In addition to realizing exhibitions, concerts, readings, and workshops, particular emphasis is placed on the production of work on site. In the broadest sense, the aim is to facilitate and support the entirety of potential artistic forms of articulation and presentation, as well as to reflect on and engage discursively with the various ways of working.

Interdisciplinary Exchange Program

Every year, up to 50 fellows are invited to Krems together with the project partners (Province of Lower Austria – Art and Culture Department, Galerie Stadtpark, Kunsthalle Krems, Karikaturmuseum Krems, NÖ Festival and Kino GmbH, ORTE Lower Austrian Architecture Network, Unabhängiges Literaturhaus NÖ). Each guest artist is provided one of five live-work apartments. Throughout the entire residency, artists receive ongoing assistance and curatorial support in realizing their artistic projects.

So that the diversity of contemporary artistic practices can be fully appreciated, AIR focuses on connecting artists and their approaches to existing art and cultural institutions in Lower Austria and Vienna.

All applications must include:
1. Application form;
2. Résumé in chart form, including artistic career and a list of previous grants (scholarships);
3. Statement of the applicant’s artistic objectives during the residency (max. one to two European DIN A4 (210 x 297 mm) pages);
4. Not more than 10 images AND/OR 4 min (total video/sound). Please include digital files of work to be assessed. File must be named with sequential numbers. Images should be provided in JPG format and sound work in mp3 format;
5. Relevant support documentation, scanned images of articles, reviews or exhibition catalogues. Other representative visual material of current artistic work, plans, etc.

Applications with all of the above are to be presented as a pdf with a contents page, and listed sequentially in the above order. Sound or video works can be submitted alongside the pdf. The pdf size should not exceed 3 MB.

The residency includes:
- Residency period: 2 July–30 August, 2020;
- A studio apartment appointed with a kitchen, bathroom, Internet access, telephone connection, dishwasher and washing machine, bedclothes and towels;
- Cleaning service;
- Access to the common room and technical rental devises;
- grant of 1300 Eur monthly (all in all 2600 Eur) excluding travel-, transport- or material expenses, also excluding health insurance, every scholarship holder needs to testify in advance a valid health insurance during his stay in Krems;
- Personal support by curators and staff of AIR – ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Niederösterreich including two project presentations.

Selection Procedure:
1. Nida Art Colony will short-list 2-3 candidates whose applications will then be forwarded electronically to AIR – ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Niederösterreich
2. A committee at AIR – Niederösterreich will select and award the Nida Art Colony / AIR – Niederösterreich for 2020 to one candidate.

Application deadline: 30 September 2019