Rauschenberg Residency Insiders shared the best 35 residencies globally
by Devorah Lauter
Whether starting one’s art career or entering a more established stage, artist residencies can offer valuable resources and professional connections in a mostly opaque art world, not to mention time to focus on making work.Finding the right fit can depend on key factors: financial benefits, covered costs, what is asked of the participating artist, and what kind of exposure a program offers to the regional and international art crowd. Often, what may seem like an attractive place to work may end up including additional pressures to donate work or considerable time in exchange for the costs of running a program. This needs to be weighed individually by artists.
With the above in mind, we asked international arts professionals for their residency recommendations, compiling a selection of their picks complemented with our own research. We heard from curator and former director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris Bernard Blistène; Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, former director of the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art; Delinda Collier, dean of Graduate Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; artist Nathanaelle Herbelin; Angelica Mesiti, a Paris-based Australian who represented Australia at the 58th Venice Biennale; Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director at London’s Serpentine Galleries; Laura Phipps, associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Jessica Silverman, founder of the eponymous, San-Francisco-based contemporary art gallery, Cortney Stell, the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Denver-Based art museum Black Cube; and Berlin and Stockholm-based artist Anna Uddenberg.
Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva Island, Florida
Artists chosen for this bucolic, prestigious residency can stay in Robert Rauschenberg’s former property on Captiva Island, Florida, where he lived and worked for nearly four decades. The facility includes a massive studio Rauschenberg had built and a collection of historic homes and studio space. The residency is by invitation and lasts for four and five weeks.
