Santiago de Chile: Artist-in-Residence in Cooperation with Foundation Tajamar
Fundación Tajamar offers a residency program for artistic proposals connected with public space, architecture and site specific.
Who: Applications are open to artists with permanent residence in Germany. Showing a genuine interest in the Chilean art scene and willing to engage with the local audience are required.
Section: Architecture
Duration: One or two month residency between September and December 2019
Information about the last call for application:
We challenge artists to explore and initiate new works, using interactions between art, public space, site specific and architecture taking as inspiration Las Torres de Tajamar, an emblematic housing complex representative of modern architecture in Chile.
In this occasion, the selected artist will hold a one or two month residency between September and December 2019 (there may be flexibility on these dates) at the apartment of Fundación Tajamar, from where the artist will implement and develop an artistic activation/site-specific in the the common spaces of the Torres de Tajamar.
Fundación Tajamar and Goethe Institut will provide accommodations and a support team to help in the development of their work.
During this period, Fundación Tajamar will facilitate a series of studio visits and meetings with artists and professionals involved in the Chilean contemporary arts scene in order to generate new connections and knowledge.
About Fundación Tajamar
Fundación Tajamar is a non-profit organization established in December 2012, it was created after our project of contemporary art exhibition in the public space, Galería Tajamar. We foster and develop new connections and opportunities with Chilean and internationally visual artists and curators meanwhile creating personal and institutional long term connections.Our mission is to develop and manage projects related to contemporary art that generates cultural contribution. We do this by supporting the promotion of intergenerationally artists with a relevant speech and unique vision. At the same time, we work to bring art closer to the community, preserving and promoting projects of independent management and we are always on the search on ways to involve new audiences. In order to achieve this, we have the following projects: Galería Tajamar, Tajamar Education Program, Tajamar Scholarship.