THESE PROGRAMS ARE NOT ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS.
THESE PROGRAMS ARE NOT ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS.
If you have been invited to take part in a conference, exhibition, symposium, biennial, festival, or any other such non-commercial artistic activity, for a limited time Mophradat is providing travel grants that can cover travel costs to participate in international cultural and artistic events.
Priority is given to Egyptian and Egypt-based artists, curators, writers, and researchers from across artistic fields.
To apply for a participation grant, send your request along with the invitation letter, a cover letter, your CV and an estimated budget to grants@mophradat.org.
Please note that in general, grants will be made to the international host institution and not the applicant.
We highly recommend applicants carefully read the calendar below before applying and make sure that their travel occurs at least one week after the announcement of the results for each session.
The applicant is responsible for submitting the application according to his/her travel plan dates and to take into account the visa process period as well as the announcement of the results period.
Mophradat does not reimburse any cost pre-paid by the applicant (i.e. before the announcement of the results).
For other inquiries, please don’t hesitate to contact us at grants@mophradat.org.
This program was made possible with the support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Mophradat’s Arts Fellows program is a twelve-week part-time training program at an international art institution. The program is for young curators, arts managers, arts producers, and arts administrators of the Arab diaspora in and outside of the Arab world (including recent migrants and refugees). It enables them to develop their knowledge, skills, and professional networks in their adopted context.
Eligible fellows will have been living in the city where the program is taking place for no less than a year and speak a local language. Mophradat provides each Art Fellow with a stipend during the program. (Please note that this opportunity is not a residency program for artists.)
Since its launch in fall 2017, the program has included partnerships with institutions including Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, Beursschouwburg in Brussels, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, Contour in Mechelen, Münchner Kammerspiele in Munich, OFF Biennale in Budapest, Portikus in Frankfurt, and WIELS | Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels.
Mophradat has three new partner institutions for the winter 2019 in Athens, Cairo, and Istanbul, they are: Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) in Cairo, SALT in Istanbul, and State of Concept in Athens.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
PROCESS
Applications must be sent directly to the host institutions based on their open call.
Deadline for all applications is December 3, 2018.
Selected applicants will be informed by the host organization no later than December 17, 2018.
Fellowships will start 7 January 2019, and run for twelve weeks.
At the end of the program, fellows must provide their host and Mophradat with a narrative summary of what they feel they learned and achieved, and any improvements they think the program could benefit from.
April 1 to June 30, 2019
Deadline to apply: September 14, 2018
Mophradat is collaborating with Rio de Janeiro’s Capacete on a residency opportunity for curators from the Arab world. Capacete is a residency program that has been active for twenty years, aiming to set up situations and develop strategies that offer concrete and real alternatives to the unstable field of art. Previous programs have been designed to reflect the interdisciplinary character of contemporary aesthetic practices and to promote efforts that join the theoretical world with artistic presentations of diverse formats and dynamics, for a range of audiences. The 2019 program is guided by the theme of “Reconstructing the Senses” to find collective ways of inhabiting a world in which veiled and explicit violence and expropriating dynamics dominate. It looks towards an ecology of knowledge and cosmologies, with guests that articulate this vision. Activities concentrate on the self-management of the Capacete space and on collectivity as a mode of research and a mode of care and knowledge.
The residency program offers:
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
The program is for candidates who seek to develop their curatorial practice in a professional context and create new projects reflecting their experimentation and research.
APPLICATION
Applications must ONLY be submitted in English by email to residency@mophradat.org, and include:
Deadline for application is September 14, 2018.
Mophradat will support only one resident to participate in this program in 2019.
PROCESS
Mophradat in collaboration with Capacete will select the candidate on the basis of the quality of their work, their potential to take full advantage of the program, and the specificity of their interest in the context of Capacete, who are responsible for the final selection.
January 28 to February 4, 2019
Deadline to apply: August 15, 2018
Mophradat has partnered with multidisciplinary art center Le Confort Moderne in Poitiers, France, to set up one residency for a musician or band/ensemble (up to three musicians) from the Arab world to spend focused time working on a specific project, creating new compositions, or exploring and researching innovative ideas.
