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The Saari Residence, maintained by Kone Foundation, is a residence located in Mynämäki, Southwest Finland, for artists of all disciplines and nationalities. At the Saari Residence, artists and researchers can focus on their work in a peaceful rural environment and share their thoughts and experiences with colleagues. The residence’s long-term activities and thinking are underpinned by an ecological approach, which also covers social and mental sustainability. Its keywords are slowness, insight and change.
The residency places are intended for individual professional artists, fiction writers, poets and novelists, translators, composers, sound artists, curators and critics and artistic collectives (i.e., a workgroup or established organisation with a Business ID) of all disciplines and all nationalities for the purpose of carrying out a project proposed in advance. Individual residency can be applied for with a work partner in a joint application; the details of both applicants must be included in the same application. Non-fiction writers and researcher are not eligible for a residency.
The two-month residency periods in 2026 are January-February, March-April, September-October and November-December. We do not award residencies longer or shorter than two months.
What are residencies for?
Residency places are for artistic work. We favour fields of art and subjects that are multidisciplinary, new and emerge from outside the mainstream.
Apply for a residency by submitting your application and attachments through the Online Grant Service. The service is open during the annual application period in March. Applications cannot be submitted after the deadline. Residencies are always applied for the following year.