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:
- conducts a supportive local artist studio policy;
- 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 three 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
Greet Vlegels
(general director)
greet@aair.be
+32 (0)494 54 87 03
Steven Holsbeeks
(coordinator spaces and communication)
steven@aair.be
+32 (0)486 68 92 70
Marie Vandenbosch
(temporary coordinator residencies)
marie@aair.be
+32 (0)496 255 101
Youssef Tarrahi
(finance)
boekhouding@aair.be
+32 (0)3 430 80 20
Philippe Verdonckt
(building manager)
philippe@aair.be
+32 (0)474 56 48 77
