INTERNATIONAL PARTNER

2021, Rijksakademie

The RIJKSAKADEMIE VAN BEELDENDE KUNSTEN (RA) is dedicated to the broadest range of artistic practices and interdisciplinary art forms and offers artists from around the world opportunities to develop in an exceptionally well-equipped, stimulating, diverse and inclusive environment. Globally connected and locally rooted through artists in residence and alumni, the residency programme enables artists and wider publics to engage with contemporary practices and debates that challenge and reimagine what art can be and do in society today.

Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation’s (DBF) is established to support the ambitions of artists and art practitioners, who see the world differently and who generate a new way of shaping our world and our future. Therefor DBF promotes art and artists from South Asia and beyond in a critical, international art context.

A collaborative agreement has been established for a long-term collaboration between DBF and RA in which the exchange between artists from South Asia and the Rijksakademie and its international artists’ network in being promoted and the position and visibility of artist from South Asia in Europe is strengthened.

The collaboration for residency / Fellowship consists of the following elements:

  • A continuous flow of artists from South Asia in the residency program by ensuring a high quality of applications.
  • Support for the residency of artists from South Asia at the Rijksakademie i.e. by means of a Fellowship.
  • Development of a programme in which the DBF-Fellows and the RA can play a meaningful role in the regional art scene and promote the role of DBF and the DBFRA collaboration.
  • Development of an international partner network of philanthropic foundations and individuals by the RA in which DBF participated in order to create a wider dialogue about international exchange and the support of emerging artists.
  • Rijksakademie will make an effort to attract the highest possible quality and number of applications from South Asia by providing digital information and through personal contacts in its international network.
  • Rijksakademie will inform DBF about the applications from South Asia and will give regular updates on the selection process.

RA’s facility support for the residency programme to the selected artist in Netherland

Each resident artist will be provided with the following facilities during their residency:

  • An individual studio with a floor area measuring between 35 m2 and 55 m2 (heating and electricity included).
  • An individual studio with a floor area measuring between 35 m2 and 55 m2 (heating and electricity included).
  • Professionally equipped workshops where technical specialists collaborate with artists, advising on research and production.
  • Large project spaces for work-in-progress try-outs, collaborations and presentations.
  • Individual guidance, feedback and interaction with international renowned artists, theoreticians, curators and critics, connected to the Rijksakademie as advisors.
  • Possibilities to participate in events initiated by Rijksakademie such as professional network meetings, conversations and discussions with art critics, art historians, organizers of exhibitions, philosophers and other residents.