All residencies

BAC currently has two resident programme categories: PIR (Production-in-Residence) for international artists, AIR (Artist-in-Residence) for artists, curators and contemporary art writers from the Baltic and Nordic countries. Receieved support: 2007-2009, 2010-2011. Web page

Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators is a working and meeting place for literary professionals. The Centre welcomes applicants from all countries - but priority of residence is given to literary professionals from the countries of the Baltic Sea region and Scandinavia. Funding: 2007-2009 Webpage

BAR International artist-in-residency program invites artists from the Barents Region, Nordic countries and internationally to explore the Barents borderland in transition.  Funding: 2007-2009. Web page

Residence Botkyrka is a studio program for internationally active artists, architects and curators. Here different skills and experiences come together and develop at the intersection of artistic work, research, educational work, social and urban planning. Funding: 2010-2011, 2012-2013. Webpage

Collaborative Research Residency, a new residency program for collaborative research within the field of contemporary art, welcoming applications of at least three collaborating practitioners based in the Nordic or Baltic countries. Funding: 2010-2011. Website

Dansearena nord is a regional competence- and network centre for dance in Northern Norway with international orientation towards the Barents region. Funding: 2010-2011, 2012-2013. Webpage

Dansens Hus Residency Programme focuses on artistic research and development, offering mentorship and expertise of staff, allowing residence holders to work in studios and/or on the venue’s small stage, free of production demands. Funding: 2010-2011. Website

EMS has a state mission to be part of the composers’ and sound artists’ infrastructure by offering their six studios as a production resource for artistic work. Besides “traditional” composers, who have received training at music colleges, there are now also other artists from other types of institutions at EMS. Funding: 2010-2011, 2012-2013. Web page

Guldagergaard is an international ceramic research center for development of ceramic art, craft and design. International artists and designers come here for studio residencies, workshops and symposiums focusing on contemporary themes. Funding: 2007-2009, 2010-2011 Web page

HIAP - Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Programme is the largest international residency centre in Finland and the only one operating in the capital. The program is focused primarily on the Visual Arts and is open to artists from various disciplines. Funding: 2007-2009, 2010-2011, 2012-2013. Web page

Hordaland Art Centre has been host to guests since 1987. Today the residency is focused on research as well as production and is an integral part of our programme. The residency is open to international artists, curators, writers and other art professionals. Funding: 2007-2009, 2010-2011, 2012-2013. Web page

Hotel Pro Forma wishes to rethink and recreate our ways of working and collaborating. The ambition is to create new innovative forms of artwork. Funding: 2012-2013. Webpage 

Kanuti Gildi SAAL is the first production and event house in Estonia devoted exclusively to the genre of contemporary dance and related arts. The policy is to act both locally and internationally. Funding: 2009, 2010-2011, 2012-2013. Website

The objectives of the programme of Klaustrid is to give artists, scholars, writers, composers and others a place to stay in peace and work on specific projects in a creative atmosphere. Støttet: 2010-2011. Website

Kunstnerhuset at Svinøya has been a place of work for Norwegian and Swedish artists since 1953. Through the years artists from all over the world have come here to be inspired by the north Norwegian nature. Funding: 2007-2009 Web page

 Lillith Performance Studio is an independent arena for practical artistic research, focusing on visual art performance. Funding: 2007-2009. Web page

Malongen residency programme is administred by the Swedish Section of the Nordic Art Association. Selection of artists is made in collaboration with artist-run spaces in Stockholm. Funding: 2007-2009. Web page

MoKS Center for Art and Social Practice, is a non-profit artist-run project space. The MoKS residency aims to offer artists an open but focused environment in which they can work, explore and experiment. Funding: 2010-2011, 2012-2013. Website

Located in Hyrynsalmi (Kainuu province, Finland), Mustarinda-residency offers rooms for artists, writers and researchers of varying fields. Available for residents are three artist studios and additionally three rooms suitable for researchers/writers. Received support: 2012-2013, Web page

 The main goal of the residency is to provide an opportunity for international exchange, where professional artists in all media including writers and performing artists are given the opportunity to meet, exchange ideas and possibly cooperate. Funding: 2010-2011. Webside

