VIR Viafarini-in-residence

VIR Viafarini-in-residence is a collaborative residency program for artists and curators, launched at the Via Carlo Farini 35 location and later expanded to the Fabbrica del Vapore and Viafarini.work at Via Marco d’Agrate 33 in Milan.

VIR provides space for artists’ productions and fosters the exchange of skills and professional growth; on a regular basis, the doors of the space—which is always open to visitors by appointment—are opened to the public during Open Studio events, offering a visual showcase and presentation of the work produced. Meetings and talks are organized.
Artists are selected through open calls and applications collected throughout the year by filling out the Application Form.

The program is divided into four-month cycles: January–April; May–August; September–December.

VIR Viafarini-in-residence includes: shared studio space; curatorial support; Viafarini Open Studio event; studio visits and cultural tours; access to the Archive.

As a contribution toward program costs, the minimum donation is € 1.500
An agreement may be reached with the artists regarding the donation of a work created during the residency.
Those requiring accommodation are asked to specify this in their application.

Residents are responsible for applying for a visa to enter Italy and for medical insurance. Viafarini can draft a letter of invitation to assist selected residents in applying for specific grants.
VIR reserves the right to address any unforeseen circumstances that may arise during guests’ stays in order to ensure the smoothest possible operation of the shared studios.

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Contacts

+39 02 66804473
archivio@viafarini.org

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Artistic mobility opportunities

Supporters

Viafarini is recognized as a cultural organization of regional relevance.

With the support of Regione Lombardia.

International exchanges

To date, artists from the following countries have participated: Italy, Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Cyprus, South Korea, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt,  Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Japan, Greece, Ireland, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Mexico, Montenegro, Norway, Oman, Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam. 

Over the years, VIR has promoted exchanges with: Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany), ARKANE (Casablanca, Morocco), EAC Espacio de Arte Contémporaneo (Montevideo, Uruguay), Espace Medina (Dakar, Senegal), Ukrainian Institute (Kiev), FUTURA Project (Prague, Czech Republic), Bayt AlMamzar (Dubai, UAE), PROGR Zentrum fur Kulturproduktion (Bern, Switzerland), Kooshk Residency (Teheran, Iran), HIAP Helsinki International Residency Program (Helsinki, Finland), WIELS (Bruxelles, Belgium), SOMA (Mexico City), Residency Unlimited (New York, USA), Gasworks (London, UK), Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam, Netherlands), CCA Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw, Poland), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, Germany), Delfina Foundation (London, UK), Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers (Paris, France), Friche La Belle de Mai (Marseille, France), Winzavod (Mosow, Russia), Ria Keburia Foundation (Tiblisi, Georgia).

Viafarini is member of Res Artis – International Network of Artist Residencies

Artists in residence since 2008

Portfolio of resident artists May-August 2026

May – August 2026 @ VIR
Venus Avery, Flora Deborah, Alice Dicembrino, Ann-Josephin Dietz, Ayat Elkadi, Ayah Elnour, Emese Kazar, Valeria Limongi, Caroline McManus, Oxana Tregubova

May – August 2026 @ Viafarini.work
Miranda Ayejes, Juanjo Barreda Aznar, Mirella Jaworska, Sasha Speranskii

January – April 2026 @ VIR
Sofia Briales, Celestino Marco Cavalli, Kai Chen, Furen Dai, Alessandra Gatto, Domenico Santoro, Katharina Siebert, Zachary Sitrin, Andrea Zabric, Uri Zamir

January – April 2026 @ Viafarini.work
Mattia Ciaf, Angela Lazzarotto, Stefania Meleaca, Aleksandar Petkov, Alina Petre, Margherita Zapf

September – December  2025 @ VIR
Kuril Chto, Andrea Gohl, Deborah Graziano, Charlie Jannes, I.S. Kalter, Clara Rubin, Lorenzo Schetter Li Greci, Andrea Zabric

September – December  2025 @ Viafarini.work
Andrea Aversa, Emanuele Fontana, Filip Adrian Dziegielewski, Giulia Savorani, Mariana Paku, Simone Micciché

May – August 2025 @ VIR
Diego Azzola, Lily Luna Bennett, Valentina Bobbo, Anna Costantino, Tatiana Egoshina, Pierfilippo Gatti, Sofia Guzzo, Gabriella Mozo, Claudia Müller Montes, Andrea Pizzari, Daria Romanenko, Katsiaryna Sheliahovich,  Walter Szczerbowski, Magdalena Typiak, Aurora Villa, Wang Yuzhe

