Visual Arts & Design

The ‘Sinti and Roma Art in Context’ residency programme offers local, national, or international Sinti and Roma artists a two-month residency from 15 September - 15th November 2023. Applicants should have a background in one of the following areas: photography, literature, illustration and comics, or theatre and movie screenwriting and music (composition and interpretation).

The Norwegian Sculptors Society (Norsk Billedhoggerforening), Bodø2024 and Bodø Municipality seek five artists for KUNSTKANTEN: a new and unique outdoor exhibition arena in Bodø. In 2024 they will establish five art spots – platforms for art – that enter into dialogue with a city and a society undergoing change.

Goethe-Institut Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines together with SAVVY Contemporary, TanzFaktur, and Leipzig International Art Programme are looking for two-month residency applications in visual art and performing art.

Professional artists can register their interest in a commission of an Antiracist Monument in Jesusparken in Malmö. Production will take place March 2024 - September 2025.

The organisation SchUM is leading the process to nominate the Jewish communities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz as a UNESCO World Heritage site. In connection with this, they are offering up to three project fellowships for the realisation of an artistic project that addresses the history of the ShUM communities and their religious, cultural and architectural legacy. The residency will last for 4 to 6 weeks and is scheduled between October 2021 and February 2022 (start date in 2021).

AIR Blekinge will select two visual artists from the Baltic Sea region to live and work at AIR Blekinge during one month from 18 September – 13 October 2023, with the possibility of a later return for collaborations or exhibitions.

Applications are currently open for Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS)’s International Creator Residency Programme, targeted at individual creators working in visual arts, film, design and architecture. Residencies last three months, taking place in 2024 and 2025. Applicants should reside outside of Japan and have 5 years or more of experience in their specialised area of expertise. Both individuals and duo creators can apply.

ZIDART - Street ART Festival seeks proposals for mural paintings to be implemented at its next edition from 14 August - 5 September 2023. The theme is ‘Less is More’.

Designregio Kortrijk is looking for 3 highly motivated and recently graduated designer-makers or creative artists to join in a regional residency programme in Kortrijk, Belgium. The Designers in Residence Kortrijk programme runs 1 September - 26 October 2023.

Urban Festival UIT is calling for installations for the 2023 festival, themed ‘Urban Pause’. The central theme focuses on the wastelands and voids of Tartu. Projects will be realised as a temporary installation in public space. The approach to the installation is open to interpretation and can be cross-disciplinary; the installation will be exhibited during the festival week (16-19 August 2023).

The WIP Arts and Technology Festival invites artists from all over the world to showcase their work in WIP23 which will take place in the CYENS Centre of Excellence and various venues in the old town of Nicosia, Cyprus between 20 October – 3 November 2023.

7th Extinction is an international artistic residency project focused on the most pressing issues of evolution, extinction and environmental crisis. This open call is for musicians, music producers, and visual artists (VJs, video producers, visual creatives) between 18-35 years old who are resident or domiciled in Portugal or Germany. Selected applicants will join an educational programme (in Italy, Portugal and Germany) September - December 2023, and an artistic residency spread over a 2-week period at 3 different points in 2024.