Who can apply? Saari ResidenceFor residency applicants Saari Residence in Mynämäki, Finland Working at the Saari Residence Who can apply? What we offer Accommodation and workspaces Instructions for the online grant service Evaluation and decisions Frequently asked questions For Saari residents Accepting the residency and arriving at the Saari Residence Use of the residency grant and rescheduling Payment of residency grants Living and working at the Saari Residence Residency programmes Taxation and grant certificate Residency report The Saari Well Communication and social media Mentioning Kone Foundation and Saari Residence and the logos Saari Alumni Previous Residency Artists Community artist Ecologically sustainable residency The Culture Trail The Saari Invited Artist Residencies Reflected About Saari Residence History of Saari Manor Saari Residence co-operation The Advisory Board of the Saari Residence Saari Residence staff 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. WHO CAN APPLY The residency is intended for individual professional artists and work pairs of all disciplines and all nationalities for the purpose of carrying out a project proposed in advance. Non-fiction writers and researchers are not eligible for a residency. The residencies are open to individual professional artists, also work pairs fiction writers poets translators composers curators critics and work pairs in various fields living in Finland and abroad. Applicants must be professional artists. They may also be researchers in artistic research from doctoral level and above (post-doc, etc.), but residencies are not awarded for students, study or work placements. Researchers and non-fiction writers whose academic research is not artistic research are not eligible to apply for a residency. WHEN? 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? The residency is meant for artistic work. We favour fields of art and subjects that are multidisciplinary, new and emerge from outside the mainstream. We appreciate persevering, unhurried and in-depth work. We emphasise diversity in the artist selection for the residence. For each two-month residency we choose Finnish and foreign artists, young and more experienced artists as well as artists representing different art forms. Another central criterion is that the artist’s work is innovative and current. The objective is that at least some residents represent new or marginal art forms. Saari Residence for researchers funded by Kone Foundation Individual researchers working on sustainability-related research, researchers or teams funded by the Foundation as well as Metsän puolella (“For the Woods”) projects can stay at the Saari Manor’s main building for short intensive periods (maximum 1-2 weeks). A maximum of eight people at a time can stay in the main building. Accommodation will be in shared double rooms. The arrival date for the residency is always a weekday, during office hours. Departure is agreed on a case-by-case basis, but the check-out is by Saturday noon at the latest for one-week stays. For further information and to enquire about timetables, please get in touch with Annika Dahlsten, Residency director, at annika.dahlsten@koneensaatio.fi. Return to the residency applicants’ main page