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Open Call - Artist in Residence Niederösterreich 2026

ORTE Architekturnetzwerk Niederösterreich in cooperation with AIR – Artist in Residence Niederösterreich a stay from May 18 to August 2, 2026 with a scholarship of € 3900. We provide a studio and living space free of charge. ORTE provides you with opportunities to network with the Austrian building culture scene and possibly even to present your work to a broad audience.

Prerequisite for a successful application is a degree in an architectural relevant discipline (architecture, design, landscape planning, city planning, urban planning, spatial planning, traffic planning, theorists and curators focusing their work on architecture or urbanism etc.).

The scholarship is linked to a final report, and we are aiming for a public presentation. German or English are assumed as languages of communication, travel costs will not be refunded. Austrian citizens and/or residents of Austria are excluded from the program.

ORTE is dedicated to contemporary architecture education and building culture issues in Lower Austria and is interested in practice-related projects. We are looking for concepts that focus on environmental and climate issues as well as the living environments and local interaction, and are less interested in purely theoretical and scientific work or ones that address international phenomena not directly or clearly related to Lower Austria. We are happy to discuss the topics of
your proposal before you apply. If you wish, please get in touch.

ORTE offers an approximately 40 m2 exhibition space in the Walter Zschokke Library in Krems. This "smallest building culture gallery in Austria" can offer space for the works of the artists in residence and present their artistic and analytic al view of building culture and landscape themes in the region. Suitable exhibition displays are available for this exhibition space.

The online application portal for the 2026 residency will be open between February 10th and April 30th, 2025.

Deadline to apply for the 2026 residency is April 30th, 2025, 23.59 h.
Further information: AIR & ORTE — ORTE Architekturnetzwerk Niederösterreich - English https://orte-noe.at/en/artist-in-residence/applications

The application needs to include the following:

1. Portrait photograph (JPG format, max. 1 MB)
2. CV (PDF format, max. 1 MB)
3. Portfolio (PDF format, max. 15 pages, max. 7 MB)
4. Planned project (max. 4.000 characters)
5. Optional: links to media (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.)