Open Call
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). The residency program encourages proposals that challenge conventions, take daring positions, and include original and 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. The ZK/U residency program allows mutual learning, spontaneous collaborations, discussions and exchanges to emerge, enriched by the diversity of disciplines and profiles of the residents. The ZK/U building, a former train station building located in a dynamic public park, is a space for urban experimentation and cross-disciplinary collaborations.
With our general open call, we do not offer funded residencies; rather, we ask our applicants to self-organise funding for their proposed residency project to join. After a successful application, you will have a two-year timeframe to join the residency. We support application processes with official invitation letters. Funded residencies are published through separate calls on an irregular basis. Depending on the type of studio and the length of stay (2-6 months), the residency fees are between 750 € and 1200 € per month. The fees cover all utility costs, space usage and participation in the residency program. The residency period can take place within the next two years after the selected resident is notified. Additional costs apply when more than one person lives in the studio. This year we are also accepting applications by artist duos or families to join us in the collective studio; it has three separate rooms, an individual kitchen and an individual bathroom.
March 01, 2027 - March 31, 2029
Individual Studio, Library, Shared Studio, Stage
Kitchen
No meals
Community Engagement , Courses, Discussion, Exhibition, Group Dinners, Open Studios, Performances, Retreat, Visiting Professionals, Work Exchange, Workshops
Acting, Activists, Composers, Curatorial, Design, Interdiscplinary Arts, Journalism, Makers, Moving Image, Multimedia, Music, Music Composition, Nonfiction, Opera, Painting, Pedagogy, Performance Art, Photography, Playwriting, Poetry, Printmaking, Public Art, Research, Scholar, Scientists, Screenwriting, Sculpture, Singing, Social Practice, Sound Art, Textile, Theatre, Theatre Directors, Thinkers, Video Art, Visual Arts
English
ZK/U residency program a studio space for working and living access to communal spaces (kitchen, residency terrace, rooftop, library) a residency program of weekly dinners, studio visits, exhibition tours and bi-monthly open studio events (OPENHAUS) promotion of the residency fellows’ work online and locally support to locate events, resources, and urban discourses relevant to the residency fellows’ research interests possibility to take part or be part of ZK/U’s public events possibility to propose self-initiated public events, workshops or other formats
