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The curators of ūmėdė’2024 invite applications from Nordic and Baltic curators and researchers to come up with draft proposals for the second edition of the festival. The selected residents will have the opportunity to immerse themselves for two months in the local context of Vilnius and the cultural complex SODAS 2123, either in April-May 2023 or June-July 2023.

In autumn 2023, the National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst, SMK) will open an exhibition by the acclaimed artist Jessie Kleemann (1959-) - the first solo exhibition by a Kalaaleq artist organised by the museum. The seminar will feature two poster sessions for which SMK now seek proposals. With these sessions, they aim to engage younger researchers, artists, and art students in order to build bridges between senior and emerging researchers and to unfold the seminar theme in the fullest.

For more than a hundred years Karosta was a naval base closed to the public. Now, decades after the military has left, Karosta (located in Liepaja, Latvia) is having a second life. Karosta Festival seeks artistic creation processes, exhibitions, concerts, performances and workshops. New artwork will be created during the festival week in Karosta (5-11 June 2023) and presented during three public events 9, 10 and 11 June.

The Salettl Residency Programme aims to offer artists the opportunity to enter into direct dialogue with the community of the Kleine Stadt Farm in in Vienna’s Donaustadt and the surrounding nature in order to develop a project on site. The residency will run from 28 May – 25 June 2023, with final presentation on 24 June.

Tartu City of Literature residency programme is open to writers and translators (translating from Estonian to other languages). The residency period is 2 months - April-May 2023. Applicants should have at least one published book (fiction or non-fiction), screenplay, theatre script or translation from Estonian into another language.

Initiated and carried out by 40mcube, in partnership with the company Self Signal, GENERATOR is both a continuing professional development programme dedicated to young visual artists and a residency for curators. Both programmes take place in 40mcube’s spaces in Rennes, France. The programme for artists will run from 2 October 2023 – 26 April 2024, and the residency for curators from 4-29 March 2024. Both programmes are open internationally, with no age limit.

KORDON invites artists from the Nordic and Baltic region to join a long-term lab and residency process aimed at widening the understanding of food in relation to energy. Each artist will be invited for approx. 11 weeks of residency divided between three different time periods of approx. 1 month. The full cycle will run from summer/autumn 2023 to summer 2024.

The Performing Arts Centre Finland (ESKUS) and New Performance Turku Biennale are looking for international curators for an Emerging Curators Residency in Turku on 3-10 September 2023. 3-5 curators from the field of live and performance art will be selected for the residency.

Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava in Estonia and Davvi - Center for the Performing Arts in Norway are looking for 4 Estonian artists and 4 Norwegian artists for a collaborative project to develop choreographic interventions in public space. The project consists of 3 parts: 2-week research residency in Tartu in August 2023; 3-week research residency with a public presentation in Bodø in June 2024; 3-week residency and rehearsal period with 3 public performances in Tartu in July 2024.

In 2023, the Art Prospect Network Residency programme will support residencies for eighteen artists and curators from USA and the Art Prospect Network countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan) focusing on exchange and collaboration in the field of socially engaged art and/or public art.

As part of the European project More-than-Planet, Finnish partner Photo North - Northern Photographic Centre is launching an open call for artists for two residency programmes in 2023 and 2024 at Pyhäsalmi Mine and Oulanka National Park in Finland. The programme aims to re-examine the way people understand and picture the environment on the level of the planet as a conceptual whole. The residency is open to all forms of art but places an emphasis on artistic practices that employ lens-based techniques.

The Curator of the Biennale Architettura 2023, Lesley Lokko, invites applications from graduate students, graduates, early career academics and emerging practitioners for the first-ever Biennale College Architettura which will run from 25 June - 22 July 2023 in Venice, Italy. Applications are open to: graduate students under the age of 30; graduates under the age of 30; early career academics and educators under the age of 35; and early career practitioners under the age of 35.