Jan van Eyck Academie - Call for Applications 2025

Artists, curators, designers – ranging from graphic and fashion to food and social design –, researchers, writers, and architects are welcome to apply for an 11-month residency from 15 January until 15 December 2025.

As a multi-disciplinary post-academic institute, the Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, NL) is committed to exploring the agency, roles, and civic significance of art, design and other creative practices in relation to the climate crisis, environmental breakdown, and their manifold effects. This institutional focus aims at creating a common ground that embraces a diversity of practices and allows for a multitude of voices.

The academy offers residency programmes to those who wish to broaden their artistic horizons and develop their art practice in depth. Each participant is equipped with a private studio, can count on the guidance of our advisers and make use of the expertise of our library and Labs – Photography & Audiovisual, Material Matters, Food, Printing & Publishing and Future Materials. The departments for Nature Research, Art & Society and Research & Education support the artists in realizing their projects in collaboration with external parties and further their artistic and academic research. Next to their individual projects, participants are encouraged to collaboratively develop an In-Lab project and to contribute to the public programme.
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Lasting 11 months, your residency will start on 15 January 2025;
32 to 35 spots are available each year;
The enrolment fee amounts to €2,750 (excl. VAT).
Participants receive a monthly stipend of €1,000 and a working budget of €2,000 annually;
Duos or collectives can apply with 1 project proposal for 1 residency at the Jan van Eyck. If selected, they will share 1 studio and will receive an adjusted stipend of minimum 1,5 and maximum 2 stipends. The enrolment fee has to be paid only once;
Candidates with children are welcome to apply. The academy strives to support participants with child(ren) or partner and child(ren) to the best of its abilities.
Participants are expected to settle in Maastricht during their stay at the Jan van Eyck;
The languages of communication at the academy are Dutch and English. We expect you to master the English language sufficiently to be able to converse and collaborate with fellow participants and staff members;
Alumni of Rijksakademie or De Ateliers, two fellow Post-Academies in the Netherlands, are not eligible to apply;
The Jan van Eyck Academie is not an educational institute. Consequently, the institute does not provide degrees or certificates;