Iceland

The SÍM Residency has announced its February–March 2025 residency programme, tailored specifically for artists and researchers from the Nordic-Baltic region, on the topic of art, science, and environmental activism.

This fully funded residency, made possible by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture, will support one artist and one artist duo to participate in the residency programme from 3 August to 25 October 2025 and contribute to Skaftfell’s educational and exhibition programme. This open call is available for artists from Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, and Åland.

Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature announces the 2024 call for applications for the International Residency Programme for writers, to be held at Gröndal’s House in the centre of old town in Reykjavík from 1 to 14 October 2024.

The Nordic Analog Network is an artist-in-residence program between analog photography darkrooms in the Nordic countries. Selected artists will travel for a three-week period to work in a darkroom in another Nordic country during 2024.

Borderland Poetics, a cooperation programme between CCA Estonia, Rupert (centre for arts, residencies and education in Lithuania) and Icelandic Art Center, is inviting emerging art professionals of the region to apply for the 2023 project assistant position. There are three different positions available, one in each institution: CCA (Tallinn, Estonia), Icelandic Art Center (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Rupert (Vilnius, Lithuania). The position will be for 1 or 2 months in autumn 2023.

Promus, the Music Community of Aarhus (DK) and the Music Cities Network invite 12 European music business professionals to embark on a transnational European expedition from April 2023 until May 2024. On this journey, they will search for answers to the question: How can we boost the European music market?

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.

Borderland Poetics, a cooperation programme between CCA Estonia, Rupert (centre for arts, residencies and education in Lithuania) and Icelandic Art Center, is inviting emerging art professionals of the region to apply for the 2022 project assistant position. There are three different positions available, one in each institution: CCA (Tallinn, Estonia), Icelandic Art Center (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Rupert (Vilnius, Lithuania). The position will be for 1 or 2 months in autumn 2022.

State of the Art Network (SOTAN) is a Nordic-Baltic transdisciplinary network of artists, practitioners, researchers, and organisations who have come together to discuss the role, responsibility, and potential of art and culture in the Anthropocene. Partners from the network are offering a number of opportunities in summer 2022.

SOTAN-network and the Research Project Turfiction, University of Iceland are calling for participants for a workshop in Reykjavik and field sites in North of Iceland from 10-16 July, 2022. This is a week long workshop/fieldwork where participants will approach the island’s vernacular architecture – the Icelandic turf house - as an interlocutor to impact the thinking about how future architecture can become accountable for forming new relations —’temporal belongings’— between species reflecting upon the benefits of a sustainable coliving.

The CROWD network calls for dance artists from across Denmark, England, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in Germany, Norway and Scotland to apply for the 2022 dance residency programme, CROWD – international dance exchange. Programme activities take place between June – October 2022.

Reykjavík, a UNESCO City of Literature since 2011, is offering a one-month residency (1-30 September 2022) for a visiting writer from another UNESCO City of Literature. The offer is open to published fiction writers from, or affiliated with, any of the other 41 UNESCO Cities of Literature, writing in any genre.