Residency programme for artists
Our artist residency programme offers ten residencies in eight countries. The programme is open to artists working in Finland.
Why do we support artists’ mobility?
Finnish art has always relied upon international mobility, and these days it is more important than ever to give artists opportunities to travel and network internationally. In the future, we will continue to strengthen the residency programme.
Residency alumni
Meet our residency alumni
Comic artist Ivanda Jansone plays with layers of reality in her works. Next, she wants to take her comics to the walls of galleries. Jansone received a residency grant in 2023 and spent two months working at the NART residency in Narva.
Residencies
For more information on the residencies and the grants available, please visit each residency’s presentation page.
AIT – Arts Initiative Tokyo
Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT) is a non-profit arts organisation established in Tokyo in 2001. Since its inauguration, AIT has facilitated the educational programme MAD (Making Art Different), whose aim is to reach out to the general public to stimulate cultural dialogue in the field of contemporary art and the current society.
AIT – Arts Initiative Tokyo
Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT) is a non-profit arts organisation established in Tokyo in 2001. Since its inauguration, AIT has facilitated the educational programme MAD (Making Art Different), whose aim is to reach out to the general public to stimulate cultural dialogue in the field of contemporary art and the current society.
Fabrikken, Copenhagen
The bustling Fabrikken art centre in Copenhagen brings together visual artists and designers from a vast array of experience levels to interact as a creative community and benefit from the workspaces and professional support offered. The artists-in-residence are individually teamed with a local mentor or a peer and with a curator who will help the artists to build lasting networks in Denmark.
Fabrikken, Copenhagen
The bustling Fabrikken art centre in Copenhagen brings together visual artists and designers from a vast array of experience levels to interact as a creative community and benefit from the workspaces and professional support offered. The artists-in-residence are individually teamed with a local mentor or a peer and with a curator who will help the artists to build lasting networks in Denmark.
FILBA, Buenos Aires
Finnish writers can spend three months in Buenos Aires, were they will have the chance to live and work in a culturally rich and stimulating environment.
FILBA, Buenos Aires
Finnish writers can spend three months in Buenos Aires, were they will have the chance to live and work in a culturally rich and stimulating environment.
Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn
Kanuti Gildi SAAL, established mainly by freelance artists, is a contemporary performing arts centre in Tallinn. It co-produces artworks in collaboration with institutional partners and artists, organizes festivals, and facilitates residencies with various objectives in order to give artists the space and time for developing their ideas.
Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn
Kanuti Gildi SAAL, established mainly by freelance artists, is a contemporary performing arts centre in Tallinn. It co-produces artworks in collaboration with institutional partners and artists, organizes festivals, and facilitates residencies with various objectives in order to give artists the space and time for developing their ideas.
MJF, Lofoten Islands
The residency house of the Maaretta Jaukkuri Foundation is situated in Kvalnes, in the Municipality of Vestvågøy in the Lofoten islands located on the northern shores of the Norwegian Sea. The closest neighbors, beyond the horizon, are Greenland and the Spitsbergen archipelago. Geographically, like other outer edges of the continent, the region is vulnerable to ongoing ecological changes. It is a region of extreme fragility, that bears marks of the human impact on climate change along with the urgent challenges it creates.
MJF, Lofoten Islands
The residency house of the Maaretta Jaukkuri Foundation is situated in Kvalnes, in the Municipality of Vestvågøy in the Lofoten islands located on the northern shores of the Norwegian Sea. The closest neighbors, beyond the horizon, are Greenland and the Spitsbergen archipelago. Geographically, like other outer edges of the continent, the region is vulnerable to ongoing ecological changes. It is a region of extreme fragility, that bears marks of the human impact on climate change along with the urgent challenges it creates.
MORPHO, Antwerpen
MORPHO provides studios and runs an artist residency for Belgian-based and international artists.
MORPHO, Antwerpen
MORPHO provides studios and runs an artist residency for Belgian-based and international artists.
