Bethany, Connecticut
The Albers Foundation maintains two residential studios for visiting artists on seventy acres of wooded property.
Our residencies are designed to provide time and space for artists with a range of styles and approaches but a shared belief in artistic integrity.
The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation offers three residency programs in three different parts of the world. With these programs, we want to give artists the opportunity to live and work outside of their usual environments, providing them with space and time to reflect, research, or produce work. A residency period usually lasts between one and two months, but this is flexible, as long as it is determined in advance. All residencies are free of charge, but generally come without a stipend.
Applications
We are currently closed for applications. The next Open Call will be announced in December 2025.
If you applied for a residency, and you're pre-selected, you will hear from us by the end of February, 2025. Due to the many applications, we will unfortunately only be able to respond to the pre-selected candidates.
This year’s selection committee consists of two external jury members, Sumiko Oé-Gottini and Sokari Douglas Camp, in addition to the Albers Foundation’s usual jury members, Nicholas Fox Weber, Fritz Horstman, and Matthias Vico Persson.
Support The Regina Tierney Fund
We believe in equal opportunity! In this time of interrelated crises, our mission is to enable artists to attend a residency regardless of their financial circumstances or geographical location. The Regina Tierney Fund is a mobility fund with the purpose of supporting artists to cover travel expenses related to their residency. You can support artists by donating to The Regina Tierney Fund here or write to Matthias Persson, Artist Residencies Director. Your donation is greatly appreciated.
Partners
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Contact
For any questions, please contact Matthias Persson, Artist Residencies Director.
The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation is delighted to maintain its three residency programs, but will not promote individual artists via our social media or any other means.
Carraig-na-gCat, Ireland
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Thread Senegal
Thread is a site for artists to live and work in Sinthian, a rural village in the southeastern region of Senegal.
Featured Residents
Silvia Rosi
Carraig-na-gCat & Thread
Silvia Rosi is a Togolese Italian artist, currently based between London and Lomé. Her practice combines photography and moving images to explore memory and self-representation. Drawing inspiration from traditional studio portraits from her Togolese family albums, her work reimagines personal and collective histories. Through carefully staged self-portraits, she constructs a visual narrative that blurs the boundaries between past and present, often drawing inspiration from oral histories.
Artist's Website
Igor Moritz
Thread
Igor Moritz (Born in Poland, based in London) never shies away from the sentimental. His work depicts humans in all their relations: in relation to themselves, others and the world. Moritz attended an arts high school in Poland and studied industrial design in college, but as a visual artist he is self taught - and he developed his visual art practice on his own terms. Moritz has exhibited in London, Paris, New York, and Mallorca.
Artist's Website
Raffi Kaiser
Bethany
Paris-based Raffi Kaiser was one of our first residents, over 20 years ago. Raffi has been drawing nature from memory for the last four decades - nature he has wandered through himself. Having spent time in the vastness of the Israeli deserts on his journeys, climbing the monumental mountain ranges of China, and having looked into the abyss of a crater in Japan, he is very aware of being a tiny part of nature. All his drawings are based on this realization and his work arises out of an existential search for understanding the individual human's role in the larger scheme of things.
Artist's Website
Charlotte von Poehl
Carraig-na-gCat
Charlotte von Poehl has built her oeuvre on the principle of repetition and seriality. Born in Sweden, she is a graduate of Goldsmiths College, London and is currently based in Paris, France. Initiated in 2011, her constantly growing Harlequin Drawings series now features some 250 watercolors, all constructed on the basis of a rigorous five-color grid - with light blue being the sole recurring color in each composition.
Artist's Website
John von Bergen
Bethany
John von Bergen depends on a range of materials as well as a long list of crafting techniques to create sculptures and site-specific installations. In his work, familiar objects from the world are hidden inside abstract shapes, morphed into other forms, or re-fabricated through synthetic systems. He sees them as absurd relationships between objects reacting to their environments. All of his projects attempt to question the impossibility of a single universal objective perspective, while considering the found object as a seed for playful re-invention.
Artist's Website