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'ARTIST–IN–RESIDENCE'
In the Babayan Culture House the cave apartments and studios offer a
special opportunity for making art. Here the Foundation Babayan Culture House has created facilities for
artists of all nationalities and all disciplines. This is the place for intercultural co–operation between foreign,
Turkish and Dutch artists wishing to work on project based plans and concepts.
The Babayan Culture House offers many possibilities for art making like painting, drawing, photography, carving in the local tuff stone or marble, and local techniques as pottery making, ceramics and weaving. The Babayan Culture House also asks writers, musicians and theatre makers to join; electrical piano, amplifiers and a small stage are available. Professional artists of all disciplines can make use of the guesthouse and studio facilities of the Babayan Culture House and the reduced guesthouse rates after being accepted for a four weeks stay or longer. Babayan Culture House and Cappadocia: The guesthouse of the Babayan Culture House is situated in the historical village of Ibrahimpasa (the Armenian name is Babayan) in Cappadocia, Central Anatolia in Turkey. Cappadocia is a surrealistic landscape with tufa stone valleys, shaped centuries ago by the 'Erciyes' and other volcanoes. A part of this 40.000 square km area is a national park and an open-air museum with many rock churches and monasteries, restored by UNESCO, because it is an official world heritage area. On the general information page of the Babayan Culture House you can read everything about this bizarre landscape of Cappadocia and the guesthouse apartments, prices and other activities.
Sultan Art Gallery, Göreme
Artistic Mission: The Babayan Culture House is Cappadocia's first and only independent contemporary art residency. Its mission is to build bridges of understanding between East and West by nourishing art and providing space for artistic experimentation; encouraging cross-cultural dialogue, and collaborating with regional and international arts networks. The Babayan Culture House presents a diverse range of artistic projects, programmes and events. Residency Program Objectives: – To provide artists with unrestricted time and space to research, develop and produce ongoing or new body of works/projects. – To introduce visiting artists to Cappadocian peoples, cultures and landscapes. – To provide the Cappadocian/Turkish community with exposure and access to a diverse range of contemporary international arts practices and theories. – To provide outreach activities such as talks, workshops and exhibitions, intended to promote interaction, awareness and professional development within the community. Festivals & Exhibition possibilities: Every summer an International Contemporary Arts Festival of all disciplines: art, music/performance, film/video, new media, is organized in Mustafapasa by the FabrikArtGroup. The open subscribtion voor participation goes through their site in English. Artists that worked in the Babayan Culture House in 2007/8 can be found on their participants list. In 2008 the Babayan Culture House realized the Netherlands Pavilion within the festival in cooperation with the Cappadocia Higher Vocational School in Mustafapasa (KMYO - Türkçe) and the FabrikArtGroup. In 2009 the Festival took place from 1 September – 7 September. The Babayan Culture House represented the video works of Leonie Muller. It is a good opportunity to exhibit your art works in our Cappadocian environment. If you do a residency in the Babayan Culture House you are automatically accepted for the Festival. Video's of the '3d International FabrikArtGrup Contemporary Arts Festival', Mustafapasa 2008: – 'Su!=Pýrýltý?' (Water!=Bright?) The festival opening. – 'Water as a Life Line' video installation for the Netherlands Pavilion. – Interview with the Dutch artists within the Netherlands Pavilion. An exhibition – with the work made in Cappadocia – can also be arranged in an exhibition space in Göreme, Ankara or Nevsehir during the residency stay and after the finished work is reviewed by the residency. The Babayan Culture House has an intermediating task, and all the organization and costs are to be made by the artist.
  On the right you see the official opening ceremony of the exhibition of artist-in-residence Leo van Velzen in August 2007 in the Kapadokya Center for Culture and Art, performed by both the Mayor (Belediye Baþkaný) Hasan Ünver of the capital Nevsehir and the Governor (Vali) M. Asým Hacýmustafaoðlu of the province of Nevsehir.
