Belgium

The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute for the Federal Republic of Germany which is active all over the world. They promote the German language abroad and are involved in international cultural cooperation. i-Portunus is a project selected and funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. It supports short-term mobility of artists and culture professionals. After the successful implementation of iPortunus I, the Goethe-Institut and its consortium have been selected for a follow-up project. The remit of the position will include the following main activities:

Mophradat has partnered again with Kunstencentrum BUDA and NEXT Festival in Belgium, this time to offer a performing artist from the Arab world the opportunity to be in residency for a three-week period (October / November 2021) and use BUDA’s facilities to finalise a piece in-progress. Immediately following the residency, the new work will be performed during the 2021 edition of NEXT Festival, which takes place across the Eurometropolis region of Kortrijk and Tournai in Belgium, and Lille and Valenciennes in France.

FR Fondation Thalie (based in Ixelles, Belgium) has opened applications for a 2021 research residency for visual arts and creative writing. The programme is open to visual artists, authors, poets, videographers, or performers, living outside Belgium. Residencies last one month and take place in the period February-June 2021.

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La fondation Thalie a pour objet de soutenir la création contemporaine comme levier d’action, d’échanges et de transmission. Basée à Bruxelles, la Fondation accueille des expositions et une programmation multidisciplinaire qui associe arts visuels, performance, littérature et arts culinaires. L’assistant.e de production et communication assiste la direction sur certaines tâches administratives et logistiques. De plus, il.elle sera tenu.e de participer aux évènements que la Fondation organise et d’assurer entre autre l’accueil des publics. Date limite : 1er août 2020.

Based in Antwerp, wpZimmer is an international workspace for the arts, with a focus on performance, dance and hybrid artistic practices. It is currently calling for proposals for residencies in autumn 2021, which can take place within two available blocks: 19 July – 3 October 2021 and 18 October – 31 December 2021. Deadline: 24 July 2020.

LOOP is a platform dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image. As a member of the international collaboration A-Place, it is organising a first open call to commission a video production to investigate the process of creating a sense of place in one of the six cities participating in the project (Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Lisbon, Ljubljana and Nicosia). The created video will be shown in the 2020 edition of the LOOP Festival in Barcelona at the end of October. Deadline: 27 April 2020.

The Goethe-Institut in collaboration with KIKK Festival, its Creative Hub & Fab Lab TRAKK and the cultural centre Les Abattoirs de Bomel are awarding a grant for a residency project on ‘Ecological Futures’. The residency programme will take place in Namur from 2-30 September 2020. The organisers are inviting two residents in total: one from Germany and one from Belgium. To be eligible you need to be resident in one of the 2 countries (for at least 2 years) or to have the country nationality. Deadline (extended): 15 May 2020.

The European project REMAIIN (Radical European Music and its Intercultural Nature) has announced an open call for musical proposals that deal with or incorporate non-western influences in experimental and new music. Four new works or collaborations will be chosen and presented at least once in either Latvia, Portugal, Germany or Belgium by one of the participating organisations of the project. When selecting the works, an emphasis will be put on artists based in Europe. Deadline: 15 April 2020.

The Art & Well-being project explores the potential of the arts to enhance individual and community well-being. The organisers are now looking for proposals for artistic projects (performance art, installations, public space interventions) from artists or collectives interested in exploring aspects of health and well-being as part of their artistic practice. Residencies and project support are available during the period summer 2020 - spring 2021. Deadline: 8 April 2020.

Freemuse is an international human rights organisation defending artistic freedom. The organisation is currently looking for a Programme Development Coordinator who will be responsible for identifying, developing new programmes and projects aimed at partnering with governments, public institutions and private foundations. The position can be based in Copenhagen, Oslo, Brussels or London. Deadline: 31 March 2020.