About Us
The Jan van Eyck Academie is committed to exploring the agency, roles, and civic significance of art, design and other creative practices in relation to the climate crisis, environmental breakdown, and their manifold effects. This institutional focus opens up a wide discourse and creates a framework that embraces a diversity of practices and allows for a multitude of voices.
As a multi-disciplinary post-academy, the Jan van Eyck offers residencies to artists, designers—ranging from graphic, fashion, to food and social design—, writers, curators and architects from all over the globe. Every participant is provided with the time, space and expertise needed to develop their artistic practice in depth. The Jan van Eyck is a place for research and experimentation, as well as a place for (public) debate and cross fertilization. Self-development is tied in with collaboration and exchange.
Its labs — Food, Material Matters, Photography & Audiovisual, Printing & Publishing, Future Materials — , and library, support the participants in the conceptualisation and realisation of their projects.
The Nature Research and Education & Development departments further artistic and academic research, and help the participants in realising their projects in collaboration with external parties.
The academy works with a network of (guest) advisers who provide meaningful guidance for participants and the institute alike.
In-Labs provide a framework for participants to work together. Both content and execution of an In-Lab are determined by the participants themselves.
The public programme addresses the topics that feature on the academy's agenda. Placing the climate urgency central, Jan van Eyck aims to offer new perspectives and to encourage a conversation about the arts in a world of environmental breakdown.
Plurality lies at the core of the Post-Academy: its multiform organisation, multi-disciplinary and intersectoral approach, makes it a rich environment for participants to thrive and to deepen and ramify their talents.