Artists in Residence.
The Artist Residency at Erra offers a space for focused creation, reflection, and exchange.
The program primarily focuses on sculptors and hosts artists throughout the year on a invitation based programs.
Shaped by the seasons and the rhythms of the land, each residency encourages a slower approach to making — one rooted in observation, dialogue, and connection. Nature is not simply a backdrop, but an active presence in the creative process.
Through shared experiences, collective thinking, and meaningful encounters, Erra creates the conditions for artistic growth while offering space to pause, breathe, and imagine new possibilities.
How it works.
Invitation-based
The program is based primarily on invitation. The artists are selected by the Erra committee in dialogue with the collection and current artistic focus.
Duration
We plan around seasonality — spring and autumn are our primary periods, when the land is most alive.
What is provided
Alongside accomodation, we provide daily meals at our kitchen, Lelegler, and access to varying studios.
Artists & works.
A record of artists who have lived and worked at Erra — each leaving something of themselves in the land, the buildings, and the collection.
2025
Arran Gregory
London-based Arran Gregory is a British–Sri Lankan contemporary artist. His practice sits between sculpture, illustration, and occasional installation, with tensions between human and nature, biology and technology at the core of his work…
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2025
Batten and Kamp
In this work designed by Batten and Kamp, five stones, collected during journeys to different mountains surrounding ERRA, are placed as if consecrated within a circle of columns among jacaranda and olive trees…
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2025
Batten and Kamp & Arran Gregory
Working together, the artists developed a collaborative piece in aluminium that brings Batten and Kamp’s spatial, ritual sensibility into dialogue with Arran Gregory’s material, earth-bound practice.
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2025
Selin Nisa Açıkel
During my time at Erra, I had the unique opportunity to work in solitude amongst the ancient mountainous landscape, expanding my oil painting practice and experimenting with notions of domesticity and the fragility of framing…
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