VIR artists and scholarships

• Benjamin Greber, Germany - ACACIA
  April - July 2008
• Ulrich Vogl, Germany - PARC
  April - July 2008

Australia Council Milan Studio

• Catherine Aldrete-Morris
  giugno - settembre 2008

VIR is the new residence program promoted by Viafarini, which allows selected artists and curators to spend a period of research in Milan. The residence consists of four apartments and two artists studios, located in Viafarini’s original premises in via Carlo Farini 35 in Milan.
The project, aiming at fostering debate and exchange within different cultural realities, is realized with the contribution and the collaboration of PARC Direzione generale per la qualità e la tutela del paesaggio, l'architettura e l'arte contemporanee of the Italian Ministry of Culutre and of ACACIA Associazione Amici Arte Contemporanea Italiana and Gemmo, who granted the firstbursaries for the year 2008.

The apartments and studios are situated in the original premises of Viafarini, whose exhibition activity and documentation services (Library, Portfolio Archive and ArtBox) moved to a new venue at the Fabbrica del Vapore in via Procaccini 4.
Participants of the Viafarini-in-residence program will have access to all information and documentation services, and will be assisted and advised by the Viafarini staff.
Each apartment consists of a two-room-apartment of 30 square metres, with a kitchen room and a study room with an elevated bed area; the studios are gained from the Viafarini exhibition space.

Artists have the opportunity to to establish opportunities of exchange and debate with Italian art professionals, invited by terms of a series of organised studio visits. Curators have access to information and specific databases, useful for understanding the Italian art scene, and will be assisted by the Viafarini staff in getting in touch with its main actors.
During the VIR Open Day at the end of the residency, also the public will be invited to visit the artists’ studios.

The program is addressed to artists and curators.
The residencies can vary from short research journeys to longer stays for the production of specific projects.
The progam is open for application by artists and curators. Further, a number of artists and art professionals who collaborated with Viafarini in the past, function as nominators of young candidates. The selection of the residents and the related award of the bursary is decided by the Viafarini board together with a representative of the respective sponsor.

VIR is supported by sponsors and by partners from the artists' and curators's countries of origin. Since 1996 Viafarini runs a studio for Australian artists and curators, in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts.

• Alberto Tadiello, Italy - Gemmo spa
  February - April 2008
• Irena Lagator, Montenegro - Ministry of Culture of Montenegro
  October - November 2007

• Tim Sterling (marzo - giugno 2008)
• John Barbour (December 2007 – March 2008)
• Grant Hill (September – December 2007)
• Mark Hilton (June – September 2007)
• Marcel Sigel (March – June 2007)
• Simone Mangos (December 2006 – March 2007)
• Kylie Stillman (September – December 2006)
• George Popperwell (June – September 2006)
• Sharon Green (March – June 2006)
• Daniel Mafe (December 2005 – March 2006)
• Michael Kutschbach (September – December 2005)
• Brian Steendyk (June – September 2005)
• Sangeeta Sandrasegar (March – June 2005)
• Lucas Chirnside (December 2004 – March 2005)
• Nat & Ali (September – December 2004)
• Nicholas Kelly (June – September 2004)
• John Neeson (March – June 2004)
• Pamela Aitken (December 2003 – March 2004)
• Jo-Anne Duggan (September – December 2003)
• Katthy Cavaliere (June – September 2003)
• Adrienne Doig (March - June 2003)
• Lisa Kelly (December 2002 – March 2003)
• Nicole Voevodin-Cash (September – December 2002)
• Enlai Hooi (June – September 2002)
• Lorenna Grant (March – June 2002)
• Ceridwen Rees (December 2001 – March 2001)
• Nicki Biggins (September 2001 – December 2001)
• Michael Zavros (June – September 2001)
• Simone LeAmon (March – June 2001)
• Su Baker (December 2000 – March 2001)
• Sonja Porcaro (September – December 2000)
• Lucas Ihlein (June – September 2000)
• Damiano Bertoli (March – June 2000)
• Marco Fusinato (December 1999 – March 2000)
• Jan Murray (September – November 1999)
• Maria Ionico (May – August 1999)
• Jonathan Hodgkin (January – April 1998)
• Christopher Koller (September – December 1997)
• Annabelle Collett (May – August 1997)
• Pamela Gaunt (January – April 1997)
• Bridie Landers (October 1996 – January 1997)
• Rodney Spooner (April – July 1996)