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 2026
March-May / October-December 2026
Duration: 1-4 weeks
Agerup AIR is a residency program offering living and working space, based at the former farm property Agerupgård. Our in-house studios especially give the opportunity to work on graphic art, sound and music projects. Agerupgård is located centrally on the island surrounded by fields, a 15 minute bike ride from the sea and local supermarkets. Next to the studios, there is plenty of space in the old barns and garden. Throughout the year, we also host workshops, seminars and exhibitions. The buildings are surrounded by a 2 hectar sized green area with old trees, fruit and vegetable gardens, chickens and a flock of sheep.
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 either work idenpendently or book assistance with us. Find more info and pictures about the studios here:
Graphic studio
Sound studio
Your hosts
The residency is hosted by graphic artist Johann Kauth – specialized in screen printing, woodcut and letterpress – and installation and textile artist Hannah Giese.
We welcome everyone to apply – especially artists working in the fields of printmaking, sound and music. Other disciplines are warmly welcome too though (installation, video, writing, painting, performing arts, 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 our guest house with up to three other artists, or stay there on your own, with your family or artist collective (up to 3 people).
What is included
– A room in the guest house with shared living room, kitchen, and bathroom.
– A work table in your room, the graphic or sound studio
– Heating, internet, electricity, bed sheets and towels, weekly cleaning
– Access to washing machine and a simple bicycle
– Introduction to the studios
Price
2250 DKK (300 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. 3 people):
4500 DKK (600 EUR) per week
Additional options
– Assisted use of the graphic studio (350 DKK/hour)
– Artist talk or presentation (not mandatory)
– Join a workshop or seminar during your stay
– Give a workshop to locals
Material prices for the graphic studio can be downloaded here
Terms and conditions
– Transportation, food, production and materials are to be paid by the artist.
– We request 50% of the fee within a month after you confirmed your stay. The remaining 50% will be invoiced two months before your arive.
– 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 by public transport.
– Nearest airports: Billund or Copenhagen
– By car: Ferries from Hou or Kalundborg
– On Samsø you can either walk, bike or order an on-demand Telebus (2 hours in advance).
– We don’t own a car. 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 portfolio as a PDF
– Short bio and sketches/ideas of what you intend to work with
– Preferred length and 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 (March-May 2026): December 20th 2025
The selected artists will be informed in early January.
Fall call (October-December 2026): June 22nd 2026
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.
You can watch a video about TERRAFORM 2021 here:
Overview of artists in residency:
2025
Juliane Schreiber, Benjamin Hermans, Emily Van Overstraeten, Marion Molle, Bernhard Fuchs, Sebastian Jaimes, Valeria Oggioni, Nadine Rafi Ocean Smales, Eszter Koncz & Kirstine Hupfeldt Nielsen
2024
Maria Michailidou, Ulla Eriksen, Jenny Gräf Sheppard, Ada van Hoorebeke, Ania 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), 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)