Visiting Researchers

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
• ​Intermatter (formerly 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
• ​Research activities at 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

Research groups at the Antwerp Schools of Arts and ARIA regularly receive visiting researchers, both phd and master as well as postdoc researchers.

Pietro Pancella

• Home institution: Conservatorio Statale di Musica 'Luisa D'Annunzio', Pescara
• Visiting research student at ARIA (CCQO)
• Period: 12 October 2026 - 23 April 2027
• Research: 
  
  Pietro's doctoral project 'A Vuoto' examines musical improvisation through experimental performance practices with a prepared double bass, questioning the relationship between gesture, body and sound. Theoretically he deepens that research through questions of inoperativity in Agamben and of the common intellect, always in dialogue with the social and institutional dimensions of artistic practice.
  

Francesco Alberico

• Home institution: Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli
• Visiting research student at ARIA (CCQO)
• Period: 12 October 2026 - 12 April 2027
• Research: 
  
  Contemporary Art and Mental Health: Exploring co-creation, participatory methodologies, and alternative artistic distribution models in relation to the historical frameworks of psychiatric reform and outsider art.