Artist Community

“Instytut avtomatyky” – an initiative group that works as an experimental creative laboratory, avoiding mimetic means of expression in the field of modern art, concentrates on the concepts of experience, the use of non-typical materials, interaction with space and with found objects (ready-made). “Instytut avtomatyky” was founded on July 20, 2020 by artists Maksym Mazur and Andriy Pidlisny with the aim of promoting the development of a local creative center that arose spontaneously in the building of the Kyiv Institute of Automation at 22 Nahirna Street. The priorities of the group are the creation of artistic events, exhibition projects and the formation of international collaboration of artists on the basis of common values ​​in art. “Instytut avtomatyky” works outside a single permanent exhibition space and uses the method of collective curation with the involvement of project participants.  

School of Commons (SoC) is a community-based initiative dedicated to the study and development of self-organized knowledge. We promote a broad, integrative understanding of knowledge, and focus on matters surrounding the production and mediation of knowledge with a focus on self-organized practices and knowledge decentralization. Located at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), the content and position of SoC is defined by our community rather than a predetermined program; research is conducted in our three labs (LEARN, MAPP, and READ), all of which are run as peer-based collaborative endeavours with annually changing members. Our labs bring together a wide range of participants, guests, and contributors who share their curiosity, skills, and visions. We offer personal support, financial resources, and an active community of peers and experts engaged in a wide range of topics. ✨ For more information, check out our website or get in touch! [email protected] http://www.schoolofcommons.org

The Lacuna Festivals are an annual International Contemporary Art Festival delivered in the Canary Islands, Spain. Over the last three years our festival has grown in popularity and now runs for a whole month during the summer. In 2020 the festivals exhibited 653 artworks, from 210 artists, coming from 53 countries around the world and held 45 live events. There was no fee for artists to partake or exhibit and all of our exhibitions and events were completely free to view or participate in, encouraging the public to engage in Contemporary Art from around the world. We aim to continue to grow our reach around the world and continue to bring international artists together. The Lacuna Festivals aim to: Promote quality, contemporary (and sometimes challenging) art to communities isolated from mainland Europe which, therefore have limited access to Arts & Culture. Offer something local/translocal for both resident and visiting artists through stimulating local creatives and the local culture. To enlarge creative networks and provide a point of contact for the exchange of knowledge, the sharing of ideas and the blossoming of creativity. Develop new ways to exhibit, curate and organise large scale arts events through the use of crowdsourcing for […]

Ort Gallery is on a social mission to redefine contemporary visual arts by rejecting the sector’s exclusivity, centring access and equity, and by providing inclusive high quality art experiences. We support this mission with a care-centred approach and give artists, team members, and participants autonomy over their projects. We believe everyone should have access to high quality art experiences and aim to provide that standard by providing exhibition and professional development opportunities to artists, creatives, and community members. We are particularly focused on investing in and engaging with community members of the Balsall Heath area that are often overlooked.  We use our space to provide our community with art focused events, activities and volunteering opportunities. We believe that art holds transformative power for mental wellbeing, bridging gaps between communities. We believe that you are never too young, too old or too different to learn a new skill or engage with art. We place Warmth at the heart of all our work. We recognise that galleries are sites of oppression which centre and reproduce white normative and elitist ways of ‘being’ under the supposed guise of neutrality. We are interested in challenging this head on; whilst also committing to creating space for local artists and marginalised community […]

Onassis AiR, is an (inter)national artistic research residency program that was established by the Onassis Foundation in September 2019, in Athens, Greece. Founded on the principles of learning and doing with others, Onassis AiR grounds its mission in supporting the artistic process by offering space and time to arts professionals from various backgrounds and disciplines to delve deeper into their practice without any requirement to present a final work. Since we opened our doors in September 2019, we have experimented with various formats of thinking and practising together -from individual research programs to fostering a thematic collective research study– always adapting our programs based on the needs of a growing community of peers. Photos: Pinelopi Gerasimou

History:  FORUM BOX is a non-profit artist-run gallery and a co-operative society, which was initiated in 1996 by sculptor Kain Tapper (1930–2004). Its main purpose is to maintain an art space in Helsinki and thus enrich and support the Finnish cultural life. Currently Forum Box co-op has more than 90 artist members, all of whom are prominent Finnish artists and actors in the field of contemporary art. The Forum Box building is owned by the city of Helsinki. Formerly a cold storage room, the space was renovated by the artists themselves in the years 1998–99. The renovation was designed by the architect and professor Juhani Pallasmaa. Forum Box was opened in June 1999 with an exhibition by Anthony Caro and Richard Serra organised together with Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. Mission:  Forum Box aims to be a space open for all forms of art. We present contemporary artists, both Finnish and international, established and emerging ones. Our open call is every spring. Each month an art exhibition is organized, plus several art and cultural events – meetings with the exhibiting artists, performances, live-art happenings and concerts along with theatre and dance performances. The gallery space can be hired for private […]