January – April 2025 @ VIR
Codi Barbini, Alessia Bussy, Hyun Cho, Ekaterina Costa, Kendall Hill, Elisabetta Laszlo, Federica Mariani, Gabriele Massaro, Ibrahima Mbengue, Davide Mineo, Jessica Moroni, Nazar Strelyaev-Nazarko, Sofia Parma & Zosia Metel, Giada Pignotti, Alina Samarkanova

January – April 2025 @ Archivio Viafarini
Carla Della Beffa, Matteo Peterlini

September – December  2024 @ VIR
Saverio Bonelli, Monika Brablecova, Roi Carmeli, Amedeo Desideri, Sofia Fresia, Diego Gelosi, Nikoline Heimburger, Davide Marcianesi, Arianna Marcolin, Davide Mineo, Elisa Molteni, Nazar Strelyaev-Nazarko, Swedish Girls, Siom Wallnoefer

September – December  2024 @ Archivio Viafarini
Rebecca Agnes, Matteo Peterlini, Luca Seguenza

May – August 2024 @ VIR
Valeria Carrieri, Florinda Ciucio, Manuel De Marco, EFFKAI, Thea Gregorius, Laura Guastini, Arianna Marcolin, Rami Lazkani, Noemi Mirata, Enea Toldo, Marta Luna Valpiana, Zosia Zoltkowski

May – August 2024 @Archivio Viafarini
Rebecca Agnes, Francesco Di Vaio, Diego Gelosi, Nick Landucci, Pasquale Savignano

January – April 2024 @ VIR
Giorgio Bernasconi, Valeria Carrieri, Matteo Cordero, Jung Soo Cho, Laura Guastini, Kalina Horon, Viktoria Kurnicki, Maria Maaneskiold, Giorgi Miminoshvili, Noemi Mirata, Maria Pilotto, Niccolò Quaresima, Mattia Ragni, Valerio Eliogabalo Torrisi, Marta Luna Valpiana

January – April 2024 @ Archivio Viafarini
Marcelina Braga, Diego Gelosi, Rami Lazkani, Vincenzo Montefusco

September – December  2023 @ VIR
Shaikha Al Salman e Hassana Arif, Alessia Armeni, Mattia Barbieri, Kalina Horon, Weronika Grzes, Viktoria Kurnicki, Markus Lauterbach, Cecilia Maran, Carolina Papetti, Fabio Perino, Kristian Sverdrup, Eva Chiara Trevisan, Ana Julia Vilela

September – December  2023 @ Archivio Viafarini
Elettra Gorni, Nick Landucci, Fabiana Lanza

May – August 2023 @ VIR
Philipp Boshart, Petros Chrisostomou,  Rosie Eisor, Veza Fernandez, Asaf Gam Hacohen, Clara Silveira, Francesco Lampredi, Giada Rotundo, Ana Julia Vilela

May – August 2023 @ Archivio Viafarini
David Duvshani, Anna Maconi, Carolina Papetti

January – April 2023 @ VIR
Lidia Bianchi, Alan Borguet, Hyun Cho, Petros Chrisostomou, Laurel Hauge, Alberto Luparelli, Raffaele Morabito, Karam Natour, Fabio Perino, Davide Quartucci, Federico Vecchi, Ana Julia Vilela

January – April 2023 @ Archivio Viafarini
Sonia Arienta, Sofiya Chotyrbok, Francesco Meloni, Carolina Papetti

September – December  2022 @ VIR
Elisabetta Bottura, Traian Cherecheș, Lucrezia Costa, Filippo Cristini, Francesco Basini Gazzi, Laurel Hauge, Ludivine Jalabert, Lorenzo Montinaro, Erjon Nazeraj, Francesca Palma Teran, Paolo Patelli con Freja Kir, Daniel Romano, Domenico Ruccia, Maria Giovanna Zanella

September – December 2022 @ Archivio Viafarini
Giacomo Colosi, Luca Cutrufelli, Juan Florencianez, Camilla Gurgone, Alessandro Laita e Chiaralice Rizzi, Sebastian Roque, Tafadzwa Tega

May – August 2022 @ VIR
Laura Acosta & Santiago Tavera, Daniel Barclay, Giulia Cacciuttolo, Traian Cherecheș, Matheus Chiaratti, Carlo Galli, Laurel Hauge, Hila Laiser Beja, Silvia Mantellini Faieta, Maria Positano, Carolina Pozzi, Giovanni Randazzo

May – August 2022 @ Archivio Viafarini
Afra Al Dhaheri, Alessandra Caccia, Francesco Fontana, Paola Gaggiotti, Pól McLernon, Dan Parker, Daniela Spagna Musso, Vera Pravda, Anelys Wolf

