TOKAS Curator Residency Program 2025

OPEN CALL
Written By Karolina Bayley-Hughes

Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS), a division of The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, extends invitations for the prestigious “Curator Residency Program”. This program invites distinguished and highly motivated curators in the fields of curation, art criticism, and cultural research from around the world, providing them with opportunities to conduct research in Tokyo.

Target for this program

This program is aimed at those curators:

  • who are willing to conduct new research in Tokyo

  • who practice in any of the following cultural / artistic fields: curation, art criticism and cultural research

  • who are eager to exchange with local emerging creators

Residency Period / Number of Curators

Residency Period

1 to 3 months within the following residency periods:

  • From the beginning of May, 2025 to the end of July, 2025

  • From the beginning of September, 2025 to the end of November, 2025

  • From the beginning of January, 2026 to the end of March, 2026

Number of Curators (tentative)

6 curators in total (2 curators per period)

What TOKAS offers

  • Living space (single room)

  • Airfare: A round-trip economy-class air ticket between the nearest airport from the place of residence and Tokyo (either Narita or Haneda Airport) will be provided

  • Fee for research/project: JPY 100,000 (consumption tax excluded)
    *Income tax (20.42%) will be deducted from the above amounts

Eligibility

  • Resides outside of Japan

  • Has 3 years or more of experience in his/her specialized area of expertise

  • Has sufficient ability to communicate in English with other residing creators and TOKAS staff for mutual understanding

  • Independent and capable of working and living on his/her own

  • Curators working as a duo are ineligible

  • Students are ineligible (except for Ph.D. candidates)

Requirements / Conditions

  • Able to stay consecutively at TOKAS Residency during the proposed residency period.

  • Shall present their research at a public talk event and submit a comprehensive report on the proposed project.

  • Give mentoring sessions to local emerging creators, participate in talk events if asked by TOKAS, and cooperate with its public relations activity.

  • Do not carry out any commercial or profitable activities throughout the residency period.

  • Do not conduct any activities that would make big noise or vibration in TOKAS Residency.

  • The accommodation is provided for the participating curator only. Family members, partners, friends or guests are not permitted to stay at TOKAS Residency.

Application Deadline

  • Deadline to submit documents: July 2, 2024, 18:00 (JST)

  • Deadline to submit support materials: July 9, 2024, 23:00 (JST)


Karolina Bayley-Hughes
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