Open Call: Wintanworks 2025

Wintanworks is a residency and exchange program for professional visual artists in Denmark and Ghana. Deadline for applications is 29 September 2024.

Organized by Art Hub Copenhagen (AHC) and blaxTERLINES KUMASI, Wintanworks is a residency and exchange program, which provides two artists – one from Ghana and one from Denmark – with the opportunity to ‘swap’ locations for one month, each of them thereby engaging with a new art scene.

The overall idea of Wintanworks is to engender and support artistic exchange and networking between north and south – between Denmark and Ghana.

The residency program comprises accommodation in Accra/Kumasi or Copenhagen and a planned program that allows for time to conduct research, form a new network, and give a public talk.

See the two programs below and please note that only one can be applied for depending on where you live.

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THE PROGRAM IN GHANA
For artists living in Denmark, organized by blaxTARLINES KUMASI. Starts around 1 April 2025.

WEEK 1
The artist arrives in Accra and meets with Elolo Bosoka, artist and member of blaxTARLINES KUMASI. Accommodation and introduction to the art scene in Accra with studio visits and excursions to the city’s galleries and artist-run exhibition spaces.

WEEK 2 + 3
Travel to Kumasi, accompanied by Elolo Bosoka. Accommodation and allocation of a shared studio space. Here, the resident will be introduced to the blaxTARLINES collective and have studio visits with relevant artists and curators, including the Ghanaian artist who has been selected for the Wintanworks program 2025. In Kumasi, the resident has the opportunity to present their practice to students at the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

WEEK 4
Time to work in the studio and excursions to selected institutions. Later in the week departure from Accra to Copenhagen.
Back in Denmark, a meeting and a dinner will be arranged between the Danish and the Ghanaian artist.

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THE PROGRAM IN DENMARK
For artists living in Ghana, organized by AHC. Starts around 1 May 2025.

WEEK 1
The resident arrives in Copenhagen and meets with Marie Braad Larsen, curator at AHC. Accommodation and introduction to AHC and the institution’s employees as well as current artists in residency. The Ghanaian artist will also give an informal presentation of their work to the team. In addition, excursions to galleries and institutions in the city begin.

WEEK 2
Time in the studio for research and possibly production. In addition, studio visits from local curators and artists as well as excursions to institutions and galleries in the city.

WEEK 3
Time to work in the studio as well as studio visits from other artists in residency at AHC. More excursions to local institutions. This week there will also be a public presentation for AHC’s audience.

WEEK 4
Time to work in the studio as well as several studio visits, meetings and dinner with the Danish Wintanworks resident.

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WHO CAN APPLY?

APPLIES TO ARTISTS RESIDING IN GHANA
Any professional artist graduated from KNUST – Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology can apply. It is not possible to apply as a duo or collective.

APPLIES TO ARTISTS RESIDING IN DENMARK
Any professional visual artist can apply to take part in this residency. You must be a graduate of the Jutland Art Academy, the Funen Art Academy or the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts or have a similar visual arts education or background. It is not possible to apply as a duo or collective.

We value diversity highly. We therefore encourage everyone regardless of gender, age, identity and sexuality to apply.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Currently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark advises against all non-essential travel to the northern regions of Ghana. All travel related to Wintanworks will take place in southern Ghana. Based on guidance from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we believe that it will be safe for our resident to travel there. We will of course monitor the situation on an on-going basis.

To know more, read here.

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HOW TO APPLY

To apply, please submit the following:

– A completed application form (right click on this link and select ‘Open link in new window’ – select ‘Download’/press enter. The form is a Word file and MUST be completed in English)
– CV incl. contact details (no more than 1 A4 page)
– Visual material, including short descriptions (no more than 4 A4 pages)

Send everything as a single PDF file (max. 5 MB).

Send your application to ansogning@arthubcopenhagen.dk. In the subject field, type ‘Wintanworks 2025 – in Denmark’ if you’re residing in Ghana, and ‘Wintanworks 2025 – in Ghana” if residing in Denmark.

The deadline for applications is Sunday 29 September 2024 at 11.59PM.

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SELECTION COMMITTEE
All applications will be reviewed and assessed by a committee made up of art professionals. blaxTARLINES KUMSAI makes the final selection of the Danish artist and AHC makes the final selection of the Ghanaian. Both artists will be notified immediately afterwards.

The everyday management of Wintanworks is in the hands of Elolo Bosoka of blaxTARLINES KUMASI and Marie Braad Larsen of AHC, who will also be the resident’s contact persons during the residency.

If you have any questions, please write to Marie Braad Larsen at mb@arthubcopenhagen.dk

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ABOUT blaxTARLINES KUMASI
blaxTARLINES KUMASI is an experimental incubator of contemporary art and a sharing community. It has a lineage of radical art and community projects dating back to the 1990s. It is responsible for demystifying art from classical and pre-1960s European modernist predeterminations in Ghana’s foremost art college in KNUST, Kumasi. Formalized in 2015, blaxTARLINES functions as a trans-generational and trans-cultural community operating on a generative model and affirmative politics. These operations are tactical responses to crisis points such as the general lack of public funding for contemporary art practice in the region. blaxTARLINES has implemented a broad set of initiatives toward the growth and sustenance of criticality in art practice in Ghana and beyond by building hard and soft infrastructure including co-developing cultural platforms, curriculums, residencies, social networks, studios, and public access art spaces. Through parenting and mentoring of start-up art incubators, the coalition builds upon and opens avenues for artistic and critical exploration, while probing and deepening modes and bases of knowledge hinged on the universalist principle of preemptive equality. The community’s projects explore the interfaces between the non-human, inhuman, human, and post-human.

ABOUT AHC
AHC – Art Hub Copenhagen – is an art institution in Denmark that facilitates and accelerates artistic development and knowledge production through residencies, research hosting, public programming and partnerships. By creating a wide range of opportunities through our diverse programs, AHC supports both emerging and established artists, curators and writers in developing and positioning their artistic practice, research and network to strengthen the contemporary art scene at large. Moreover, AHC is part of a number of favorable, interdisciplinary collaborations and partnerships both locally, nationally and internationally, aimed at bringing different people and institutions together to foster an engaging exchange with the public through exhibitions, events, critical discourses and dissemination.