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The Saari Residence is pleased to announce an Open Call for the 2026 Residency Program. We welcome applications from professional artists from all fields of art for the international Saari Residence in 2026. The residency periods are two months long, and the residency includes accommodation and a work grant.

Saari Residence, maintained by Kone Foundation, is an international residence for artists in Mynämäki, Southwest Finland. Located in a culturally and historically significant countryside setting, the Saari Residence offers an excellent and inspiring working environment supporting artistic development and creativity.

Professional artists from all fields of art can apply for residency. Residence participants are encouraged to delve into their artistic work and to develop potential new directions for it side by side with the other residents.

The annual application period for residencies taking place in 2026 opens on 1 March and ends on Monday, 31 March 2023 at 4 p.m. Finnish time (Eastern European time, UTC +3). Only applications submitted via the online grant service during the application period will be considered.

The two-month individual residency periods are January to February 2026, March to April 2026, September to October 2026 and November to December 2026.

Please read our guidelines carefully before applying.

Who can apply?
The residencies are intended for individual professional artists and artist duos, fiction writers, poets, novelists, translators, curators and critics of all disciplines and all nationalities for the purpose of carrying out a project proposal presented in advance. We welcome artists at all stages of their professional life from emerging to well-established.

Work partners can apply for residency in a joint application.

The Saari Residence considers diversity, inclusion, and equality in residency selections. We continuously improve accessibility in our operations and strive to implement positive measures in the application process to promote diversity.

Artists with families and partners are also welcome at the residence. One of the apartments at the Saari Residence is also suitable for dog owners.

The residencies are designed for artistic work. Priority is given to multidisciplinary, new, or non-mainstream themes and fields of art.

Researchers, non-fiction writers or students cannot apply for residency through the open call.

The language used in Saari is English.

For more information please contact Residency and Communications Coordinator Pirre Naukkarinen, pirre.naukkarinen@koneensaatio.fi, tel. +358 44 031 4201

Website: https://koneensaatio.fi/en/saari-residence/