Eligibility

With collaborative practices and peer-to-peer learning at its core, the residency is about exchanging with and learning from other artists and practitioners. It is a space for urban experimentation where fellows connect through common themes and interests. ZK/U offers a “living and working” space within a former train station building, located in a dynamic public park. Hosting regular public events catering to a diverse audience, ZK/U is a lively cultural venue, and residents are encouraged to involve themselves with ZK/U’s programme and to propose their own formats.

Number of Participants

/// Please note that, depending on individual requests, the residency program can last between 3 to 8 months and can take place anytime within the next two years after the selected resident is notified. /// The residency offers 13 studio-apartments for artists and researchers. For individual fellows or groups, depending on the type of studio-apartment and the length of stay (3-8 months), the residency fees are between €550 and €850 per month. The fees cover all utility costs, space usage and participation in the residency programming.

Deadline

April 23, 2020 21:59 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

June 17, 2020 22:00 UTC

Duration

January 01, 2021 - December 31, 2021

Costs

• €550.00 program fee (monthly)

Facilities

Computer Lab, Conference Rooms, Desk Space, Individual Studio, Installation Space, Library, Stage

Housing

Apartment

Disciplines

Activists, Architecture, Cinematography, Collective, Curatorial, Digital Media, Documentary, Drawing, Film, Illustration, Installation, Painting, Performance Art, Photography, Playwriting, Poetry, Printmaking, Public Art, Research, Scholar, Scientists, Sculpture, Social Practice, Sound Art, Textile, Video Art, Visual Arts

Program Description

The residency program offered by ZK/U - Center for Art and Urbanistics in Berlin is open to artists, scholars, practitioners and professionals of various fields whose practice or approach relates to the exploration and questioning of urban reality. ZK/U welcomes residency applications with proposals framed as contemporary artistic positions that are conceptual, interventionist and contextual, and as research and activism in the fields of urbanism, geography, anthropology, architecture and the humanities. With collaborative practices and peer-to-peer learning at its core, the residency is about exchanging with and learning from other artists and practitioners. It is a space for urban experimentation where fellows connect through common themes and interests. ZK/U offers a “living and working” space within a former train station building, located in a dynamic public park. Hosting regular public events catering to a diverse audience, ZK/U is a lively cultural venue in the heart of Berlin.