This year, the Kunsthof Niederarnsdorf is awarding 4 residency scholarships to professional visual artists and artistic researchers with the support of the Kulturstiftung Thüringen.
The call for entries is aimed at work concepts and artistic methods that deal with the subject of sustainable processes and make them aesthetically sensible. The claim “sustainability” refers to social, cultural, ecological and economic sustainability.
The call for entries is aimed at professional visual artists residing in Thuringia or at work concepts that have a strong connection to the state of Thuringia or the Altenburger Land region. The Thuringian cultural landscape should be enhanced by the work created locally.
During one-month residencies, the artists convert their usual production and presentation methods to CO2-neutral processes or dedicate themselves to the investigation and initiation of sustainable transformation processes through artistic production. As part of the scholarship, an artistic research work is created that deals with the topic either through material or concept.
Concepts that enable the rural population to participate are particularly desirable.
The artistic practice includes textile art, graphics, sculpture, painting, media art, performance, art in architecture and art in public spaces.
We are looking for concepts that use participatory or research-based methods to seek active exchange or contact with the regional population, regional topics and materials and that depict this in a global context as a circular process.
The residence is in a special interrelationship with its environment and itself forms a structure of social, ecological, domestic and artistic structures.
The residencies explore how their own work under premises such as sustainability and climate neutrality has a transformative effect on and in art production as well as on the cultural sector and the coexistence of all.
The residency fellows operate in an artistic work and research community that is embedded in the rural structure, interacts with it or integrates it into the production of art.
An exhibition at the end of 2025 at the Kunsthof Niederarnsdorf will present the artists’ works created during their residency. The exhibition will also be shown at other venues, including those outside the region.
RESIDENCE LOCATION
Kunsthof NIA
Heinrich-Heine-Str.7, 04603 Niederarnsdorf
DURATION
Residency grant per person
6 weeks
Period 1: Residency scholarships June 28 – August 09, 2025
Period 2: Residency scholarships August 23 – October 04, 2025
APPLICATION DEADLINE
March 30, 2025
JURY DECISION AND ANNOUNCEMENT
April 15, 2025
STIPENDIUM
2,500 € incl. travel expenses & material
DAY OF ARRIVAL
28.06.2025 or 23.08.2025, each until 3 pm
DAY OFDEPARTURE
09.08.2025 or 04.10.2025, each until 12 pm
OPEN ATELIER DAY
and Artist Talks in the Salon (all 4 residencies)
July 6, 2025, 3 – 6 p.m.
VERNISSAGE EXHIBITION
November 1, 2025, 5 p.m.
DURATION OF THE EXHIBITION
1.11. – 07.12.2025, Kunsthof NIA
The prerequisite for application is a completed art degree and proven professional activity as an artist. The scholarship cannot be awarded to students.
Application deadline: March 30, 2025