NART, Narva
Narva Art Residency is located on the Estonian-Russian border. It hosts an international residency programme which is open for artists operating across a wide range of disciplines as well as other art professionals. NART also has an exhibition programme, hosts student groups, seminars, open events, workshops and much more to offer a connection between the artists’ and local communities.
NART, Narva
Narva Art Residency is located on the Estonian-Russian border. It hosts an international residency programme which is open for artists operating across a wide range of disciplines as well as other art professionals. NART also has an exhibition programme, hosts student groups, seminars, open events, workshops and much more to offer a connection between the artists’ and local communities.
SÍM, Reykjavik
The Sím residency in Reykjavík, established by the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SÍM) welcomes over 200 artists from all over the world on an annual basis. The main objective of the residency is to provide a venue for international artists to take part in the Icelandic art scene, thereby creating a broader context within which local and international artists can experience their work.
SÍM, Reykjavik
The Sím residency in Reykjavík, established by the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SÍM) welcomes over 200 artists from all over the world on an annual basis. The main objective of the residency is to provide a venue for international artists to take part in the Icelandic art scene, thereby creating a broader context within which local and international artists can experience their work.
Tokyo Arts and Space Residency
Tokyo Arts and Space Residency (formerly Tokyo Wondersite) serves as a residential centre for artists and other individuals in creative fields. The residential centre was opened in 2006, and each year it accommodates about 100 artists and individuals in creative fields.
Tokyo Arts and Space Residency
Tokyo Arts and Space Residency (formerly Tokyo Wondersite) serves as a residential centre for artists and other individuals in creative fields. The residential centre was opened in 2006, and each year it accommodates about 100 artists and individuals in creative fields.
Triangle, New York
Triangle is a visual arts residency in New York founded in 1982, and located in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Triangle offers spacious studios and a dynamic artistic community to support the development of new artwork. Triangle’s founding concept and current programs de-emphasize professionalization and specific outcomes, instead allowing artists space and time to focus on their ideas and process.
Triangle, New York
Triangle is a visual arts residency in New York founded in 1982, and located in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Triangle offers spacious studios and a dynamic artistic community to support the development of new artwork. Triangle’s founding concept and current programs de-emphasize professionalization and specific outcomes, instead allowing artists space and time to focus on their ideas and process.
Finished residencies
Artspace is located near the Sydney coastline in the vicinity of the city’s well-known cultural and tourist attractions, such as the Sydney Opera House and the Kings Cross area.
The grants were available for visual artists for three months residency between 2018 and 2020.
CAPACETE, situated in Rio de Janeiro, is a residency programme whose mission is to set up situations and develop strategies that offer concrete and real alternatives within the unstable field of art.
The grants were awarded for three months residency in 2020.
Hôtel Chevillon is located in the village of Grez-sur-Loing about 70 kilometres south of Paris and about nine kilometres from the town of Fontainebleau. The village has a population of about 1,300 and it was already attracting artists, writers, composers and musicians at the end of the 19th century.
The grants were available to visual artists for four to six months in years 1994 to 2019 and to writers for three to six months in years 2003 to 2018.
Institute for Provocation (IFP), located in the heart of Beijing, is an independent art organisation and project space founded in 2010.
The grants were available to visual artists for three months residency between 2018 and 2020.
O Espaço do Tempo is located in Convento da Saudação, an old Dominican monastery, in the town of Montemor-o-Novo about 100 kilometres from Lisbon.
The grants were available to individuals and working groups of up to five members for two to three weeks in 2017 and 2018.
Santarcangelo dei Teatri organises the Santarcangelo Festival, which is the oldest Italian festival dedicated to contemporary performing arts, as well as one of the most significant festivals in the European context of theatre and dance.
The grants were awarded to two working groups of dance art and to one working group of performance art for two to three weeks in 2020.
The SeMA Nanji Residency opened in 2006 and is part of the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). The residential centre is located in an old industrial facility in a park outside the city centre.
The grants were available to visual artists for three months between 2016 and 2023.