From 15 November to 15 December 2023
From 15 of November to 15 of December, the Vyksa Art Residence in the Nizhny Novgorod region is accepting applications for 2024. This year the terms of acceptance were updated: the mandatory period of work in the residency will be from 6 to 8 weeks. Thus, it is planned that in just one year "Vyksa" will accept 6 artists through an open competition – applications can be sent by authors working in any technique and residing anywhere in the world.
Since "Vyksa" is a keystone city platform that forms new connections and engages citizens in the cultural process. As in previous years, residents are expected to explore the local context, get to know the local community closely and create works based on the results of this interaction. Involvement of Vyksa communities in artistic practices is a crucial condition for selection to the residency.
The result of this work will be a resident's reporting exhibition, based on which the founder of the residency, the Charitable Foundation "OMK-Uchastie" has a priority right to acquire one or more artworks created for the final project.
The residency will offer at least one place to an artist from the Nizhny Novgorod region. Applications submitted from Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod Region and Nizhny Novgorod will be selected by the Volgo-Vyatsky branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
In autumn 2023 Kristina Gorlanova became the curator of the residence. Kristina is also the Programme Curator of Art Residencies in the Nizhny Novgorod region and co-founder of the Russian Association of Art Residencies.
"We assume that extension of the residency period will allow artists to spend more time on the research part of the project and get to know Vyksa better, and because the artist shows a reporting project at the end of the residency, we will give additional time for that", says the Vyksa Art Residency's curator, Kristina Gorlanova.
Since 2017, the residency has hosted more than 60 artists from Russia, Belarus, Israel, Germany, Finland, Slovakia, Portugal, Japan, Chile. Among them are Irina Zatulovskaya, Vladimir Abikh, Misha Goodwin, Ivan Gorshkov, Haim Sokol, Ustina Yakovleva, Dmitry Morozov (:Vtol:) and many others.
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Vyksa Art Residency was founded in 2017 by the Charitable Foundation "OMK-Uchastie". It is a year-round platform for professionals in the fields of culture that allows residents to realise city-based projects and conduct city-based research. Interaction with the urban context, cultural environment, and local communities are the main principles of the Vyksa Art Residency and its participants.
In the spring of 2023, the exhibition "Before and After: Projects of the Vyksa Art Residence" was held at the NCCA "Arsenal", where the works of the residents were presented.
In 2021, the art residence "Vyksa" was recognized as the Institution of the Year at the 9th International Contemporary Art Fair Cosmoscow.
Since August 2022, "Vyksa" has been located in the former "Volna" café, a renovated exemplary specimen of Soviet modernism situated on the bank of the Lower Pond. The building also serves as the home to the eponymous cultural centre.
Christina Gorlanova, curator, and artist
From 2020 to 2023 was the head of the Ural branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (NCCA Yekaterinburg). Curator of the art residency program of the 5th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art. Christina was in charge of the Photography Museum "Dom Metenkova" (2015-2020) and curated the art residency program "New Stories of Yekaterinburg" opened at the museum.