Sound / Music 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 See Ocean Gallery & Artist residence

Nynas Sandvik 1, Sweden

Art See Ocean Gallery & artist in residence Sweden

Ateljé A-M

Örträsk, Sweden

Ateljé A-M is an artist residency in Västra Örträsk, Swedish Lapland, housed in a former 1958 free church with studio, apartment, and facilities for visual arts, literary arts, research, sculpture, design, environmental art, and music.

Ateljé Bredgrind

Bredgrind 6, Sweden

Name of Residency: Ateljé BredgrindAteljé Bredgrind Artist-in-Residency is open to professional artists. The residency program is self-directed. The artist’s residence is in a scenic area, near waterways, rivers, lakes, forests and fields. There are a nature reserve and a national park nearby. Ateljé Bredgrind artist residency is in Avesta Municipality, just 150 km from Stockholm. The place is an inspiring and creative platform for artistic work. Our artist residency offers accommodation and a s

Björkö Konstnod (BKN)

Björkö, Sweden

Björkö Konstnod (BKN) is an artist-run, non-profit organization located in Björkö, Sweden, offering residencies predominantly to visual, performance, and sound-based artists. Founded in 2020, BKN provides a unique environment for artists to focus on their practice in a peaceful rural milieu where the forest meets the sea. The residency includes access to well-equipped studios, workshops, darkrooms, and other facilities. BKN fosters a peer-based environment encouraging collaborative and site-sensitive exploration. Artists are selected through open calls and are expected to participate in maintaining the workspace and engaging with the local community. While BKN offers studio grants, artists cover their living expenses.

Konstepidemin

Gothenburg, Sweden

Konstepidemin is Sweden's largest workplace for independent artists, located near Linnéplatsen in Gothenburg, housing over 130 professionals across visual arts, music, writing, film, theater, and dance. Its artist-in-residence program, running since 1990, offers five guest studios to international artists, writers, musicians, curators, and speakers for 1-6 month stays, fostering a productive environment for artistic development and public engagement. Residents live and work in equipped studio apartments with access to shared facilities like a graphics workshop.

Region Västernorrland

Prästmon, Sweden

The Artist In Residence Västernorrland (AIRY) program, run by Region Västernorrland, annually invites one ceramic artist, one sound artist, and one author (focusing on working-class literature) to three rural locations, including Prästmon at Hola Folkhögskola. Residencies last 4 weeks in September-October, providing accommodation, meals, a 25,000 SEK grant, studio access, and hosting support without requiring artistic output beyond presentations and student interactions.

Ricklundgården

Axel Arons väg 6, Sweden

Name of Residency: Emma Ricklunds StiftelseResidents are each provided with a private living room, bedroom with bunkbed, work space, kitchen and expansive views of our Marsfjäll mountains.We invite artist to join us at our new art education workshop EMMAS.EMMAS workshop is mainly for children and young people in Vilhelmina municipality, but also young and older adults and retirees. Here we want to create opportunities for people in the community to meet and work with different art forms, but als

RUD AIR is an Artist-In-Residence program in the rural area of Laxarby. It is situated ten km east of the small town of Bengtsfors, in the province of Dalsland, South-West Sweden. Away from the energetic and often hectic art world of the cities, this residency provides a tranquil and intimate space for art and reflection.The program is self-directed. RUD AIR aims to be a retreat for the artists. It simply intends to provide breathing space away from the obligations and routines of everyday life.

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.

Stiftelsen Gamleby Tingshus /Foundation Gamleby Courthouse

Storgatan 1, Sweden

Name of Residency: Tingshusresidens/The Old Courthouse ResidenceWelcome to Tingshusresidens in an old courthouse building in Gamleby, Småland!The Courthouse Residence is located in an old courthouse registry on the ground floor. There is one large studio/bedroom and a fully equipped kitchen.The old notary rooms on the top floor have smaller studios and a shower. There is also a washing machine available in another building . The bedroom is big enough for two persons if you are willing to share a

Visby International Centre for Composers

Visby, Sweden

The Visby International Centre for Composers (VICC) in Visby, Sweden, is a work and meeting place for professional composers from around the world, regardless of genre, offering a focused creative environment with studios and accommodation. It hosts residency programs, such as the ISCM-VICC collaboration providing up to 6 composers per year with free 4-week stays, and promotes contemporary music through concerts, seminars, and projects. Residencies emphasize deep concentration in state-of-the-art facilities like Studio Alpha, Notation rooms, and the Carlqvist Villa guest house.

Name of Residency: ZAM AiRThe residency program at Zam Contemporary offers a discursive space, with the objective of connecting the local with the trans-local and international culture, by embracing the plurality of epistemologies as a mean of decolonizing the singularity of knowledge.Zam AiR is a self-directed reasearch-based residency, allowing the artists unconditional freedom, and how to fill in their stay as it suits them. However, the residency program includes follow ups with artists/ment