VFA Open Call - Culture Moves Europe

Villa Filanda Antonini launches Open Call 2024 to select 1-2 European artists to reside at the villa next fall.

Overview

The residencies, two months each, are funded and supported entirely by the Culture Moves Europe program. Culture Moves Europe provides mobility grants for artists legally residing in one of the 40 Creative Europe countries, and willing to develop a project in another Creative Europe country. Culture Moves Europe is fully funded by the European Union and is implemented by the Goethe-Institut.

Practical Info

Applicants must fill the online form on the website. Participating artists are free to develop their individual projects according to their field of expertise and professional needs. Their work must follow the goals and concept proposed by VFA . 

VFA invites the artists to explore the surrounding area and create projects that have social repercussions, as well as employing site-responsive strategies capable of engaging with the local community, both through artworks and workshops. Artists will be asked to learn from the place by developing practices drawing on traditional techniques, knowledge, and/or transforming local materials (including waste from agricultural and/or industrial production). The goal is to facilitate the transfer of values and the mapping of local knowledge through the artistic process.

The residency period is non-negotiable. The residency must last 70 uninterrupted days, of which each participant must spend at least 70% of their time at the VFA. The official start of the residency is September 12, and the end is November 23, 2024. The residency project duration does not include travel time. Participating artists can arrive 15 days before the start and depart 15 days after the end of the residency, in agreement with VFA. Their hosting and daily costs during this additional time are not covered by Culture Moves Europe, and VFA does not have to provide accommodation for this time. 

About Villa Filanda

Villa Filanda Antonini -VFA- is an independent space dedicated to experimentation with the languages of contemporary art. Established in 2021 on the initiative of Giulio Feltrin and his family, founders of the design brand Arper, VFA is the first project supported by Arper Feltrin Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is encouraging the dialogue between contemporary art, design, and architecture. VFA is home to an Artist Residency Program whose aim is to build a network of people and processes capable of interpreting the material and immaterial specificities of the region in which it is embedded.