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: contact Petra Van Brabandt for more information
Visiting researchers 2025-2026
Research groups at the Antwerp Schools of Arts and ARIA regularly receive visiting researchers, both phd and master as well as postdoc researchers.
Virginia Rett Lemos
- Home institution: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil
- Visiting research student at ARIA (CCQO)
- Period: 1 February 2026 - 31 July 2026
- Research domain: Cultural Policies in Brazil
Virginia's PhD research advocates the importance of a continuous critical analysis of the social inequalities that persist in challenging access to and the implementation of cultural policies in Brazil. Focusing on art education activities with adolescents in juvenile detention centers, it adopts affectivity as praxis, considering cultural institutions as fundamental spaces for fostering sharing in encounters with diversity. The concept of ethical-political suffering is employed as a central analytical tool, particularly in relation to the affects of groups most impacted by social injustices associated with processes of exclusion and perverse inclusion. Artistic practices are examined as potential instruments for the construction of the commons, emphasizing the importance of imagination as a mediating force in the ongoing movement of co-creating signs and perceptions regarding new possibilities of coexistence.