Africa

The LAPA residency space in Brixton, Johannesburg is inviting two artists to undertake a residency as an artistic duo or pair. LAPA is open to artists across all disciplines based in Africa who have been professionally active for at least 6 years.

The Goethe-Institut Nairobi is looking for innovative curatorial concepts for exhibitions to be held in 2023. The exhibitions will be part of the Sasa Nairobi exhibition series, the Goethe-Institut’s main programme in visual art focusing on conceptual work in all media, with an emphasis on photography, video, installation, and performance art.

Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow (CCA) and QANAT (a collective platform held by LE 18 Marrakech) are pleased to announce a call for expressions of interest for six research residencies as part of Confluence, a 1-year residency and research programme taking place between Marrakech and Glasgow focused on water as a political, historical and economic substance. Residencies take place in September 2022 and January 2023.

The Music Imbizo - an international music business conference, exhibition and film festival - in South Africa is now calling on curators and promoters to apply for this year’s event in Durban from 23-28 August 2022.

Down the Wire Live is a six-month collaborative project between B’sarya (Egypt) and Cryptic (UK). Both organisations will support artists, enabling them to participate in a collaborative research and development project resulting in a live performance/event in both Glasgow and Alexandria. 16 artists will participate in an exchange on 6 July 2022, with 2 selected for a final exchange to take place between October 2022 – early April 2023.

We Make Books invites independent publishers from Africa and its Diaspora to participate in a two-day programme during the African Art Book (AABF) Fair in Dakar on 19 & 20 May 2022. The programme supports the creation of a dynamic network of art publishers on the African continent and the participants are invited to become part of a group of publishers engaged in a continuous exchange on art book making in 2022 and 2023.

‘A Natural Oasis?’ is a two-year nomadic free school dedicated to the development of new curatorial research paths in the field of contemporary visual and performing arts starting from the geopolitical peculiarities of the artistic scenes of those South-European and Mediterranean territories which are commonly considered remote, marginal, small, insular or liminal. 6 fellows (under 35) coming from Lebanon, Sardinia, France, Cyprus, Albania and Norway and working as curators, writers or artistic researchers will be supported to join the project.

The NZINGA Residency takes place over one month during October 2022 at the MOVART Gallery in Luanda, Angola. The programme is open to emerging female artists in contemporary African art (visual and plastic arts) who are nationals of one of the Portuguese-speaking African countries (Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, and São Tomé e Principe) or Timor Leste.

The African Cultural Fund (ACF) and 32bis (a contemporary art space in Tunis), are pleased co-organise the ACF Academy, which will take place between 4-22 July 2022 in Tunis. This programme will support 10 young visual artists from Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia to develop their artistic approach and sharpen their theoretical knowledge, as well as strengthen their entrepreneurial and professional skills.

The Wits Innovation Centre invites applications for a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship which will advance interdisciplinary research innovation at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, one of the leading research universities in Africa. The fellowship will initially be for one year, renewable on an annual basis for up to three years.

Plus d’infos en arabe Jiser présente une nouvelle édition des résidences de création qui se dérouleront sur la période 2022-2023.

In the kulturweit Tandem project, two participants – one from an African country and one from Germany – reappraise the history of colonialism and its effects on the present. Together you develop anti-racism projects that you can implement in theatres, museums and schools, in charities, initiatives or companies in Germany. The first round of the programme will take place between September 2022 and February 2023. You can apply if you live in Germany, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Namibia or Togo.