Nida Art Colony offers residencies for professional artists, designers, architects, art critics and curators. It aims to create favourable conditions for creative contemporary art practices, and to engage into the local cultural and social scene. Funding: 2010-2011, 2012-2013. Website

NOASS supports the realization of contemporary arts projects in an urban environment, making art part of the daily lives. The organization invites artists representing both visual arts and video art, as well as writers, art curators and critics. Funding: 2009. Website

The A-I-R program encourages international contacts for artists and focuses on visual arts including design, architecture and locally rooted practice.Funding: 2007-2009, 2010-2011. Foto: Laura Vuoma Web page

Platform is an artist-run initiative founded in the year of 2000. Platform runs a residency programme in Vasa, Finland. The aim of Platform is to promote, show and be part of producing international contemporary art. Webpage

Ptarmigan is a non-commercial art space that invites international artists to create original work with performative or interactive aspects, and to share their artistic skills directly with the public. Funding: 2010-2011, 2012-2013. Website

Refuguim Upenarvik’s aim is to give an artist or a small group of artists an opportunity to work in a peaceful and calm environment. Funding: 2007-2009 Website 

SAIR’s vision is to enhance the inter cultural dialog and to create optimal phrameworks for artistic research and production. To create peace and space for immersion and concentration. Web page

Since 2002 SERDE has developed the public workshop centre with technical equipment for experimental and innovative projects, and offers residencies for local and international artists, culture workers, activists, managers and scientists. Received support: 2012-2013, Web page

Signal’s focus is on producing exhibitions, stimulating discussions and promoting contacts between local, national and international art scenes. The residency is a collaboration between Sparwasser HQ, Signal, rum46 and UKS. Funding: 2007-2009. netres, Signal

SIM runs about 100 studios and SIM-RES, the international art resident program, has two studios reserved for foreign artists and a guest house with three rooms. Funding: 2007-2009 Webpage

Skaftfell is a meeting point for artists running an international residency program, extensive exhibition program and education program. Funded: 2010-2011, 2012-2013.Website

The residence in Rome for Nordic Artists offers residencies to creative artists in fields such as visual arts, music, literature, theater, and film. Funding: 2007-2009, 2010-2011, 2012-2013. Webpage

Sparwasser HQ, offensive for contemporary art and communication, is a non-profit platform for curated projects. The residency is developed as a collaboration between Sparwasser HQ, Signal, rum46 and UKS. Funding: 2007-2009. Webpage

Part of photo by Klara G
Subtopia exists for artists, the audience, entrepreneurs, amateurs, and the curious ones. It is a node for collaboration between culture, business, education, and social engagement. We are located in Alby, Botkyrka south of Stockholm.

Received support: 2012-2013, Web page

SUMU focus on new media and contemporary art in various forms such as sound and video art and installations. Funding: 2007-2009, 2010-2011 Webpage

The Troms Fylkeskultursenter’s guest studio gives the opportunity to collaboration and new meetings between various artist groups and mileus. It aims to offer cross-border cooperation between different genres. Funding: 2010-2011 Webpage

The main objective of the artists-in-residence programme NORDIC STUDIO is to provide an original framework where visiting Baltic and Nordic artists could benefit from direct collaboration with the gallery and its facilities. Funding: 2010-2011. Website

Throughout the society’s history, UKS has worked to secure the rights of artists artistically and socially. The residency is part of a 3 years programme „netres” which is developed as a collaboration between Sparwasser HQ, Signal, rum46 and UKS. Funded: 2007-2009. Website

The aim of the International Writers’ and Translators’ House is to create a multifunctional centre, which promotes literature, encourages cross-cultural dialogue and introduces the Latvian literary process to international circulation. Funding: 2009, 2010-2011, 2012-2013. Website

Visby International Centre for Composers is a work- and meeting place for composers from the Baltic Sea Region and the Nordic Countries as well as the rest of the international world of composers. Funding: 2007-2009 Web page 

Weld is an independent platform for experimental processes and knowledge production. We gather impulses and ideas; we combine and break them down; we re-think them - while aspiring to define ourselves as something not quite tangible Funding: 2010-2011, 2012-2013. Web page