The PlantageDok Guest atelier is an invitation to be part of an artist-led community in the city of Amsterdam. Offering a bedroom and an opportunity to use a shared kitchen and bathroom as well as a basic working studio.

The Guest atelier offered based on invitation and need, for 2-4 months as temporary support, and provides:

a basic working studio

a bedroom

fully equipped shared kitchen, bathroom & washing-machine (please note all spaces are no smoking spaces)

being part of a community with many workshops, multidisciplinary artists and connections to different scenes in Amsterdam

24/7 access to the studio

Price and responsibilities for the guest artist:

Rent €651,07 including all utilities (incl. electricity, heating, water, & Wi-Fi)

€400 as a deposit

travel expenses

living expenses

material costs

visa and health insurance, other insurances

Note: The guest is responsible for the proper use of physical space and furniture, as well as the reasonable use of electricity, water and heating services. The guest is also expected to take part in collective responsibilities taking care of the facilities and the building.

We are also there to answer any additional questions you may have!

More info here >> TransArtists

previous residents:

Marina Orlova

Marina Orlova (1987) is an independent dance/theatre maker, tech-dramaturg and AI researcher based in Amsterdam. She received education in sociology in Moscow and in experimental choreography at the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance.

Marina works with topics of human-AI relationships, mental health, migration and border politics. She creates interdisciplinary performances that combine her background in sociology, curiosity for technology, choreographic methodologies and lived knowledge of marginalised communities. Marina mediates between engineering logic and theatrical devices, using technology as metaphor and mirror to societal issues. She works within aesthetics of absurdism, tragicomedy and autofiction.

Marina’s theatre performance “I’m a Robot and I need Therapy” was presented at Frascati Theater in Amsterdam, Veem House for Performance, Flam Festival, Next Level Festival in Dortmund, Worm Rotterdam. Her lecture-performance “Why robots need therapy” was presented Next Nature Digital Wellness Show; Society 5.0 Festival; de Balie; Mesh Festival (Basel); Korzo Theater; Iterations Symposium; and in various academic settings.

Marina’s artistic practice also includes writing, teaching and facilitating a support group for “artists in distress”.

https://marina-or-not.github.io/

Fabrice Le Normand

Small, often fragile and ephemeral structures, static or in motion, manipulated or autonomous, these little “Bidouilles” oscillate between visual art and puppetry.

These constructions are always small-scale—at most, the size of a plastic bag.

The tools and raw materials are simple and common:
– wooden stick, syringe, straw, flame, etc.
– toilet paper, water, pine resin, candle tallow, plastic bag (the
thinnest possible), and a drop of turpentine.

The resulting structures are most often fragile and ephemeral. They can be manipulated or live on their own. In motion for a time, they remain, even when static, always in play with forces and internal balances. And, they have that playful quality of not easily revealing how they took shape.

These creations come to life in live performances, videos, and photos.
A piece sometimes requires several hours of work for a few seconds of movement… which I hope will bring a little poetry to life.

website: lesbidouilles.fr

Yasia Khomenko

“I’m an artist from Kyiv, and my practice blends textile experimentation, alternative manufacturing methods, and social practice. Over the last decade, I’ve developed a unique approach to upcycling—transforming everyday materials into something new and meaningful. Since 2011, through my brand RCR Khomenko, I’ve been reimagining used clothes, curtains, and tablecloths from local villages, turning them into functional, stylish designs. In 2019, I expanded my practice with XOMEHKO, where I began to explore the intersection of technology and textile history, pushing the boundaries of reuse in exciting, innovative ways.

The full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 brought a profound shift in my practice. The experience of war and displacement forced me to rethink my artistic focus, driving me to explore the cultural and socioeconomic impacts of migration, as well as the fashion industry’s deeper mechanics. This led to the NEW PRODUCTION idea, which challenges the traditional codes of fashion production that have dominated since the industrial revolution of the 19th century. In this matter, the goal is to encourage voluntary, spontaneous cooperation, rather than seeing ourselves just as consumers who are disconnected from the creation of the objects that help us reflect on who we are. I want to reshape the role of consumption, promoting emotional and communal connections to objects that are often considered waste or are laden with traumatic memories.”

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2025:

Maria Ångerman

Maria Ångerman is a visual artist and filmmaker from Finland. She will be at Plantage Dok during four months, starting in November. She is working on a film project that speculates about future life on the shoreline of the Baltic Sea, where oxygen levels have steadily declined and the winds have grown out of proportion. The film raises questions about adaptability, survival and migration, and proposes to approach nature in a humble way through a playful attitude.

2024:

Sherine Salla

Sherine Salla is a Cairo-born artist and designer who regularly deep dives into rabbit holes on the internet and through archives; from South-up world maps dreamt up in the 10th century CE, to imagining otherworldly assemblies as monuments in public spaces. Her curiosities gravitate towards historical narratives, languages, and geographies, especially those flowing through West Asia and North Africa. Sherine’s work is often presented in the form of (performative) lectures, publications, and/or prints. Additionally, one can spot her wearing her researcher hat as part of Archief Cairo and cifrcifrcifr collective, where she also works on workshop creation and facilitation. Often caught thinking about the court of the afterlife.

work “Who’s Afraid of Assembly… and How to Hide from Them?” developed during the residency

Henna Räsänen (HX)

Henna Räsänen (HX) is a Berlin-based non-binary and queer comic artist whose work explores social norms through offbeat, prickly humor. Their comics depict subcultures and queer communities in a rapidly eroding world. In HX’s stories dark and troubled noir waltzes with urban topographies, tracking currents and illustrating utopias.

They also teach comic workshops that center on norm critical practices, the character of (urban) spaces and the attempt on finding hope in the middle of the current climate catastrophe.

Agat Sharma

Agat (1984, Jaipur, India) is an artist, educator and theatre maker. His work is a study of the emergence, evolution and erasure of the relationship between land and body. In his work he often uses songs and stories as tools for evoking postcolonial imaginaries. he is deeply influenced by ‘folk’ and pre-modern ways of thinking about ‘Theatre as a place for transformative collective imagination’. Agat works between the Netherlands and India and is a graduate of Das Theatre, Amsterdam

Nseabasi Akpan

Julija Skudutyte

view of exhibition in dokzaal

I work mostly with watercolor medium. In my works I delve into the interplay between humans and everyday objects, exploring the significance we attach to items, from an expression of identity to nostalgia. I search for the paradoxes where worthlessness and usefulness intertwine and spirituality and consumerism meet. My exploration extends beyond mere objects, it delves into my own identity as well, exploring my materiality and usefulness. This leads to artworks depicting trash as beings and portraying humans as mere objects. If you’re interested in seeing my work, you can visit my Instagram @colorforwater or my webpage julijaskudutyte.com