Salzburg artist studios draw more applicants than spaces

Salzburg has received more applications than it has artist studios to offer in a new programme starting next year, ORF reports. The city is still adapting a building it has rented in the Schallmoos district.

The city plans to rent the studios for one year at a time to artists who live, work and exhibit in Salzburg. A decision on the first tenants is expected in December, with the studios due to open on 1 January.

The programme will provide 10 studios measuring 16 to 33 square metres, along with a 50-square-metre shared room. Monthly rents will range from 100 to 180 euros.

The rooms are in a former commercial building on Magazinstraße. City culture spokesman Sebastian Lankes said rising pressures in the property market were making it harder for artists to work, and that the studios were being rented as part of the city’s cultural strategy. The city council’s culture committee unanimously approved the plan.