ABOUT THE RABBIT HOLE: Established in 2008 in New York, the rabbit hole numbers 5000+ individually hand-picked members from 56 + countries. The membership is by invitation only. The essence of the rabbit hole is rooted in deconstruction and the reinventions of discourses. By seeking to stimulate new ideas about the self and the other, and to challenge culturally constructed limits and borders, the rabbit hole’s programs are designed to explore new paradigms and collective experiences for the sublime to emerge. At the foundation of the rabbit hole’s global projects is the power of the collective, what the group calls magical consciousness, and like the birds in the Persian Sufi fable by Fariduddin Attar “ The Conference of the Birds” who discover their own interweaving wonderland, the rabbit hole becomes a space for inquiry, wonder and magical realism. Some previous project links: “the art of remembering” https://www.101010n.com/the-art-of-remembering “the crystal express” https://www.101010n.com/thecrystalexpress “the crystal ball new york” https://www.101010n.com/thecrystalballny “the crystal ball barcelona” https://www.101010n.com/thecrystalballbcn “smoke” https://www.101010n.com/smoke

QiPO is a team of international curators, artists and cultural producers, who have joined forces to realize exhibitions, events and various arts related projects around the world with the purpose of promoting dialogue and social engagement. Since February of 2019, QiPO has hosted and organized QiPO Fair in Mexico City, a annual contemporary art fair created by and for artist-run initiatives. For more info go to: www.qipofair.com QiPO is a project of Fulcrum Arts’ Emerge fiscal sponsorship program. Fulcrum Arts’ Emerge program helps emerging arts organizations raise funds by acting as a parent non-profit organization.

Art Aia – Creatives / In / Residence is an international art residency located near the comune of Sesto al Reghena in the north-eastern Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It’s a place for artistic production and research that focuses on the development of the creative process and facilitates cultural exchange across borders. History  Art Aia – Creatives / In / Residence is located three kilometers from Sesto al Reghena, in the locality of “Banduzzo” (which in local dialect means “Place Banned”) and from the mid-nineteenth century has been an agricultural center of the Morassutti Family. The small Church of St. Anthony of Padua  In the garden of Art Aia – Creatives / In / Residence stands the nineteenth century Church of St. Anthony of Padua, erected by the owners of these lands and it contains the contemporary altar-piece which represents Saint John the Baptist and Saint Antony of Padua. Today  Art Aia – Creatives / In / Residence currently promotes cultural and artistic activities at a local and international level. In the past few years several teaching artists have been collaborating with the venue like American Master Drama Teacher John Strasberg, son of Lee Strasberg, who held two International acting workshops […]

Water Tower Artist Residency is a nonprofit organization committed to socially engaged, people-centered activities with a 10-year history of running the biggest festival of contemporary art in Sofia: Water Tower Art Fest. It has logically transformed into a residency program since 2017. https://www.facebook.com/pg/watertowerartfest/about

We are sorry to inform you that we have to suspend our applications due to an unexpected incident, which is about the residency building. Tab Residency will have to move to another place in the coming months. So we will not be able to accept any applications until further notice. We will be posting open calls once the residency program is running again and we will be emailing about the updates as soon as possible.. Tasarım Bakkalı is a collective founded by many people working in various disciplines, such as visual artists, architects, musicians, software developers, psychologists etc, sharing the same values of sustainable living and creating. We believe that collective thinking and multidisciplinary study is essential for contemporary arts. Tab Gallery has been an open art space located in the center of Yeldeğirmeni district, Kadiköy. The neighborhood which is on the Anatolian side of İstanbul, is home to a lot of artist’s studios for many years and is transforming to be the new cultural and social center. Being conscious of this transformation, Tasarım Bakkalı has been a pioneer in the arts and culture side of this change. While exhibiting the works of prominent artists from Turkish art scene, the […]

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.

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.

