Paadmaan (meaning ‘safeguard’ in Farsi) is an independent artist-run platform for contemporary art with an interdisciplinary approach established in 2018, based in Tehran. Through a variety of curatorial programming, Paadmaan seeks to expand on existing discourses surrounding contemporary art within various Iranian communities and supporting their input, transforming into output. Paadmaan aims to proceed networking locally and internationally and improve the collective in the contemporary art scene by focusing on research, dialogue and presentation. Paadmaan promotes these by organizing exhibitions, events, artist residencies, lectures, screenings, publications and various interactions throughout Iran and abroad.
Tehran, Iran
Artistania is a non-profit organization which provides space and opportunities to encourage individuals with different cultural and social backgrounds to work together on artistic and socio-cultural projects. The association’s goal is to promote the idea that cultural differences can stimulate inspiration, creativity and mutual learning. Therefore Artistania creates possibilities to implement and present this idea through its projects.
Neckarstrasse 19, 12053 Berlin, Germany
The Pushkinskaya-10 is Russia’s oldest independent art centre founded in Leningrad in 1989. A former squat, created by nonconformist artists representing the alternative culture in the Soviet period, today it’s an exhibition space, a studio complex and a museum.
Laundromat Art Space is an artist-run studio and exhibition complex which focuses on the development of local artists and provides innovative curatorial opportunities and artistic programming for the community.
185 NE 59th Street Miami, FL 33137
Future Utopia Community Key is an Artist in Residence (AiR) program. It is dedicated to the activities in the rural village of Uddebo and the area. The objective is to respond to the specific needs of the local and social context belonging to a rural community committed to economic sustainability, where the inhabitants claim the defence of the intangible, of the pro-common. The Residence program is a collaborative agency, dedicated to new social bonding and community building. It’s a process-oriented platform with a cross-disciplinary approach. The main areas of focus is ecological, economical and political utopian societies in a post-human perspective. Another main focus is the economic and social conditions of art and possible forms of art and social change in the light of post colonialist theory. A long-term goal is to visualise a model of self-sustainability which is possible to replicate and adapt to other places. We offer a retreat from the (urban) environment to insert oneself in a new experience of dialog with a rural community. The residency is open for any disciplines; philosophers, visual artists, research, innovators, creatives, architecture and design. The application process works through invitation, or is offered through special partnerships with other institutions, funding bodies or organizations. Four guest artists will […]
ULLASJÖGATAN 7B, 51492 UDDEBO
FARM STUDIO ( International Artist Residency – India) FARM Studio International Artist Residency’s aim is to provide a rural, community-based open platform where creativity can unfold. Residents stay and create in a unique atmosphere and entirely new environment where they can develop their artwork free from accustomed distractions. Relationships form between the artists coming from different geographical locations and varied social, religious and cultural backgrounds. Here, collaborations and experimentation is encouraged. Many exciting exchanges and dialogues among artists take place. Farm Studio also promotes and celebrates the local community’s artistic and cultural identity while also introducing art and culture of others (Indian and International guests) back to the community. This intercultural exchange broadens everyone’s experiences and fosters art appreciation. Farm Studio International Artist Residency hosts artists from September to March each year, with accommodations available for up to 6-12 residents at one time. Artists of all disciplines creating in any media are welcome to apply: dance, theatre, music, sound, performance art, writing, painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, culinary, photography, video/film, animation, architecture, sculpture (any material), ceramics, mixed-media / multi-media, interdisciplinary, installation, and other new/alternative media. Researchers, curators, and art critics are also welcome to apply. Open to emerging and established artists.
Farm Studio Village-Raniya kheda, Post Andore, Tehsil Sheoganj, Dist Sirohi, Rajasthan
CRIPTA747 is a non-profit visual art organisation founded in Turin in 2008: it is a place for research, exchange and production where the artistic practices face the contemporary debate. Through a programme of exhibitions, screenings and events, CRIPTA747 investigates new forms and languages with the aim of giving back to the audience an authentic and fresh vision. Since 2017, we have started two new programmes dedicated to international mobility: Residency, to support research with fellowships, and Studio, a project of shared work space with a focus on production.
