Finnish

Oulu2026 is looking for an International Relations Coordinator to join their enthusiastic and competent Oulu2026 team. The position starts on 1 January 2024 or according to agreement and is temporary until 31 March 2027.

Zodiak – Centre for New Dance in Helsinki is calling for applications for co-productions to premiere in 2025. Zodiak are looking for proposals that incorporate an essential relationship to dance and bodily performance, as well as an idea of how to form an audience relationship.

As part of the European project More-than-Planet, Finnish partner Photo North - Northern Photographic Centre is launching an open call for artists for two residency programmes in 2023 and 2024 at Pyhäsalmi Mine and Oulanka National Park in Finland. The programme aims to re-examine the way people understand and picture the environment on the level of the planet as a conceptual whole. The residency is open to all forms of art but places an emphasis on artistic practices that employ lens-based techniques.

The Research Pavilion is an international and cross-institutional platform for processes, discussions, and collaborations in the field of artistic research, coordinated by Uniarts Helsinki. The Uniarts Research Pavilion (RP#5) will host a series of artist and artist-researcher residencies during spring 2023 and will culminate in an on-location event in June 2023 in Helsinki.

This open call is looking for site-specific projects to be produced in Vadsø during the Varanger festival 9-12 August 2023. The call is open to professional artists or artist groups from Finland or Finnish Lapland, as well as those who may not originally come from these areas, but who identify as northerners by virtue of either living in or having a connection with the north.

Oulu2026 and Upeart invite professional artists to participate in an open call for visual artists worldwide. This open call for portfolios seeks an artist or team of artists to realise a mural in Rajakylä, Oulu in August 2022.

In cooperation with the Aine Art Museum, Culture for All is organising two-month artist residencies from July to December 2022 with exhibitions in Tornio and Haparanda. The residency is open to disabled artists and artists who are Sign Language users from anywhere in the world.

How can art approach the issue of air? How can its interconnected immateriality be communicated using the methods of art? How can we ‘look’ at air, and what will we see when we turn our attention to it? Selected artworks will be presented at the Art Ii Biennial between 15-19 June 2022.

The Saari Residence in Finland, Northern Europe, is an international artist in residence for professional artists and artist collectives of various fields. The residency is maintained by Kone Foundation and located in Mynämäki, Southwest Finland. The two-month artist residency periods run from September to April, with eight Saari Fellows staying at the residency at a time. From May to August, the Saari Residence is reserved for intensive group work. Applications are now open for residencies next year.

The 20th edition of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place 14-19 September 2021 in Kuopio, Finland. The organisers are inviting artists, working in any field, to propose projects that directly engage with the theme of gifts and giving. Proposed projects must respond to the festival’s focus on public space (including interior and privately owned spaces). (ANTI does not show projects in traditional cultural spaces.)