Open Call Residency Van Doesburghuis 2025

Since 2017, the Creative Industries Fund NL, the Netherlands Film Fund, the Performing Arts Fund, the Mondriaan Fund and the Dutch Foundation for Literature have jointly offered residency periods, via open calls, at the Van Doesburghuis in Meudon in Paris where makers and designers can further develop their artistic practice.

This open call of the Creative Indsutries Fund NL offers a working period of four months. In the studio house that Theo van Doesburg designed for himself and his wife Nelly in the late 1920s, makers and designers can undertake research, develop ideas or create new work.

The Creative Industries Fund is open to various applications, but particularly encourages proposals with conceivable scenarios for a garden design for the van Doesburg House, that reflects the avant-garde vision of the van Doesburgs. This vision revolves around a harmonious connection between architecture and nature, and at the same time responds to contemporary challenges surrounding biodiversity and circularity.

In line with Theo and Nelly’s interdisciplinary practice and multifaceted artistic expression, a collaboration with an applicant from another discipline is also possible.

Makers and designers in the disciplines of design, architecture and digital culture can submit a proposal. It is possible to apply as an individual applicant or as a duo (two makers, or a maker and an observer, who make work together on a structural basis). Partnerships can be considered as a duo (for this occasion), if they submit a joint plan for the working period that leads to a single result. At least one maker, designer or observer in the duo works within the design, architecture and/or digital culture sector.

In order to prepare the application, it is important to familiarise yourself with the following documents:

Open Call Residency Van Doesburghuis 2025
Open Call Grant Scheme

The assessment of this call takes the form of a tender. The available work period will be granted to the applicant whose application scores highest in the ranking.

For the assessment of submitted proposals, the Creative Industries Fund NL seeks advice from external advisors. They make their assessment based on the following criteria:

• The artistic quality of the work.
• The quality of the development plan.
• The motivation in relation to the residency objective.

acceptance

When you have submitted your application, the Fund Desk will check if your application complies with the formal requirements from the Open Call Grant Scheme.

assessment
For the assessment of submitted proposals, the Fund seeks advice from external advisors with relevant expertise in the three disciplines of architecture, digital culture and design, and the international context. The advisors assess to what extent the proposal aligns with the objective of this open call.

decision
The board takes account of the advisory committee’s advice in its decision on the rejection or provision of a grant. You will be notified of the result by means of a decision.

accountability
If you receive a grant from the Fund you will have to comply with the obligations. Two weeks before the conclusion of your project, you will be requested by email to submit your accountability form in the Fund’s application environment.

Open Call Residency Van Doesburghuis 2025
Open Call Grant Scheme