Biennale College ASAC – Writing in Residence 2025

La Biennale di Venezia announces the new call for the Biennale College ASAC – Writing in Residence programme 2026, being launched today, Thursday 14 May, on the website www.labiennale.org.

The Biennale College ASAC - Writing in Residence programme is open to young graduates under 30 from all over the world with an excellent knowledge of Italian language, spoken and written.

Thanks to Swiss Seaside Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 2008 in Switzerland that supports projects related to children, youth, family and the environment.

The call launched today is dedicated to young graduates under 30, aimed at writing a critical text that will be collected in a publication of La Biennale di Venezia. For each of the above-mentioned sectors, the artistic directors have identified a research topic related to the programs of the festivals and exhibitions, to be explored in depth in the Historical Archive of Contemporary Arts (ASAC) of La Biennale. The young scholars selected starting from the proposed theme carry out in Archive, guided by tutors, a search of sources and documents for the drafting of a text of up to 15 pages.

The call launched today covers the following sectors and themes:

Writing on Theatre, theme Alter NATIVE.
Tutor: Katia Ippaso.
Deadline: 24 May 2026.

Writing on Dance, theme Time Does Not Exist.
Tutor: Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino.
Deadline: 31 May 2026.

Biennale College ASAC – Writing in residence, now in its 9^th edition, is one of the activities of the Historical Archive of La Biennale, International Research Center on Contemporary Arts, within which research programs are developed also in connection with cultural institutions and universities as well as special projects such as, among the most recent, the new magazine La Biennale di Venezia, reborn after 54 years after its last publication.