Open Call 2023
We invite artists and other kinds of practitioners to live and work for a period of 6 weeks at Hotel Maria Kapel, to develop and present a project in any form, resonating or responding to the 16th-century building, the specific context of Hoorn. Every project entails a public presentation in the form of an exhibition or any other form that can be explored during the residency.
We are looking for artists and practitioners who pose questions where assumptions are usually made, and have the ability to translate invisible structures and shifting moments of our time into a perceivable language. Artists who read their surroundings with unique eyes and wish to develop and share their findings with a presentation in the centuries-old chapel of HMK are invited to apply to this open call and become part of the HMK year programme in 2023.
We aim at providing a platform for artistic experiments beyond the usual practice the artists in residence have been conducting until this moment and we would like to encourage them to experiment in ways that were unthinkable before, within their own practice, but also beyond what is considered the status quo.
We believe in the artist's role within society to question and subvert existing patterns, may they be social, historical, behavioural or in other ways, which are continuously reproduced but urgently need to be revisited or broken with, by new ways of reading the current moment of time we live in.
We provide:
a 6 week residency period, during which you work towards an exhibition/performance or other public event, according to your practice;
an exhibition space in a 16th century chapel of 120m2;
a cinema space in the basement with 59 seats;
a modest guesthouse, with basic facilities (40m2) next to the chapel, for the duration of your residency;
space and the possibility to work with a basic supply of tools at your disposal;
a part-time team, providing you with curatorial guidance, communication support and incidental productional support by our small team of volunteers;
an artist fee of 2420 euro incl. vat;
a production fee of 1000 euro incl. vat;
travel costs up to 120 euro incl. vat;
help with orientation to additional funding according to your project and aspirations.
* For application proposals that encapsulate a longer trajectory of workshops or research (up to 5 months) we offer the possibility of a long-term remote residency without accommodation and a possible increase of your artist fee, according to the proposed project.
We encourage / we look for:
a specific project that you would like to work on, that entails a public moment in any form (it can be an exhibition, performance, lecture, publication or workshop for example);
a specific project that you would like to elaborate, which contributes significantly to your own practice, research and development;
artists that respond to the specific context of the 16th-century chapel and characteristics of the space;
projects and methods that respond to/engage with the direct context of Hoorn and the community of HMK, and have the intention of provoking a dialogue;
achievable and realistic projects in scale within the limits of time and labour of the artist and the team;
artists who can convincingly demonstrate the practical methods they have in mind for their residency, preferably with sketches or images accompanying the project proposal;
additionally, we are also open to ideas containing a proposal for a site-specific permanent work. The intervention would become part of the permanent work collection.
How to apply:
Send your project proposal not exceeding a one page PDF.
Additional sketches accompanying the proposal are highly recommended.
Your CV and portfolio of a maximum of 10 pages or a link to your website.
Merge this all into one PDF smaller than 12MB and send it to opencall@hotelmariakapel.nl before 1 May, at 5 pm CET.
For questions, you can send an email to inez@hotelmariakapel.nl or join the online meeting on 21 April, from 5 - 6 pm CET, where we give you a tour of the space and the guesthouse and we can answer any questions regarding your applications and project proposals.
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Hotel Maria Kapel (HMK) is an artist-in-residence, exhibition space and cinema for contemporary visual art in the city centre of Hoorn; a historic town 40 kilometres north of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. HMK is a non-profit organization that aims to assist young as well as more established artists from all over the world in the production of new work and promote exchanges between national and international artists, cultural institutions and the public.
The studio/exhibition space of HMK is located in an early 16th-century chapel, surrounded by a semi-private courtyard. This beautifully tranquil and spacious working environment offers the artists-in-residence a unique space for reflection, experimentation and production. HMK places the artist at the centre of its activities and stimulates risk-taking as a key element of artistic development.
The public programme of exhibitions, screenings, lectures, workshops and publications, aims to challenge perceptions of what constitutes contemporary art and bring the audience closer to the practice that motivates it.
