Konsthall C is a public work of art, an urban renewal project and an art institution located in a former communal laundry in Hökarängen, Stockholm since 2004. Konsthall C is a non-profit organisation whose main objective is to be a leading actor in socially engaged practices, supporting new curatorial and artistic experiments and thinking.
Konsthall C’s AiR-platform The Research Station welcomes artists, researchers, writers and activists to apply for Transforming Bricks and Mortar, two upcoming residencies focusing on the transformative potential in building a decolonial art institution from inside and out. Two residencies will run 1 February – 13 March 2022 and 11 May – 26 June 2022.
The objective of the residency is to address Konsthall C as an infrastructure and explore possible futures for an organisation that wants to work not only with decolonisation but in a decolonial way. Applicants should demonstrate innovative methods based on mutual learning and joint exploration of new ideas and approaches.
Selected applicants are invited to work with any aspect of Konsthall C’s organisational structure and programme to help uncover new ways of building an accountable and open institutional structure. Konsthall C are searching for proposals that engage directly with ideas of how art institutions should organise their work to not mute and devalue the artistic decolonial practices exhibited within its programme. They want to explore the relationship between decoloniality and contemporary art.
Two residents will be selected to work alongside Konsthall C staff for eight weeks during the winter and spring of 2022. Your background should display hybrid modes of thought, research, and practice within a decolonial framework. You can come from anywhere in the world.
- The stay is six weeks with two weeks at home for writing and reflection on the process and residency.
- You will receive a monthly salary of 29,580 SEK (~2950 EUR) a month before tax. The same as everyone else at Konsthall C.
- Accommodation, travel and Covid tests are paid for by Konsthall C.
- There will be a production budget for the implementation of talks and smaller projects initiated by the resident.
