Saari Residence 2027 in Finland

The Saari Residence 2027 is a unique residency in Southwest Finland, offering the space to create and play music with no exhibition or performances required! This quiet countryside residence lasts for two months, and offers up to €3,800/month from the Kone Foundation. The Saari Residence launched its operations in 2008, providing a place and context for finding and sharing sustainable working methods and for eliminating structural inequalities that make artists' work more difficult. Applications close on 31st March, which gives you a week from today to apply...more details: 

The open call for Saari Residence 2027 is open 1 – 31 March 2026.

The Saari Residence, maintained by Kone Foundation, is a residence located in Mynämäki, Southwest Finland, for artists of all disciplines and nationalities. At the Saari Residence, artists and researchers can focus on their work in a peaceful rural environment and share their thoughts and experiences with colleagues. The residence's long-term activities and thinking are underpinned by an ecological approach, which also covers social and psychological sustainability. Its keywords are slowness, insight and change.

For residency applicants
The Saari residencies are intended for individual professional artists, fiction writers, poets, novelists, translators, composers, curators and critics, as well as artistic collectives of all disciplines and nationalities. The two-month individual residencies take place between September and April, and group residencies from the beginning of June to mid-August.

Find out more and apply here

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