Our main activity is concentrated
on the International Studio Program. Since the foundation of the institute
in 1974, more than 400 artists from 30 countries have worked at the Künstlerhaus.
As a rule, our guests are with us for a period of twelve months and usually
conclude their stay with the realisation of a project on the institute’s
premises.
Acceptance to the International
Studio Program takes place through a jury's decision. Individual applications
are not accepted.
However, artists from Australia,
New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and Hungary
are able to approach our partners in their own countries and enquire about
the possibility of open applications via the institutions there. Additional
grants are awarded by the Rotterdam Centre for the Arts and the Ministerie
van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Brussels. A list
of all our co-operating partners and those colleagues who should be
approached there is available here.
Since 1993, Künstlerhaus
Bethanien has also worked together with Philip Morris’ program for
the promotion of the arts, which awards 2-3 grants each year within the
context of its fellowship program. The artists sponsored by this initiative
receive a monthly allowance throughout the period of their stay. In addition,
the foundation pays their studio costs, provides a lump sum for materials
and funds a documentation of their final project. But again, artists cannot
apply for these grants on their own initiative.
Since the late nineties, Künstlerhaus
Bethanien and its Media Arts Lab have promoted the interchange between
classical and new artistic media, and are especially dedicated to an investigation
of new, critical forms of expression located on the borderline to conventional
art. However, the Media Arts Lab does not award grants of its own. Like
all other artists, media artists are only accepted within the framework
of the national grants system. They cannot apply to the Künstlerhaus
itself, but only via the partner institutes.
