‘into the fields’ residency

Denk-und Produktionsort Libken grants five two-month residency scholarships to artists from Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland who live and work in the countryside or mainly engage with rural environments in their artistic practice. The residency will take place from 1 March to 30 April 2025 in Libken, on the outskirts of the 80-inhabitant village of Böckenberg, around 100 km north-east of Berlin.

The aim of the residency programme is to engage in an exchange between artists with different disciplines, cultural backgrounds and artistic practices, to deepen one’s own work and to reflect on its specific conditions.

The two-month program ‘into the fields’ is accompanied and framed by a kick-off weekend, as well as by four group work meetings, moderated inputs and studio visits spread over the residency period. Next to supporting the individual working projects, the programme encourages the artists to use the international group as a space of resonance and a performative resource. In this way, the focus shifts to practicing forms of communal living, collaboration and sharing as a means to participation, indispensable in a time of political shift to the right and of economic uncertainty.