Host organisations

basis e.V. has been promoting and presenting international contemporary art in Frankfurt am Main since 2006. In order to initiate and further develop a multitude of creative processes in Frankfurt, the association uses a comprehensive model of support. This includes the provision of inexpensive working spaces for young artists, the presentation of thematic group and international solo exhibitions in conjunction with readings, lectures, concerts and performances as well as various international exchange programmes.

© Günther Dächert Within the framework of the exchange programmes, young international artists are given the opportunity to gain new perspectives on their own practice and to network internationally as part of work scholarships in Frankfurt.

During the 3-month stay at basis, the selected resident will be integrated into a functioning artistic and curatorial network. With 124 studios and over 150 artists working on location as well as a changing exhibition and event programme, basis offers a lively and inspiring environment for guest artists. The residents are accommodated in a spacious apartment and studio in one of the association's main buildings in Frankfurt's central "Bahnhofsviertel" district, close to the Städelschule and numerous museums.

An artist talk in the basis reading room also offers the public an opportunity to gain insights into the artistic practice and project ideas of the guest artists. An exhibition in the premises of the basis project space concludes the stay.

Most recent bangaloREsident-Expanded@basis: Shivu Mahesh

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An independent OFF space in Dresden, C. Rockefeller Center for The Contemporary Arts is a forum, living gallery, community and exhibition space, critical of time and the system, which positions itself on contemporary art forms. This includes painting, sculpture, photography and the large field of contemporary media art. The focus is clearly on the experimental and conceptual, and the works and intentions of young artists, also in political terms. Art and critical examination are always in the foreground in this experimental space in Dresden's Hechtviertel - long before favour, an aesthetic zeitgeist or sales arguments.

© C.Rockefeller Center For The Contemporary Arts Profile of the next bangaloREsident-Expanded@C. Rockefeller Center / Netzwerk Medien Kunst:

Artists especially active in contemporary media art projects / making / installations / performance and silk screen printing. On offer is a gallery space, printing studios and partnership with Chaos Computer Club.

This residency is in partnership with the City of Dresden. 

Most recent bangaloREsident-Expanded@C. Rockefeller Center for Contemporary Arts: Ajit Bhadoriya

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Experimental Radio | Public Art in Munich is an interdisciplinary platform founded by the artist Ralf Homann, bringing together a wide range of hybrid practices at the intersection of visual arts, sonic strategies and art in public space. It has a strong focus on collaborative works. The platform also fosters versatile and newer forms of sonic art such as podcasts, aesthetic journalism, performance and transmission art or radio sculpture.

Experimental Radio | Public Art aims to create a network between artists in Karnataka and Bavaria dealing with urgent questions about how we want to live in the future. The artist-in-residence programme allows visiting artists to work temporarily in the shared studio space on their project ideas and to participate in current activities in cooperation with exhibition spaces like the Kunstraum Munich.

© Ralf Homann The programme introduces Bangalore based artists to the Munich art world through public events. The shared workplace is in Streitfeld, 15 minutes away from downtown Munich. The Streitfeld is an artist co-operative with housing and nearly 50 studios. The premises also include a shared apartment, which is expected to serve as accommodation for the artists in residence (shared living room and kitchen, but own bathroom).

The bangaloREsidency@Experimental Radio | Public Art is made possible with the support of the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich. 

Most recent bangaloREsident-Expanded@Experimental Radio: Bhavani GS

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Since 2006, Lichtenberg Studios has been the home to an international artist-in-residence programme, located in the top floor of a Wilhelminian-period apartment building in the ‘Victoriastadt’ quarter, not far from the historical Tuchollaplatz Square, in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg.

© Lichtenberg Studios Since 2011, Lichtenberg Studios offer its space to artists from all over the world, an opportunity to live and work in an interesting district in former East Berlin and to garner their own impressions of Berlin and the city’s art scenes. 

Lichtenberg Studios intends to help focus the attention of the artists-in-residence on the district of Lichtenberg itself, its history, architecture, and its inhabitants and their lives, which is why the term ‘their projects’ refers to small-scale, mostly unobtrusive interventions that generally take place without being announced in advance and appear natural and spontaneous.

