Platform AiR

Finland

Mediums Welcome

About This Residency

Platform offers fully funded international residencies for periods of 4-12 weeks every year. The themes of the residencies vary from year-to-year. The artist will live in Platforms residency apartment (bedroom+kitchen) on a walking distance from the studio and project space. The apartment is not shared with anyone else. The artist will work out of Platforms project space, located in the city centre.

Experience & Atmosphere

Platform is an art organization based in Vasa, a relatively peripheral Finnish town. We run an art space and a residency to offer live experiences of different perspectives in a location where this would otherwise be limited.

Mission & Goals

The residency is open to artists of any medium including, but not limited to: installation, performance, sound art, textiles, sculpture, video, community art, and painting. The artist is given a contact person who will help the artist get familiar with Vasa, assist with the project, help get in touch with people, find material for their project, find the best restaurants and saunas etc. We require the artist to give a public talk, performance, workshop or presentation about their work or an introduction to themselves at the beginning of the residency. We require the artist to be able to communicate in English, Swedish or Finnish. We require the artist to spend at least 80% of the residency’s duration in Vaasa and the working grant is proportional to days spent in Vaasa. The artists are required to submit documentation of the produced project to Platform, as well as a short report/ text about their experience in the residency that can be published on the website. Platform does not run a gallery, so we cannot offer exhibition times at the end of the residency. However, we will help the artist arrange a final presentation/studio visit/performance or other if the artist wants to present their work at the end of the residency.