OPEN CALL

Artists and curators are welcome to apply to the residency - deadline 17th May 2024.

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APPLY NOW for a two month art residency at Kunstwerk Kolderveen, from 1st July till 31st August 2024.

 

Kunstwerk Kolderveen announces an open call for its summer residency in Drenthe. Located in a rural landscape at the border between the province of Overijssel and Drenthe, Kolderveen is a village of just over two hundred people. Turn right as you leave the residency and you end up amongst the reed and the migratory birds in the watery landscape of De Weerribben-Wieden National Park. Turn right and you head towards the ancient dolmen and forest of the Holtingerveld. Our summer residency is intended as a production residency for artists to have space to work in this inspiring environment.  

 

Costs: 900 euros per month (excluding VAT).

Access: Gives access to large 110 sqm studio with day light, a 60 sqm private apartment bedroom, kitchen, toilet, parking place, two bikes and internet. Ideal for a couple and possibly a small child. Animals allowed. No access for wheelchairs. Depending on your plans, we can prepare the studio with wood working equipment, metal working, 3D printing, computers to work on VR, simulation and animation, or a small painting lab for encaustic painting. We will do this in consultation with you. In principle the studio is not manned by any technicians. If you require assistance or craft knowledge this is possible to be arrange for an extra fee and depending on availability of the technicians.

 

Application requirements:

Portfolio + CV + Motivation Letter

Please send us your application before the 17th May, by email: kunstwerkkolderveen@gmail.com. Results by 20th May.

 

PREVIOUS RESIDENTS

  • Steph Holl-Trieu

    Past ARTIST IN RESIDENCY

    Steph Holl-Trieu is an artist and writer based in Berlin and Vienna. She is interested in questions of materialist aesthetics, that is, the historical contingency of our modes of perception. Her work materialises between writing, sound, (role-playing) games, and is often situated within collaborative or collective settings.

  • Carina Erdmaan

    Past ARTIST IN RESIDENCY

    Carina Erdmann is based in Brussels and Berlin and works on the intersection of game design and performance, researching (role) play, and collective (un)worlding as methods for social speculation. In different contexts and collaborations, she develops adaptive game architectures through which players (de)construct (unspoken) rules and act out alternative agencies.