SEA Foundation provides residencies for artistic research, experimentation, and production out of which an ongoing public programme emerges.

The building where the SEA Foundation is housed originally belonged to the Tilburg-based tobacco merchant Gust van Dijk (1884–1977).

In the 1930s, Gust van Dijk commissioned the construction of a retail residence in the style of the New Objectivity, on the former Bosscheweg in Tilburg.

[2] Tailor-made residencies with the goal of deepening and developing one's artistic practice, are the core activity of SEA Foundation.

The residency program AiR Tilburg, which was founded in 2013,[3] is intended to provide professionals in the visual arts with the opportunity for artistic research and facilitate new productions.