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.
Please read this information before you start your application. If you have any further questions regarding your application or the residency, check our FAQ section below or send an email to: application@rijksakademie.nl.
If you have any further questions regarding your application or the residency, send an email to: application@rijksakademie.nl.
De Rijksakademie biedt een tweejarig internationaal residency-programma aan zo'n vijftig kunstenaars dat ruimte biedt aan onderzoek, experiment en productie van nieuw werk. Residents worden ondersteund met een atelier, een werkbudget en een stipendium en kunnen advies inwinnen bij vooraanstaande kunstprofessionals. Daarnaast is er een rijke onderzoeks- en productie-infrastructuur, bestaande uit diverse technische werkplaatsen die worden beheerd door specialisten, een bibliotheek en een historische en hedendaagse kunstcollectie. Binnen de interdisciplinaire omgeving van de Rijksakademie is er volledige vrijheid in onderzoek en werkwijze.
De technische werkplaatsen van de Rijksakademie zijn al decennialang een plek van innovatie en experiment. Onder leiding van specialisten die nauw samenwerken met de residents, faciliteren de werkplaatsen de uitwisseling van expertise en creëren ze de mogelijkheid tot interdisciplinaire projecten met zowel nieuwe als traditionele materialen en technieken.
Naast de technische werkplaatsen biedt de Rijksakademie nog een aantal andere faciliteiten, zoals diverse projectruimtes, een performancestudio, een keuken en een moestuin.