Call for Artists:
Rituals. Holding ourselves through life.
Dates of residency: Mid-January - End of February ( 45 days)
Amount of residents: 2 people
Type of residency: Paid by artist (letter of attendance for funding search is provided)

We invite artists from all disciplines to apply for a residency exploring rituals as forms of resilience, grounding, and emotional survival in contemporary life.

In a world shaped by uncertainty, acceleration, and constant change, we turn to small gestures—daily routines, quiet habits, symbolic actions—to stay centered. Rituals help us navigate complexity, cultivate presence, and care for our inner world. They can be spiritual or secular, ancient or newly invented, solitary or collective, visible or invisible. They may take place in a studio, in public space, on a screen, or in the private corners of our minds.

This residency embraces rituals as artistic language and as lived practice.
We welcome projects that explore:
• Personal rituals for calm, resilience, and grounding
• Emotional and mental self-care practices
• Meditation, breath, movement, repetition
• Spiritual and ancestral traditions re-imagined
• Invented and experimental rituals
• Somatic and embodied practices
• Healing gestures in response to stress, uncertainty or fear
• Material rituals: making as devotion, touch as knowledge
• The rituals of daily life, studio routines, and creative process
• Digital rituals, screen-based habits, online presence and repetition
• Ritual as rebellion against burnout, pressure, and speed

We are looking for artists who see rituals not as escape, but as creative tools for reflection, healing, transformation, and connection.

Who can apply

Artists working in, but not limited to:
• Visual arts / installation
• Textiles / craft / material practices
• Sound / performance / movement / body-based work
• Photography / video / new media
• Writing / poetry / research-based practice
• Interdisciplinary and experimental forms

We offer
• Studio / research space
• Curatorial guidance and creative support
• A reflective, nurturing environment focused on process
• Final showcase / open studio / presentation of work developed during residency

What we value
• Depth of concept
• Sensitivity and emotional intelligence
• Exploration of personal and collective experience
• Openness to experimentation, slow practice, and introspection
• Respect for shared space and fellow residents

We invite you to join us!

To breathe.
To slow down.
To listen to your inner rhythm.
To create from presence instead of urgency.
To explore life’s unseen gestures, and imagine new rituals for future worlds.

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Apply

Please submit to hi@weseeitems.com with subject "ART RESIDENCY - your name":
• Short artistic statement / how your practice relates to Rituals
• Portfolio or documentation of work
• Brief residency proposal (what you hope to explore)
• CV or bio

This residency does not offer funding, all the expenses are covered by artists.
The fee of the residency is 900 EUR / per person for 45 days. If the artist will apply for funding in any institute, we are providing all the documents of the residency.
The fee includes working studio, accommodation, local scene meetings and studio-visits, final exhibition (excluding the materials for production).
Flight tickets, transportation and food expenses are on artists.

Artists are expected to produce:
• One presentation of their artistic research (open studio, performance, talk, or installation)
• A documentation component (text, images, sound, or video)
• A brief reflection describing their creative process and the rituals developed or explored

Final works may be:
• finished pieces
• works in progress
• performative or time-based practices
• conceptual or written research

• or purely experiential formats

If you have any additional questions, please contact us on hi@weseeitems.com or via instagram @weseeitems.