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Narva Art Residency will offer three artists or creative duos funded residency places to create sculptural artworks or urban installations in the public spaces of Narva. These three residencies last from 1 July until 29 August.

IN EX(ILE) LAB are looking for artists in exile who want to develop a performance. If you are an artist in exile, currently based in Cyprus, France, Italy or Portugal and you have (or would like to develop) an artistic practice that relates to performance then IN EX(ILE) LAB wants to hear from you. Activities take place over the period from May 2023 to July 2024.

Deutscher Musikrat (the German Music Council) offers grants for residency programmes in Germany for musicians from Ukraine, Russia and Belorussia who had to flee their home countries as a consequence of the war in Ukraine. German-based professional music ensembles are eligible to apply to provide residencies between September and December 2022.

NDF residency programme offers placements to Belarusian art and cultural professionals (artists, musicians, writers, curators, managers etc.) regardless of their age or place of current residence (though due to financial constraints, the organisers will be able to cover travel costs only between countries situated in Europe). The residency offers a total of 11 placements in 5 countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.

Balvi Municipality in collaboration with Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre encourages artists to apply for participation in the International Painting Plein Air ‘Valdis Bušs 2022’. The Plein Air will take place 11-22 July 2022 in Viļaka, Latvia.

The Moscow International Biennale for Young Art is calling for proposals for a curatorial project for an exhibition during August-September 2022 at MMOMA’s building situated at 25 Petrovka Street. Applications for participation are accepted from curators aged 18 to 35 years from anywhere in the world.

The AYARKUT AIR Art Residency programme, initiated in 2021 by the AyarKut Foundation in Yakutsk, invites artists and collective (max. 3 people) to residencies in the Sakha Republic. There are three strands which respond to different characteristics of the local environment: ‘Indigenous Knowledge’, ‘Soundscape of the Arctic’, and ‘In dialogue with Nature’. Duration is 1 or 2 months.

CEC ArtsLink invites artists from around the world (with the exception of St. Petersburg, Russia), to propose public art projects examining how contemporary art organisations engage, support and unite local communities. The 8th Art Prospect Festival will include twenty projects by artists from around the world, created in collaboration with local arts organisations, as well as an on-site Festival of public art at the Gaza Palace of Culture in St. Petersburg. Public art works can be displayed for up to one month beginning with the festival opening on 23 September 2021.

The music and city festival Station Narva, scheduled to take place on 5-7 August 2021, has launched an open call for an urban art competition in collaboration with the Narva Museum Art Gallery and the Narva Art Residency (NART). Sculptures, installations, urban furniture, street art, outdoor exhibitions or other objects that enrich the public space and are defined by a specific location in Narva are welcome to enter the competition.

The new season of the Garage Digital grant program Situated Worlds invites artists and researchers to explore the idea of multiple coexisting worlds and ways of creating them, drawing on Donna Haraway’s theory of ‘situated knowledges’. The programme is open to Russian and international artists and groups applying with projects for a new work in any medium that allows for exhibition and distribution online.

Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Tallinn Art Hall and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius announce an open call to select creatives for an upcoming archipelago of events, tentatively titled History of Joy, Part 4. Visual artists, musicians, performers and writers from, based in or otherwise connected to the Baltic states are invited to propose ideas for contributions, which can take any form, either physical or virtual. All the contributions will be shared in one way or another on a common web platform.

The Artкommunalka residency invites international applications from contemporary visual artists and from writers working in Russian to apply for grants to realise creative projects in 2021. Successful applicants will be provided a residential workshop located in a building in the historic centre of Kolomna (Moscow), and the organisers welcome projects that relate to the local area.