Slideshow of the Babayan Culture House artists meetings and activities:
Aims: The Babayan Culture House Foundation initiates and organizes art projects and stimulates inter–cultural exchange between artists of all nationalities. There fore, an environment of concentration and inspiration is created to enable art to be made. Artists can withdraw to their private studio apartment with its own kitchen and bathroom, but also choose to join the communal meals, walks and workshops. An artist needs to be able to work independently. Expectations: The Babayan Culture House is managed by professional artists with a 20-year working experience in Turkey and stimulates a colleague atmosphere. An attitude of independency in project development is expected, besides an open mind towards the inter-cultural aspects of the stay. The Babayan Culture House provides any support to create this independency and the co-operation of the artists with local inhabitants and handicraftsmen. The Babayan Culture House acknowledges that some of the most creative strategies live in the intersections of disciplines, cultures and generations. Target groups: The target groups for the residencies are International and Turkish artists interested in fine art, contemporary art, environmental, exploratory site-specific and community based arts: what & how (external links to CAN). Disciplines and media: – Visual arts – Music – Installation / Performance / Theatre / Dance – New Media – Educational & awareness projects / programs Selection procedure: The presented projects are evaluated through an internal methodology that weights several variables such as dimension and relevance of past work, the project's adequacy to the place and potential for experience and know-how interchange with other artists. The quality of the art works has priority, but there is room for research and experimental projects. Residents are selected by a jury composed of practicing artists and arts professionals. Application & Deadline: The deadline for an art residency 2010 application is 31 January 2010. This deadline will be announced on the websites of Res Artis and TransArtists. After scheduling the artists selected, and if there are open spaces, new applications can be taken into consideration from February 2010. These open spaces will be announced by open call on all websites. There are still two open residency spaces in the 4th semester of 2009 in the Tandir and Arch studio apartments: from end of November – untill 23 December 2009. An artist is always free to do an open application for upcoming years. Application form for Artist in Residence (.doc file) Funding & Sponsorship: A stay on an Artist–in–Residence basis can be applied for through sponsorship or other financial support by the home country of the artist, because the application is sent to the Foundation, which is a cultural organization registered in The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce: 27280209. The Babayan Culture House Foundation is not a funding organization, but will provide any essential information that is needed to make a strong application for a personal working grant or sponsorship by funding organizations. The Babayan Culture House advizes you to contact your state arts council. Find out about their grant programs for projects like yours, and ask their advice on where else you might go to find funding. Where you live you might also have a local or regional arts council. Contact them. For this, the Babayan Culture House can write you a personal letter of recommendation for the proposed art project. In the future the Babayan Culture House Foundation will invite artists to work on location on granted projects with a theme (see also Art/Eco Platform). The start of these projects will be announced on this website en by personal mail. Artists collaboration: If applying as a collaborative team (or partners), the artists should submit separate applications along with a joint project proposal. Work samples may be individual or examples of previous collaboration. Guests: Babayan Culture House can accept guests, including partners, family or friends, to accompany artists in residence. All those guests will pay the regular guesthouse fees. Children under 15 are not accepted. Meals: The Babayan Culture House serves daily common meals for reduced artists fees, for when an artist doesn't want to cook him/herself. The meals are choices from the world kitchen, and one can ask for vegetarian and diet food. Once a week, on a fixed day, all residency artists are expected to join the residency diner table, for sharing and meeting. Pets: No pets are allowed at the residence. Artists with pets must make arrangements for the care of their pets before being accepted into the residence. Smoking: Smoking is not permitted in the residency spaces. Insurance: Applicants must be able to prove that they have an international medical insurance and a third party insurance. The Babayan Culture House does not accept legal responsibility for the resident. Medical needs: Applicants must be aware that medical facilities are on 10 km (Nevþehir, First Aid, Medical Doctor, 24 hrs service), 50 km (Kayseri, University hospital), 350 km (Ankara, International/University hospital) from the Babayan Culture House. Residency 4th semester 2009. Two open spaces: Tandir studio apartment: from 20 October – untill 23 December = 9 weeks (two residencies possible). Call +90 (0)384 3626231. Application form and additional information for applicants: Application form for Artist in Residency (Word) Project structure (PDF), to help you give structure to your proposed art project. 'Tips & Tricks' (PDF), guidelines for the residency stay BABAYAN CULTURE HOUSE international professional Art(PDF) Babayan Culture House Foundation (PDF) Babayan Kültür Evi Derneði (Türkçe dil, PDF) Terms/Conditions/Disclaimer
A list of all residency artists can be found below.
Karl Chinov (left) – Bulgaria/USA, 'antique door project', Rosa Lopez Callul (right) – Spain, painting 'uncle' Durmus in his house.
Karl Ciesluk – Canada, Land art project development.
Leonie Muller – The Netherlands, 'Blauwe Kamer' (Blue Room) video made in residency for the 4th Contemporary Arts Festival Mustafapasa 2009,
representation by the Babayan Culture House.
Working spaces: Artists who stay a month (four weeks) or longer do this on an Artist-in-Residence basis. There are two studio apartments which are made especially available for this purpose. The residency fee includes the apartment and the space in front and/or the use of the common studio. For more studio space, low extra fees are charged. If two accepted residency artists stay in the same apartment the second artist pays half price. Also they will have to use the same studio space. These artists make their own schedule and projects, but give notice of their plans to the Babayan Culture House Foundation, so special requirements can be made to the studio if necessary. One can also work in the adventurous environment of the abandoned historical arch and cave houses of Ibrahimpasa. The Babayan Culture House arranges this in cooperation with the owners on request of the artist. Small fees for those extra studio spaces are directly payed to the owners. The village and surroundings are your working space. Artists who use the village studio spaces have to be aware of the fact that the studios are in old caves and arched rooms with small windows and therefore depend on artificial light. Take here a look at some working spaces, and here you find photo albums of the artists working in the Babayan Culture House. 
