OPEN CALL FOR STARTING ARTISTS

 

• Online Q&A: April 7, 15:00-15:30
• Deadline application: April 14, 23:59
• Selection: May 2

 

• Program: May 24 - July 11
• Project week: July 7 - 11

 

 

Pilot is a practical learning program for starting artists, recent graduates (2022-2024) and self-taught artists (2021+). The program provides tools for an independent art practice through workshops, field trips and meetings. During the program you’ll get hands-on experience in how to position yourself on your own terms and become more aware of who you are as an artist. You will develop your professional position, expand your network and learn to present yourself on your own terms. The program ends with a site-specific project week in which you and other artists explore how and where you can show your work in a (semi-)public space.

 

 

online Q&A

On Monday, April 7 there will be an online Q&A to ask all your questions. You will receive the link for the meeting earlier on the day. Language will be English.

Apply here.

 

 

about het resort

Het resort is a site-specific art space located in Groningen, organizing residencies and other programs for contemporary artists at uncanny locations, offering a retreat for daily art practice and providing space and time to enter into collaboration and tricky projects. Testing favorable and unfavorable conditions, het resort seeks to figure out in a series of site-specific projects how art can stand its ground in certain contexts.

 

Het resort invites artists to work site specific in ever-changing (semi-)public locations. Together we travel to places where everyday life takes place and dwell on everyday peculiarities, infiltrating the environment, merging into it and building relationships to stretch the boundaries of the space that art can occupy.

 

Popular culture (volkscultuur) is the centre focus for the projects at het resort over the next four years. Between 2025-2028 we will look at various themes within mass culture and cultural heritage. This year, 2025, our subject is old and new traditions in food and drink culture. One of the most basic and daily expressions subject to tradition and identity formation. All of our projects this year take place in settings relating to this subject, such as the brown bar, the stamppot world championship, and more to be announced!

 

 

selection

Six artists will be selected.

☞ Please note that we accept 70 applicants max. (50/50 Groningen/Netherlands based)

 

First you need to be able to say yes to the following criteria:

• you are self-taught and started your practice after 2021 or you graduated from a dutch art school in 2022, 2023 or 2024
• you want to grow into a professional art practice and want to invest time and energy in this program and the people part of it
• you’re interested in site-specificity
• you want to expand your network and invest in new relations
• you are open to criticism and want to know how fellow artists, curators and art critics perceive you and your work.
• you live in the Netherlands and are able to travel to participate on trips and join group meetings
• you are registered as a business and can send an invoice for your fee for the projectweek.

 

Selection will be based on: artistic quality/potential, motivation for participating and your relation/curiosity to site-specific working.

 

The selection committee consists of members of the project team and members of the advisory committee; the directors is chairmxn and only has a vote in the event of a tie vote. Read the advisory committee protocol here.

 

 

program

Within the program we host days where you will reflect on your work, your writing, your online presence, and more! Parts of the program will be coached by other art spaces and artists, to broaden your network and to get to know other organizations, its people and their expertise.

 

In the last week of the program you take part in a site-specific project week on a surprise location in Groningen, guided by an artist (tba). The format of the projectweek is decided upon together, and can lead to an event, symposium, exhibition, publication, performances, collaborative artwork, etc. The projectweek offers an opportunity to combine your practice and skills developed throughout the program.

 

The program is free. For participation in the projectweek you will receive a fee.

 

Dates* and locations**

24+25 May (Groningen)

30+31 May (The Hague+Amsterdam)

12+13 June (Groningen)

19+20+21 June (Antwerp+Brussels)

3 until 11 July (Groningen)

*participants are expected to be present on site for the full programme.

**accommodation will be provided when living in a different city and travel costs will be covered.

 

 

apply!

Please fill out the Groningen form if you live in Groningen, and fill out the NL form if you live elsewhere.

The registration closes on April 24th 23:59, or earlier if we reach the maximum of 35 applications per form: full = full. We do this so the committee can read and assess all applications carefully and with attention.

 

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f.a.q.

Yes, the program is free

Yes, you will receive a fee for the project week and can send us an invoice before the start of the project week(not before the start of the program)

Yes, you will get compensation for travel expenses for traveling due to the program

Yes, any other expenses are your own responsibility.

Yes, this program is in English.

 

No, this is not a full-time program

No, you can not apply if you are still in HBO or master education.

No, you can not apply if you have a master's degree. This program focuses on a different level of experience. Only if you really feel like you need it (for instance: if you went from your bachelor directly into a masters program)

 

Other questions you can forward to Jorien Ketelaar – producer, jorien@hetresort.nl