Results and outlook | February 2026 | DutchCulture|TransArtists and IGBK
In 2025, DutchCulture|TransArtists and IGBK, together with a consortium of regional partners, organized a two-day meeting "AiR Cross Border meeting NL-DE 2025" for residency operators, artists, and art organizers to share transregional contexts and interests in cross-border cultural cooperation. The gathering also included a field trip in cooperation with the Borderland Residencies program and a joint panel at the Reading the Region conference at Kunsthaus NRW in Kornelimünster, hosted by the trinational network Very Contemporary.
With this event and position paper, DutchCulture|TransArtists and IGBK aim to strengthen interregional and cross-border cultural cooperation in Europe. Artist-in-residence programs and cultural cooperation, particularly in rural and interregional contexts, are key to sustaining European integration at a time when it is more important than ever.
