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Jan van Eyck Academie is currently accepting applications for its Food Lab Fellowship 2027. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
The Jan van Eyck Academie are seeking artistic practitioners whose creative work critically explores global food systems and the communal histories around food. Applicants are encouraged to reflect on the journeys of food across cultures, borders, and histories, bringing situated and innovative knowledge and practices to the fore. Candidates will demonstrate radical imagination and present evocative research, cultivating sustainable and regenerative approaches to food. The selected Fellow will have the opportunity to undertake a residency from 15 January to 15 December 2027, engaging with a vibrant community of some 36-40 artists, designers, curators, writers, and other creative minds, sharing perspectives on the complexities of a world in transition and contributing to transformative understandings of food, culture, and ecology.
The selected candidate will receive access to a private studio and the expertise of the Labs, in-house experts, and (guest) advisers and will be able to participate and contribute to the academy’s public programme.
The Fellow will receive a monthly stipend of €1,750 and an annual working budget of €2,250. The stipend is 80% exempt from income tax.
Maastricht University will cover local transport costs to and from Venlo, up to €750.
The Fellowship can only host individual candidates.
The Fellow is expected to reside in Maastricht or direct surroundings (within a radius of 10km) during their stay at the Jan van Eyck.
The Fellow will search for their own accommodation; the institute can provide guidance.
The Fellow is exempt from paying an annual enrolment fee.
Jan van Eyck alumni are not eligible to apply for these fellowships. Alumni of Rijksakademie or De Ateliers, two fellow Post-Academies in the Netherlands, are also not eligible if they have been enrolled as full-time participants in one of these institutions.
To apply, please submit a single pdf (max. 10 MB) via the online registration form consisting of the following materials presented in English:
A motivational letter and project proposal (max 500 w. each);
Documentation of previous work (max 15 pages with 1 – 2 images per page). The presented material should not be older than 5 years;
A curriculum vitae (max 2 pages)
