Mariam Kamiab
air@basis-frankfurt.de
Tel. +49 (0)69 400 37 617
residency period: September 1 – November 30, 2026
The AIR Frankfurt and AIR Offenbach programmes promote contemporary visual arts and fosters international exchange between the city of Frankfurt and emerging art contexts worldwide.
As part of our long-standing partnership with the Goethe-Institut Malaysia, the AIR programmes are offering a new collaboration between basis e.V. and Think & Tink in Kuching, Malaysia. Think & Tink is an independent, community-driven space located in the Ang Cheng Ho district. Closely connected to its immediate surroundings, including kopitiams (traditional coffee shops), hardware stores, and the nearby Petanak Market, it operates as a platform for artistic, social, and material experimentation in relation to local infrastructures.
The residency invites artists and creatives whose practices and researches are grounded in community-oriented approaches and engagement with ecological systems and locally situated knowledge. Residents will be hosted at Think & Tink and are expected to engage with the social, spatial, and material conditions of the neighbourhood, fostering direct exchange with its immediate communities. This may take shape through a range of approaches, including community-based research and execution, culinary practices, industrial material research, and forms of knowledge production and documentation, contributing to a grounded and reciprocal process of exchange.
who can apply?
- AIR_Frankfurt is aimed exclusively at artists who live and work in Frankfurt.
- The artists should be highly qualified and have a successful degree from an art college
- To be fluent in English is a further requirement
what is provided?
- 1000 € of monthly financial support
- travel allowance
- accommodation in a studio-apartment
- integration into an artist network
how to apply?
Applications need to be made through our online-form.Your application is classed as complete only when the form is filled out completely and your portfolio+CV are uploaded.
A complete application in english includes:
- descriptions of
- Professional background (max. 1500 characters incl. blanks)
- Planned projects and motivation for the residency (max. 3000 characters incl. blanks)
- artistic CV
- work portfolio (max. 16 pages - please limit the data volume)
who is selecting?
An independent jury selects up to five candidates and suggests these to an independent jury of the partner organization abroad. Of these candidates, they select a scholar who they believe is at a stage in their artistic development at which they will be likely to benefit artistically from a three month stay and who fits with the exchange program of the individual institutions the best.