The orientation trips have been organized since 2004. In November 2026, the trip will go to China (Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong).
The programme consists of visits to museums, art institutions, galleries, artist-in-residencies, artist studios, collectors’ homes and local key figures in the different cities.
This year’s trip is organised in collaboration with the Danish Arts Agency (Denmark) and Office for Contemporary Art (Norway).
Visual artists, curators, and art observers were recently able to sign up for the orientation trip. Please see the call on this page under ‘more information’.
Blog
The participants of the orientation trip have been keeping a blog since 2009. On the blog you can follow the journey from day to day.
Previous trips
Previous trips were made to India and Thailand (2025); Ghana and Ivory Coast (2024); Central-America (2023), Spain and Portugal (2022), the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan (2019), South-Africa and Zimbabwe (2018), United States of America and Cuba (2017), Iran and Armenia (2016), Chile and Colombia (2015), Gwangju in Korea and Tokyo, Yokohama and the Setouchi Islands in Japan (2014), Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary (2013), Indonesia and China (2012), Mali, Senegal and Morocco (2011), Turkey, Nigeria and Mali (2010), Brazil, Argentina and Peru (2009), Bangladesh, India and the United Arab Emirates (2008), Mexico and Curaçao (2007), South Africa and Senegal (2006), China (2005), and the Middle East (2004).