The Icebox Project Space is an innovative and experimental contemporary exhibition space where visual artists, musicians, film makers, and performers are able to work, think, and collaborate within a uniquely large scale and open structure. Our mission is to facilitate projects that are a betterment of the community and to push for social change. We look to artworks, performances, videos, movement, and sound that have a sense of urgency and relevance in and around Philadelphia. We work with artists that are pushing against something, whether it is oppressive institutions, construction of identity, or even the creative process itself.   NOW ON VIEW Seven Sines Julianne Swartz Sept 26- Nov 8 2018   Reception: October 11, 6-9pm Artist Talk: Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art September 20, 6pm   The Icebox Project Space, in partnership with the Clay Studio, is proud to present the work of Julianne Swartz. Building on processes and techniques Julianne has honed over her highly accomplished career, Seven Sines is her continued investigation into tangible and intangible materials, aided by analog and digital technologies. Swartz has specially selected the Icebox for its unique architectural and acoustic properties, which amplify and extend each resonant tone. In the space, discrete objects […]

Founded in 2012, the Art Byte Critique group is focused on creating a network of working artists interested in constructive dialogues about studio work and the discovery of new ideas and inspirations. The Art Byte Critique group originally started out on the Meetup.com website. More than one year later, this collective of artists continues monthly discussions about studio work, gallery and museum visits, sharing of artist resources and supporting each other’s creative efforts through this website. Artists spend most of their time alone in the studio in dialogue with their work. We are continually developing ideas and creating works on their own. Despite all the ideas and images that inspire our creativity, sometimes it feels like something is lacking. The Art Byte Critique group seeks to fill that gap by providing a place for working artists to have an exchange of ideas with other artists. If you are interested in learning more about the Art Byte Critique Group, please send an e-mail to [email protected] 制作は孤独な作業です。アーティストは、作品との対話に長い時間を費やします。また、日常の中からイメージやアイディアを広い、作品に取り込みます。しかし、作品と向き合い、インターネットを介して膨大な情報にアクセスしているにもかかわらず、なにかが足りない、どこかで重要な破片が見つからなくなってしまった、そう感じることが少なくありません。その足りない破片を探す道すがら、メンバーはそれぞれMeetup.comというウェブサイトにアクセスしました。ウェブサイトで出会った人々は、月に1回都内のカフェに集まり、制作についてのディスカッション、アイディアについての相談などの意見交換を通じてお互いの活動をサポートするようになります。 Emailやライン、スカイプでの会議などバーチャルなインタラクションが多くなる社会の中、東京クローラは、実際その場にいることでしか感じ取れないもの、実際顔を突き合わせてみないと起きなかった対話が確かにあるということを思い出させます。 ご興味がありましたら、是非メールをして下さい。[email protected]

Moscow-based non-commercial experimental artist-run space Elektrozavod gallery – is a non-commercial experimental exhibition space that initialy was located at one of the historical buildings of Moscow Electro-Lamp Factory and now based at NIIDAR. Since the foundation, main mission of Elektrozavod gallery (formerly known as “Perimeter”) has been to accomplish different pilot projects in the field of contemporary art and supporting Russian independent art-scene through exhibitions, meetings with artists, festivals and discovering young artists for the wide audience.

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.

First Coat Studios is a not-for-profit creative-led outfit supporting new and engaging arts practices. We are guided by ethical principles, people and place and exist to make arts and culture more accessible and inclusive. FCS is a vital training ground for emerging and established practitioners that is focused on the production and exploration of new arts practices. Our core activities are exhibitions, workshops, residencies and events aim to generate discussion in contemporary art.

10dence gallery presents, creates, explores, nurtures and promotes the art that happens when connections are made and knowledge is shared – across the boundaries of the established art-world institutions and their markets. Artist run 10dence gallery currently represents an international selected group of 15 artists in an alternative manner, organizing exhibition projects within the Netherlands and Belgium. 10dence gallery is coordinated and curated by the Dutch multi-disciplinary artist Ron Weijers. His artistic and organizational involvement with 10dence gallery within international operating art communities, networks and art platforms offer an inspiring asset to the art practices of all involved. His collaboration with GAP – Global Art Project as run by founder and curator Carl Heyward would be a highly inspiring example. GAP is an international network of mixed media artists who collaborate, research, develop, inspire, tease, trigger, communicate and exhibit together. One of the most intriguing aspects he became confronted by within his collaboration with GAP would be his involvement within the frag collaboration process. Mixed-media works derived from the exchange between members of GAP, relinquishing responsibility or ownership going beyond the original intention of an image or idea broken down into fragments (frags) resulting in a deconstruction, a re-ordering of […]