Residency

This summer 2024, participate in our residency program at OpenBach, a collaborative art space in Paris! 

OpenBach is transformed to welcome you: modular offices and a brightly-lit shared studio to work in on our first floor, materials at your disposal (papers, paints, markers...), and a communal kitchen. You’ll be able to work alongside other residents as well as our artists with permanent studios here, sharing ideas and even collaborating on greater projects. We welcome all forms of visual art whether it be photo, illustration, painting, comics, so long as it can be accommodated within the studio.

In recent years, activists have taken to staging protests in museums as a way to draw attention to the pressing issues of climate change and in doing so suggest the art world was somehow at odds with the goals of humanity having a healthy, ethical relationship to the natural world. The premise of the “Collage the Planet: Environmentalism in Art Artist Residency” is that science has the capacity to tell us how to care for the planet, but those solutions are meaningless if humanity doesn’t care enough to evolve and change. Art is a unique technology that can distill complexity into simple human gestures that, when experienced, facilitate a deeper understanding of our world. In short, art can be a tool for caring.