Estonian

Through this open call, the technological art farm Maajaam, Estonia, is seeking proposals for installations, interventions, or processes to be placed in natural landscapes that explore the human condition in a contemporary technological society. The residency duration at Maajaam is approximately three weeks, depending on the production plan. The dates are 15 June to 5 July or 17 August to 9 September 2026.

The Narva Art Residency (NART) has an open call for the Finno-Ugric creative residency, which will take place from 16 October to 8 December 2025.

Narva Venice Embassy, a summer residency programme held in Narva, Estonia, is looking for artists for a three-week summer residency.

Valga Architecture Residency invites researchers, architects and crafty creators to apply for our summer group residency ‘Material Purgatory: Life after demolition’ to be held at VARES Residency, Estonia, from 7 July to 24 August 2025.

Urban Festival UIT announces an open call for the 2025 festival installations, themed ‘Playful City’. The open call is mostly aimed at city-loving students of art and architecture, but everyone interested in experimenting with installation in public space is welcome to participate.

For the third year, the Narva Art Residency, in cooperation with the Estonian Children’s Literature Centre, is announcing a competition for children’s literature residencies. The programme offers one writer and one illustrator the opportunity to dedicate themselves to their work in the unique environment of Narva. Creative individuals from Estonia and abroad are invited to apply.

The Narva Art Residency (NART), in collaboration with the Narva municipality’s department of architecture and urban planning (ALPA), is launching its second open call for a large-scale public art installation or sculpture in Narva, Estonia.

VARES invites (landscape) architects, ecologists, artists, engineers, inventors and other spatial practitioners with an interest in the ambiguous and changing boundary between water and land to apply for the early summer residency, from 27 May to 30 June 2025 in Estonia.

VARES invites architects and spatial practitioners living, studying, or working in the Nordic and Baltic countries to participate in a winter school on the theme of darkness, taking place in Valga, Estonia, 4–8 December 2024.

VARES calls for established professionals, amateurs, students, architects, artists, writers and thinkers to apply for the summer school on spatial activism in August 2024 in Valga, Estonia.

Narva Art Residency (NART) and the Estonian Children’s Literature Centre (ELK) are announcing a competition for two children’s literature residencies, one for a children’s book writer and the other for an illustrator. Both Estonian and foreign authors who work either as individuals or as a creative team are invited to apply.

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.