3Package Deal Bio Art & Design

Waag gives artists and designers with an interest in biology, ecology and life sciences the opportunity to work using the facilities of the Open Wetlab and Fablab as artist-in-residence and to present their work within our public programme. We do this in collaboration with Amsterdam partners within the Bio Art & Design coalition as part of the 3Package Deal of the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK).

3Package Deal

Stimulating and facilitating top talent with affordable living and working space, budget and a network - that is the goal of the 3Package Deal, a programme of the AFK and Bureau Broedplaatsen (BBp) in the field of talent development.

Per art discipline, the AFK, together with BBp, sets up coalitions of renowned and innovative art institutions from Amsterdam. These institutions select and supervise the top talents during a year in which they work towards a final presentation that makes their development visible to the city.

The first artist in this programme was in 2016 Agatha Haines. In 2017-2018 Pei-Ying Lin was our guest. And in 2018-2019 it is Isabel Burr Raty, 20219-2020 Sasa Spaçal, 2021-2022 Phillip Kolmann, 2022-2023 Margherita Soldati, 2024 Noa Jansma, 2025 Kexin Hao, 2026 Luca Conte.

In the 3Package Deal Bio Art & Design coalition, Waag collaborates with Mediamatic and researchers of the Society of the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) at Free University Amsterdam.

Here, you can find links to all the previous 3PD Bio Art Design candidates.