Finland

This year, CROWD network will select ten dance artists to exchange and collaborate with the support of network partner organisations. Working in pairs, selected dance makers will come together twice, each time for a two-week, focused residency in a new context. Alongside the residencies, between June and October 2023, the entire network will engage in digital, discursive sessions exploring community engagement in dance. The programme is open to artists based in Denmark, England, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (DE), or Scotland.

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.

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.

Outsider Art Festival is now looking for an international artist for artist residency. The aim of the residency is to support international collaboration in the outsider art field. Any outsider artist can apply, regardless of their art field. The works of the residency artist will be showcased at the festival in 2023. The residency itself will take place over three months, in Finland or remotely.

The Rebuilding to Last Hackathon will bring together up to 15 cultural organisations to compete for one of three pilot project grants for participatory architecture interventions. Through the Hackathon event three projects will be selected to receive funding, training and mentorship.

NB8 Mentoring Program is a capacity building mentorship programme and network for freelance dance producers. It is intended for managers and producers from the whole Nordic and Baltic region. In 2022-24, NB8 Mentoring Program will carry out two cycles of one-year mentoring programmes.

The Research Pavilion is an international and cross-institutional platform for processes, discussions, and collaborations in the field of artistic research, coordinated by Uniarts Helsinki. The Uniarts Research Pavilion (RP#5) will host a series of artist and artist-researcher residencies during spring 2023 and will culminate in an on-location event in June 2023 in Helsinki.

European artists, or collectives can apply to the EMAP residency programme with a project proposal for a residency of two months within June 2022 to January 2023. The artists will be collaborating with an artist of their choice or an artist local to the platform’s host institutions.

The Nordic Analog Network is in the process of connecting the Nordic darkroom community to share experience and knowledge across the region. An exchange is now being organised in partnership the Finnish Darkroom Association in Helsinki and CYAN studio darkroom in Oslo. The working period for the Norwegian artist in Helsinki is 1-22 October 2022. The working period for the Finnish artist in Oslo is three weeks during Oct-Nov 2022.

The Oulu2026 organisation is calling for partners to become part of its capital of culture programme. This autumn 2022 open call is specifically aimed at large-scale projects that take several years to prepare or carry out. The call is open for Finnish and international actors. Funding may be applied for by private individuals, groups, associations, networks, businesses, organisations, and public institutions. 

Platform is an art organisation based in Vasa, a relatively peripheral Finnish town. They run an art space and a residency to offer live experiences of different perspectives in a location where this would otherwise be limited. 3-4 slots are offered in 2023.