Build your own residency
We believe in transparency when working with residencies in the arts field. Our prices are fixed for 2026 to fit the applications and the budget plannings both for programmers and for artists. If you are interested in creating your own residency, we might be open to start a collaboration with you, in case your values correlates with ours. Feel free to contact us for help in case you want to come here and work.
Prices 2026
Venue - 20.000sek/week
Accommodation - 750sek/night single room or 850sek/night double room
Scholarship - we recommend at least 10.000sek/week to cover the costs for the artist
Travel cost in Sweden - 5.000sek round trip
Administrative services - 4.000sek/residency
Feel free to use these prices when you calculate your budget, but if you want to make sure that you will be able to plan for a residency, please understand that we only work with organizations that we had contact with and have signed letters of intent with.
Example for one artist and a two week residency
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Travel cost in Sweden - 500€
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Accommodation - 1 050€
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Scholarship - 2.000€
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Venue - 4 000€
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Administrative services - 400€
Total 7.950€
The calculation is based on 14 nights, one person in a single room (75€/night), a scholarship of 1.000€ per week and a cost for the venue that is 2.000€/week. Included in the administrative services are: open call, selection process, safety rider, booking and follow up.
Example for two artists and a two week residency
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Travel cost in Sweden - 1.000€
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Accommodation - 2.100€
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Scholarship - 2.000€
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Venue - 4.000€
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Administrative services - 400€
Total 9.500€
The calculation is based on 14 nights, two persons in a single room each (75€/night), a scholarship of 1.000€ per week to share and a cost for the venue that is 2.000€/week. Included in the administrative services are: open call, selection process, safety rider, booking and follow up.
Levels of residencies
Basic Residency
minimum reasonable
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Purpose clearly formulated.
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Workplace or studio room that designed to fit the requirements of the art form.
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Either accommodation or financial support (scholarship/fee) that makes the stay possible.
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Contact person who responds and receives.
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Simple information about practicalities: opening hours, access, security.
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Easy evaluation afterwards.
Standard Residency
functional residency
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Accommodation and workplace.
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Scholarship or production funds, as well as reasonable travel allowance.
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Introduction to the location, at least one professional conversation/mentorship.
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Opportunity for public contact if relevant (open studio, conversation).
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Documentation and short feedback report.
Premium Residency
developing hub
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Everything in Basic and Standard, plus curatorial support, technology/technicians as needed.
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Structured meetings with local partners and networks.
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Plan for after-effects: next steps, contacts, reference letters.
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Sustainability plan for travel/materials, and clear communication plan.
It starts with why!
Artists need safe spaces where no one is judging them.
Safe spaces are rare, especially for all the indigenous people around the world, longing to express their cultural heritage through their form of art. We want to change this by opening up the worlds first Sami Dance Center by the polar circle in Sápmi, Sweden.
We love to share and to meet other artists and now we get to live this dream. We want art to blossom and to thrive and we strongly believe that a living culture is strong when artists are free to create and explore and develop in their field.
Followed by how.
Producing professional art in rural areas for rural areas
We offer a transparent solution for how to host art residencies in our beautiful production house. You can choose between three and five year contracts, signing up only for one basic residency contract per year. If you feel like making it into a complete production project we can upgrade that specific residency. This is to make sure that we all aim for sustainability and work together to make the shrinking budgets last longer than before.
Our experience in producing can also be a resource for you, helping the artist you offer residencies to, a chance to get their production out to the venues near and far from us.
Are you especially interested in creating residencies for indigenous artists? As you can understand, this is something our heart beats a little more for and we already have a lot of experience after working with other indigenous artists, and from growing our international network.
And then what?
We offer the full package
See us as a production house for freelance artists, we are constantly updating the tools we have in our house to better help freelance artists to be inspired and to create.
We share openly about our way of touring and how artists can make a living from their art.
We offer a dance studio with a professional spring floor, an amphitheatre for presentations and solo performances, a music studio and a cool and inspiring green room area.
The artists can test light and sound systems that are suited for touring and we even offer a touring car and a first tour if the artist finishes their production at our place.
