Open Calls for Artist Residencies

TransArtists is part of DutchCulture and shares knowledge and experience on artist-in-residence programmes, international opportunities for creative professionals to temporarily stay and work elsewhere. Check out TransArtists' latest open calls to help build extensive international networks.

Artist-in-residencies exist as open and reflective spaces for research and experimenting in the arts for production and presentation. These residencies help build extensive networks of relations: from artists, curators, and experts, to peers, local audiences, and partners (such as exhibition spaces, art academies, policymakers, funders and sponsors). The following open calls invite guests to work from within these local contexts, often applying cross-disciplinary approaches, and consequently exploring its existing structures and relations.

• Helikon Art Center (Başiskele, Turkey)

  Deadline: May 21. Helikon Art Center was founded in 2010. It is located near Izmit city of Kocaeli province, Başiskele district in Turkey. Helikon Art Center aims to host artists from all over the world in order to exchange ideas, create art works together, open exhibitions and organize art events. In this context, the Center has been organizing art residencies, hosting exhibitions and engaging in several art activities since 2014.

• Aomori Contemporary Art Center (Aomori, Japan)

  Deadline: May 22. The Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC), Aomori Public University opened in December 2001 as an artistic institution centered around an artist in residence program. The city of Aomori supports international exchanges focused on creating new culture, by supporting artists' creative activities centered on the artists-in-residence project, and deepening city residents' interest in local culture by providing a space where residents and artists can meet through exhibitions, workshops and other activities.

• ORTE Architekturnetzwerk Niederösterreich (Krems, Austria)

  Deadline: May 30. ’ORTE Architekturnetzwerk Niederösterreich’ annually grants a studio apartment in Krems as well as a scholarship financed by the Federal Province of Lower Austria to artists focusing their work on architecture. ORTE is dedicated to contemporary architecture education and building culture issues in Lower Austria and is interested in practice-related projects.

• Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts (Salzburg, Austria)

  Deadline: May 31. The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka as the “school of vision” in Hohensalzburg Fortress, is the oldest of its kind in Europe.

• Radar Sofia (Sofia, Bulgaria)

  Deadline: May 31. Radar is a new independent art hub dedicated to supporting creators that make a difference. Located in the heart of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, they offer a free live/work space, networking and presentation opportunities in a vibrant and inexpensive city, distinctly exotic for those who come from Western Europe, and warmly European for those who originate in the East.

• By Art Matters (Hangzhou, China)

  Deadline: May 31. BY ART MATTERS 天目里美术馆 is a contemporary art museum located in the OōEli 天目里 complex. It opened to the public on December 25, 2021, designed and built by Renzo Piano Building Workshop with a world-class museum standard.

• La Barre Artist Residency (Chalais, Centre-Val de Loire, France)

  Deadline: May 31. The La Barre Artist Residency is an artist-run initiative positioned in a small slice of rural french countryside in Chalais, France. Australian born artist, Christopher Jewitt and curator, Philippa Gell has joined in creating this artist experience with their shared knowledge in the arts community.

• Atelier Mondial (Basel, Switzerland)

  Deadline: June 1. Atelier Mondial is an international and interdisciplinary grant program offering artists in various disciplines, such as the visual arts, digital media arts, dance and literature, from the Basel Region (Cantons of Basel-Stadt, Basel-Land and Solothurn), Southern Baden and the Alsace the opportunity to spend several months abroad in one of 11 partner countries.

• Arte Utile (AU) Residence (Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia)

  Deadline: June 15, Jan 1. raum AU is a physical and mental entity that as a potential public institution presents an appropriate addition to any urban environment – to coordinate the city's non-governmental production and to support active citizenship.

• The Guesthouse (Cork, Ireland)

  Deadline: June 30. The Guesthouse is a Cork Artists Collective initiative that was launched in 2009 and is located in the cultural quarter of Cork city. The Guesthouse Project was developed as a creative initiative and experiment in itself and run on a voluntary basis by artists from different areas of the arts that are actively engaged with experimentation and interdisciplinarity.

• Teatro del Lemming (Rovigo, Italy)

  Deadline: June 30. Teatro del Lemming is an experimental theatre company founded in 1987 by Massimo Munaro and Martino Ferrari. It is funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture since 1997.

• Kunstnarhuset Messen (Ålvik, Norway)

  Deadline: June 30. The main purpose of the artist in residency is individual artistic development. The organisers wish to create an environment where artists can meet each other both regionally and internationally. Workshops, seminars, artist meetings, artist talks, exchange programs and artistic development are measures to strengthen the development of the artistic environment.

• MASS MoCA (North Adams, United States)

  Deadline: July 8. The Studios is MASS MoCA’s artist and writers residency program situated within the museum’s factory campus and surrounded by the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. Operated by MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists program, the residency runs year-round and hosts up to 10 artists at a time.