Apply for the Rijksakademie Residency 2025/2026

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. We offer residencies to provide space for research, reflection, experimentation and exchange. Every year we select on average 23 artists for a full residency, and most of the artists stay for two years. Roughly half of the group is from the Netherlands, the other half from all around the world. We are seeking residents for the period September 2025–August 2026*, with the possibility of staying one year more.

Eligibility: As an artist, you are ready to make the most of these resources. You are open to developing and challenging yourself, working alongside positions that are vastly different from your own, and being part of a community. 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.

What you get: Residents are supported with a studio, a working 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.

Deadline 01 October 2024

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