Künstler:innenhaus Büchsenhausen Fellowship Program for Art and Theory

With its Fellowship Program for Art and Theory, Büchsenhausen promotes internationally relevant artistic production, research, and discussion in the region of Tyrol. The program is based on the idea of generating and maintaining a context for production and exchange, in which artists and theorists can connect and reflect on international art and societal discourses in relation to local topics and issues. At the same time, it provides the opportunity for an artistic laboratory of experimentation, where new artistic practices and strategies may be tried out.

Aims

• The program’s aims are:
  • to promote and relay a critical, socially relevant production of knowledge in art and art theory;
  • to produce, through the fellowship projects, qualified discourses on art and society within the local and global contexts;
  • to enable the transfer of knowledge between the field of art and other public spheres outside the art context;
  • to facilitate exchange between cultural producers in the visual arts and beyond (creating a network of experts).
• The program combines the advantages of a residency with the possibilities of a postgraduate, non-academic research and production fellowship on the basis of an open, non-formalized structure. Content-wise, the program addresses a worldwide public made up of professionals in the fields of contemporary art, architecture, art, and media theory, as well as criticism.

Benefits 

• a money award of EUR 5,000
• an individual studio for working and living, furnished with a large shared kitchen
• a production budget for the realization of the submitted proposal;
• a budget for inviting experts to Büchsenhausen for the purpose of professional exchange
• a budget for (at least partially) covering the own travel costs (in relation to the Fellowship Program)
• the opportunity to present the produced work in a curated group exhibition at the end of the fellowship
• Facilities:
  • free access to the ‚Lab‘, the project/gallery space
  • free use of the available multimedia production equipment in the ‚Lab‘
  • free Highspeed-DSL/WLAN Internet access
  • professional artistic and art-theoretical advice
  • technical advice if required

Eligibility Criteria

• Professional visual/media artists, art theorists, art critics, and curators from all over the world are eligible for the fellowship.

For more information, visit Künstler:innenhaus Büchsenhausen.