Artist in residence
Agerupgård houses residencies, where artists can use the farm’s sound studio and printmaking workshop. We work both with open calls and programs where artists get invited. Sign up to our newsletter for updates about upcoming open calls.
OPEN CALL – AGERUP AIR
Spring/fall 2025
February-May / October-December 2025
Duration: 2-4 weeks
Agerup AIR is a visual art and sound residency based at the former farm Agerupgård. Located centrally on the island surrounded by fields, Agerupgård offers graphic art and sound studios, a 40m2 project space and plenty of room in the old barns and garden. Next to the artist-in-residency program, we host workshops, seminars and exhibitions. The buildings are surrounded by a 2 hectar large green area with old trees, fruits and vegetables, chickens and sheep, situated a 15 minute bike ride from the sea and local supermarkets.
Agerup AIR wants to foster and support experimental artistic practice that is both sustainable and communal. Agerup AIR offers and encourages international artists to enter into dialogue with the island’s community and stunning nature. The graphic and sound studios provide the possibility to focus on work production, experimentation and the development of new ideas. You can find more info and pictures about the studios here:
Graphic studio
Sound studio
Project space
We welcome everyone to apply – especially artists working in the fields of graphic and sound art, but other disciplines are warmly welcome too (sculpture, writing, painting, photography etc.). There are no special requirements. If we receive more applications than time allows for, we will select artists based on their project proposals and try to merge groups, which can stimulate each other.
You can either share the residency guest house with up to two other artists, or stay there on your own, with your family or artist collective.
What is included
– A room in the guest house with shared living room, kitchen, and bathroom.
– Heating, internet, electricity, bed sheets and towels
– Access to washing machine and a bicycle
– A work table in the shared project space, graphic or sound studio
– Introduction to Samsø’s vibrant and welcoming local creative community
– Recommendations to artistic contexts in Aarhus and Copenhagen
Price
1250 DKK (170 EUR) per week/person
OR
Renting the entire guest house; stay on your own, bring your family or share it with your artist group (max. three people):
2500 DKK (330 EUR) per week
Additional options
– Independent or assisted use of the graphic studio. Download prices here
It is also possible to bring your own materials
– Use of the sound and music studio – details on request
– Artist talk or presentation (not mandatory)
– Join a workshop or seminar happening during your stay
– Give a workshop to locals (needs to be organized in advance)
We also offer the option to do a Work Away or WWOOF residency, which means that instead of paying rent, you will work 4-5 hours per day in the garden or around the farm. Keep in mind that this will take time and energy away from your project. But it can also give inspiration. For more info about our WWOOFing program have a look here. We can only accept one artist at a time doing a Work Away or WWOOF residency.
Terms and conditions
– Transportation, food, production and material costs are to be paid by the artist.
– We will request a first rate of the fee within the first month after you confirmed your stay. The rest of the payment will be invoiced two months in advance.
– Cancellation policy: 60 days before the start of your stay, all charges will be refunded. 30 days before, 50% will be refunded. Cancellations 15 days before the residency will not be refunded.
– We recommend the purchase of a travel insurance, to cover unexpected occurrences causing cancellation.
– We can write a letter of invitation, if you are applying for funding.
How to get to Samsø and around
– Public Transport: Ferries from Kalundborg, Hou and Århus. You can reach the harbours with public transport.
– Nearest airports are Billund or Copenhagen
– By car: Ferries from Hou or Kalundborg
– On Samsø you can either walk, bike or order a Telebus (2 hours in advance).
– We do not own a car, so you need to be able to get around by yourself.
For further questions, please write to info@agerupgaard.dk
How to apply
You can apply in Danish, German, Dutch or English.
Send an email to info@agerupgaard.dk with the following:
– Name, address, e-mail and phone number
– Link to web page or other kind of presentation
– Short bio and sketch or idea of what you intend to work with during your stay
– Preferred time period and possible dates of stay
– Do you want to rent the whole guest house, or share it with others?
– Do you wish to use the graphic or sound studio?
Deadlines
Spring call (February-May 2025): November 15th 2024
The selected artists will be informed in early december.
