take place in January 2025.

 

 

 

 

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