Research groups at the Antwerp Schools of Arts and ARIA regularly receive visiting researchers, both PhD students and postdoc researchers.
What do you need to know as a future visiting researcher?
A stay as a visiting researcher is only possible with your own funding. The Schools of Arts and ARIA cannot provide funding and cannot provide accommodation for visiting researchers. Examples of possible grants are:
- an FWO grant
- an Erasmus + grant (more information at your home institution)
- a specific call or invitation
We welcome visitors whose academic and/or artistic interests are in line with or related to those of our own researchers. Affiliation with a research group is strongly recommended
- LABO XIX-XX, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
- UP - Performance in Perspective, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
- CORPoREAL, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
- Creation, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
- ArchiVolt, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
- Thinking Tools, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
- Art & Ecology, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
- MAXlab, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
- SLARG, Sint Lucas Antwerp Research Group
- ARIA, University of Antwerp:
- Arts & Media Archaeology, contact person Nele Wynants
- Culture Commons Quest Office, contact person Pascal Gielen
Visitors are encouraged to attend as many activities as possible during their stay, such as seminars, lectures and networking moments. Preferably, they also give a lecture about their research or participate as a speaker in seminars. See here what is being organised:
- ARIA seminars and congresses
- Research activities at the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
- Sint Lucas Antwerp
Visitors need a mentor, who is appointed before the visit starts. They can approach people themselves or the research group involved can propose someone. The working method differs for the different research groups. It is advisable to obtain information in advance.
There are also programs for visiting and resident researcher-artists:
- At the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
- At Sint-Lucas Antwerp
Current visiting researchers
Bruna Bonanno
- Home institution: University of Milan Statale
- Visiting research student at ARIA
- Period: 3 February 2025 - 30 June 2025
- Research domain: Visual Culture and Media Theories.
Bruna's research focuses on performative practices and the media utilized therein which may be able to redefine our approach to water, transcending the historically anthropocentric, neo-colonial and extractive paradigms that have characterized human-seawaters interactions.