January – April 2022 @ VIR
Emanuele Caprioli, Matheus Chiaratti, Clarissa Falco, Carlo Galli, Silvia Mantellini Faieta, Margherita Mezzetti, Lorenzo Montinaro, Raffaele Morabito, Silvia Negrini, Silvia Paci, Eleonora Roaro, Luca Zarattini, Federica Zianni

January – April 2022 @ Archivio Viafarini
Rebecca Agnes, Sonia Arienta, Luca Cutrufelli, Francesco Fontana, Paola Gaggiotti, Francesco Meloni, Sasha Marshani, Vera Pravda e la curatrice Catherine Barnabé

September – December 2021 @ VIR
Bislacchi, Sofia Bordin, Emanuele Caprioli, Matheus Chiaratti, Paul Devens, Margherita Mezzetti, Silvia Mantellini Faieta, Silvia Paci, Shuai Peng, Greta Pllana, Bea Roggero Fossati, Chiara Ventura, Shaoqi Yin, Luca Zarattini, Federica Ziann

September – December 2021 @ Archivio Viafarini
Rebecca Agnes, Federica Belli, Julia Krahn, Marco Mazzi, Vera Pravda, Francesco Stelitano

May – August 2021 @ VIR
Jonathan Colombo, Fernando Foglino, Federica Gisana, Ghezziagerskov, Karl Van Welden, Emma Rose Hodne, Hyun Cho, Arjan Shehaj, Mattia Sugamiele, Verde Cordero di Montezemolo, Carola Provenzano, Vincenzo Zancana

May – August 2021 @ Archivio Viafarini
Giselle Borras, Julia Krahn, Vera Pravda, Francesco Stelitano

January – April 2021 @ VIR
Jonathan Colombo, Binta Diaw, Hyun Cho, Giuseppe Lo Schiavo, Nicolò Masiero Sgrinzatto, Ana Mrovlje, Lorenzo Modica, Ludovico Orombelli, Adelisa Selimbasic, Arjan Shehaj, Mattia Sugamiele, Vincenzo Zancana

January – April 2021 @ Archivio Viafarini
Gaia Coals, Julia Krahn, Sergio Leitao, Francesca Migone, Jacopo Natoli, Vera Pravda, Francesco Stelitano

September – December 2020 @ VIR
Hyun Cho, Binta Diaw, Clarissa Falco, Sergio Leitao, Giuseppe Lo Schiavo, Emily Mannion, Pau Masclans, Nicolò Masiero Sgrinzatto, Ana Mrovlje, Lorenzo Modica, Ludovico Orombelli, Mattia Sugamiele, Vincenzo Zancana.

September – December 2020 @ Archivio Viafarini
Rebecca Agnes, Francesco Bartoli, Gianmarco Donaggio, David Michel Fayek, Julia Krahn, Marco Mazzi, Francesca Migone, Vera Pravda

May – August 2020 @ VIR
Francesco Fontana, Liana Ghukasyan, Francesca Migone, Ludovico Orombelli, Lucy Jane Turpin, Andreas Zampella, Vincenzo Zancana

May – August 2020 @ Archivio Viafarini
David Michel Fayek, Elettra Gorni, Julia Krahn, Mitikafe, Muriel Paraboni, Vera Pravda, Martina Rota, Daniela Spagna Musso, Virgilio Villoresi

January – April 2020 @ VIR
Giuseppe Buzzotta, Chiara Capellini, Léa Dumayet, Nicola Facchini, Giammarco Falcone, Liana Ghukasyan, Miriam Montani, Claudia Petraroli, Mattia Sinigaglia, Thomas Soardi, Lucy Jane Turpin, Andreas Zampella, Vincenzo Zancana

January – April 2020 @ Archivio Viafarini
Kiri-Una Brito Meumann, Emanuela Barilozzi Caruso, Matteo Costanzo, Guildor, Wilmer Herrison, Giuseppe Mirigliano, Vera Pravda, Sonia Riccio, Agnese Spolverini, Matteo Vettorello

September – December 2019 @ VIR
Francesco Amato, Vittorio Mario Bianchi, Jaspal Birdi, Giuseppe Buzzotta, Alessandro Calabrese, Erwin van Doorn & Inge Nabuurs, Lea Dumayet, Giovanni Chiamenti, Larion Lozovoy, Leila Mirzakhani, Miriam Montani, Niccolò Moronato, Genuardi Ruta, Thomas Soardi, g. olmo stuppia