Le Confort Moderne has been exploring independent music and contemporary art production for thirty-two years, gaining international recognition for its concerts, exhibitions, encounters, and artistic innovation. Having re-opened in December 2017 after a major renovation, it occupies 8,500 square meters including a concert hall with capacity for 800 people and state-of-the-art light and sound equipment, a music club, a warehouse exhibition space, and a smaller gallery. Its facilities also include a restaurant, bar, record store, fanzine library, rehearsal studios, public garden, offices, storage, and an artist residency program. With its dedicated technical and curatorial staff, Le Confort Moderne continues mapping out a generous international program through partnerships and open calls.
Contemporary solo musicians and bands of up to three members from the Arab world can apply for a seven-day residency at Le Confort Moderne from January 28 to February 4, 2018. The selected resident(s) — whether a musician or band — will be accommodated in full board at the venue’s residency facilities and have access to rehearsal rooms and technical support to undertake work throughout their stay, but they must be comfortable working autonomously. Le Confort Moderne will also program a concert of the musician or band and pay a performance fee. Mophradat provides selected resident(s) with economy return airfare, and reimbursement of visa costs.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
APPLICATION
Applications must be submitted in English by email to residency@mophradat.org, and include:
Deadline for application is August 15, 2018.
PROCESS
Mophradat’s Arts Fellows program is a twelve-week part-time training program at an international art institution. The program is for young curators, arts managers, arts producers, and arts administrators of the Arab diaspora in and outside of the Arab world (including recent migrants and refugees). It is intended to enable them develop their knowledge, skills, and professional networks in their adopted context.
Eligible fellows will have been living in the city where the program is taking place for no less than a year and speaks a local language. Mophradat provides each Art Fellow with a stipend during the program. (Please note that this opportunity is not a residency program for artists.)
For its first edition in winter 2018, Mophradat partnered with the following host institutions: Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, Beursschouwburg in Brussels, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, Münchner Kammerspiele in Munich, and WIELS | Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels.
The host institutions for the fall 2018 edition are Contour Biennale, Mechelen, Belgium, OFF Biennale, Budapest, Hungary, and Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
APPLICATION
The application must be sent directly to the host institutions based on their open-call.
PROCESS
The open-calls will be published on the websites of the respective host institutions by May 23, 2018.
Deadline for all applications is July 8.
Selected applicants will be informed by the host organization no later than August 6.
Fellowships will start in September and run for twelve weeks.
At the end of the program, fellows must provide their host and Mophradat with a narrative summary of what they feel they learned and achieved, and any improvements they think the program could benefit from.
Mophradat has a rolling open call for bespoke residencies in Brussels for writers from the Arab world in 2018 and 2019. Lasting for a period of 6 weeks for each selected writer, the residencies are intended to provide an opportunity to focus on a specific writing project. Depending on the particular interests and needs of each writer, the residency may involve events, such as readings, workshops or seminars, partnerships with institutions in Flanders, such as literary organizations and arts venues, trips within the country, and mentorships with writers based in Belgium. Mophradat provides selected residents with economy return airfare, accommodation in a self-catering apartment, a weekly stipend, and reimbursement of visa costs.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
APPLICATION
Applications must ONLY be submitted in Arabic or English by email to residency@mophradat.org, and include:
There is no deadline for application. Mophradat will support a maximum of three residencies over the two-year period.
PROCESS
This program is made possible with the support of the Flemish Government. The Flemish Government is not responsible for the content of any publications produced.
Orbitals is an annual program taking three curators, selected through an open call, to an international location for research and exchange. During the ten-day guided research trip, the participants, along with Mophradat’s team, meet and share their experience with peers in the art scenes they are visiting.
For the inaugural edition of Orbitals, three curators will travel together to Mexico from June 4 to 14, 2018, visiting artists and curators as well as museums and other art institutions in both Mexico City and Oaxaca. Organized in collaboration with the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, the program will also be partially tailored to the specific interests of the selected participants. Mophradat will cover airfare, insurance, and visa costs, as well as provide participants with accommodations and per diem.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
APPLICATION
Applicants must send the following material in English or Arabic by email to residency@mophradat.org no later than February 18, 2018:
1. Full CV/resume including current address and citizenship.
2. Please answer each of these questions in maximum 250 words:
a. Please describe yourself and your interests.
b. What are you working on at the moment?
c. Why are you interested in joining this trip (and have you been to Mexico before)?
PROCESS