The deadline to apply for the 2023–2024 residency has passed. You can no longer apply.
Between 1 September – 1 October 2022, interested artists can apply for the Rijksakademie residency that starts September 2023.
Application deadline:
1 October (23:59 hours CET)
The Rijksakademie welcomes applications from artists to develop their work over one or two-year periods in Amsterdam.
The Rijksakademie houses a highly international, multi-disciplinary, experimental and critically engaged artist community. Residents are supported with a studio, a work budget and a stipend and benefit from an array of opportunities for exchange, including peer to peer dialogue and visits from a wide range of leading art professionals. They have access to technical workshops as well as an extensive library and a historical collection. There is guidance by technical specialists, who foster hands-on, innovative and collaborative approaches to making.
We offer residencies with the goal of providing space for research, reflection, experiment and exchange. Every year we select on average 22 artists for a residency, and most of the artists stay for two years, so the total community consists of about 45 artists. Half of the group is from the Netherlands, the other half from all around the world.
As an artist, you are ready to make the most of these resources. You are open to challenging yourself, and to working alongside positions that are vastly different from your own. Spending up to two years in residence, you enter into an open-ended process where you can deepen your practices, and explore new territories, in and beyond the art field.
We are seeking residents for the period September 2023 – August 2024, with the possibility of staying one year more. You can apply by completing the online application form on our website between 1 September [00:00 uur CET] and 1 October [23:59 uur CET], 2022
Because of the high number of applications, the jury process takes several months and happens in many different rounds. All applications are seen by the jury at least one time.
These are the different steps:
Composition of the jury
Every year we compose different juries: for the Dutch and International jury processes, and also throughout the different jury rounds. All juries are highly diverse, bringing together jury members with different backgrounds, different ways of working, different relations to the Rijksakademie and different levels of experience with our process. Most of the jury members are artists.
The jury members in the different rounds for the residency 2022/23 were: Ansuya Blom, Banu Cennetoğlu, Xinyi Cheng, Isabelle Cornaro, Femke Herregraven, Jaki Irvine, Sung Hwan Kim, Melvin Moti, Mike Nelson, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Christodoulos Panayiotou, María Inés Rodríguez, Antonio Vega Macotela and Helen Verhoeven.
The pre-selection and main selection rounds will take place in November and December 2022. The interviews will take place in January and February 2023.
The Rijksakademie offers a two-year international residency programme to around fifty artists that provides space for research, experiment and production of new work.
Residents are supported with a studio, a work budget and a stipend and can seek advice from leading art professionals from a wide variety of cultural and creative backgrounds. In addition there is a rich research and production infrastructure, consisting of various technical workshops operated by specialists, a library and a historical and contemporary art collection.
Within the interdisciplinary environment of the Rijksakademie there is complete freedom in research and working methods.
The technical workshops at the Rijksakademie have been a site of innovation and experimentation for decades. Led by specialists who work closely together with the residents, the workshops facilitate the exchange of expertise and create the possibility of interdisciplinary projects involving both new and traditional materials and techniques.
In addition to the technical workshops, the Rijksakademie provides the residents with a number of other practical facilities such as several project spaces, a performance studio, a kitchen and a vegetable garden.