Performance Mercedes Azpilicueta / DUTCH ART INSTITUTE IN ISTANBUL (image credit Sevgi Ortac)

The following artists will be invited to the Rijksakademie Residency 2015:

Juliaan Andeweg (1986, NL)
Josefin Arnell (1984, SE/NL)
Mercedes Azpilicueta (1981, IT/AR/NL)
Pauline Curnier Jardin (1980, FR)
Koen Doodeman (1987, NL)
Alex Farrar (1986, GB/NL)
Marije Gertenbach (1990, NL)
Margaret Haines (1984, CA/US)
Hamza Halloubi (1982, MA)
Tamar Harpaz (1979, IL/US)
Chia Wei Hsu (1983, TW)
Kareem Lotfy (1985, EG/NL)
Christine Moldrickx (1984, DE)
Matthijs Munnik (1989, NL)
Thierry Oussou (1988, BJ)
Noah Ryu (1984, KR)
Eva Spierenburg (1987, NL)
Dit-Cilinn Sundqvist (1983, SE/TH/DE)
Robbert Weide (1975, NL)
Geo Wyeth (1984, US)
Aimée Zito Lema (1982, NL/AR)

The selection was announced today to friends and partners of the Rijksakademie during the annual Circle of Friends' Summer Luncheon. The artists were selected from over 1,300 applicants by an independent jury of international experts. From the selected artists, 11 come from the Netherlands and 10 from abroad. The judging of applicants from the Netherlands was in collaboration with the Mondriaan Fund, who will provide practice based research grants for Dutch resident artists.