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Mediterranean Crossed residencies
As part of the festival, Art Explora and the Island Club are initiating a Crossed Residencies Programme, in collaboration with some 15 international residencies and cultural institutions around the Mediterranean basin. Supported by Creative Europe program, this project aims to support contemporary creation from a transdisciplinary perspective, and to create a solid, interdependent network of cultural partners throughout the region.
Programme of residencies
Artists from the various countries through which the Art Explora Festival passes over a 2-year period are selected by the various curators, grouped into trios, to take part in a month-long residency in one of the stopover cities on this cultural odyssey.
Each resident benefits from a working studio in the host residency, a living and production grant as well as professional support to bring their project to fruition, and is invited to take part in the Art Explora Festival programming.
Conceived as a platform for exchanges and narratives across borders, this programme directly supports contemporary creation and federates a vast community of artists, scientists and art professionals around crucial social, cultural and ecological issues linked to the Mediterranean.
ALL RESIDENCIES
The residency trios - France-Albania-Tunisia; Croatia-Italy-Malta; Morocco-Spain-Greece; Portugal-Turkey-Egypt; Algeria-Lebanon-Cyprus - provide support for some thirty artists from the various countries covered by the Art Explora Festival, selected by the curators associated with this project.
The Kamov Artist-in-Residence Program – Creators in Residence was founded in 2011 by the Department of Culture of the City of Rijeka with the aim of enhancing the cultural offer, fostering art, and supporting the non-institutional art scene. The program bears the name of the most renowned Rijeka writer Janko Polić Kamov (1886–1910). As Kamov’s style was characterized by an impressive artistic depth and avant-garde approach, which expanded the horizons of Croatian and global literature, the guiding principle of Rijeka's artist-in-residence program is the idea of questioning, provocation and progress. To date, the Kamov artist-in-residence program has welcomed over 500 artists, theorists and creators from Croatia and globally. It has established collaborations with numerous cultural organizations, institutions and individuals dedicated to pushing the boundaries of traditional media and practices. The program provides artists with a space for inspiration, research and experiment in a new environment, giving them time and support to conceptualize and develop their ideas and projects. In addition to writing and production residencies in the field of performing arts, the program specifically supports research, open-ended and post-studio residencies.
Artists in residence
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Located in the former home of dictator Enver Hoxha, renovated by architects NeM, Vila 31 x Art Explora offers the public an opportunity to re-appropriate this historic site. The Vila 31 x Art Explora artist residency programme welcomes up to twenty artists a year, for 3-month residencies spread over 3 sessions. Artists are provided with accommodation, production and exhibition space, as well as a living and production grant, in order to develop their artistic project. To showcase each resident, open days are organized for each session, offering the general public the opportunity to discover the research and creations produced during the residencies, through a rich program of visits, workshops, performances and screenings. The aim of this new ecosystem is to energize local contemporary creation, while opening it up to the international arena.
Artists in residence
La Térmica is a contemporary cultural creation, production and training center inaugurated in 2013 in Málaga, Spain. Its activity is articulated in a current, open and plural approach that seeks, through culture and citizen initiative, to develop a new look at reality. Today, La Térmica is a fundamental meeting place for cultural, training and leisure agendas for creators, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and artists. It is a space for creation, learning and leisure, offering unique events around the most varied artistic forms: live music, exhibitions, conferences, etc., and a range of activities covering all areas of culture. La Térmica is a breeding ground for talent and initiative, a dynamic space where cultural creators and entrepreneurs work as a team to shape interesting, experimental and innovative projects.
Artists in residence
Think Tangier is a non-profit, multidisciplinary cultural platform founded in 2016, which aims to promote culture, creativity, innovation and knowledge exchange within Tangier, Morocco. The organization brings together artists, researchers, entrepreneurs and local communities to explore new ideas and facilitate dialogue on urban development and cultural policies. Think Tanger recognizes the significant influence of the urban environment on individuals and communities, and believes that positive change can occur through alternative education, creative entrepreneurship, artistic production and social innovation.
Spazju Kreattiv is a dynamic programme of creative arts and cultural events taking place mainly in Malta and Gozo, guided by the fundamental principles of artistic excellence, community involvement and internationalization. Created by Fondazzjoni Kreattività in 2000, it is based at St James Cavalier in Valletta, a 16th-century fort converted into the National Centre for Creativity. Under the slogan Il-Qalba tal-Kreattività (The Heart of Creativity), its annual season includes a rich tapestry of over 500 events, from visual arts exhibitions to performances in our open-air theater, films in the island's only art-house cinema, workshops in dedicated studios, a programme artists-in-residence, and tailor-made events for children and their families as part of the ŻiguŻajg strand.
Artists in residence
Triangle-Astérides is a contemporary art center of national interest, established since its founding in 1994 within the Friche la Belle de Mai cultural cooperative, a former tobacco factory in Marseille. Triangle-Astérides articulates a demanding programme of exhibitions with research and experimentation residencies for artists from the French and international scenes, a programme of artists and associated professionals for the local scene (in complementarity with the Ateliers de la Ville de Marseille), to which are added events, editorial projects and attentive work with all audiences.
Artists in residence
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The Island Club
The Island Club is an independent non-profit space based in Cyprus, hosting exhibitions by local and international artists as well as film screenings, performances and readings.
Frequently asked questions
An artistic residency is a place where an artist, collective, curator, scientist or researcher can carry out research or creative work, with no obligation to produce a final product. The provision of a place to live and create, as well as financial, technical and human resources, enable us to accompany and support the development of a residency project.
Residents are selected by the local curators associated with the Art Explora itinerant festival project in the Mediterranean.
As part of their residency, artists, scientists, curators or researchers benefit from a workspace, resources and production tools made available to them to create, produce works of art, or carry out their research work, in an environment adapted to and conducive to the development of their project.
Each resident stays for a month in one of the itinerant towns.
To discover their projects, follow Art Explora's social networks, as well as the logbook, tracing the various projects that make up the Art Explora Festival. Some of the artists will also have the opportunity to show their work, perform or speak at festivals in the itinerant cities between 2024 and 2026.