Funded Artist Residency in Palestine 2027 with a Monthly Stipend, Accommodation, and Travel Tickets
Applicant criteria
- NationalityPalestine
- AgeNo specific age required
- GenderBoth
Opportunity criteria
- Opportunity FieldOthers
- Job locationPalestine
- Deadline2026-11-30
Opportunity description
The Palestinian Museum, in collaboration with the Sukhtian Foundation, is offering one of the funded international cultural exchange and artist residency opportunities for 2027 through the BASAR Program, designed for Palestinian artists and cultural practitioners living in the diaspora. The residency will take place at the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit for a period of two to three months.
The program aims to strengthen cultural connections between Palestinian artists in the diaspora and their homeland, while providing an opportunity to develop artistic and research projects exploring Palestinian memory, identity, heritage, and everyday life. Participants will be able to draw on the museum’s archives, art collections, and cultural networks.
The program provides full funding, including travel, accommodation, artistic production costs, and a monthly stipend, as well as an equipped workspace and opportunities to collaborate with local artists and cultural institutions.
Program Themes and Areas
The BASAR Program welcomes artistic, cultural, and research projects addressing one or more of the following themes:
Archives and Cultural Memory: Exploring Palestinian history and collective memory through archives, visual materials, and cultural narratives.
Material Heritage and History: Examining objects, collections, and historical traces connected to Palestinian places and communities.
Place and Resilience: Exploring landscapes, historical erasure, connections to the land, and Palestinian resilience.
Everyday Life and Cultural Practices: Documenting Palestinian social experiences, traditions, and cultural practices.
Identity and Diaspora: Exploring Palestinian identity, refuge, exile, and forced displacement.
Benefits
Coverage of travel expenses related to participation in the artist residency.
Free accommodation throughout the program.
A monthly stipend for participants, with the amount not specified in the announcement.
Coverage of artistic production costs required to develop the project.
Access to an equipped art studio with workspace, tools, and basic equipment.
Access to the Palestinian Museum’s archives, exhibitions, and art collections.
Field visits tailored to the nature of each participant’s project.
Participation in lectures, workshops, and public artistic events.
Documentation of the residency and artistic work, with publication through the museum’s digital platforms.
An opportunity to present the project or its outcomes to the public in a final presentation.
Eligibility criteria
Applicants must be Palestinian artists, curators, art educators, or cultural practitioners living in the diaspora.
Applicants should work in visual arts, research-based artistic practices, or interdisciplinary fields.
Have a strong and clearly established artistic, research, educational, or curatorial practice.
Demonstrate an understanding of the Palestinian political and cultural context and engage with it thoughtfully and sensitively.
Be willing to engage with the public and collaborate with artists and cultural institutions in Palestine.
Commit to the guidelines of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Submit a coherent project that aligns with the program’s themes and Palestinian cultural narratives.
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