The open call for the 2023 edition of the "BBK Bremen x Cité internationale des arts" programme is currently closed. The results will be announced in January 2023.
The BBK Bremen has partnered with the Cité internationale des arts to develop a residency programme destined for professional artists from Bremen.
Now on its fourth edition, the “BBK Bremen x Cité internationale des arts programme” will allow a German artist to benefit from a three-month residency at the Cité internationale des arts, an artists’ residency that brings together artists in the heart of Paris and allows them to implement a creative or research project in all disciplines.The BBK Bremen is an Association of Professional Visual Artists from the fields of drawing, graphic arts, painting, sculpture, objects, photography, film, conceptual art, artistic research, installation and performance.
Applications for the fourth edition of the “BBK Bremen x Cité internationale des arts residency programme” are now open.
The residency programme includes:
• Travel to and from the residency
• A live-in studio at the Cité internationale des arts from the beginning of August - until the end of October 2023
• A monthly allowance of €1000.
Applications are open to all professional artists from Bremen and the surrounding area with a description of a work project (max. two pages) in Paris, curriculum vitae and portfolio (max. 6 MB).
All submissions are to be sent via email to: office@bbk-bremen.de
Applications
From November 19 to December 31, 2022
Results
Mid-January 2023
Residency dates
From August 03 to October 27, 2023
The BBK in Bremen is an Association of Professional Visual Artists from the fields of drawing, graphic arts, painting, sculpture, objects, photography, film, conceptual art, artistic research, installation and performance.
The tasks and goals of the BBK are
- to represent the interests of the profession, among other things, with regard to the economic situation and social security vis-à-vis politics and administration
- to improve the working conditions of artists
- to make the work of professional artists in the region known in Bremen and outside of Bremen
- to promote the exchange with artists in Germany and abroad
- to support the cooperation between the members
- to act for the visual arts in local networks together with colleagues from all artistic disciplines such as the performing arts, music, film and literature
- to maintain the exchange and cooperation with the Federal BBK and the state associations.
Founded in 1965, the Cité internationale des arts is an artistic residence complex that welcomes artists at the heart of Paris and allows them to implement a creative or research project in all disciplines.
For periods of time between two months to one year, the Cité internationale des arts provides artists with an environment conducive to creation and open to meetings with professionals from the cultural milieu.
Every year, over 1,200 artists deriving from approximately one hundred different countries and representing almost every creative discipline (visual arts, music and performing arts, exhibition curators, art historians, writers, and researchers) stay in one of the 325 live-in studios at the Cité internationale des arts, whose campus is divided between the Marais and Montmartre.