Europe

The Korean Cultural Centres in Germany and the UK are offering artists an opportunity to exhibit in their gallery spaces in summer 2021 and winter 2021/22. The exhibition theme will be ‘Nothing is - everything just has been or will be’. Eligibility: Individuals and groups whose work has been exhibited more than once either domestically or internationally. Proposals should incorporate elements of Korean culture, history etc. OR the proposed artist(s) should be of Korean heritage.

Dutch festival Dancing on the Edge are calling a new generation of contemporary dancers from the MENA region for the Dancing on the Edge Scholarship Programme. Dancing on the Edge (DOTE) offers scholarships to young talent from the MENA region to attend a three-week summer dance workshop programme. In 2021, there will be an online programme, and an offline one if conditions allow for travel.

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.

The Jan van Eyck Academie is looking for a coordinator of the Nature Research department to join the team. Together with the director and curator, the appointed person will advise on and co-develop innovative programming and an institutional strategy on Art and Climate Crisis in which theory and practice are of equal importance. Related to this, the Nature Research department will provide guidance and develop tools and insights benefiting the institute, its organisation and participants, as well as the creative practices of others working in the arts.

Fondation Fiminco is launching an open call for visual artists across all disciplines to undertake a residency in Romainville (Seine-Saint-Denis). This residency will be focused on research and development, as well as production. The residency is aimed at artists residing in France or abroad, without an age limit, who can demonstrate a professional practice, either emerging established. Duos or collectives may also apply.

KANAL Foundation is working to create a multidisciplinary arts and culture hub in the former Citroën garage on Place de l’Yser in Brussels in order to highlight the contemporary Brussels arts scene and bolster the cultural appeal of the capital. The Foundation is looking for an Artistic Director whose term is set to begin at the latest in September 2021.

The 20th edition of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place 14-19 September 2021 in Kuopio, Finland. The organisers are inviting artists, working in any field, to propose projects that directly engage with the theme of gifts and giving. Proposed projects must respond to the festival’s focus on public space (including interior and privately owned spaces). (ANTI does not show projects in traditional cultural spaces.)

WIENWOCHE understands itself as a (post-)migrant, queer-feminist festival for art and activism and looks at cultural work as an interventional tool in social, political and cultural debates. The tenth edition of WIENWOCHE will take place 10-19 September 2021 in Vienna, Austria. Titled ‘Back to Normality’, it pursues a mission to travel to the year 2121 to take a look back, question and rethink today’s concept of ‘normality’ from a present, past and future perspective. WW 2021 invites applications from collectives, initiatives and solo artists working in a wide variety of formats.

The Carmen Mateu Young Artist European Award was created in memory of Carmen Mateu, and celebrates the careers of young artists in the disciplines of Opera and Dance. For 2021, the Award is targeted at composers will commission a pocket opera to premiere at the 2023 edition of the Festival Castell de Peralada in Spain. Candidates must be no more than 36 years old on the date of application and either posses nationality of a European country or be resident and pursuing their career in Europe.

T*Danse Festival – Danse et Technologie Festival Internazionale della Nuova Danza di Aosta has launched an open call for the selection of next year’s festival, taking place 4-17 October 2021. The focus of the festival is on the relationship between dance (in the broad sense of work that uses the body as an expressive tool) and technology, and on the role that new technologies have in everyday life and in artistic creation.

Greylight Projects residency programme is launching an open call for a residency of 2 months (March-April 2021) in Heerlen, the Netherlands. This open call is addressed to artists based in the EUREGIO. The EUREGIO is a cross-border region between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The artist needs to be settled in this geographical area to apply for the residency, no matter his/her nationality. The residency is intended for artists working in visual arts or cross-disciplinary practices.

Kaunas Photography Gallery’s residency programme invites applications from photographers and artists, curators, critics and art historians who work with photography. Residencies usually last from 4 to 9 weeks and are held within the period 1 March–20 December. Applicants can be of any nationality but must be based in Nordic–Baltic countries other than Lithuania (Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Åland, Latvia and Estonia).