Eligibility

Rupert’s Residency Programme is dedicated to local and international practitioners and thinkers (such as artists, writers, curators, researchers, cultural managers and academics), providing them with the opportunity to live and work in Vilnius while developing individual projects and immersing themselves in the region’s contemporary art field. The residents can also get involved in Rupert’s Alternative Education Programme, as well as the Exhibitions and Public Programmes, where the residents can attend talks, lectures and workshops by prominent curators, artists and thinkers from all over the world. From its inception, Rupert’s three Programmes have been and are driven by a central ethos of establishing collaborations and conversations between residents, local and international art organisations and artists, and between other initiatives and professional fields in Vilnius and further afield.

Number of Participants

Artist collectives of up to 3-4 persons can apply to an individual residency spot. Individual residencies can last from 1 to 3 months or longer in exceptional cases. Residents are asked to propose their preferred duration of stay and if accepted this can be negotiated according to studio availability and schedule.

Deadline

August 25, 2018 21:00 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

October 14, 2018 18:00 UTC

Duration

December 01, 2018 - December 31, 2019

Costs

• €10.00 application fee

Facilities

Conference Rooms, Desk Space, Gallery, Individual Studio, Library

Housing

Live/Work

Public Programs

Community Engagement , Group Dinners, Open Studios, Performances, Professional Development, Readings, Retreat, Self-Directed, Seminars, Visiting Professionals, Workshops

Disciplines

Acting, Activists, Architecture, Arts Administrator, Book Arts, Choreography, Cinematography, Collective, Composers, Conceptual Art, Culinary, Curatorial, DJ / Nightlife, Documentary, Drawing, Entrepreneur , Fiction, Film, Illustration, Installation, Interdiscplinary Arts, Journalism, Land Art, Literature, Multimedia, Music, Music Composition, Painting, Performance Art, Photography, Playwriting, Poetry, Research, Scholar, Scientists, Sculpture, Social Practice, Sound Art, Thinkers, Visual Arts

Languages

English

Program Description

When making the application, prospective residents are encouraged to specify whether their intended proposal is oriented toward a production-based project, requiring particular materials or utilities and to consider the duration of their residency application based on whether they intend to create a specific outcome (workshop, talk, new work, seminar etc.) at the end of their residency or whether they intend to engage in more research-based projects. It is important that the resident is willing to immerse themselves in Vilnius’ and the region’s contemporary art field. For 2019, Rupert will present a major retrospective of the work of Jonas Mekas (opening June 23rd, 2019) and will organise its Public and Alternative Education Programmes according to an umbrella topic of labour and forms of cultural policy (further details will be available on our website). We also welcome applications that may engage with Mekas’ work or with the themes explored in our Programmes.