In 2025, A Tale of A Tub established a residency program aimed at engaging more directly with the residential context within which we reside. Simply put, the goal of the residency is to support artists throughout the developmental stages of a project—rather than working towards an explicit outcome—and to do so in a way that both inhabits and activates our spaces differently (say, outside regular opening hours and while feeling somewhat at home). Through this aspect of our program, we’re aiming to make visible moments of artistic production that occur outside the usual presentational focus, and to encourage encounters between artists and publics at all stages of the making process. The resident is selected through an annual open call and in conversation with an external partner. In 2025, curator Amy Jones took up this role. The next open call will be announced in the summer of 2026.

Current projects

CURATOR-IN-RESIDENCE 2026

Baby Reni

Baby Reni has been selected as our first A Tale of A Tub x Amarte curator-in-residence, the moniker of Vietnamese-Dutch artist and designer Irene Ha. In deconstructing fashion conventions from an artistic standpoint, her work draws connections between the contemporary culture she grew up in and the traditional customs of her Vietnamese heritage. Working in the tradition of artists who critically engage with the strategies of luxury brands and their cultural institutions, she operates at the intersection of commerce, identity and cultural infrastructure. Alongside her art practice, Ha has run Baby Reni Foundation since 2023, a fictional-but-functioning institution operating out of her own living room, staged as a parody of Western post-war art discourse and the white cube. Drawing on her fashion background to explore things like branding, trend, merchandising and arts patronage, Baby Reni offers a really unique and exciting perspective on curatorial practice, thinking mediation, (self-)financing and methodology from the domestic setting of her own living room. As A Tale of A Tub is itself situated in a residential context, we are excited to further explore together what domestic settings can mean for an art institution and the audience that literally lives around it.

2025

Artist-in-Residence 2025

Lili Huston-Herterich

Rotterdam-based artist Lili Huston-Herterich was selected as the inaugural resident for the newly established residency program at A Tale of A Tub. During her residency, Huston-Herterich will take the institution itself as a site of negotiation, in turn engaging the very context of the pilot residency as material for a larger project. Central to the project is a mutual exchange between A Tale of A Tub and Huston-Herterich, through which she will explore possible modes of acknowledgement and citation in the field of art that can hold the many labours, contexts and situated specificities that artistic practices depend on. At the heart of this is an invitation to us as an institution to (self-)reflect on our own practices of inscription—something that is as much a welcome provocation as it is a necessity for the field at large.