Visual Arts Residencies in Sweden

ARNA i Fågelriket

Harlösa, Sweden

ARNA i Fågelriket is an artist residency program run by the nonprofit association ARNA in Harlösa, Sweden, exploring the relationship between art and nature in the bird-rich area known as Fågelriket between Krankesjön and Vombsjön. Selected artists receive free accommodation in a half-timbered house for typically one month, where they create art, engage with the local environment, and interact with the community. The program, one of Sweden's first international residencies started in , emphasizes sustainability through cultural dimensions and projects like Land Art.

Art See Ocean Gallery & Artist residence

Nynas Sandvik 1, Sweden

Art See Ocean Gallery & artist in residence Sweden

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

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.

Konst i Halland/Hallands Konstmuseum

Tollsgatan, Sweden

Konst i Halland (Art in Halland) is a resource centre for visual arts. Halland is a region in Sweden on the west coast and has around 300 000 inhabitants and six municipalities. Konst i Halland arrange yearly mobile Artist in Residence programs together with the municipalities in Halland and select and invite artists to take part. Depending on what the artist is interested to work with we link the AiR program with for example local artists, communities, museums, different schools or other intere

Region Örebro County

Örebro, Sweden

AiR in Örebro County is an international and interdisciplinary artist-in-residence program run by Region Örebro County, inviting contemporary artists, craftsmen, and designers to live and work for 5-6 weeks in participating municipalities such as Nora, Hällefors, Frövifors, and Örebro. The fully funded residency provides accommodation, studio/workspace, a working stipend of 36,000 SEK, and travel expenses, while facilitating engagement with local institutions, communities, and the public. It aims to build professional networks, develop the regional art scene, and support new artistic processes.

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.

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.

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.

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