Open Call: Bucharest AiR

BMF

03/02/2016

Application deadline: 1st of April, 2016

Bucharest AiR is open to all art professionals who manifest a genuine interest in a period of working and living in Bucharest.

The Residency can host and collaborate with artists working with:

new media and internet
performance
research based work
installation
site specific (public space) interventions and similar
drawing
painting
photography
video

The Residency is less suitable for traditionally oriented artists who work within large scale studio-based sculptural practices. Bucharest Air is further open to collaborations with curators, critics, and writers, as well as with experimental filmmakers. There are no age restrictions, and the Residency is open to all nationalities equally. Projects and proposals, which will take into consideration the specific context of Romania, will have priority over more generalist approaches.

The residency

Bucharest Air offers residents the chance to live and work for a period of up to three months in the city of Bucharest, as well as the chance to research, develop, or produce new works and projects, conceptually and practically aided by the Bucharest Air team.

Concretely included in what Bucharest Air offers is housing, utilities and consumables, as well as human capital and cultural capital, a vast international network, and factual working hours in service of the resident, which includes aid in research, aid in realizing projects and in production, limited translations, access to the residencies network, and guidance into the Romanian art world.

Bucharest Air choses the residency location considering availability and the resident artists' work or project-based necessities. The residency's locations are an 80 square meter ground level house, with a 500 square meter garden, located at the Eastern end of Bucharest, near the city of Voluntari as well as a 50 square meter apartment located near the city center.

Costs

Bucharest Air maintains two different residency fees:

For residents who do not benefit from third party sponsorship, such as patronage or institutional aid, the per month residency fee amounts to 800,-- Euro all inclusive.
For residents who do benefit from a third party sponsorship, as well as for institutions, the residency fee amounts to 1300,-- Euro per month all inclusive.

Application process

Bucharest Air accepts a maximum of six residents per calendar year, following two application rounds which are made public on the residency website and on various online platform.

Sending applications or requesting any additional information can be done via the Contact page

To find out more, please visit the Bucharest AiR website.

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