September – December 2019 @ Archivio Viafarini
Sonia Andresano, Daniela Ardiri, Lavinia Cestrone, Alessandra Draghi, Giuseppe Mirigliano, Gianluca Quaglia, Maria D. Rapicavoli, Daniela Spagna Musso, Agnese Spolverini, Danilo Torre, Matteo Vettorello

May – August 2019 @ VIR
Francesco Amato, Vittorio Mario Bianchi, Alessandro Calabrese, Giovanni Chiamenti, Genuardi Ruta, Silvia Morin, Niccolò Moronato, Opere Varie (Matteo & Ale Cor), Alessandro Simonini, Mattia Sinigaglia

May – August 2019 @ Archivio Viafarini
Sonia Andresano, Daniela Ardiri, Jaspal Birdi, Giuseppe De Siati, Giuseppe Mirigliano, Leila Mirzakhani, Francesco Nava, Daniela Spagna Musso, Gianluca Quaglia, The Cool Couple, Danilo Torre, Matteo Vettorello

January – April 2019 @ Archivio Viafarini
Sabato 6 aprile
Daniela Ardiri, Jaspal Birdi, Pietro Catarinella, Eva Macali, Leila Mirzakhani, Miriam Montani, Gianluca Quaglia, Matteo Vettorello

January – April 2019
Paolo Ciregia, Genuardi Ruta, Maria Luigia Gioffrè, Niccolò Moronato, Negin Moss, Opere Varie (Matteo & Ale Cor), Davide Serpetti, Alessandro Simonini, Jacopo Valentini, Gianluca Brando

September – December 2018
Francesca Battello, Andrea Bocca, Gianluca Brando, Pietro Catarinella, Giang Nguyen Hoang, Jacopo Martinotti, Matteo Nuti, Matteo Vettorello

Gabriel Hensche
Looking at a Zebra, October 2018

September – December 2018
Daniel Barclay, Francesca Battello, Andrea Bocca, Gianluca Brando, Pietro Catarinella, Cosimo Filippini, Gabriel Hensche, Peter Kaegaard, Giang Nguyen Hoang, Iva Lulashi, Jacopo Martinotti, Matteo Nuti, Matilde Sambo, Matteo Vettorello

May – August 2018
Margaux Bricler, Claudio Corfone, Cosimo Filippini, Iva Lulashi, Filippo Manzini, Yari Miele, Gianluca Quaglia, Fabio Roncato, Matilde Sambo, The Cool Couple

January – April 2018
Davide Dicorato, Maurice Pefura, Marta Colombo, Vera Portatadino, Gianmarco Porru, Sara Ravelli, Fabio Roncato, Laura Santamaria, Matilde Sambo, Yoogin Kim

September – December 2017
Jonathan Gobbi e Marco Furlani, Yoogin Kim, Marta Margnetti, Sandrine Morgante, Georgia René-Worms, Gabriel Stoeckli, Matilde Sambo, April Whoiwon Moon

May – August 2017
Federica Bruni, Pamela Diamante, Giuseppina Giordano, Isabella Mongelli, Matteo Pasin, Arya Tabandehpoor, Natalia Trejbalova

January – April 2017
Lorenzo Kamerlengo, Giulio Saverio Rossi, Claudia Sinigaglia, Baukje Spaltro, Sacha Turchi

September – December 2016
Pamela Breda, Simona Da Pozzo, Diego Gualandris, Rada Kozelj, Francesco Maluta, Letizia Scarpello, Giulio Scalisi

January – April 2016
Canemorto, Stefano Canto, Marco Ceroni, Mohammadjavad Jahangir, Mohammadreza Mirzaei, Stefano Serretta

September – December 2015
Simon Belleau, Mathilde Chenin, Emilie Parendeau, Jacopo Trabona, Simon Fravega

January – April 2015
Riccardo Arena, Peter Aeschermann, Alessandra Caccia, Gabriella Ciancimino, Enza Galantini, Corinne Mazzoli, Cristiano Menchini, Gabriele Porta, Claudia Rossini, Aleksander Veliscek

September – December 2014
Barbara De Ponti, Martino Genchi, Elena Mazzi, Nabb + Teeri, Parasite 2.0, Valerio Nicolai, Emanuela Rizzo

January – August 2014
Davide Allieri, Rao Caixi, Nikita Kadan, Cristiana Palandri, Hugo Scibetta, Chen Wei, Liu Yue

September – December 2013
Enrico Boccioletti, Isaac Contreras, Roberto Fassone, Pasquale Gadaleta, Toni Fiorentino, Luca Resta, Sebastiano Sofia, Federico Tosi, Carloalberto Treccani

