Denk- und Produktionsort Libken grants five two-month residency scholarships to artists from Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland who live and work in the countryside or mainly engage with rural environments in their artistic practice. The aim of the residency program is to engage in an exchange between artists with different disciplines, cultural backgrounds and artistic practices, to deepen one's own work and to reflect on its specific conditions.

The two-month program «into the fields» is accompanied and framed by a kick-off weekend, as well as by four group work meetings, moderated inputs and studio visits spread over the residency period. Next to supporting the individual working projects, the program encourages the artists to use the international group as a space of resonance and a performative ressource. In this way, the focus shifts to practicing forms of communal living, collaboration and sharing as a means to participation, which we regard as indispensable in a time of political shift to the right and of economic uncertainty.

Applicants must be professional artists, age 18+ who are residents in Germany, the Czech Republic or Poland. We are looking for artists who live in rural areas or whose artistic practice focuses primarily on rural areas. The common working language within the residency program is English. The application must be submitted in English.