European Investment Bank Institute

EIB Group (European Investment Bank, European Investment Fund, EIB Institute)
Arts and culture is an integral part of effective community engagement and corporate social responsibility. Arts and culture can be a powerful catalyst for relational and intellectual development, which is important for economic progress and social cohesion in the EU. Art is a unique source of dialogue, offering an extraordinary repertoire for learning, exploring, experimenting, interpreting the present and building the future.

Artist Residencies

The ADP was created in 2013, targeting artists from a selected number of countries. The programme has since consistently broadened its target audience and has grown from one to four residencies, expanding the initial idea to residencies with two angles: geographic and thematic.

Each year the geographic angle of the programme shifts its focus within the EU and aims to address the balance of nationality in the EIB’s art collection by selecting emerging artists who come from countries under-represented in the collection.

The second thematic angle addresses EIB strategic priorities and current topical issues in Europe, building on the momentum of issues of public concern in EU debates. Previous calls were: “The Imprint of Man – Representing the Anthropocene” from 2014 to 2017; “Water & Ocean

Preservation” – addressing environmental and climate action – in collaboration with Parley for the Oceans in 2016; “Beyond Borders” in 2017 and “Cultural Heritage: Dealing with History through Art” in the framework of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage.

For the 2021 edition, an additional call was launched: “Climate Action in the Wake of COVID-19: Build Back Better”. This call challenges artists to create work that unpacks the complicated relationship between climate action and the pandemic response in line with broad EIB goals in the year immediately following COVID-19.

Every year, European emerging artists can benefit from a residency programme in Luxembourg/Paris under the guidance of an established mentor in their discipline (visual arts), the Artists Development Programme. The EIB Institute offers them the opportunity to develop their artistic practice without any material contingency during the period of the project. It also enables them to produce high quality work that comfortably fits alongside the work of more experienced artists in the collection. As of 2022, the new mentor will be Franco-Italian artist, Tatiana Trouvé.

Apply for the Artists Development Program 

https://institute.eib.org/whatwedo/arts/artists-residencies/apply-for-the-adp/

Mentors

 Mentors for the previous editions were Polish conceptual artist Mirosław Bałka (2013,2014), British artist Darren Almond (2015, 2016, 2018), British artist Callum Innes (2017) and Finnish artist, Jorma Puranen (2019,2020,2021).