Rozentāls- seura (Rozentāls Society, the Finnish-Latvian friendship association) invites Latvian professionals from all creative fields to apply for a residence in Fiskars village in Finland. This includes, but is not limiter to, working craftspeople, designers, visual artists, architects, industrial designers, performing artists, composers, musicians, curators, producers, journalists, writers and researchers.
Residency period is September 2024. The accommodation for the resident artist is free of charge. Rozentāls-seura offers fully furnished apartment with private kitchen, bathroom and work space in a traditional Nordic style house in the heart of Fiskars Village. It is suitable also for a couple or small family. The artist also gets support to cover the travel expenses. Artists must finance their living costs and working materials.
Rozentāls-seura also wishes that the artist is willing to do a presentation of their work to the members of the society.
HOW TO APPLY?
Resident artist/ artists are selected on the basis of applications (work plan, CV and portfolio). Apply by sending your work plan, CV and portfolio in English via this link. Application period closes at 11.59 PM on May 31st.
Fiskars village is a unique community of people in creative sector. Permanent residents of the Fiskars village are artists, designers, photographers, writers, musicians, goldsmiths, tattoo artists and craftsmen in many fields. Depending on the interests, resident will have the possibility to work together with local artists. The co-working possibilities will be planned together with the resident artist. Find out more about Fiskars village and the residence.
Rozentāls Society carries out its own publishing activities, arranges seminars, educational events and cultural activities in co-operation with other organizations. Our organisation was founded to promote broader understanding of Latvian social, cultural and economic life in Finland and the mission of the residency program is to stimulate the professional exchange and networking between creative professionals of Finland and Latvia.
Rozentāls-seura’s former residence artists are:
2023
Ieva Saulīte
Interview in Finnish
2022
Krista Anna Belševica
Interview in Finnish
2021
Aina Bikše
Interview in Finnish
2020
We organised the exhibition Dimensions of Distance together with Fiskars AiR and Fotocentrum Raseborg to celebrate the 5 years of our residence program. The exhibition gathered together all of our former residence artists. More in Finnish here.
2019
Elīna Ruka
Interview in Finnish
2018
Visual artist Ingrīda Pičukāne did her visual interpretation of both – Latvian and Finnish national epics – Lāčplēsis and Kalevala. Her residency project is still in progress and gigantic mushroom is expected to appear on the wall of some tall building in Finland!
Interview with Ingrida in Finnish here
2017
Musician and sound artist Gundega Graudiņa,
Her Residency performance “Sound Path” on YouTube
Interview with Gundega in Finnish
2016
Jewellery artist Rasma Pušpure
Interview with Rasma in Finnish here.
2015
Visual artist Eva Vēvere, http://www.evavevere.com
Inverview with Eva in Finnish here.
Fiskars village is located about 90 kilometres from Helsinki. Fiskars can be reached easily by public transport (closest train station Karjaa), by car and by bike.
Additional information:
Rozentāls-seura
Jenni Kallionsivu
executive director
jenni@rozentals-seura.fi
+358 45 1058815
Fiskars Residence
Kati Sointukangas
programm curator
+358 40 0241017
fiskarsair@gmail.com
