AIR_Frankfurt: Strasbourg

Residency-Period:
January 01 - March 31, 2025

The AIR_Frankfurt program aims to promote contemporary visual arts and international exchange between the city of Frankfurt and emerging art centers worldwide. CEAAC (Centre Européen D'actions Artistiques Contemporaines) is our AIR_Frankfurt partner organisation in Strasbourg, France. The art center’s core comprises the beautiful renovated Art-Nouveau building in Rue de l’Abreuvoir, in the Strasbourg neighbourhood known as the Krutenau, near the University and the Decorative Arts School. It was built in 1902 by the architect Ferdinet Karlwei as a formerly glass and porcelain shop called Neunreiter. The building hosts the exhibtions spaces aswell as the accomodation for the international guest artists.

Partner organisation: CEAAC
Residency-Period: January 1 – March 31, 2025
Application Deadline: October 27, 2024

Who can apply?

• AIR_Frankfurt is aimed exclusively at artists who live and work in Frankfurt (registered address).
• 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 costs
• accommodation in a shared apartment
• access to a studio
• integration into an artist network
• curatorial support from the hosting organization

How to apply?

Applications need to be handed in digitally via e-mail.

A complete application in english should consist of:

• completed application form for Strasbourg, including descriptions of
  • Professional Background (max. 1500 characters incl. blanks)
  • Motivation (max. 1500 characters incl. blanks)
  • Planned Projects / Expectations (max. 3000 characters incl. blanks)
• artistic CV
• work portfolio (max. 16 pages - please limit the data volume)

Email to:

Please note: CEAAC has a focus on the following areas of research, but it is not mandatory to have projects related to the topics:

• Modes of production, reproduction and circulation of images 

• Vernacular, local and popular knowledge 

• Public health issues

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.