INTERDISCIPLINARY ART RESIDENCIES

The residency program focuses on interdisciplinary culture shapers, bringing together artists, thinkers, and visionaries from diverse backgrounds. For several weeks, creatives live communally and learn, create, and work together, using art and creativity as tools to research, challenge and learn. 

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The residency creates a container to question certain paradigms that no longer serve us, within ourselves and in society as a whole. To transmute outdated concepts into more positive and interconnected alternative futures, for the community and the collective.

 

Each residency explores a different, overarching theme co-developed with a collaborator, delving into relevant and pressing topics shaping our world today. The starting point of the residency is to slow down and reconnect with oneself, others and nature. SOPRA SOTTO takes an optimistic and holistic approach to reimagining new systems in order to live in harmony with nature, in our digital age and beyond. 

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The residency program is curated to foster collaboration and cross-pollination across disciplines, backgrounds, industries, communities, and generations. Creative exchange unfolds among the residents, through shared learning experiences and a co-created workshop program, as well as between the residents and the local/creative scene. This wider interaction happens through excursions, artist studio visits, and open events that invite community engagement.
 
SOPRA SOTTO was founded by Constance van Berckel in 2022, currently based between Amsterdam and the Tuscan countryside near Florence. The residency is developing towards longer-term residency programs that will take place in Sardinia starting autumn/winter 2025. 
 
The program is open to residents from a wide variety of disciplines (such as artists in different media, writers, researchers, philosophers, educators, scientists, dancers, musicians and other creatives and change makers). The residency welcomes people from all backgrounds, nationalities, ethnicities, ages, religions, sexual orientations and walks of life.

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