Open Call: CSSM Artist in Residence 2025

Artists are invited to submit proposals that aim to produce collaboratively new ways of knowing microbes with researchers and various publics, opening to non-textual, embodied, and practice-based knowledge.

Funding Information

• The residency offers artists economic support to work at the CSSM in Helsinki for 6 months at 2500€ per month, which is meant to cover accommodation and living expenses.
• The residency will be 6 months full-time and starts ideally in February or March 2025.

Eligibility Criteria

• All lines of artistic work that have a microbial focus are eligible.
• The CSSM adopts a broad understanding of the term artist, inviting individual projects across any art-related discipline.
• Proposals can engage a wide range of artistic work, including conceptual work, and need not be limited to any media.
• They welcome applications from emerging, mid-career, and established individual artists, based anywhere in the world, who demonstrate a commitment to the Centre’s intellectual and societal aims.
• The proposed project could be part of an artistic research dissertation or can also be seen as a possibility to develop the artist’s skills at joining art and science.

Application Requirements

• Your application should include:
  • a short motivation letter (max. 1 page),
  • a draft project proposal (1-2 pages) including a description of intended forms of engagement with the CSSM aligned with the What and the How of the CSSM,
  • a portfolio of previous works,
  • a CV.

For more information, visit CSSM.