Current bangaloREsident-Expanded@Lichtenberg Studios: Sanskriti Bist

Most recent bangaloREsident-Expanded@Lichtenberg Studios: Srinivas Harivanam

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Schauburg is the theatre for young audiences of the Bavarian capital, Munich. Set up in 1953 by Siegfried Jobst as Munich’s Märchenbühne, it was taken over by the city in 1969. Since 1983, the Schauburg has been artistically independent. In 1990, the city approved its conversion into a modern theatre. After the completion of renovation work in the early nineties, it has become one of Europe’s most modern, state-of-the-art theatres for young audiences, with a stage that can be changed to meet individual requirements.

Some 350 performances take place here each year, with audience numbers totalling more than 40,000. The productions are targeted at all age groups and are presented in the categories theatre, music theatre, dance, puppet/object theatre and performance art.

The ensemble consists of six actresses and actors, supplemented by guest performers. The ensemble performs plays for even the tiniest tots from the age of two, staging image theatre, narrative theatre and puppet theatre. It develops its own plays, adapts classics for its young audience and presents young contemporary authors. In cooperation with freelance artists, the ensemble experiments with new music theatre and cross-genre theatrical forms. The Schauburg also puts on mobile productions at kindergartens, schools and libraries and gives guest performances at international and national festivals.

© Schauburg, Munich Courses and workshops for children and young people take place within the Schauburg LAB. Holiday courses are offered, as are courses lasting the whole season that culminate in the production of a play with youngsters on stage.

In cooperation with other Munich venues Schauburg hosts the festivals Kuckuck (theatre for toddlers, March 19, annually), Think Big! (dance and music theatre, biennial), Internationales Figurentheaterfestival (puppet theatre, biennial). Schaubrg has also hosted Politik im Freien Theater in November 2018.

The Schauburg invites Indian theatre artists (directors, theatre pedagogues, dramaturges) who plan to work for or with children to explore the wide range of theatre for young audiences as it is presented  in Munich and Germany. The guest may join rehearsals, performances, conceptional process, festival management and the workshop and courses for children and young people, assisting as far as possible.

*Working language is German.

Recent bangaloREsident-Expanded@Schauburg: Parthasarathi S. 

Berlin’s iconic Teufelsberg offers artists a unique opportunity to work at one of Europe’s largest street art galleries and contribute to the vibrant canvas of this historic site. Famous for its Cold War listening station and its stunning location in Berlin’s Grunewald forest, Teufelsberg stands as a symbol of resilience, reinvention, and creative potential.  The centerpiece of this residency could be a bold street art project that allows participants to reflect Teufelsberg’s spirit directly on its walls, turning the site into a living narrative of history and innovation. Street art, as a medium, is Teufelsberg’s essence. Its raw, unfiltered nature mirrors the site’s unfinished history, while its public accessibility invites visitors to engage with the art and its stories. 

This residency also encourages artists to explore other parts of Teufelsberg’s journey—from its origins as a WWII rubble hill to its role as a Cold War surveillance hub the renaturation of its surrounding forests - and interpret these layers of history through compelling visual expression. By leaving their mark on Teufelsberg’s iconic walls, artists help redefine this historic site as a beacon of transformation, creativity, and Berlin’s enduring spirit.

Residency-period: June 12 - July to 31, 2025 (6 weeks)

bangaloREsident-Expanded 2025 @ Teufelsberg: Anpu Varkey

WELTKUNSTZIMMER Residency Programme
In collaboration with the FREIRAUM project // Ben J. Riepe Team
- Learning together, transcultural exchange, global and local networks -
 
© Jessica Prestipino Guest artists from the field of dance/choreography from Karnataka/ Kerala are invited to participate in a residency, where they will live and work in the WELTKUNSTZIMMER in Düsseldorf for 7 weeks, as part of a cross-genre residence programme that will develop along three paths: dance/performance, visual arts and video/sound, on site in Düsseldorf.
 
The goal is to stimulate transcultural and border-crossing encounters through inter-disciplinary exchange, expected to manifest in long-term global artistic networks. The aim is to combine the various artistic languages into common research and exchange.
 
The exhibition area of WELTKUNSTZIMMER is located on approx. 10,000 sq. m. of a former bakery. Based on the assumption that art plays a creative role in society, WELTKUNSTZIMMER is a vibrant, open space – to live, exchange and experiment – in which both artists and researchers as well as interdisciplinary experts encounter unconventional and challenging ideas and presentations.

