Czech Republic

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.

The aim of the international MUSE.ar project is to create a platform that will allow cultural institutions to connect with contemporary artists and collaborate to create digital guides. The organisers are now looking for three groups of artists and creatives who will work with the visions of partner institutions to co-create new digital narratives during residencies at three partner museums in Czech Republic, Serbia and Hungary. Project activities run from May 2021 to June 2022. Europe-based artists with a high level of proficiency in English are eligible to apply.

The Petrohradská kolektiv art centre in Prague have an open call for artists to participate in an international artist in residence programme. The programme is intended for active artists, creators, and theorists, who desire independence and want space and technical support for working on their projects. The residency will take place between 1 May – 30 November 2021.

Face to Faith is an international cooperation project aiming to understand the diverse meanings of faith in European societies. The Face to Faith project involves producing seven new performance productions, with each of the seven project partners managing one of the productions. After the premiere held by the producing partner organisation, the project will tour each production in at least one other Face to Faith partner city. The productions will premiere between October 2021 and September 2022.

VI PER Gallery, based in Prague, Czech Republic, is calling for architects, artists, designers, researchers, curators, critics (individuals or teams) of any nationality and country of residence to propose exhibition projects. Submitted projects may fall into a wide range of genres – associated with architecture, art, design, and other disciplines – and should reflect on the relevance of architecture to respond to contemporary issues and discourse.

Tranzit.cz has announced an open call for new curatorial working group members for the next edition of the Biennale Ve věci umění / Matter of Art (VVUMOA), which will take place in Prague in June 2022. The group will work over two years to develop a conception of the biennale edition for 2022 within the context of debates on ‘decolonisation’. Individuals and teams can apply.

Meet Factory’s Sustainable Studio Practice residency has been established as a safe space where you can develop a project focusing on the topic of sustainability within your artistic practice. The residency is intended for artists living within a radius of 1000 km of Prague. Possible dates: 1 April – 30 June 2021; 1 July – 30 September 2021; 1 October – 15 December 2021.

As part of the Creative Europe project ‘Modernism for the Future 360/365’, artist-researchers of any discipline from Lithuania, Czech Republic, Belgium or Ukraine can apply for site-specific residencies at a number of modernist buildings. The developed projects will be presented during a final exhibition in Kaunas for its inauguration as European Capital of Culture in 2022.

Invisible Lines is an international project on comics, graphic novels and illustrations. Young European artists (18-30 years old) are invited to apply to attend three workshops which will take place between May and July 2021 in Venice (Italy), Strasbourg (France) and Tábor (Czech Republic). The artworks created during the three workshops will be featured in public exhibitions throughout Europe between 2021 and 2022, and a selection will be included in a book to be published.

The CreaTures project is calling for experimental art and design practices that creatively engage with current socio-ecological challenges, to be co-produced and showcased at the project’s Feral Creative Practices track at the Uroboros festival in Prague in May 2021.

The CEI Award for Writers in Residence is an award aimed at encouraging cross-border cooperation and promotion in the field of literature for young writers from the CEI Member States (Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine). The award supports the winner to make a one-month stay in a CEI Member State of their choosing, anytime in 2021. Writers from all genres under the age of 35 from the CEI Member States are eligible. Deadline: 15 June 2020.