Hi, and welcome to D’CLINIC studios!
Founded in January 2012 D’CLINIC studios is an artist-run initiative / micro-residency designed to deliver a supportive community where artists can focus on their own creative practice and/or research, share skills and knowledge, interact or collaborate in a vibrant multidisciplinary environment free from constraint, harshness or formality.
A place for artists to meet and participate in an activity that is both geographically and conceptually removed from their usual studio practice. And:
A PLACE WHERE
CREATIVE EXPERIMENTS
ARE ENCOURAGED
Our residency season generally runs between June and September.
Currently we offer two different artists-in-residence platforms for you to choose from – depending on what you wish to achieve while spending time in this extravagant European region : scroll down for details…
WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU:
- boost creative self-development,
- share your art practice giving an artist’s talk,
- obtain a firsthand response from the public,
- get media exposure,
- have a workshop; for example at a school,
- collaborate with a local (cultural) institution,
- visit studios of local artists, network.
D’CLINIC supports emerging as well as established, and mid-career professionals working in any artistic discipline: visual art, performing arts, literature, art theory, music, dance…
We accept applications from individual artists as well as creative duos and/or artists groups; eligibility, however, varies between the programmes
TRACTOR is a self-directed, non-pressured, non-judgmental programme. You decide what you’re working on and when. Welcoming individual artists as well as artist duos and/or groups. more info about the opportunity >>>
MiXER is a cross-disciplinary collaboration based programme; self-directed, non-judgmental, yet structured. Meaning, you decide what you’re working on and when, however, there are some deadlines that will need to be met as you are getting an artists’ book published by the end of your stay. more info about the opportunity >>>
Can’t decide which programme suits you better?
The residency has both indoor and outdoor space for creativity. The offered working place is flexible and generally adapted to each artist’s individual requirements and needs.
STUDIO SPACE = up to 100 sqm (bright & high ceiling)
A network of different cultural institutions & workshops allows us to offer ( or provide access to ) our guest artists a wide range of equipment and/or materials for their work; depending on the specific needs and complexity of the planned project, this includes :
- FOUNDRY for small-scale sculptures (for bronze, aluminum… casting)
- WOOD WORKSHOP (with belt sander 60Ø, band saw, lathe…)
- METAL WORKSHOP
- CERAMICS kiln & pottery wheel
- PRINTMAKING supplies & press (for lithography, etching, lino-cut, wood-cut…)
- SCREEN PRINTING equipment
- RECORDING studio
- OTHER REQUIREMENTS? – drop us an email
- All requirements are discussed on a case-by-case basis.
- If no special agreements are made the studio stays modestly arranged with basic equipment (tables, chairs, basic tools & leftover materials).
- In other words, if you hope to use one of the above-listed facilities, please don’t forget to mention it in your application.
- Some of the above-mentioned workshops and/or equipment are not in our ownership, and therefore booking it may be subject to additional cost.
- Learn more about our facilities.
- for writers and/or individuals who mostly work with a computer, or smaller paperwork, etc., we can offer a private 30sqm live/work studio room.
ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION
All guest artists are provided with a private bedroom, shared bathroom facilities, towels and linens, housekeeping service, and a shared kitchen, common area, yard/terrace, bicycle, and wireless internet.
D’CLINIC started out in Lendava, a small town in the northeast of Slovenia, but moved across the border to Hungary in July 2015.
You can now find us in Zalaegerszeg; a dashing city in the west of Hungary, on the banks of the Zala River, close to the Slovenian, Austrian (and Croatian) border and only 220 kilometres/137 miles (by car) south-west of Budapest or 32km/19.67mi from lake Balaton.
Famous for its natural beauty, rich cultural heritage, and laid-back lifestyle, Zalaegerszeg offers an inspirational setting for intensive, introverted exploration, experimentation and/or creation within contemporary art practices.
DID YOU KNOW :
inside a radius of 220km (136mi) you can find all the major cities of this extravagant European region embracing 5 countries :
- LJUBLJANA – Slovenia
- VIENNA – Austria
- BRATISLAVA – Slovakia
- BUDAPEST – Hungary
- ZAGREB – Croatia
- a day trips to these and other cities can be organized with D’CLINIC team
Applications are accepted (only) via an online application form; the application form can be found within the introduction page of the programme you are applying to : TRACTOR programme or the MiXER collaboration.
IMPORTANT, please note: you cannot save your work during the application process, so below you can download word documents containing all questions. We recommend you fill in this first and copy-paste your answers from there.