EL-ELFA FOUNDATION
Our Vision
The Team
Mojiri House
Objekt 4000 Bunker
Casa Buenavida
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Our Vision
The Team
Mojiri House
Objekt 4000 Bunker
Casa Buenavida
Apply Now (self-paid)
Apply Now (fully-funded)
EL- ELFA
EXPERIENTIAL LOCALES
EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORIES
FOUNDATION OF ART
EL ELFA Foundation is a global arts residency program focused on offering space, time, and resources to research, create, and develop.
ETHICS
As an organization founded by artists - for artists - we place the highest importance on ethical, creative, and business practices over the standardized profitization of artistic work. We value artists who are dedicated to craftsmanship and transparent crediting over industrialized and egocentric creative processes that take credit for the work of many or produce innumerable versions of the same work for the purposes of speculation. As working artists, we understand the need for artists to monetize their hard labor, and we hope to help in this process by pushing the agenda of free creation over factory-like mass production. We value circular processes of creation and reject the processes by which the art industry creates anthropogenic mass rather than reusing the cemeteries strewn omnipresently around us.
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Founded in 2021 with our first location, a group of artists based in Berlin rehabilitated a Soviet Nuclear Warhead Bunker into what today is a thriving cultural, artistic, and music space that regularly hosts exhibitions, workshops, and events. We now aim to expand our network to the global sphere with the help of our global partners and like-minded creatives across the world.
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Our network currently offers over 5+ residency programs around the world, and we are currently in the process of opening additional spaces, including:
By 1991, the USSR closed the doors of its Nuclear Warhead Storage facility and a military base near the historic town of Juterbog within the Brandenburg district. Thirty-one years later, we reopen the doors of the Soviet-titled OBJEKT 4000 nuclear bunker to welcome artistic dissent and the antithesis of what this space was designed for.
We now invite artists to interact with the space and its history to re-imagine our shared togetherness during the current turbulent times through an intersectional lens and dynamic collaboration.
Purchased in 2024, the Mojiri House is nestled in the foothills of central Hokkaido, Japan. Well connected to Sapporo, Ashahikawa, and Furano, the Mojiri House has multiple available studios (wood, textile, music, metal, and visual arts). We invite artists to participate in cross-cultural exchange with nearby Japanese art collectives such as Footen Wonderland and SyuRamp, as well as the greater artistic communities of Hokkaido’s major cities, Sapporo and Asahikawa.
The home of a family of artists, situated right outside the village of Alajeró, La Gomera, Canary Islands. The house was built by hand with attention to detail and love for the nature around. It has open land available as well as a small studio, newly built in 2025, that allows for multiple uses; wood, metal, stone and painting.
Our concept is intentionally flexible. Each residency runs its own open calls and funding opportunities, while the foundation works toward building a shared fund that will support needs-based assistance, new fabrication spaces, and fully funded residency programs. By keeping the structure decentralized, we allow each place to speak in its own voice while still contributing to a collective movement.