Intermediation & Associates:The Babayan Culture House works with professional Artist–In–Residency intermediating organizations and both worldwide networks: – TransArtists Foundation, – Res Artis. This residency is partner with: – NIHA–Ankara Netherlands Institute for Higher Education, – NIHA/KozaVisual audio–visual research group, – The FabrikArtGroup organizer of annual art festival in Cappadocia, – HAYAL theatre projects in the South of Turkey. Residencies 2009 / 2010: The deadline for an art residency 2010 application: 31 January 2010. This deadline will be announced on the websites of Res Artis and TransArtists Foundation. Open spaces left after scheduling the accepted artist residencies, will be announced by open call around end February 2010. There are two open residency spaces in the 4th semester of 2009 in the Tandir and Arch studio apartments: from end of November – untill 23 December. Please apply by mail or call +90 (0)384 3626231. To be accepted for a subsidized residency stay, the artist has to stay at least twenty–eight (28) days. Why a minimum art residency stay of 28 days? – Arrival & settling – 2/3 days – Starting–up & Research (collecting images and materials) – 3 days – Days off (traveling) – 4 days – Finishing (cleaning, package and send works) & leaving – 2/3 days – Remaining art making days – 14 days (two weeks) The Babayan Culture House advises artists with extended art projects to take a longer stay in consideration.  Also you can inform youself about the 'Awareness by Art' projects of the Art/Eco Platform 2008/9, Cappadocia, an artist cooperation based on this and next years ecological theme WATER!=BRIGHT? If sponsorship or funding is raised all invited artists participating within the Art/Eco Platform will be informed. If you want to apply, please send an email for the agenda possibilities 2009. This environmental Art/Eco Platform of Cappadocia will be continued the following years with different themes and activities, all developed within 'Awareness by Art'. The Babayan Culture House is seeking actively for cooperation with art organizations (governmental and NGO). Also the Babayan Culture House works closely, and shares information with art residencies in similar circumstances. Newsletters Babayan Culture House Foundation: 1 – August 2007, 2 – December 2007, 3 – December 2008, 4 – October 2009. 2010
Presented projects: Georgia Gray USA – 1 maand, schilderen/beeldhouwen Ulay Germany/Netherlands – photography/performance/video/water project: WATERTOALL Tracey Meziane Benson Australia – 1 month, digi-mapping Dutch Art Institute NL – 2 weeks, 5 master students, 2nd fase water BLOG 2009
Finished residencies 2009: Amy Guion Clay USA – 1 month, painting. BLOG about the project, Monika Kimrey USA – 1 month, painting/drawing, objects/tapestries Leonie Muller NL – 1 month, performance/installation Josie Martin New Zealand – 2 months, painting Hanneke van Velzen NL – 1 month, photography Patricia Swain USA – 5 weeks, photography Frédérick Belzile Canada – one month, video/installation Elizabeth Gulick USA – 1 month, textile/felt Marina Carvalho Portugal – 2 months, wooden objects. Residency art work catalogue (PDF 1.40Mb) Water Tree. The making off: pictures Farkaskõ Cave Art Association Hungary – 1 week workshop/meetings, cave installations slideshow 'Light' Juha Saitajoki (PDF Finnish, images: p39 and p65), Finland/Lapland – 1 month, painting/drawing. Article about the artist (PDF p31): Reflections and Connections Lisa MacLean Canada – 1 month, photography/mixed media/installation. Residency art work catalogue (PDF 3.19Mb) Memento Mori 2008
Ingrid Buuck USA – 2 weeks, painting/graphic design Susan Arthur, USA – 1 month, photo-based media Silvie Krens, Netherlands – 1 month, painting Alia Toor Canada – 1 month, installation/photography Dutch Art Institute NL – 2 weeks, 5 master students, research/art project/waterproject Paul Wiegerinck NL – 3 weeks, video/water project Susan de Kruiff NL – 2 weeks, video/water project Tiny Schilder NL – 2 weeks, photography Clemens Zalm NL – 3 weeks, photo-based media/water project Rineke Kop NL – 3 weeks, painting/water project Margriet Westervaarder NL – 2 weeks, painting/photography Stefan Chinov USA/Bulgaria – 1 month, in situ objects Rosa Lopez Calull Spanje – 1 month, painting Josie Martin New Zealand – 2 months, painting/sculpting Margarita Kiselicka, Macedonia – 1 month, water project/sculpting Simon Kalajdziev, Macedonia – 1 month, installation/sculpting, paper about his stay in the Babayan Culture House Tina Eskilsson Sweden – 2 weeks, water project/installations Susan Mains Grenada/Caribbean – 1 month, painting Anna van Stuivenberg, NL – 1 week preparatory research, visual art Renate Sennewald, DE – 1 week preparatory research, jewelery Karl Ciesluk, Canada – 1 month, in situ objects 2007
Maaike Roozenburg NL – 2 months, design/objects Felice NL – 1 month, painting/theatre Josian Stikkelbroek (pdf) NL – 2 weeks, painting/sculpting Leo van Velzen NL – 3 months, painting
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