Are you an artist or art collective working within the field of social art practices connected to the local and global south? Are you ready for a next step in your career and are you open to critical reflection on your own artistic practice? Is collective learning, participation and the creative process central to your artistic practice? Would you be open to involve local communities in your work? Apply for our open call now! Deadline July 4, 2023.
Zuid. Boijmans Van Beuningen offers an art commission (talent development track) for artists/collectives who use their work to explore new connections between art, heritage and local communities.
Each newly commissioned artwork at Zuid. responds to the idea of collective learning, participation and social practices. Artists are invited to work with residents, children or organisations in the neighbourhood. Part of the program is to take active part in the wide range of activities being organised by Zuid. and partner organisations. The artist/collective is expected to present a plan for a visitor-interaction/program during the commission period.
how to sign up.
To participate, we ask you to make a video of max 2 minutes in which you explain/illustrate your practice and initial proposal. This may be spoken or subtitled in Dutch or English. The video may be accompanied by a document with text or illustrations not more than 1 page (A4). Send a link to your video, together with your contact details before July 4th 2023 to zuid@boijmans.nl. In the subject mention ‘open call commission’.
selection procedure.
All submissions will be considered. The following criteria will be leading:
- artistic and educational quality
- significance for the development of one’s own professional practice
- significance for Rotterdam South
- significance for the development of innovative museological practices
Interviews with selected candidates will take place in the third week of July. The selection committee consists of Sue-an van der Zijpp (curator of applied art and design, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), Birgit van Beek (producer Zuid. Boijmans Van Beuningen), and Yoeri Meessen (head of education, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen)
what we offer.
- With this commission comes support in the form of a talent development track which includes individual coaching and a personal work and a development budget.
- We offer a stipend in exchange for the artistic concept and time invested by the artist (both in preparation and during the presentation of the project).
- Furthermore there is a budget available for material costs for executing the project.
Commissioned artists will have a studio space at Zuid. (approximately 180 m2) at their disposal. Artist are expected to use this as a site for execution of their artistic project and as the working and presenting space from October through December 2023.
Three 14-day sprints are spaced out over the three-month commission period.
Sprint 1 – 20 September – 4 October – Build-up and initiation
Sprint 2 – 25 October – 8 November – Program of interaction and development
Sprint 3 – 6 December – 20 December – Closing events; program of assembling, outcome sharing and evaluation.
The artist/collective is expected to be present on a full-time during these sprints and at regular intervals in the weeks between these sprints. In this period, the space will remain open to the public during regular opening hours.
about Zuid. Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Zuid. is located in the former technical school at Hillevliet 90, in the middle of the Feijenoord district. Working with artists, social partners and key figures in the neighbourhood conversations are being had about what can be learned from Zuid. Together we are working on a new museum concept at the interface between culture, social practice and education. Zuid. presents methods for alternative cultural practice, applicable to an innovative museological context.
Together with the interactive program of the commissioned work, the artwork must be accessible during regular opening hours of Zuid. (Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday from 11:00-18:00). If the artist/collective are not present at these times the space must be freely accessible.
Zuid. takes a learning by doing approach towards its projects. Artists are asked to align their projects with this approach by testing different methods towards engaging different groups and communities from Zuid.
Zuid. Boijmans Van Beuningen is made possible by Fonds 21, Mondriaan Fonds, Innovatielabs, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Zuid-Holland and private donors.
email: marissa.brand@boijmans.nl
website: https://www.boijmans.nl/en/open-call-2023
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