Short Description
Delfina Foundation announces an international open call for its upcoming spring 2026 residency season (26 March to 19 June) under Making and Materiality, a new thematic programme at Delfina Foundation.
On this occasion, Delfina Foundation welcomes applications from artists, makers, designers, and those working across these boundaries who seek to explore the critical convergence between craft and contemporary art and engage with what becomes possible when the binary is dissolved.
Making and Materiality is a new residency theme at Delfina Foundation that explores the critical convergence between craft and contemporary art. These practices have often been held apart by institutions, markets, and hierarchies that privilege the autonomous artwork over situated forms of making. Yet this divide has also generated a productive tension, where questions of labour, authorship, value, and cultural memory come sharply into focus.
We situate this residency within the global conversation on materials and making, recognising that craft and experimental processes are inextricable from urgent political and environmental realities. Here, making is understood not as a means to an end, but as a form of knowledge in itself – an active, skilled, and often collaborative process that can evolve in response to a changing world.
Eligibility
This opportunity is open to practitioners from around the world and the UK who make strong proposals for how they will use this opportunity to explore ideas within the stated theme.
Submission Requirements
- Personal Info
- Motivation Letter
- CV
- Portfolio
How to Apply
Online Application
Program Benefits & Awards
The selected international applicants will be offered a fully-funded twelve-week residency, including:
— A return economy-class flight
— Airport transfers in the UK
— Reimbursement of visa fees (if required)
— Per diems of £35 per day
— A materials budget of £1000
— A travel pass for London’s public transport network
— A single bedroom with a desk at Delfina Foundation, a house which hosts up to 8 residents with shared facilities, including bathrooms, laundry rooms, a kitchen, a library, and a dining room.
Entry Fee
None
Location
London, United Kingdom
Timeline
- Application Deadline: 14 September 2025
Website Link: https://www.delfinafoundation.com/open-calls/current/
