KAOS/ UPC KU Leuven | Résidence pour des artistes plasticien·nes

À partir de 2025, KAOS et UPC KU Leuven organiseront conjointement une résidence de recherche annuelle pour des artistes individuel·les dans un contexte psychiatrique. L’artiste invité·e aura accès à un studio de travail personnel dans les locaux de l’UPC KU Leuven.

KAOS develops art projects with artists who may or may not have a psychiatric vulnerability. It brings art and psychiatry together and thus tells something about perceptions about them.

KAOS is for the arts and against the stigma that rests on people with mental vulnerability.

The basis of our activities are artist residencies in psychiatry or a referring context.

Together with the artist, the residencies are linked to public talks and debates, the so-called KAOS Talks, in addition to presentations, concerts and publications. Moreover, regularly we plan an exhibition in which we present work by residents and artists (with or without mental vulnerability) from our broad network: the KAOS Expo.

UPC KU Leuven offers quality care for emotional, psychological or psychiatric problems. Housed in several campuses and departments, they offer a wide range of residential and outpatient care. The artist residency is established at the Kortenberg Campus.

The research residency is intended for artists who want to conduct their own research in the specific context of a psychiatric care centre. You delve into themes that manifest themselves here and translate them into an artistic project. During your stay, you will share your research with staff and patients of the UPC KU Leuven. The focus here is on developing and deepening your own artistic practice.

For whom?

The residency is open to individual visual artists who may or may not have a mental vulnerability themselves. We ask candidates to motivate why they consider a research residency important in this context and what the link is to their own work. We also ask them to draw up a schedule for the anticipated period (between mid-January and the end of June 2025). This will be determined in together after the selection. The selection of artistic proposals is done by the artistic teams of KAOS and UPC KU Leuven.

Conditions

A (part-time) remuneration is provided.

In addition, a project budget is provided and transport expenses are reimbursed.

Biweekly feedback is provided with the artistic team of KAOS and UPC KU Leuven.

This is a work residence so accommodation is not provided by us.

Location

Leuvensesteenweg 517, 3070 Kortenberg

Info & application form

contact@vzwkaos.be or www.vzwkaos.be

Application form