AAIR is a artist-oriented organization that grants time, space and mobility to national and international artists. AAIR wishes to create a sustainable context for artistic development.
AAIR:
- rents out a growing number of studios – to be exact: 141 (shared) workspaces in 13 buildings for more than 200 users – in which a supporting studio policy is conducted;
- establishes international residency exchanges;
- sets up a development platform for young local artists;
- actively engages in contemporary discourses on residencies and artist studio’s policies.
AAIR operates from a location in the heart of Antwerp clustering the various ambitions of the organization. The director’s house of the former biscuit factory De Beuckelaer, behind the Antwerp Zoo, houses four living and working spaces for international residents, the collective workspace of the annual international development platform STRT Kit, and the organization’s office. In the monastery nextdoor, AAIR rents out 30 affordable workspaces to 50 artists.
AAIR emerged from the synergy between Air Antwerpen and Studio Start. Both organizations have long endeavoured to create an ideal working environment for artists; Studio Start targeted Antwerp artists and creative entrepreneurs, while AIR Antwerpen concentrated on international visual artists. Over the course of eight years, an ongoing conversation between Studio Start and AIR Antwerpen led to an intensifying collaboration resulting in AAIR’s long-term vision: a new artist-oriented organization whose mission, operation, and structure contributes to the careers of inter/national artists.
Ploegstraat 27,
2018 Antwerp
info@aair.be
+32 (0)3 430 80 20
General director:
Greet Vlegels
e: greet@aair.be
t: +32 (0)494 54 87 03
Artistic director:
Caroline Dumalin
e: caroline@aair.be
t: +32 (0)3 430 80 20
Space and graphic design:
Steven Holsbeeks
e: steven@aair.be
t: +32 (0)486 68 92 70
Residency coordinator:
Marie Vandenbosch
e: marie@aair.be
t: +32 (0)496 255 101
Communication:
Céline Mathieu
e: celine@aair.be
t: +32 (0)495 60 77 69
Finance:
Youssef Tarrahi
e: boekhouding@aair.be
t: +32 (0)3 430 80 20
Building manager:
Philippe Verdonckt
e: philippe@aair.be
t: +32 (0)474 56 48 77
Board of administrators: Daniella Géo, Philip Huyghe, Seppe Jespers, Olivier Onghena (president), Bruno Spaas, Valérie Verhack, Barbara Wyckmans.
General assembly: Caroline Dumalin, Philip Huyghe, Seppe Jespers, Jan Meersman, Olivier Onghena, Bruno Spaas, Greet Vlegels, Barbara Wyckmans.
Artistic advisory board: Grégory Castéra (curator, Council, Paris), Marnie Slater (artist, Brussels), Michiel Vandevelde (choreographer and curator, deSingel, Antwerp), Guy Woueté (artist, Douala/Antwerp), and Joanna Zielińska (senior curator, M HKA, Antwerp).
Graphic design:
Indianen
Website:
atelier Haegeman Temmerman