Via Quittengo 41/b, Turin (IT)
ARTErra is a multidisciplinary art residency programme placed in the green and friendly village of Lobão da Beira. Our project aims hosting artists by providing them with accommodations, work place ,cultural exchanges and ideas with the community and other artists. We offer two distinct spaces: the house where the residents can do the meals, rest, meet each other, and the other space separated , the “”creation yard””, The different work studios are surrounded by a big garden, a animal yard and an orchard, are spacious and bright spaces perfect to do some research and develop your project in a very relax and comfortable environment. We also have a workroom in the main square of the village where small exhibitions, talks and performances can be presented. This is the perfect place where to do “”try out”” and show your work. During the years we have built a strong relationship with the people of Lobão da Beira who are open and curious about ARTErra artists. Artists from very different disciplines and background search for retreats and places where they can change environment and focus in they´re work, our residency facilitates this escape. We accept application from artists who work in all disciplines […]
Rua Nossa Senhora do Crasto
ARTErra is a multidisciplinary art residency programme placed in the green and friendly village of Lobão da Beira. Our project aims hosting artists by providing them with accommodations, work place ,cultural exchanges and ideas with the community and other artists. We offer two distinct spaces: the house where the residents can do the meals, rest, meet each other, and the other space separated, the “creation yard”, The different work studios are surrounded by a big garden, a animal yard and an orchard, are spacious and bright spaces perfect to do some research and develop your project in a very relax and comfortable environment. We also have a workroom in the main square of the village where small exhibitions, talks and performances can be presented. This is the perfect place where to do “try out” and show your work. During the years we have built a strong relationship with the people of Lobão da Beira who are open and curious about ARTErra artists. Artists from very different disciplines and background search for retreats and places where they can change environment and focus in their work, our residency facilitates this escape. We accept application from artists who work in all disciplines and […]
R. Nossa Sra. do Crasto nº 380, 3460-207 Tondela, Portugal
Land404 is founded by artists Christopher Landin and Simone Ærsøe. From their farm on the southeast coast of Sweden, they run a residency program and facilitate workshops, events and exhibitions. Based in the countryside far from any major cities, Land404 is interested in examining rural spaces in the context of western civilisation. To create a flow of information and dialogue from the periphery to the center most of the work created and shown at the farm is also exhibited in urban contexts.
gullholma 404, 373 75 jämjö
Ortega y Gasset Projects (OyG) is a non-profit artist-run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Founded in May 2013 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, OyG moved to Gowanus in February 2015. Ortega y Gasset is a non-profit organization run by a group of directors based in New York and other regions throughout the US. All directors are working artists and in addition to writing, curating, installing and doing administrative work to run OyG, their directorship enables them to connect with the community that OyG fosters to support their practices as painters, photographers, sculptors and writers. OyG is entirely run by working artists, and so recognizes that exploration is key to the sustainment of artistic vitality. Thus, we embark on an exploratory model where artists take the role of curator, critic and promoter. Working without specific intentions of commercial profit or an explicit curatorial ideology, the goal of OyG is to mount exhibitions that provoke interpretation and dialogue and bolster artistic community. In doing so, we participate within a wider forum to disseminate aesthetic experience in new ways and expand our roles, priorities and scope of influence within art culture. Half of the current co-directors of OyG live outside of New […]
363 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY, USA
AADK Spain is an artist-run platform that develops spaces for research and contemporary creation. With a focus set on experimental processes, its primary interest is to explore the notions of body, territory, and spatiality. The platform advocates the decentralization of culture and access to contemporary art in non-urban areas. It addresses local issues as means to understand global problems. Currently based in Centro Negra (Blanca, Murcia) it holds several programs among which its Artist Residency and Cruce Programs stand out. As a team, we believe that all artists we host are an active part of our platform. Therefore, we foster networks with other cultural and artistic enterprises, helping to promote their mobility on national and international circuits.
Calle del Castillo,30 Blanca Murcia
We are a society of artists and curators based in Vienna with the strong focus on contemporary art practice and post photographic theories. Our vision is to create an artistic network that provides a possibility for artist to present their works beside conventional galleries and produce new works for specific curatorial projects. We invite several national and international artists per year to participate in our projects such as exhibitions, publications, print editions and residencies.
Vienna
Our mission is to increase the number and range of people experiencing the arts through access and participation and to further opportunities for artists and the local community across a broad range of art forms that will enrich, educate and provide enjoyment. Located in a warehouse in Marrickville we have a gallery, six artist studios, and an atelier space where access and participation is provided to the local community through tutored skills-based classes and untutored arts groups. Scratch Art Space is an artist initiative founded and managed by Artist Carmel Byrne.
