Virtual Residencies You Should Know About
Virtual residencies are of particularly high relevance right now. Not only are they accessible to more people, but they can also offer a worldwide reach. Here is a list of virtual residencies you should know about.
Akademie Schloss Solitude Web Residency
Since 2016, Akademie Schloss Solitude has organised Web Residencies, an exclusively online residency programme that supports artists, designers, researchers, and practitioners working with digital and web-based practices. The programme runs multiple open calls each year, each curated by invited experts or curatorial collectives. For each call, the curators select a cohort of participants for a residency lasting four to eight weeks, during which the work process and outcomes are presented online.
Participants receive a grant (currently around €1,200) rather than the earlier smaller stipend, and are encouraged to experiment with digital technologies, new art forms, and the thematic prompts set by each call. In the years 2017–2020, the programme was developed in cooperation with ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, with several curated calls and projects emerging from that collaboration; more recent calls are now run directly by the Akademie and publicised via their Digital Solitude and Web Residencies channels. Keep an eye on the Akademie’s site or newsletter for new calls.
GlogauAIR
GlogauAIR is a non-profit art space and residency created in 2006 by the artists Chema Alvargonzalez and is today supported by Memoria Artística Chema Alvargonzalez, in Kreuzberg, Berlin.
Focused on the principles of exploring, creating, and exhibiting, the residency offers an on-site and on-line program for international artists of all fields.
Through the on-line Program, artists have the opportunity to receive curatorial support, regular group meetings with other internation artists, talks by experts, and workshops, from their homes or personal studios, or even while preparing or working on projects in other parts of the world. This online program started in 2020 and has allowed the Berlin-based organization to expanded their residency to make it more flexible and affordable for artists to benefit from their expert support and exhibition resources.
BONFIRE
BONFIRE is an international cultural platform dedicated to the exploration and promotion of contemporary art — a digital fireplace for artists, cultural agents, and thinkers to meet, exchange, and develop new ideas.
Through online artist residencies, personalised mentoring, and curated group programmes, BONFIRE supports artistic practice while building a diverse and connected global community. Its programmes offer structured guidance, critical dialogue, and shared working time, creating space for both experimentation and professional growth.
Founded and directed by the artist duo LEMOS + LEHMANN, BONFIRE is designed by artists for artists. Each year, its initiatives bring together practitioners from different disciplines, backgrounds, and geographies to foster meaningful encounters, cross-pollination, and long-term collaboration. BONFIRE is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment where artistic practices can evolve and lasting relationships can emerge.
SomoS Berlin (Virtual Artist Residency)
SomoS Berlin Virtual Artist Residency is an empowering 3-month online experience that seeks to positively accompany the participating artist’s work progress, providing input, mentoring, support and visibility while creating a stimulating and friendly professional community. The online residency is a dedicated productive joint process that will help the artist to focus on their strengths.
While the Virtual Artist Residency is an online experience, it is still infused with a localized sense of the Berlin art scene and of SomoS’ curatorial focus. This is done by integrating Berlin-based art professionals such as artists, critics, gallerists, writers, curators, while building upon the existing theme complex of SomoS’ exhibitions and art projects, dedicated to dialogue, challenging assumptions, and representing diverse standpoints.
WOC (Online Artist Residency)
WOC Online Residency is a way to reconnect with the international art community, provoke creative exchange, and expand your art practice through feedback and mutual support.
The focus is on connecting artists and building new networks between them, through dialogue and experimentation. The participants are able to work on specific projects, improve their portfolios, and move on when they feel stuck and need help.
Through active dialogue, exchanging ideas, and critical thinking, the program builds a strong sense of community and artistic collaboration among its participants which lasts after the program ends.
In a friendly and supportive atmosphere, WOC helps artists to continue growing, experimenting and improving themselves as artists.
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