This intensive period of open-ended and inter-genre experimentation, research and discussion on site should lead to experimental, artistic expressions (works-in-progress presentations/performances) and interdisciplinary exchange.
 
The urban, partially historical, exhibition areas display an industrial character offering an unusual, experimental biotope for artistic work. Beside the spacious production and exhibition areas, WELTKUNSTZIMMER also has a dance studio, various stage situations, workshop and screening options. Six spacious guest studios on site ensure that residents can live and work together. In addition to the regular exhibition programme, with monthly concert series, performances, (dance and theatre) presentations, workshops, talks and an annual film festival in urban space, WELTKUNSTZIMMER promotes cooperations with theatre, dance, film and music, which are realised on site, e.g. Performance Parcours, International Dance Fair NRW, Dance Research, ASPHALT Theatre and Music Festival, and DIGITALE - festival for digital art and music.
 
Initiated and operated by the Ben J. Riepe Company, the goal of FREIRAUM is to offer a protected space for the arts, independent of concrete production, which, with a non-hierarchical structure, enables independent encounters between the genres and various fields of work. Together with the FREIRAUM participants and affiliated professionals, the Ben J. Riepe team organises the FREIRAUM event programme - demand-oriented and mostly at short notice - including workshops on application, dramaturgical/artistic production content, project management, PR and contract law, as well as collaboratively developed discussions, artistic after-work inputs or theme lunches on critical cultural-political issues.

Profile of the next bangaloREsident-Expanded@WELTKUNSTZIMMER:

We are looking for artists-in-residence open to reflecting on their own artistic working process and interested in discussing their own and other working strategies. Residents should be open to allowing insights into their working processes for fellow professionals as well as the general public. Applicants should also have a general interest in interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge and strategies, and theoretical as well as practical approaches between the arts.

During the residency there will be opportunities for exchange and networking, for example with the Folkwang University of the Arts, PACT Zollverein, FREIRAUM Düsseldorf and other cultural institutions or artists in this area.
 
Selected residents will:

• share the residency experience at the WELTKUNSTZIMMER with artists from the fields of visual arts/sound, etc. (tbc) from Japan, Georgia (tbc) and Armenia (tbc)
• be invited to join the  WELTKUNSTZIMMER and Ben J. Riepe Company /FREIRAUM teams in exploring various interdisciplinary ventures together
• be asked to participate or host at least one public moment in WELTKUNSTZIMMER (e.g. showing, presentation, discussion, workshop, open studio, performance) in the second half of the residency
• be welcome to use the residency for research and conceptual rehearsal, as well as for concrete production.

All communication will be in English, therefore fluency in the English language is a prerequisite. 

Applications are invited for the following slot:
September 26 - November 7, 2023

Most recent bangaloREsident-Expanded@Weltkunstzimmer: Deepanwita Roy

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© Felix Krull On an area of 7000 sq.m. in Dresden’s Pieschen neighbourhood, Zentralwerk combines living, working, art and culture. Here, in this historic place characterised by an eventful past, a community of artists, academics, architects and craftspersons has formed. What used to be a production facility of Zeiss Ikon’s former arms factory during WW II and, subsequently, a printing plant of the GDR printing firm VEB Graphischer Großbetrieb “Völkerfreundschaft”, is now in the hands of people involved in arts and culture, who have made the buildings come alive in their studios and workshops, as well as a public ballroom, an exhibition space, a yard and a bar.

Zentralwerk provides a studio apartment for the duration of the stay. The accommodation is suitable for children. Childcare will have to be organised privately. As a way of introducing our guests, we organise a welcome talk in our exhibition space “Kabinett” to learn more about them and their work and foster exchange with the people living and working at Zentralwerk.

Profile of the next bangaloREsident-Expanded@Zentralwerk:
Our call for artists circles around the echo, the reverberation, the loop that is part of every process of human remembrance. What does this permanent recapitulation mean? What is the relation between remembrance and time, fragments, time travels, blurred and sharp visions, the subjective and collective element?

Final presentation:
As a historical monument, Zentralwerk forms part of the annual nationwide “Open Monument Day” in September. On this day, we would also like to show the work of our guest artists to a wider audience.

Most recent bangaloREsident-Expanded@Zentralwerk: Abhilash Ningappa

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