Applications for the working period 2025-2027 will be open from December 1st 2024 until January 15th 2025. The deadline is Wednesday 23:59 / 11:59pm CET.
De Ateliers is an artists’ institute open to artists at the beginning of their professional career. It offers a two-year studio and tutoring programme that is best tailored to the needs of highly motivated artists who wish to strengthen their artistic foundation, develop their ideas and deepen their practice in a focused, critical environment among peers from around the globe. The programme is centred around weekly individual studio conversations, with regular and guest tutors, most of whom are practicing artists. The aim is to create a better understanding of one’s artistic position and process by offering a multiplicity of perspectives and critical feedback.
The individual and intensive nature of the De Ateliers programme, with weekly one-on-one studio visits by tutors on Tuesdays, demands a highly motivated and committed attitude. For those artists who are actively looking for regular critical feedback and who have an open attitude towards a wide range of artistic voices and opinions, the generous time and space the De Ateliers programme offers, can produce a life changing experience.
De Ateliers is a small scale institution, with twenty spacious studios housed in a monumental studio building in the center of Amsterdam. In addition to the individual studio spaces it offers access to basic workshop facilities, a library, public programs and connections to relevant art and knowledge institutions in Amsterdam and beyond. To facilitate and support their stay in Amsterdam, participants at De Ateliers are able to get access to shared housing, and stipends to cover basic costs of living.
Although there is no formal age limit for applications, our experience is that most applicants are under 28 years old. Command over English is required. A completed art education is not required. All applications are reviewed by the artist tutor team of De Ateliers, and assessed along criteria like potential for development, artistic urgency, and an interest in the visual/material/formal possibilities of art practice in a studio context. Application to De Ateliers is not open to artists who are working / have worked at one of the Dutch postgraduate institutions, the Jan van Eyck Academy (Maastricht), BAK (Utrecht) and Rijksakademie (Amsterdam).
Applications for the working period starting September 2024 (September 1, 2024 – August 31, 2026) are open from December 1st, 2023 to February 1st, 2024. The selection procedure takes approximately three months. Reviewing the applications takes place from February to April. By the beginning of April we will select applicants for an interview at De Ateliers, after which around ten interviewees will be chosen as the new participants for De Ateliers’ programme. In the beginning og of April we will notify you by email if you are invited for an interview for the programme starting September 2024. We will notify those who will not be invited for an interview at the same time. Applicants are informed on the status of their application by email. Names of new participants are announced on the De Ateliers website early July.
Due to the large number of applications, it is not possible to elaborate on individual decisions. Unsuccessful applicants are welcome to apply again with new work the following year.
The online application form is divided in the following four sections:
1 Personal Data & (art) education
The first part of this section includes uploading an up to date CV (e.g. solo / group exhibitions, residencies, publications, awards etc.) and a copy of a valid ID (passport or identity card). In this section, you can also leave the name of your application partner in case you want to apply as a duo. Please note that if you want to apply as a duo, both will have to fill out the online application form and pay the €60 application fee. You can both upload the same works, resume and motivation. Please clearly describe the nature and process of your collaboration. When accepted you will share one studio, but both of you will receive the stipend.
The second part of this section requires information about your (art) education (e.g. institute, course of study, study period, degree etc.), if applicable. You can add a maximum of three courses of study.
2 Your work
In this section an artist statement can be submitted, and your files uploaded. An artist statement can contain max. 400 words. It should give insight in your artistic position, ideas, and interests.
Please upload a minimum of ten and a maximum of twenty images or video links to work documentation, and caption the images as complete as possible. For images, there is a 2 MB file size limit. You can upload videoworks if your main area of work is video or performance. For video links, please use a reliable video hosting service such as Vimeo or YouTube, and ensure that your work is publicly viewable through the link provided. Your videos must remain online until June to ensure the jury can view them. It is possible to upload a maximum amount of 3 videos, with a total combined length of ten minutes. If your videos are longer than ten minutes each, please make excerpts. You can upload these in the first three file options. If you want to present more material, make sure you edit the videos into one compilation.
3 Your application
In this section, please provide us with the reason you apply to De Ateliers. What is your motivation for this particular institutional context? (max. 400 words).
Any additional information you feel is relevant to your application can be provided here.
4 Review application & submit
Here your application details can be reviewed and confirmed before proceeding to the payment section and submitting your application. Please make sure to save your application before proceeding to the payment section.
The application fee is €60. It is payable by iDeal, PayPal or credit card only and it is non-refundable, both for complete and incomplete applications. Applicants from and living in the ‘Least Developed Countries’, ‘Low Income Countries which are not LCDs’ and ‘Lower Middle Income Countries and Territories which are not LCDs’ on the DAC list are exempt from payment. Applicants from the ‘Upper Middle Income Countries and Territories’ on the DAC list do have to pay the application fee. Please see the DAC list attached here. Please note that once you have submitted the form, it is not possible to return to the application form. If you wish to review your application after it is submitted, make screenshots before you submit. The application is complete once the application form has been submitted and the payment has been fulfilled.
General information about the application form
In case you want to leave a field blank but you are required to fill it out (see fields marked with a *), please fill out N/A (not applicable).
You can save your application at any time and proceed with the application form from any computer (within 30 days).
If you have any questions about the application, please see our page with frequently asked questions, here. If you have another question, please contact Nina Oude Ophuis:
Email: applications@de-ateliers.nl
Phone: +31 (0)20 6739359