The General Cultural Services of the City of Oulu opens a residency call for visual artists in the CreArt network as part of the programme production of the Lumo Light Festival and the Urban Neighbourhood Culture of Cultural Centre Valve. The residency period is 21 October – 30 November 2024 and the realised works will be exhibited at the Lumo Light Festival on 22–24 November 2024.
As an Arctic European city, Oulu has a special relationship with light and darkness. Lumo Light Festival celebrates light and visual arts during the darkest time of the year in Northern Finland as a city-wide open event. A special theme at Lumo Light Festival 2024 is ‘interaction’.
As the installations of the Lumo Light Festival are traditionally concentrated in the Oulu city centre, the CreArt residency wants to take visual art to new, surprising locations on the borders of Oulu and create art pieces in the peri-urban and rural communities with the CreArt AiR Programme 2024.
The open portfolio call is aimed at artists in the visual field of the CreArt network who work in the fields of light and media art.
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 residency includes the artist’s residency fee of 2,500 EUR/gross, travel, and accommodation. Required technical equipment is acquired per piece, other required materials are allocated maximum of 1,500 EUR. Material and technical costs as well as workspace rent are included in the open call.