April – August 2013
Julia Brown, Stefano Cagol, Helen Dowling, Jean-Baptiste Maitre, Fabio Marullo, Chiara Pergola, Ornaghi & Prestinari, Susanna Schoenberg, Marco Strappato, Alberto Venturini

January – March 2013
Nairi Baghramian, Sara Benaglia, Giallo Concialdi, Andrea De Stefani, Andrea Magaraggia, Diego Petroso, Agne Raceviciute

September – December 2012
Augusta Atla, Cristobal Gracia, Graziano Folata, Cecilie Hjelvik Andersen, Simone Longaretti, Francesc Ruiz

May – August 2012
Alessandro Di Pietro, Niccolò Gandolfi, Vaclav Litvan, Maria Pecchioli, Pietro Spoto

January – April 2012
Sara Enrico, Marinella Senatore, Valentina Vetturi

September – December 2011
Maurice Blok, Anna Franceschini, Riccardo Giacconi, Amande In

May – July 2011
Fausto Falchi, Hannah Heilmann

January – March 2011
Giorgio Guidi, Jasa, Matthew Stone

September – November 2010
Sharon Houkema, Igor Muroni, Joanne Robertson

May – July 2010
Loukia Alavanou, Marco Bonafè, Johanna Laitanen

January – March 2010
Xabier Salaberria, Dragana Sapanjos, Pavel Sterec

September – November 2009
Jonathan Baldock, Shane Campbell, Julia Staszak

May – July 2009
Sefer Memisoglu, Scott Treleaven

January – February 2009
Marta Fernandez Calvo / Chequerboard

October – November 2008
Kim Jones

April – July 2008
Benjamin Greber, Ulrich Vogl

February – April 2008
Alberto Tadiello

October – November 2007
Irena Lagator

Curators in residence

Yohsuke Ishizuka (2026)
Luca Seguenza (2024)
Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou Greece (2023)
Catherine Barnabé Canada (2022)
Silvia Conta (2019)
Tereza Zachova Czech Republic (2018)
Marketa Stara Czech Republic (2017)
Georgia René-Worms France (2017)
Anna Fatyanova Russia/Switzerland (2016)
Jussi Koitela Finland (2014)
Tereza Jindrova Czech Republic (2014)
Virginie Bobin France (2014)
Branka Bencic Croatia (2014)
Chelsea Haine USA (2014)
Tara McDowell USA (2014)
Fanny Gonella Germany (2013)
Elena Filipovic USA (2013)
Giulia Bini (2013)
Lýdia Pribišová Slovakia (2013)
Jenni Nurmenniemi Finland (2012)
Simone Frangi (2012)
Nirith Nelson Israel (2012)
Miriam Varadinis Switzerland (2011)
Amara Antilla USA (2011)
Ciara Ennis USA (2010) 
Alessio Antoniolli United Kingdom (2008)
Kaja Pawelek Poland (2008)
Karin Eklund United Kingdom (2006)
Els Van Odijk Netherland (2006)
Christoph Tannert Germany (2006)
Euridice Arratia USA (2006)

Australia Council Studio Milan (1996-2009)

Ben McCarthey (2009), Trent Jansen (2009), Daniel McDonald (2009), Angela Brennan (2008), Catherine Aldrete-Morris (2008), Tim Sterling (2008), John Barbour (December 2007 – March 2008), Grant Hill (2007), Mark Hilton (2007), Marcel Sigel (2007), Simone Mangos (2007), Kylie Stillman (2006), George Popperwell (2006), Sharon Green (2006), Daniel Mafe (December 2005 – March 2006), Michael Kutschbach (2005), Brian Steendyk (2005), Sangeeta Sandrasegar (2005), Lucas Chirnside (December 2004 – March 2005), Nat & Ali (2004), Nicholas Kelly (2004), John Neeson (2004), Pamela Aitken (December 2003 – March 2004), Jo-Anne Duggan (2003), Katthy Cavaliere (2003), Adrienne Doig (2003), Lisa Kelly (December 2002 – March 2003), Nicole Voevodin-Cash (2002), Enlai Hooi (2002), Lorenna Grant (2002), Ceridwen Rees (December 2001 – March 2001), Nicki Biggins (2001), Michael Zavros (2001), Simone LeAmon (2001), Su Baker (December 2000 – March 2001), Sonja Porcaro (2000), Lucas Ihlein (2000), Damiano Bertoli (2000), Marco Fusinato (December 1999 – March 2000), Jan Murray (1999), Maria Ionico (1999), Jonathan Hodgkin (1998), Christopher Koller (1997), Annabelle Collett (1997), Pamela Gaunt (1997), Bridie Landers (October 1996 – January 1997), Rodney Spooner (1996)

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