The development residency is open to artists and collectives living and/or working in and around Antwerp, of any age and active in any medium, who want to develop their work during a longer stay, in dialogue with peers. We pay particular attention to inspiring exchanges between the international and the local, as well as the cross-pollination between visual arts and ‘live’ practices such as…
The research residency welcomes not only artists, but also curators, writers, lawyers and other art-oriented researchers for a period of two months. Depending on their interests and areas of expertise, the residents are invited to set up a supportive dialogue and interaction with the resident artists, the thematic programme and/or the internal functioning of the organisation. For this purpose, a…
The Exchange residency for international artists welcomes six residents per year for a period of three months. In addition to a studio in the monastery and a monthly work grant, they also have a bedroom in the residency. The house, in this way, is really lived in, where local and international artists share common spaces, creating a dynamic interaction between their experiences, ideas and…
Every year, MORPHO visits the master exhibitions of visual artists graduating from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Sint Lucas Antwerp. We invite a jury of artists and curators, whose eyes we look through, to closely consider all the presented works and select an artist that could especially benefit from further development in our residency. The artist awarded with this Wild Card receives…
STRT Kit was a development programme for young emerging artists based in Belgium. Five artists were selected annually through an open call. The programme provided collective work spaces, a research week abroad, an (inter)national visitor's programme, a group exhibition at Kunsthal Extra City, a profile in H ART magazine and a publication. The programme ran for six years, from 2015 to 2020, and…