Call for PhD Applications NOW OPEN!
Do you want to join SLARG and do a PhD in the visual arts at Sint Lucas Antwerpen (KdG)/ARIA (University of Antwerp)?
For the 2025 call, there are four PhD fellowships available in the visual arts.
One of these is reserved for a pilot collaboration with Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
The successful candidates receive a 50% assistant postion at Sint Lucas Antwerpen and is admitted to the doctoral program of ARIA (University of Antwerp). The research duration is four years, starting with a 2-year contract that is once renewable upon positive evaluation.
The PhD fellowship in collaboration with Jan van Eyck is thematically defined as follows:
We invite proposals in artistic research that explore the ways center, periphery, and margin are reconfigured through circulation in contemporary art. While artists deeply engage with local communities and infrastructures of resistance, they also navigate the temporality of residencies, exhibitions, and mobility. What happens to situated practice when it relocates? What traces, absences, or continuities does it leave behind? Combining theory and research-creation, the PhD project shall examine how dwelling, movement, and return shape artistic methodologies, aesthetics, and ethics.
Jan van Eyck Academie offers the selected PhD fellow:
- 3 months/year the possibility to join the Jan van Eyck community: the fellow will have a private studio space, will have access to Jan van Eyck advisers, can make use of the expertise of the Labs, and can join the (public) programme of the academy
- 1000€/year production budget
The due date for applications is 1 March 2026. Please indicate on the application form if you are specifically applying for the collaboration with Jan van Eyck Academy!
Applications submitted by the 1st of March 2026 are expected to have two supervisors (Sint Lucas Antwerpen and University of Antwerp). You can find potential SLARG-supervisors on this website, by going to People and filtering on Supervisors. Check first if your research interests are compatible with theirs!
Please go to Sint Lucas Antwerpen website for the Application Form and all formal requirements. Also first check out ARIA website and carefully read the ARIA PhD Roadmap.