Residency in Seoul, MMCA Changdong

The MMCA Residency Changdong has eleven live-in, private studios with accommodation (46-60 m2); one communal kitchen; one community room; shared toilet and shower room; two exhibition spaces (105, 132 m2); and a larger outdoor working space.

Private studio with accommodation

 

Community room

Communal kitchen

25 September – 4 December 2026

The application is open to professional visual artists based in Sweden. Please note that the residency facilities include workspace only; no workshops are available.

Applicants must be fluent in English and must not have previously participated in a residency at MMCA.

Applications from artist duos are not accepted for this residency.

The application must be written in English.

The grant amount is SEK 60,000. The grant shall cover international travel costs, living expenses, and certain material costs during the residency period.

You must be a professional artist in the field of visual arts

You have an artistic practice in the visual arts.

To be considered a professional artist, you must earn a living entirely or partly from your artistic activities and regularly present your art to an audience or in an artistic context.

You must be a resident in Sweden or practice most of your art here

You can be a foreign citizen and apply for our stipends and grants, but you must be a resident in Sweden or primarily practice your art here. If you are a Swedish citizen but live abroad, you must be able to demonstrate that most of your artistic activity takes place in Sweden.

You must not be a student for more than 50 per cent of your time when an award decision is made

This means being enrolled in any type of studies, from undergraduate studies to doctoral studies and post-graduate education. You can be studying when you submit your application, but when a decision is made you cannot be enrolled for more than 50 per cent for a course or programme.

You may not have any debts to the state or municipality that have been transferred for collection to the Swedish Enforcement Authority (Kronofogdemyndigheten), nor be declared bankrupt

You may not have tax or fee debts, or any other debts, that have been transferred to the Swedish Enforcement Authority and are being handled as a public collection matter.

You must not have received de minimis aid exceeding a total of 300,000 euros during the last three-year period

Stipends and grants from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee are subject to the provisions of the European Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/2031 on state funding, also known as de minimis aid.

See the application deadlines

You apply by logging in to “My pages”.

In order to submit an application, you need to answer all the questions marked as mandatory in the form and attach work samples.

Applications must be submitted by 14.00 CET on the application deadline.

Work samples are mandatory

Choose current work samples that are representative of your artistry, preferably from the last two years. Keep in mind that it can be a good idea to choose both close-ups of your works and images that show how your works are presented in context.

When you upload your files with the application, you can specify the title, year, technique, size and description for each file.

Number of files: 5-10
File format and maximum size: jpg (2 MB), mp3 (20 MB), mp4 och mov (50 MB)

You can submit your application on paper
We recommend using our e-service to submit your application. It makes it easier for you to ensure that your application was registered and it allows you to follow your case via “My pages”.

Application on paper

When we receive your application, we verify that you meet all the formal requirements. Members of the international panel of the Visual Artists’ Fund will then read your application. The members are practising artists or experts in the field of visual arts. At least two people read each application. A shortlist of five candidates for the Seoul residency is selected by the international panel of the Visual Artists’ Fund. From the list of proposals, MMCA selects one grant holder and one reserve-grant-holder. This decision is then formalised by the Visual Artists’ Fund, through its chairperson.

If a member has a conflict of interest in relation to an applicant, that member is forbidden from participating in the review process or award decision for that application.

How is your decision made?
We select grant recipients based on the quality of artistic activities and the applicant’s financial need. This means that we assess the quality of the work samples and reference material that you submit. At the same time, we make an assessment of your financial need. This can mean, for example, that we do not prioritise an applicant who has a high income or has recently received other grants or stipends.

In our selection, we aim to distribute the grants to artists in different parts of the country and across a variety of artistic expressions.

The grant does not need to be reported financially, but the grant holder send a report about the stay after returning home.

The grant is exempt from tax.

If you are awarded a grant for the residency programme, you must state in all communications about your residency that it was carried out with the support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Please use the wording “with support from IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee´s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts.”

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