Inside-Out Art Museum Residency 2027 — Beijing, China

Overview

This residency, offered through the Mondriaan Fund's Residency grant, gives visual artists, curators, and art observers the opportunity to develop their practice within Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing. The residency combines exhibition-making, critical inquiry, and public programming, creating a context intended to encourage sustained reflection, experimentation, and exchange.

Key Dates

• Application Deadline: 27 August 2026
• Work Period: 1 March – 30 May 2027
• Flexible start date within March agreed between the museum and the selected resident

Eligibility

Open to visual artists and curators/art observers. Applicants must have minimum 1 year of professional practice and be embedded in Dutch or Caribbean professional practice. General Mondriaan Fund Residency grant eligibility applies: no concurrent overlapping Mondriaan Fund support, restrictions on concurrent enrollment in degree programmes, and maximum 1 Residency grant per applicant per calendar year.

Program Details

One work period of 3 months is available. Room for 1 artist or 1 duo per period. Duo applications (2 artists, 2 curators/observers, or a combination who structurally create work together) may apply; occasional collaborative partnerships may also be considered as duos if they submit a joint plan leading to one result. Duos must live and work together in one space during the residency, but each person in a duo must submit a separate application.

Awards & Benefits

• Subsidy of €8,478 for an artist, or €5,622 for a curator or art observer, to help cover travel expenses, material costs, and living costs (sum intended for 1 person)
• Studio rental and living space costs, plus on-site support provided by Inside-Out Art Museum, paid directly to the museum by the Mondriaan Fund
• If a duo or collaborative partnership is selected, the total amount increases proportionally to cover additional travel and living costs for the second applicant
• Contribution for artists based in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom may be increased to meet higher travel costs, assessed on a case-by-case basis

Application

Online application with no entry fee. Selection is made by an advisory committee, which proposes candidates to Inside-Out Art Museum; the museum makes the final decision on participants, and an interview may be part of the selection procedure. Processing time for this selection procedure may exceed the standard 3-month period.

Additional Information

If an applicant applies for two different residencies within the same call, the assessment of oeuvre/practice quality and cultural entrepreneurship is conducted once and applies to both applications. Because only 1 or 2 residents can be selected per residency per round, applicants may also consider applying for an Artist Project at a different residency location.