Slovenian

Kranj Foto Fest, an international festival of contemporary photography based in Slovenia, announces its Open Call for projects to be exhibited during the 6th edition of the festival in August 2026, with all production costs covered by the festival.

The Gallery of Naïve Artists Trebnje, within the Centre for Education and Culture Trebnje, invite artists to participate in the 59th International Meeting of Naïve Artists Trebnje, which will take place from 9 to 13 June 2026 at the Gallery of Naïve Artists Trebnje, Slovenia.

From 14 to 17 May 2026, nine selected productions will go on stage in Cividale del Friuli for the sixth edition of the most under-30 festival in Europe.

Peripheral Visions is calling for applications from contemporary European professional artists and independent artists (and immigrants in Europe) to apply for a residency and the development of an artwork in the cross-border area between Italy and Slovenia, starting from Gorizia and Nova Gorica and extending the action to other border communities.

Mittelyoung is calling for projects from Italy, Central Europe and the Balkans to be showcased from 16-18 July 2024 in Cividale del Friuli. Up to 3 shows will then be selected to perform during mittelfest Disordini (Disorders) from 20-22 July 2024. The call is open to individuals and ensembles of up to 6 members, all under the age of 30.

From 26 April – 5 May 2024 the Center for Choreography Bleiburg/Pliberk invites (groups of) artists to a 10-day interdisciplinary residency in Carinthia.

The Twenty Something Project, part of the European Capital of Culture programme, will organise a literary residency on the theme ‘visible and invisible’ in 2023. The residency is aimed at writers, poets, essayists and committed publicists between the ages of 20 and 29 from Slovenia, Italy (FriuliVenezia Giulia, Veneto, South Tyrol, and Emilia-Romagna only), Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, and Germany (Chemnitz and surroundings only).

On the Move is collaborating with Motovila to organise a workshop for cultural mobility developers focusing on the Balkan countries. 10 participants will be selected for the two-day workshop, which takes place on 26-27 September 2022 in Ljubljana, as well as to participate in the Creativity4Sustainability Forum in Kranj on 28 September 2022.

For the 2022 edition of Ljubljana Street Art Festival, KUD Mreža and the Institute of Urban Questions are opening a call for artists. They offer a residency with a one-month working stay (1 June - 7 July 2022) at the Asylum Studio (Atelje Azil) in Ljubljana to realise a visual project and a public artistic intervention (e.g. sculpture, installation, mural painting).

In 2022, the Slovenian Association of Literary Translators – DSKP will offer residencies to 4-6 translators from Slovenian into foreign languages for 4 weeks (or 1 month). The DSKP Residency Programme is aimed at promising or established foreign translators of fiction, humanities and social sciences who have published at least one literary translation or several shorter translations in printed monographs and/or in reference print or electronic media.

The Agora Cultural Center in Wrocław in cooperation with artistic organisations from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland invites participation in an open call as part of the international Open Air Theater Festival. The call is open to theatre makers, with a special focus on circus performers, acrobats, performers, dancers and musicians under the age of 26 and from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. The residency will run 12-18 September 2021, with participants working together to create (and finally show) a new performance on the theme of climate change.

The GuestRoomMaribor residency programme invites visual and interdisciplinary artists to apply for residencies in Maribor, Slovenia. In 2021, there are several dates available for one-month funded residencies in spacious studios, in the quiet courtyard of the Vetrinj mansion located in the strict centre of Maribor, including the possibility of presenting the newly created production in the Gallery K18.