Kone Foundation Open Call for Artists: Saari Residence

Kone Foundation Open Call for Artists: Saari Residence

The Saari Residence is pleased to announce an Open Call for the 2024 Residency Program. We welcome applications from professional artists for the international Saari Residence in 2024. The residency periods are two months long, and the residency includes a work grant in addition to accommodation. Applications for group residencies for artistic groups in the summer of 2024 are also welcome.

Saari Residence, which started its operations in 2008 and is maintained by Helsinki-based Kone Foundation, is an international residence for artists in Mynämäki, Southwest Finland. It offers professional artists from all fields of art the opportunity to free themselves from their everyday routines for the duration of their residency.

Saari Residence’s beautiful, historic surroundings and rural milieu offer an excellent setting for artists to immerse themselves in their creative work. The Saari Residence is not intended, for example, for networking within the field of art or for hosting exhibitions or performances. No exhibition or performance is required at the end of the residency period.

Residence participants are encouraged to delve into their artistic work and to develop potential new directions for it side by side with the other residents. The Saari Residence also gives artists a platform to meet each other and share their thoughts and ideas at the Saari Well, which is one part of the residence that makes it unique.

The residence’s long-term activities and thinking are underpinned by an ecological approach, which also covers social and psychological sustainability. The keywords are slowness, insight and change. When selecting artists for the residence, whether they work with ecological topics is not one of our selection criteria; instead, our focus on ecology lies in the residence’s overall activities.

We encourage those coming to the residence from outside Finland to apply for a grant for ecological travel to cover their travel expenses. The slow travel grant must be applied for at the same time as the general residency grant; you cannot apply for it retrospectively. Artists arriving from Global South can apply for flight support and visa fees (processing and possible travel). Otherwise, we do not fund flying or other unsustainable means of transportation.

The residencies are designed for artistic work. Priority is given to multidisciplinary, new, or non-mainstream themes and fields of art.

Every year, the Saari Residence provides work facilities for between 35 and 50 individual artists, researchers or working groups. Last year, 580 individual artists and working groups from 72 countries applied for residency. A residency for 2023 was granted to 6 per cent of the applicants.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Kone Foundation Open Call for Artists: Saari Residence

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