Multidisciplinary Residencies in Sweden

AiC Residency

Orust, Sweden

Artist in Coexistence (AiC) is a platform for artistic exploration from a posthumanist perspective for creatives from all artistic disciplines. A residency at AiC means that you work in close relationship with the site and in an exploratory collaboration with more-than-human, to open up new patterns of thought and notions of coexistence between human and more-than-human. You as an artist should be curious about how a posthumanist perspective can enrich your own artistic practice but also how your work can contribute to change towards a sustainable planetary coexistence.

Aira Dance Company AB

Jokkmokk, Sweden

Aira Dance Company AB is the world's first Sami dance center, opened in November outside Jokkmokk in Vuollerim, Sweden. It offers artist residencies for dancers, musicians, and other artistic disciplines, with facilities including a dance studio, amphitheater, music studio, and accommodation for up to eight people. The center provides a safe creative space for professional artists to develop work, with opportunities for regional tours and community engagement.

Art Inside Out

Halmstad, Sweden

Nomadic art institution in Halland, Sweden, including Halmstad, offering artist residencies for site-specific contemporary art in unexpected locations.

Botkyrka Konsthall

Tumba, Sweden

Residence Botkyrka is a context-based interdisciplinary residency program hosted by Botkyrka Konsthall for internationally active artists, curators, architects, researchers, art educators, and cultural workers interested in site-specific work in Botkyrka. It provides a two-bedroom apartment in Fittja as a temporary home for researching and exploring new forms of art in public spaces, supporting projects that require longer stays and local participation. Residencies typically last one to two months, with stipends, housing, travel support, and production budgets offered in certain programs.

Cirkör LAB

Norsborg, Sweden

Cirkör LAB is a residency program by Cirkus Cirkör, Sweden's leading contemporary circus organization, offering year-round international residencies for performers, groups, and companies to develop cross-boundary arts, science, and circus projects in dedicated spaces. It provides two residency areas with facilities like rigging, dance mats, project rooms, kitchens, and showers, emphasizing undisturbed work alongside opportunities for sharing processes through documentation and presentations, though no housing is available. Located in Norsborg, the program supports both short- and long-term stays with potential technical and creative assistance.

Nordingrå Konstby

Vännersta 109, Sweden

Nordingrå Konstby is an artist residency program located in Vännersta, Nordingrå, in Sweden's High Coast UNESCO World Heritage area, offering year-round stays for professional artists of all disciplines to focus on their work in a communal setting. It provides live/work spaces with studios, simple accommodations, and opportunities for exhibitions, volunteering, and collaboration, with membership perks like discounted rents and courses. The program emphasizes community, new artistic processes, and engagement, such as school activities for volunteers.

Rejmyre Art Lab Center for Peripheral Studies

Rejmyre, Sweden

Rejmyre Art Lab Center for Peripheral Studies is an artist-run organization in Rejmyre, Sweden, founded in by artists Daniel Peltz and Sissi Westerberg, focusing on long-term, place-based artistic research exploring rural, industrial, ecological, and social contexts through ensemble residencies and embedded practices. It offers funded international residency programs like Tropism and Refuging, providing stipends, housing, production support, and access to spaces such as the Refuging Pavilion, with emphasis on collective reflection, community engagement, and site-specific installations. Activities include post-MFA fellowships, experimental glass projects, seminars, exhibitions, and pedagogical programs in the village.

Saxemara Artist Studios

Ronneby, Sweden

Saxemara Artist Studios is a multidisciplinary artist residency located in Blekinge, Sweden that offers professional musicians, artists, writers, and other cultural creators a peaceful place to live and work. The residency provides on-site private studios with accommodation and facilities for artists of all disciplines.

Tomma Rum

Bagarmossen, Sweden

Tomma Rum is a self-organized artists' platform and artist group focused on cultural and artistic exchange, arranging a nomadic residency (AIR) every summer in a different smaller municipality in Sweden since by appropriating empty spaces. It typically involves 12 participants who share households, occasionally cook together, and collaborate on the residency program. The base address is in Bagarmossen, Stockholm, with recent examples in places like Kil and upcoming in Forsa.