Amarte Fonds

OPEN CALL #1

Amarte warmly invites artists, creators, and creative professionals to participate in the cultural season at Ruigoord. Would you like to present your work in a context where art, nature, and spirituality converge? Apply now!

OPEN CALL #2

Creative Coding Utrecht (CCU) and Amarte invite artists to submit an application for a research residency at Hof van Cartesius in Utrecht. Do you work at the intersection of art, technology, and ecology and would you like to develop a site-specific performance or installation? Apply now!

OPEN CALL #3

Amarte and Cinekid are once again offering two artists the opportunity to develop a new interactive and immersive work for Cinekid MediaLab 2026. Are you a game developer, interactive installation artist, AI specialist, XR developer, creative coder, or someone who blends different media forms in innovative ways? Then we’re looking for you!

OPEN CALL #4

FASHIONCLASH and Amarte are once again joining forces to give artists from various disciplines the opportunity to experiment with fashion and present new work during FASHIONCLASH Festival (13–15 November 2026) in Maastricht. Are you an artist based in the Netherlands? Have you always wanted to collaborate with a fashion designer and engage with the fashion context? Apply now!

OPEN CALL #5

Attention, performative makers! This summer, Amarte, once again in collaboration with De Nijverheid, offers three short, intensive duo residencies for performative makers, focusing on interdisciplinary work on location. Are you a maker within a performative discipline (dance, theater, spoken word, performance art) looking for the challenge of collaborating with another maker? Apply now!

Met Borduurwerk Verbinden: Verhalen van Koerdische Vrouwen

Handan Tufan

Handan Tufan received a grant to develop new work. Met Borduurwerk Verbinden: Verhalen van Koerdische Vrouwen explores how portraits and personal narratives of Kurdish women in the Netherlands merge into an interdisciplinary image, blending photography, embroidery, and oral history. The project translates these stories into embroidered portraits, making lost connections between women, generations, and regions visible once more. The work illuminates identity, autonomy, and the principle of Jin Jiyan Azadî (political Kurdish slogan, symbolizing resistance against oppression and the fight for women's rights) in a poetic and experimental manner.Handan is an artist and storyteller specializing in photography and embroidery. She combines visual portraits with textiles to reveal personal and collective memories. Her practice focuses on identity, memory, and connection, with particular attention to the overlooked stories of women from the Kurdish diaspora. Previous works by Handan have been exhibited at De Balie and various other venues.

The Amarte Foundation was founded by a number of individuals and their families who share a deep love for the arts. They wish to support the development of creatives and talent in arts and culture by providing financial means and where possible coaching, knowledge and experience. Artists who are active in the cultural sectors of the Netherlands or the ABC and SSS islands (the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) can apply to Amarte for the support of projects in the field of theatre, film, music, visual arts and literature, as well as interdisciplinary projects.