Galeri Nasional Indonesia - Open call for artists in residence

-Deadline: 20 July

Galeri Nasional Indonesia (the National Gallery of Indonesia) is the Technical Implementation Unit under the Directorate General of Culture, Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia that embraces the vision to bring the preservation and presentation of visual art works into reality in order to foster a creative and appreciative society that loves the nation’s culture. To realize this vision, it is tasked with a mission to improve visual art creativity and appreciation among the visual artists as well as to intensify discourses, expand the community and cooperation network in visual arts.

With respect to this mission, it puts the Galeri Nasional Indonesia Artist in Residence Program in its agenda for 2014. This residency event is the second, after the first one in 2013, in collaboration with . For 2014 event, the residency program is held in collaboration with an Art College, namely the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, the Jakarta Institute of Arts.

The Artist in Residence Program by Galeri Nasional Indonesia is a visual art activity program that provides opportunities to visual artists to settle, do research, make experiments, and create their artworks within the frame of Galeri Nasional Indonesia for a certain amount of time in activities ranging from work presentations, workshops, discussions, excursions, and publications of the study results to the public by means of artwork exhibitions and artist talks.

Residency participants are Indonesian and foreign visual artists with a maximum age of 35 at the time of registration. Galeri Nasional Indonesia covers the costs of transportation (return tickets) from the artist’s home to Jakarta, accommodation, work production, per diem/daily allowances during the event, and exhibition.

Deadline: 20 July

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