The Inlaks Residency at UNIDEE, Italy

1. The residency is for 2 months. 

2. It includes the following support:

• Return travel from India to Italy (including airport/Biella private transfer).

• Insurance (travel and medical insurance for accidents) and visa fees.

• Two months’ stay at Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto: single room in the premises shared with other international residents inclusive of cleaning services, use of shared studio space and workshop facilities.

• Based on the research of the selected resident, expert visits, curatorial meetings, networking sessions will be organised.

• Study and research trips will be organised with the residents group to Venice (for four days), Turin and Milan (for one day each) to engage with the international art scene in Italy(hotel, food and travel are covered by the grant).

• Up to 300€ budget for project production and communication, translations.

• A per diem of 900€.

• If the resident is interested and has research related to the theme of UNIDEE 2025 Residency Modules he/she could participate (we will announce the themes and mentors this summer).

1. The applicant must be an Indian passport holding citizen and currently resident in India.

2. The applicant must be born on or after 1st January 1990.

3. The applicant may be an emerging practitioner (artist, curator, writer, activist, cultural practitioner, etc) from different background and with a different practice in the fields of socially engaged art and social practice, curatorial practice and community organisation.

4. The applicant must have a fluent knowledge of the English language.

The applicant should not have received any prior grant from the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation for any other overseas project.

Fill in the application form online avallabile on the website by pressing ‘Apply Now’.

Any query may be sent to gladys@inlaksfoundation.org

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The submissions will be reviewed and evaluated by a jury consisting of representatives of Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation and UNIDEE / Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte Onlus who will then select a shortlist of candidates to be interviewed at the end of May 2025.

Final results will be released at the beginning of June 2025.

The Residency supports the practice of emerging artists with a situated and embedded practice.

Throughout their stay at Cittadellarte, the resident is guided along a process based on the investigation of specific aspects linked to a responsible social transformation, through debates and meetings with curators, artists and civil society practitioners, studio visits by experts, and visits to exhibitions and places relevant to the themes linked to their research.

In terms of production, the residency is not outcome based and the aim is to support the research of the selected applicant who may present it during a public open studio organised for the group of residents. Furthermore, during their stay at Cittadellarte the selected artist will have the opportunity to engage and share their research time with other artists in residency.

In 1999 Michelangelo Pistoletto founded Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto’s programme of artists’ residencies for art and social transformation.

The programme is open to artists and professionals from all over the world and it aims at providing instruments for 'artivators', i.e. subjects working at the boundaries between artistic practices, processes of social change and collaborations with communities external to the art world, weaving together moments of interdisciplinary research, exchange of knowledge and practical activities.

The objective of the programme is to provide the participants with the inspiration, motivation and instruments to activate, develop or strengthen artistic initiatives based on the involvement of local ecologies.

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