Slovakia

The TBCK Forward residency programme focuses on women artists and cultural professionals from Central and Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and North Macedonia). This call is for residencies in two programmes: 

Within the framework of an international project supported by the Creative Europe programme, KAIR - Košice Artist in Residence are looking for artists based in the Spain who are interested in working with the topic of centre/periphery. The selected artist will undertake a residency at KAIR from 5 May - 30 June 2023.

Within the framework of an international project supported by the Creative Europe programme, KAIR - Košice Artist in Residence are looking for artists based in the Czech Republic who are interested in working with the topic of centre/periphery. The selected artist will undertake a residency at KAIR from 10 March – 30 April 2023.

ETC - European Theatre Convention are looking for emerging theatre artists (particularly stage directors and dramaturgs) to join them in the sixth edition of the ETC Artist Residency Programme, offering placements of 4 to 8 weeks at ETC Member Theatres. Various residencies will take place throughout the first half of 2023.

European artists, or collectives can apply to the EMAP residency programme with a project proposal for a residency of two months within June 2022 to January 2023. The artists will be collaborating with an artist of their choice or an artist local to the platform’s host institutions.

Košice – UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts is offering media artists a two-month stay in Košice this autumn (16 October – 16 December 2022). The open call is limited to the artists who are either born, live or work in any of the UNESCO Creative Cities.

The Visegrad Literary Residency Programme, established 2012 by the International Visegrad Fund, consists of a series of residency stays and literary events addressed to writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets, essayists, critics as well as literary translators, publicists and journalists from the Visegrad Countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). There is a compact spring edition of the residency running 1 May – 12 June 2022, and a full autumn edition running 1 September – 30 November 2022.

European Theatre Convention are looking for emerging theatre artists (particularly stage directors and dramaturgs) to join them for the fifth edition of the ETC Artist Residency Programme, offering placements of 4 to 8 weeks at ETC Member Theatres. 

Košice – UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts is offering media artists a two-month stay in Košice this autumn (1 October – 29 November 2021). The open call is limited to the artists who are either born, live or work in any of the UNESCO Creative Cities.

V4@Theatre Critics Residency is a creative platform for theatre critics from Central and Eastern Europe up to the age of 35. This year there are two strands: an in-person residency at International Theatre Festival Divadelná Nitra (1-6 October 2021) for critics from Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia; and then an online residency for critics from Western Balkans, Eastern Partnership countries and Russia.

The Nature of Us open call is aimed at artists working and living in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland or Slovakia who are working on a movement or body-based performance project in 2021 or 2022 that confronts art practices with concerns about the environment. Among other forms of support, the project offers a two-week artistic research session in Bratislava, Budapest, Gdansk, or Prague in the second half of 2021 or the first half of 2022.