KIKK Festival

The KIKK galaxy, which promotes digital and creative cultures at the crossroads of art, science, technology and society, is calling for applications for a residency in the studios located at the Centre Culturel des Abattoirs de Bomel, Namur, Belgium, from 5 to 30 May 2025.

The KIKK galaxy is launching an Arts & Sciences residency programme around astronomy, to take place in Namur, Belgium, from 25 August to 17 September 2025.

The association KIKK is launching an Art and Science residency programme at the UNamur (University of Namur) Astronomical Observatory, organised in partnership with the Delta, the cultural space of the Province of Namur, and the TRAKK, the Creative Hub, Medialab and Fab Lab of Namur. Two artists and/or collectives will be hosted in residency studios located on the rooftop of the Delta in Namur, Belgium from 14 May – 14 June 2023 and receive a grant to develop an Art / Science project on the theme of astronomy, as well as curatorial and scientific support to develop their production project.

The Arts and Sciences residency programme ‘Imagining Ecological Futures’ will invite two artists and/or collectives to work at the Abattoirs de Bomel from 24 April - 21 May 2023. The residency gives artistic researchers from various fields the opportunity to work on the intersection of art, science and ecological questions. The aim is to develop useful arts-led interdisciplinary research tools and artworks to examine how cultural practitioners critically address and creatively negotiate ecological futures.

The STARTS Horizon 2020 research & innovation programme in collaboration with the association KIKK, which promotes digital and creative cultures at the crossroads of art, culture, science and technology, are launching an Art & Science residency programme at the UNamur (University of Namur) Astronomical Observatory in Belgium. Two artists and/or collectives will be hosted from 7 June – 10 July 2021. The programme is aimed at artists with an interest in a transdisciplinary approach and an attraction for science and fundamental research.

The Goethe-Institut in collaboration with KIKK Festival, its Creative Hub & Fab Lab TRAKK and the cultural centre Les Abattoirs de Bomel are awarding a grant for a residency project on ‘Ecological Futures’. The residency programme will take place in Namur from 2-30 September 2020. The organisers are inviting two residents in total: one from Germany and one from Belgium. To be eligible you need to be resident in one of the 2 countries (for at least 2 years) or to have the country nationality. Deadline (extended): 15 May 2020.