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Artist Work Studios
Each of the eleven artistic work studios for artists from the Municipality of Ljubljana is given through an open call to an individual artist for the duration of five years. The studios are suitable for visual artists (painters, photographers, video artists, illustrators, comic book artists, sculptors, etc.) and for the artists developing new production models and ways of art presentation (e.g., installations, performances, sound and light art, transdisciplinary connections between art and heritage, science, ecology, urbanism, etc.). They are furnished with basic technical equipment (a worktable, a chair, storage cabinets and a sink with running water). Artists can work in the studios rent-free but they are obliged to pay other expenses in accordance with the contract for the lease of real estate for free use.
Young Artists Residencies
Two apartments with a work studio are offered through an open call to visual artists for the duration of two years. As in the case of aforementioned artist work studios artists can work and live in the studios rent-free but they are obliged to pay other expenses in accordance with the contract for the lease of real estate for free use.
International Residencies
Three international residences are intended for artists, cultural workers (critics, curators, theoreticians, writers, producers…), humanities scholars and social scientists from Slovenia or abroad. An individual residence usually lasts from one to two months. The candidates can apply for an international residence in the framework of several different residency programmes:
- Ljubljana Graphic Arts Biennial Residency: for guest artists and curators of the biennial, as well as for the recipients of the biennial’s Research Residency Award;
- Master Printmakers Residency: for artists who use traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques but are also interested in innovation in print. The residents are selected based on the invitation of the International Centre of Graphic Arts and production cooperation.
- Critics residency (co-organised with Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory). A call for the following year’s residency is published every December.
- End of the World Residency: for authors, curators and theoreticians reflecting on the end of the world and/or humanity. Candidates can apply for the residency through an annual open call.
- SUN residency (SUN being the acronym for “skupnost, umetnost, narava”, meaning “collective, art, nature”): for artists creating at the intersection of art and ecology; beliefs, myths and rituals; personal and collective; tradition and contemporaneity. Candidates can apply for the residency through an annual open call.
- The Writer in the Park Residency: a residency for literary authors, co-organised with Ljubljana, Unesco City of Literature who issues an open call for the next year’s residency every November.
- Inter-residency exchanges (agreed between the International Centre of Graphic Arts and its partner organisations from the Czech Republic, Spain, Greece and other countries)
The artists that are selected for a residency can use the Centre’s own print studio, suitable for a wide range of techniques: woodcut, linocut, copperplate engraving, drypoint, mezzotint, etching, aquatint, vernis mou, lithography and screen printing.
See also
- Ljubljana UNESCO City of Literature
- International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
- Švicarija Art Centre
- Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory