Eligibility

To join our residency program, please take the time to fill out our application form below. Please share short descriptions of your proposal, your practice and your biography, and to inform us if your proposal relates to one or more of our narratives. The option of submitting a proposal unrelated to one of our narratives is possible. Within the application form, we will also ask you to upload the following files: 1) as one PDF: Your CV and a short portfolio with a selection of 2-3 relevant past projects including short project descriptions (max. 12 pages/10 mb) 2) as one PDF: Your project proposal. You are welcome to structure it as you like. We suggest considering: a project description, a working plan, personal relation to the project themes. How does it relate to ZK/U or the city of Berlin? (max. 3 pages) 3) as .jpg: Your practice in up to 4 representative images

Number of Participants

up to 3 people

Deadline

February 28, 2025 00:00 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

April 29, 2025 23:00 UTC

Duration

November 01, 2025 - December 31, 2027

Costs

• €650.00-1000.00 program fee (monthly)

Facilities

Individual Studio, Library

Housing

Factory, Kitchen, Live/Work, Private Bathroom, Private Room, Shared Bathroom

Public Programs

Open Studios, Self-Directed, Visiting Professionals, Work Exchange

Disciplines

Activists, Architecture, Curatorial, Design, Installation, Interdiscplinary Arts, Intervention, Multimedia, Music, Performance Art, Research, Visual Arts

Languages

English, German

Program Description

About: Residency program ZK/U is an artist-led independent art residency and project space. It hosts a multidisciplinary residency program, offering a living and working space for practitioners of all kinds (artists, researchers, activists, professionals of various fields) whose work or approach explores the dynamics and experiences of the city. The residency program encourages proposals that challenge conventions, take daring positions, and include extraordinary perspectives. It welcomes applications with a project proposal framed as . a conceptual, contextual and interventionist contemporary artistic position, . research or experimentation in the fields of urbanism, geography, anthropology, architecture and the humanities.