NB! Would you like to apply for this residency? Go back to Residency (international) for the terms and conditions, assessment and checklist for your application.
South Korea is rapidly developing in the field of the visual arts and is quickly making up lost ground. The country is home to intriguing museums and presentation locations for modern and contemporary art, such as the MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, as well as private museums including the Total Museum and the Artsonje Center. The Korean government is investing heavily in art and the creative industry. Incidentally, Koreans do not draw a sharp distinction between art and design, as is customary in the West.
Many exciting art initiatives can be found in South Korea, and the country has no less than three biennales: the Busan Biennale, the Gwangju Biennale and the SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul.
The Mondriaan Fund is offering the MMCA Residency in collaboration with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
The MMCA Residency Changdong has nine studios, two exhibition spaces and a large outdoor working space. The residents are part of a(n) (inter)national residency programme that, alongside Korean artists, usually welcomes six international artists and researchers. Open Studios are organised twice a year, and the residents display their work in the exhibition spaces.
The MMCA regularly organises field trips for the (inter)national artists and there are studio visits, including by curators from the MMCA (museum). The residency is home to a select library, with books about Korean art, culture and language.
Luuk Schröder stayed at the residency in 2019. Koen Taselaar, Ksenia Galiaeva, Tim Breukers and Emily Bates were all previously artists-in-residence at this studio.
For whom
The MMCA Residency is for visual artists. The artist needs to speak fluent English and has not previously stayed at MMCA. For this residency it is not possible to apply as a duo.
Work period
There is 1 work period of 4 months available:
- 1 April 2025 – 31 July 2025
How much?
The Mondriaan Fund makes a subsidy of € 10.055 available for an artist to help cover travel expenses, material costs and living costs. This sum is intended for 1 person. In addition, the selected resident is expected to pay a 10% personal contribution. The Mondriaan Fund automatically takes this into account in their ultimate subsidy, you do not need to do anything.
The contribution to artists based in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom can be increased to meet any higher travel costs. This is looked at per situation.
Application
The deadline for submitting an application for a work period in 2025 is Thursday 21 March 2024, before 16.00 (Dutch time zone) / 11.00 (Caribbean time zone).
Before submitting an application, please see the Residency page for the terms and conditions, application procedure and assessment procedure.
Please also read the terms and conditions applicable to Mondriaan Fund contributions.
Selection
The selection is made by an advisory committee. Based on the submitted documents, the advisory committee proposes candidates to the MMCA. They make the final decision on the participants for the residency. An interview may be part of their selection process.*
*Please note! Be aware that the processing time for this selection procedure may exceed three months
Other grants for residencies in the Netherlands and other countries
Because only 1 or 2 residents can be selected for any given residency during each application round, it is inevitable that many will be disappointed. For this reason, we point out that it is also possible to apply for an Artist Project at a different residency location. The specific Artist Project residency applied for may not be one of those already being offered in the Mondriaan Fund application rounds.