On behalf of the Municipality of Budapest, the Budapest History Museum – Budapest Gallery and the 1646 Experimental Art Space in The Hague jointly announce a call for artists and curators living and working in Budapest for the year 2024, for creative, professional and artistic networking opportunities.
Residency period: 10 June – 10 July 2024
The 1646 Experimental Art Space will provide the winning applicant:
– One of 1646’s small studio apartments located in the building of 1646. The accommodation includes a shared kitchen and bathroom.
-Specification of budget provided: €1000 incl. VAT. Artist fee, €750incl. VAT. Production budget, €300 incl. VAT. Traveling expense
-professional support as required and a public event at the end of the residency, the shape of which can be worked out in conversation with 1646
Application requirements:
Applications are invited from those who have won this competition up to once and travelled before 2021. The 1646 and BTM – Budapest Gallery also expect applicants who can speak English and/or Dutch at an adequate level about their work and professional issues. Please declare your language skills responsibly on the registration form.
You should also declare any study trips abroad that you have been awarded a scholarship for 2023-2024. This is not a disqualification, it is purely for information. We expect a written professional report, including photos, from the successful applicant after the trip abroad. Participants are asked to occasionally support the Budapest Gallery’s artist exchange programme, so that foreign artists coming to Budapest can get a better understanding of the capital’s art scene and future domestic applicants can get a more complete picture of the exchange programme.
How to apply:
Applications must be sent electronically to hermann.julia@btm.hu
The subject of the message should be HÁGA2024.
Deadline: 14 April 2024.
The application must include:
– a registration form and a declaration of consent to personal data processing, which can be downloaded at the bottom of the page
– a curriculum vitae and work portfolio in one PDF file
– and a cover letter of up to 2-2 thousand characters in Hungarian and English
Applications will be judged by a professional jury invited by the Budapest Gallery. The jury will select a shortlist from which the host institution will choose the winner.
The jury for the 2024 artist exchange competition will be composed of Tamás Don, Júlia Hermann, Zsolt Kozma, Tünde Mézes.
Deadline for the final result: 30 April
For further information, please contact Budapest Gallery Exhibition Department, Júlia Hermann hermann.julia@btm.hu
The cooperation is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
in Hungary.