SPACE — Unknown Objects, Spaces, Time: 2026 Residency @ Prostor

Overview
The SPACE residency at Prostor offers a rare, open-ended invitation to artists working across a spectrum of disciplines—from photography and painting to sculpture, film, dance, and visual art—to interrogate the themes of unknown objects, spaces, and time. With a rolling deadline, the program eschews the conventional seasonal application cycle in favor of a continuous, global call, allowing practitioners to apply when their work is ready rather than when a calendar dictates. This structure signals an institutional flexibility and a respect for the artist's own timeline, a curatorial stance that prioritizes the integrity of the proposal over administrative convenience. While the specific terms of the residency—including duration, stipend, and facilities—remain unspecified in the public call, the thematic framing suggests a focus on process, research, and experimentation. The residency is not positioned as a production-oriented prize but as a space for inquiry, where the unknown is not a problem to be solved but a condition to be explored. Artists are invited to consider how objects, spaces, and temporalities might be reimagined outside of familiar frameworks, and to propose projects that are genuinely speculative in nature. The global scope of the call, combined with the absence of a fee (status unknown), indicates an openness to applicants regardless of geographic or financial background. However, the lack of detail regarding funding, housing, or studio access means that artists must approach the opportunity with a degree of self-sufficiency and a clear understanding of what they need to realize their vision. This is a residency for those who are comfortable with ambiguity and who can articulate a compelling case for why their practice requires this particular context at this particular moment.