CreArt Oulu and a non-profit organisation Oulu Urban Culture have an open residency call for artists in the CreArt network as part of the art programme production for the Frozen People festival.
Frozen People is a winter festival of electronic music and northern art in Oulu, Finland. The event is part of the Oulu2026 – European Capital of Culture programme. The residency period is 28 January – 4 March 2025 and the work will be exhibited at the Frozen People festival on 1 March 2025.
The portfolio call is aimed at visual artists under 40 years old in the CreArt network. The Frozen People festival is looking for an installation suitable for the festival area that works in both daylight and darkness. The piece can combine, for example, light and media art, community and environmental art, and may also include performative elements. They would like works that are eco-friendly and recyclable and do not leave traces in the environment after the festival ends. The festival area offers various possibilities for different works: there are walls of an old factory area, forest, open yard, beach, as well as snow and ice (depending on weather conditions).
The artist applying for the residency must have been born or live in one of the cities in the CreArt 3.0 network: Kaunas (Lithuania), Liepaja (Latvia), Skopje (North Macedonia), Aveiro (Portugal), Valladolid (Spain), Lublin (Poland), Venice (Italy), Clermont-Ferrand and Rouen (France), Ceske Budejovice (Czech Republic) and Regensburg (Germany). In addition, HDLU (Croatian Association of Visual Artists) members can apply for the residency period. Ukrainian artists apply in cooperation with Lviv Artistic Council Dialogue.
The organisers provide material costs (up to 1,500 EUR), a residency fee of 2,500 EUR gross, daily allowances, travel expenses from the artist’s hometown to Oulu and back, and accommodation expenses in Oulu (6 weeks).
