Residencies
Discover Baltic's artist residencies below.
Residency: Baltic|States
We're pleased pleased to announce our third residency working with emerging artists from the Baltic States: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and the wider Baltic region.
The Baltic | States residency programme enables artists’ research and professional development through a series of supported residencies at Baltic, Gateshead. The participants are invited to respond to the current shifting geopolitical landscape in Europe and develop work which explores ideas around identity, citizenship and belonging. Participants are encouraged to find points of connection between the Baltic region and the North East of England, building networks with the artistic communities and creating dialogue which transcends borders and geographies at a time of rapid social and political change.
The residencies provide opportunities for participating artists to meet curators and arts professionals based in the North East and visit arts spaces in the region. During their residency, participants are invited to share their research and experiences with the wider public through hosting an open studio event, screening, artist’s talk, performance or workshop.
This year, we have partnered with NART to support a North East-based emerging artist to spend a month in residence in Narva, Estonia in March 2024. Narva is located on the Estonian-Russian international border and is Estonia’s third largest city.
Previous artists who undertook this residency include Andrius Arutiunian and Maria Kapajeva.
This year's Baltic|States Artist is Residence is Jordan Edge (Kiik Amor).
About Jordan Edge (Kiik Amor)
Jordan Edge (Kiik Amor) is a trans artist/curator from the North East of England working within the fields of experimental practice and sonic arts. Their world is based at the intersection of experience design, performance art, and trans-sonic world-building. They present hybrid species, non-human and queer/trans sonic narratives through multidisciplinary experiences.They will focus their time at NART creating an immersive storytelling experience through physical and digital interpretations of the geopolitical relationships between the North East of England and the Baltic region.
About the Partner Institutions:
The Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC) is a non-profit foundation focused both on fostering international exposure for artists from Estonia and on developing the contemporary art scene in Estonia. Functioning as an umbrella organisation for Estonian partner institutions, the Center is creating strategic international partnerships in the field of contemporary art. Founded in 2012, ECADC receives ongoing financial support from Estonian Ministry of Culture and Estonian Cultural Endowment. Team members are based in New York and Tallinn, Estonia. In collaboration with its partner organisations, ECADC aims to develop a sustainable infrastructure for contemporary art that would lead to further internationalisation of the field. As of autumn 2019, ECADC operates the multifunctional Kai Art Center at the seaside Noblessner harbour complex in Tallinn.
Narva Art Residency (NART) is a cultural platform founded in 2015. It facilitates residencies, art exhibitions, talks and educational workshops. It is located in Narva city on the Estonian-Russian border on the historical Kreenholm site. The international artist-in-residency programme is open for artists operating across a wide range of disciplines, including visual arts, music, performance, architecture, design, film, literature, curatorial practices and more. It generates creative exchange between practitioners and strengthens links with the local community. NART is located at the historicist villa, which was originally built for the director of Kreenholm Textile Manufacture. In close proximity stand the vacant factory buildings that once formed the largest enterprise of its kind in Europe.
Residency: Baltic x Shape Arts Emergent
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and Shape Arts, London are delighted to announce Kerolaina Linkeviča as the recipient of this year’s Emergent residency and bursary.
Emergent is hybrid residency and support programme for early-career disabled artists with a £5k bursary. The open call welcomed applications from disabled artists/creative practitioners in the first five years of their career.
This year’s shortlisting process was very competitive with a high volume of applications. The residency and bursary have been awarded to Kerolaina Linkeviča. Linkeviča’s multidisclinary practice is deeply rooted in nature, animism, magic, and the multiverse of computer games. Their work explores imaginary worlds, symbiotic entities, alternative subcultures, and virtual environments. As part of their residency, they hope to connect with the DIY music scene in the North East.
Linkeviča will take part in the residency online and at Baltic, where, in addition to receiving expert support and mentoring to inform their practice, they will use the facilities and have curatorial and technical input to extend her current research and develop new work. A showcasing or broadcast opportunity will also be provided as part of the programme.
Baltic and Shape Arts have also offered a package of support to a small number of shortlisted artists: Oscar Boyle, Maya Rose Edwards, Liberty Hodes, Romi Sarfaty.
