Norway

Under the Moving Identities project, 6 European residency institutions are looking for companies of established performing artists of 2-5 people based in Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Norway, and Spain. The programme targets applicants who can relate to / explore themes of diversity and inclusion within European Identities.

Skien municipality and the Telemark Canal Culture and Nature Park invite artists and creative professionals to an open call for applications for a major Ibsen-themed project in central Skien. The project will be part of the Stories of the Waterways project, which aims to draw attention to places along the historic Telemark Canal that connects Skien to inland Telemark.

The Summer Sessions are short-term international art and technology residencies for emerging artists and designers. Each Summer Sessions residency lasts approximately eight weeks and takes place between July and September. This year the programme is open to artists under the age of 35 and/or graduated within the past five years living in Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, Norway, Spain or Egypt.

Kunstarena Dikemark – Land Art 2023 is an international, interdisciplinary, and site-specific platform for land art established with support from the municipality of Asker and Viken County in Norway. With this open call, artists are invited to make site-specific Land Art projects in the scenic surroundings of the former psychiatric hospital in Dikemark, Norway.

Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava in Estonia and Davvi - Center for the Performing Arts in Norway are looking for 4 Estonian artists and 4 Norwegian artists for a collaborative project to develop choreographic interventions in public space. The project consists of 3 parts: 2-week research residency in Tartu in August 2023; 3-week research residency with a public presentation in Bodø in June 2024; 3-week residency and rehearsal period with 3 public performances in Tartu in July 2024.

The 17th International Assitej Festival will take place in Kristiansand from 12-16 September 2023. In 2023, the festival will also host the extensive EU project ConnectUp. The organisers are now calling for performing arts productions for young audiences between the ages of 0-19 and contributions to the professional programme.

Aldea - Center for Contemporary Art, Design and Technology in Bergen, Norway is offering Aldea is offering a residency from 16 March - 29 April 2023 for three artists, followed by a group exhibition in the Aldea gallery from 28 April -25 May 2023.

The BUZZ Network, an EU project aiming at cross-pollinating youth theatre practice, is calling for professional directors and artists who create performance work with young people to participate in an Artists Training Lab at Rogaland Theater in Stavanger, Norway from 6-10 March 2023.

This open call is looking for site-specific projects to be produced in Vadsø during the Varanger festival 9-12 August 2023. The call is open to professional artists or artist groups from Finland or Finnish Lapland, as well as those who may not originally come from these areas, but who identify as northerners by virtue of either living in or having a connection with the north.

Located on the northern tip of the Varanger peninsula in Norway, Kvitbrakka residence is a quiet bay for restless minds. The programme will offer residencies of 1-3 months during March-May and September-November 2023. Kvitbrakka welcomes artists working in painting, sculpture, performance, film, photography, music, text, research, relational aesthetics and/or installation.

The project Dance and Performing Arts Criticism in Europe, a collaboration of Czech Dance News and Performing Arts Hub Norway, is organising a seminar from 20-24 October during Oktoberdans in Bergen for emerging dance critics which will address the practice and new forms of dance criticism.

The Nordic Analog Network is in the process of connecting the Nordic darkroom community to share experience and knowledge across the region. An exchange is now being organised in partnership the Finnish Darkroom Association in Helsinki and CYAN studio darkroom in Oslo. The working period for the Norwegian artist in Helsinki is 1-22 October 2022. The working period for the Finnish artist in Oslo is three weeks during Oct-Nov 2022.