Visual Arts & Design

The Bag Factory Artist Residency will enable an emerging visual artist based in Botswana, Namibia, Uganda, Zambia, or Zimbabwe to undertake a fully funded residency at the Bag Factory in Johannesburg from 1 September to 30 November 2021.

Biennale College Arte aims to complement and enrich its 2021/2022 exhibition with newly commissioned artworks by emerging artists, fully supported by La Biennale di Venezia. 12 artistic projects of young emerging artists under 30 from all over the world will be chosen for a training and development workshop (30 September – 11 October 2021), with four projects then chosen for a further production workshop (11-17 January 2022).

IAS CEU offers one Writer in Residence fellowship and one Visual/New Media Artist in Residence fellowship to provide selected artists with opportunities to conceptualise and create new works while providing the Fellow community with opportunities for meaningful interaction with artists working in various fields. Fellowships last 3-5 months and may start in October 2022.

The organisation SchUM is leading the process to nominate the Jewish communities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz as a UNESCO World Heritage site. In connection with this, they are offering up to three project fellowships for the realisation of an artistic project that addresses the history of the ShUM communities and their religious, cultural and architectural legacy. The residency will last for 4 to 6 weeks and is scheduled between October 2021 and February 2022 (start date in 2021).

Visualise is a long-term programme by the Ukrainian Institute aimed at supporting exhibition projects outside of Ukraine. The programme provides opportunities of co-programming, co-financing and communications support to international exhibitions that contribute to promoting the art of Ukraine globally and establishing institutional partnerships. The start of proposed projects should be scheduled no earlier than 1 April 2022.

Katowice, within the European project CreArt, is opening a new call for artistic works interpreting the theme of an exhibition on ‘Weightlessness’, taking place from 23 July to 12 September 2021. Applications are open only to artists born or residing in other cities participating in the CreArt project: Aveiro (PT), Clermont – Ferrand (FR), Genoa (IT) for artists under 35, Kaunas (LT), Liverpool (UK), Lublin (PL), Rouen (FR), Skopje (MK), Valladolid (ES), Zagreb (HR).

The one-year fellowship under the stewardship of Stanley’s colleagues at NOOR includes training, grant-writing support, and networking with media industry leaders to open pathways for the fellow’s work to reach wider international audiences. Applicants should be from or based in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova Poland, Romania, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, or Uzbekistan.

The Grand Paris Express is the name for a group of new and extended transit lines being built in the Île-de-France region of Paris. An international call for projects is now being launched for the creation of permanent frescos on the platforms of the Grand Paris Express train stations. In order to enable the laureates to better discover the territory allocated to them and to perfect their project, an on-site five-day residency will be programmed.

In 2021, in accordance with measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio's residency programme for visual artists is accepting remote participation (online residency) where physical presence is not required. The residency will last 60 days from 31 August – 29 October 2021. Applicants must have a nationality other than Japanese and live in a country other than Japan.