About Shape Arts
Shape Arts is a disability-led organisation breaking barriers to creative excellence. Shape Arts delivers a range of projects supporting marginalised artists, as well as training cultural venues to be more inclusive and accessible for disabled people as employees, artists, and audiences. Running alongside this portfolio is the NLHF funded National Disability Movement Archive and Collection (NDMAC), a radical collecting and retelling of the Disability Rights Movement’s heritage story; and, until recently led by Shape, Unlimited, which, largely supported by Arts Council and British Council funding, provides a platform for disabled artists to develop, produce and show ambitious and high-quality work, and which aims to transform perceptions of how the work of disabled artists is received in the mainstream art world.
Ker Wallwork | Baltic x Shape Arts Emergent Residency | 2022
Ker took part in the residency online and at Baltic, where, in addition to receiving support and mentoring to inform their practice, they used the facilities and have curatorial and technical input to extend their current research and develop new work. A showcasing or broadcast opportunity was also provided as part of the programme.
Ker Wallwork Biography
Ker Wallwork is a London-based artist with a multi-disciplinary practice spanning moving-image, drawing, text and sculpture. Recurrent themes in their work are language, queerness, sickness and the welfare state. They have worked with writers, scientists, academics and actors to develop work that explores materiality in relation to specific social and historic contexts.
Undutiful Spirit | 2022
We are pleased to announce that Undutiful Spirit has been selected for the BALTIC Archive Artist’s Residency.
Undutiful Spirit is a collaborative practice-led forum by artists Rosie Morris and Harriet Sutcliffe with curator Gayle Meikle. During their residency they are invited to research and develop their practice through close engagement with BALTIC Archive, which chronicles the organisation’s history, exhibitions and events through physical items and digital documentation.
The artists, who are based in Newcastle upon Tyne, will explore site-specific working methods generated through the female subject experience, considering BALTIC Archive as a meeting place to think about female identities, histories, mythologies, and potential civic futures through archival methodologies. They will share their research with the wider public through an event as part of BALTIC’s Public Programme to coincide with our twentieth year celebrations in July 2022.
Rosie Morris is an artist and lecturer. Her practice is grounded in site, examining the ways in which specific spaces are viewed, thought of and experienced bodily. Through perspectival painting, architectural installations, projected light, print-making, sound, film and text, in gallery and heritage locations, she works to dismantle and reconfigure a space’s atmosphere and histories, creating a new and meditative encounter with being here and now.
Harriet Sutcliffe is an artist, curator, researcher and lecturer. Her practice is often rooted in and imbued with a sense of place. Sutcliffe's work usually responds to a collection, site or archive through sculpture, installation, creative writing, drawing, textiles, printmaking and workshops; her work seeks to reveal hidden/obscured histories and/or narratives.
Gayle Meikle is a curator, researcher and lecturer. She specialises in bringing artists, artworks and audiences together to create site-responsive and critically engaged projects. She takes an intersectional and relational approach to curatorial practice rooted in material feminisms (a strand of feminist theory that thinks with the natural, human and material worlds), critical spatial practice and socially engaged art.
Alice Bucknell Writer/Curator | 21-26 April 2021
Alice Bucknell will participate in BALTIC’s Writer/curator Residency in Alnmouth, Northumberland in collaboration with Shoreside Huts.
Alice Bucknell's interdisciplinary practice spans writing, video, and 3D design to develop ecological world-building strategies. Drawing on the work of feminist science fiction authors including Octavia E. Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin, she is interested in the potential of emerging technologies including artificial intelligence and game engines in building alternative more-than-human futures.
Bucknell is currently a staff writer at Elephant Magazine and the Harvard Design Magazine, and her writing is published in titles including Flash Art, frieze, Mousse, PIN-UP, and The Architectural Review. During the BALTIC Writer/curator Residency, she will be laying the groundwork for 'New Mystics', a hybrid curatorial-editorial project that draws together the expanded practices of twelve artists fusing properties of mysticism and magic with advanced technology. The project will continue to be developed at Rupert in Lithuania in May and launched in summer 2021.
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