Fall call (October-December 2025): June 15th 2025
The selected artists will be informed in early July.
TERRAFORM is a residency program where a group of selected artists stay on Samsø for a dedicated period of time to experiment, develop and produce new works in interaction with the island’s resources and the local community.
TERRAFORM wants to convey and support a forward-thinking artistic practice that takes place across disciplines, which is both sustainable and promotes community. In close collaboration with other cultural actors and institutions, the project creates a unique framework, in which work can be done in solidarity and art produced locally with available materials, methods and techniques.
TERRAFORM 2023
TERRAFORM – IN KNUD VIKTOR’S SOUND TRACK was a residency program in connection with the exhibition PUT YOUR EARS TO THE GROUND – Sound painter Knud Viktor on Samsø, where a group of contemporary artists participated in a joint work stay at Agerupgård, Samsø and in Bang & Olufsen’s former sound studios at Sound Art Lab, Struer. The four invited artists worked over three weeks with Knud Viktor’s oeuvre and method, as a starting point for their contemporary practice.
Participating artists:
Melissa Van Drie (FR)
is a researcher, performer and writer from France who works with how sound, hearing and listening are important aspects of world-making: how different humans and non-humans use sound to sense and understand their respective environments.
Nanna Elvin Hansen (DK)
is an artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen, whose practice often focuses on issues related to feminism and migration politics. She often investigates these questions through a collective and collaborative process of film, video and sound production.
Sarah Sikorie(NO)
is an artist from Oslo who works with sculpture and installation, with a particular interest in the processual formation of our kinship and coexistence with other species. Her works are based on site-specific interactions.
Lieven Martens (BE)
is an artist from Antwerp, Belgium. He creates conceptual music that hovers between field recordings, ambient, musique concrète and modern composition. He investigates the “sound of islands”, where he has been inspired by islands around the world such as Hawaiʻi, La Reunion and the Azores.
Terraform 2023 received support from Statens Kunstfond, Sonning-Fonden and Art Music Denmark.
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TERRAFORM 2021
Eight international artists have throughout 2021 had the opportunity to live and work on the island for two weeks. They have explored and worked with the island’s resources to experiment, produce and develop new works and publications. A special focus has been put on serial works and multiples, artworks that are produced in several copies and thus can be easily distributed.
In their meeting with the island, technology has served them as a sensory tool, as the artists have used instruments such as metal detectors, surveillance cameras, microphones, scanners and photographic exposure to highlight and document a number of elements specific to the life and nature on Samsø. The results range from original artworks, texts, video and audio recordings to multiples made of different materials such as screen prints, wine, ceramic sculptures and more.
Participating artists: Ada van Hoorebeke (BE), Alexander Holm (DK), Christopher L. Shields (US/IR), Eeva Rönkä (FIN), Gijs Deddens (NL), Jani A. Purhonen (FIN), Wilfred Wagner (DK), Zoë C. Miller (US)
Terraform 2021 received support from Statens Kunstfond and Samsø Municipality.
See a video about TERRAFORM 2021 here:
Overview of all artists in residence:
2024
Maria Michailidou, Ulla Eriksen, Jenny Gräf Sheppard, Ada van Hoorebeke, Anja Mauruschat, Amy Faust, Liesbeth Feys, Jakob Van den Broucke, Sebastian von der Heide, Charlotte Moe
2023
TERRAFORM: Melissa Van Drie (FR), Nanna Elvin Hansen (DK), Sarah Sikorie (NO), Lieven Martens (BE)
Amr Hatem (SY) – residency offered in collaboartion with Aarhus Billedkunstcenter
Ernst Markus Stein (DE)
2022
Zoe Dittrich-Wamser (DE), Pia Litzenberger (DE), Dieter Durinck (BE), Bram van Meervelde (BE)
2021
TERRAFORM: Ada van Hoorebeke (BE), Alexander Holm (DK), Christopher L. Shield (US/IR), Eeva Rönkä (FIN), Gijs Deddens (NL), Jani A. Purhonen (FIN), Wilfred Wagner (DK), Zoë C. Miller (US)