Eastern Asia

This year’s open call AIR is intended to provide people involved in a wide range of cultural and artistic pursuits – including artists, curators, and researchers – with an opportunity to engage in creative activities while residing at ACAC.

Approximately an hour from Tokyo, ARCUS Project is calling for applications from visual artists for their funded artist-in-residence programme from 29 August to 26 November 2025.

Nomad Spirit – International Programme 2025 invites Austrian, Finnish, French, and German artists to apply for public art programme, to be held in remote places of the Gobi region of Mongolia, from 11 to 29 June 2025. The programme aims to raise public awareness of climate change through the organisation of public art events and creative activities. The project will select four international and four Mongolian artists.

The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) International Residency Programme invites international professionals to conduct research and engage in collaborative exchanges at the museum, for a period of 30 to 65 days between 15 September and 18 November 2025.

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (FAAM) Artist in Residence Programme invites artists from across Japan and worldwide, including but not limited to Asian countries and regions.

The Arts Council Korea (ARKO) invites young Artists, Producers, and Engineers under the age of 39 or under from diverse fields worldwide to participate in APE CAMP 2025, 24–27 May in Seoul, South Korea.

The Hokuriku Region Dance Festival 2025 is an Artist-in-Residence (AIR) programme, running from 14 to 22 July 2025.

The 3rd Matsu Biennial (2025) is launching its first international open call for artists, to be held on Matsu Islands, Lianjiang County, Taiwan, from 5 September – 16 November 2025.

Paradise Air is calling for applications from all people of all nationalities working in the arts field for their 11th Longstay Programme between May and July 2025 (70–90 days duration) in Matsudo, Japan.

The A4 International Residency Programme is calling for applications from international artists from any field for the 8–10-week residency sessions in 2025–2026 in A4 Residency Art Center, Sichuan, China.

Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting (BIPAM), Kyoto Experiment and the Japan Foundation (JF) are launching ‘Shifting Points’, an incubation project for the next generation of performing arts artists in Thailand, Japan, and Southeast Asia, jointly organised by the three organisations.

Chiba City Arts Triennale (main period September – November 2025) is calling for applications from international artists for the ‘Project Social Dive’, an open call inviting artists to immerse themselves in the city of Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.