67 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville NSW 2204, Australia
The Luminary is a nonprofit independent space founded in St. Louis, MO in 2007 as a forum for artistic research, production and presentation, conceived in response to both our immediate and international community, alongside our audiences, and in dialogue with artists. The Luminary is a constellation of ideas and activities: a physical site that opens onto a larger cultural and conceptual space; exhibitions that move through multiple timelines, spaces and forms; residencies with artists, curators and critics meant to test boundaries and continually push forward their individual and collective practice; and wide-ranging projects that critically engage emerging ideas and stretch the definition of the institution itself. The basis of the organization is experimentation and engagement. Emerging art and ideas are at the forefront of this experimentation, but only as they interact with people: art as an individual and communal experience; call and response; exchange and change; form and reform. We propose, support and present exceptional art embedded in social and cultural contexts, viewing contemporary art as an essential expression of our time. Beyond promoting various modes of artistic exploration, The Luminary investigates its own infrastructure as an artist-run organization in order to advance the understanding of our potentialities within broader […]
2701 CHEROKEE ST. ST. LOUIS, MO 63118
Founded in 2007, Little Berlin is a cooperative exhibition space run by 11 artist members who curate the space using a collaborative, do-it-yourself ethic. Located in Kensington, Philadelphia, Little Berlin is known for its emphasis on month long curated exhibitions and unique, experimental programming. Members support one another to promote artists and ideas beyond our individual art practices. We are open to project proposals and collaborations with local and international community and arts organizations. Founded in May 2014 by members of Little Berlin, the Annex is a raw, intimate space for performance, film, music, readings, lectures, and workshops. Like Little Berlin’s adjacent gallery, The Annex holds exhibitions and installations, but they are usually shorter than one month and based around programming events like Poems Night, live performances, and occasionally artists-in-residence. The Annex is also home to Little Berlin’s Zine Library, which is the largest in Philadelphia and houses hundreds of zines, exhibition catalogs, chapbooks, and artist books. Email us to coordinate mail submissions of your zine! Above: Scenes from Lógos, curated by Ethan Patrick Sherman in July 2017. Lógos considers the Postructuralist premise that the distinctions we make are not necessarily given by the world around us, but are instead produced by the […]
2430 CORAL ST. PHILADELPHIA, PA 19125
Artexte is a library, research centre and exhibition space for contemporary art. Our unique print and digital document collection holds over 27 000 documents covering the visual arts from 1965 to the present, with an emphasis on the art of Canada and Québec. Our online database can be found at e-artexte.ca
2 Sainte-Catherine East, room 301
The independent artist-run initiative kunsthallekleinbasel Switzerland was founded in an apartment inhabited by the artist, curator and art educator Jasmin Glaab in June 2014 in the center of Basel. The non-profit initiative functions independently from public funding and regularly participates in independent art fairs and festivals throughout Europe. Since 2014 the initiative has realized over 50 exhibitions in collaboration with more than 100 artists, historians, educators, photographers and other cultural professionals, accompanied by concerts, performative actions, educational and networking programs.
107 Projects’ philosophy and mission is to improve communities by encouraging people to live creatively. We are committed to the advancement of culture. With a social enterprise ethos, we aim to transform how the arts, business and education engage across industries and with the wider community to create positive social change and connect emerging communities. 107 Projects is an Incorporated Association and a registered charity (DGR-1). We support creativity through four main pillars: 107 Redfern Street: A repurposed car garage, now a multipurpose creative hub. Focused on providing affordable and flexible facilities, 107 Redfern Street supports exhibition and performance spaces, artist studios, workshop, event and co-working spaces, offices, a rooftop garden and public social areas. 3A Joynton Avenue: Launched in 2018, Joynton Avenue Creative Centre houses over 25 artists, creative practitioners, organisations and start-ups; as well as supporting creative education programs, jewellery making, exhibitions and cultural events. 107 Presents: A curated multi-arts program that is innovative, experimental, enticing and accessible. It celebrates artistic excellence, the power of creativity to connect community and showcases Sydney as a creative city to live, work and play. Creative Services: With years of experience under our collective belts, we are able to offer a diverse mix of creative […]
107 Redfern St, Redfern NSW 2016
frontviews is a group of international artists and art theorists. Based in Berlin, we develop formats of contemporary culture in collaboration with various organisations and initiatives in Germany and abroad. Four principles shape our agenda: 1. to support the development of a society in substantial accordance with the local and global ecology 2. to provide the public with access to current trends and discourses in contemporary culture 3. to continue the effort to practice new formats of cultural – collective activity 4. to cultivate international exchange with other active art practitioners
Kluckstrasse 23, 10785 Berlin, Germany