Croatia

‘Magic Carpets’ is a Creative Europe platform uniting 17 European cultural organisations. It supports emerging artists through residencies and creates opportunities to collaborate with other artists and local communities, fostering socially engaged art practices.

Karas Gallery is calling for international artists for a collaboration in October 2025.

Teatroskop invites cultural and artistic organisations to apply for its 2025 Call for Projects, which supports the development of contemporary performing arts collaborations between France and South-East Europe. This call encompasses cooperation, distribution, capacity building, and networking. The project must be completed before 31 December 2025.

The art organisation Creative Laboratory of Contemporary Theater KRILA is announcing a public call for the 6th edition of TranziT – the European Festival of Contemporary Theater Practices. The festival will take place in Rijeka, Croatia, from July to November 2025.

Cirkorama Associations from Zagreb, Cirkus Kolektiv and ROOM 100 from Split, Prostor Plus from Rijeka, Čarobnjakov šešir from Pula, K.V.A.R.K. from Križevci and Kućni Kolektiv from Klanjec are invite artists and collectives of contemporary circus and related performing arts to apply for a residency in Croatia of up to 15 days that must be completed by the end of 2025.

Pan-Adria is seeking contemporary dance productions whose concepts and projects are ‘taking up the region to take on the field’ in 2025/2026.

Bridging Balkan Borders is calling from applications from songwriters for one of their Songwriting Camps in January and February 2025.

Island Connect, a collaborative programme between seven performing arts organisations working with residencies located on (or associated with) European islands of different countries, has three open calls for artists in the performing arts.

Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts (CPA) is inviting dancers to join a new contemporary dance performance created by choreographer Francesco Scavetta (IT/SE), within the Creative Europe project ‘Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery’.

Cirkus Kolektiv is calling for applications from artists and collectives working in contemporary circus and outdoor arts for their Outdoor Art Research Lab residency programme in Split, Croatia (March – April 2025), supported by Culture Moves Europe.

Split Calling (festival of contemporary circus and outdoor art) is calling for applications for this year’s edition of the festival. All regional artists and collectives of contemporary circus and outdoor art are invited to apply with their work. The call is intended for regional artists from Croatia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Kosovo.

The SubScena residency and/or performance opportunity in Zagreb Croatia is open to performance artists innovating their work via avant garde and experimental practices.