Lithuania

Circostrada Network launches Bounce – a new mentoring programme for contemporary circus and outdoor arts workers. The programme includes an individual 16-hour tailor-made programme with a facilitator, opportunities for collective reflection, and participation in two events in Paris (February 2022) and Kaunas (June 2022).

Are you searching for ways to make your artistic work stand out on social media or looking for the right tools for adapting and creating live performances for the screen? Digital Leap are now calling for circus and dance artists who are curious about digitalisation to take part in the first two of four total learning modules. The first will take place in Prague 14-18 February 2022, and the second in Vilnius from 2-6 May 2022. The programme is open to professional circus and dance artists based in Czech Republic, France, Finland, Lithuania, Norway, Spain or Sweden.

Samovar Circles is a short-term network wishing to create a collective catalyst and boiler of ideas on how to tackle the new challenges and opportunities for the performing arts in post covid times. Artists and presenters in the Nordic and Baltic contemporary circus and performing arts scene are invited to participate in a series of intimate and highly participatory meetings, workshops and seminars between December 2021 and September 2022.

Organised by the Culture Centre of Rokiškis, the international contemporary art festival ‘Start 2022’ is the biggest event of its kind in Panevėžys County (Northeast Lithuania). The festival will take place 29 August – 4 September 2022 and is calling for performances and art installations that push the boundaries between the audience and artist, and that combine different art forms. The call is open for artists based in the Baltic or Nordic regions.

CCA Derry~Londonderry and Kaunas Artists’ House’s DeMo (Decoding Modernity) residency is open to emerging artists based in or from Northern Ireland and Lithuania. The residency period in Lithuania and NI will take place during February 2022 lasting up to one month culminating with two solo exhibitions of new and/or existing work at CCA Derry~Londonderry, March–May 2022 and Kaunas exhibition spaces, June–August 2022.

As part of the CreArt – Network of Cities for Artistic Creation project, the Lithuanian gallery Artkomas is calling for contemporary visual artists to participate in a dual exhibition titled ‘Beyond the Cave’. The exhibition will open on 18 November 2021 and is open to local artists – resident in any of the cities taking part in the CreArt project.

The ‘Repository of Knowledge’ residencies are aimed at artists, architects, designers, musicians, educators, and practitioners from other disciplines interested in engaging in the fields of art education and mediation. The purpose of the residencies, taking place January - March 2022, is to develop a set of learning kits for an online platform. Individuals and groups based within the European Union and/or EU citizens are eligible to apply.

Borderland Poetics, a co-operation programme between CCA Estonia, Rupert (centre for arts, residencies and education in Lithuania) and Icelandic Art Center, is inviting emerging art professionals from Estonia, Iceland or Lithuania to apply for the 2021 project assistant position. There are three different positions available, one in each institution: CCA and Tallinn Photomonth (Tallinn/Narva, Estonia), Sequences festival (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Rupert (Vilnius, Lithuania). The position lasts 1 or 2 months and takes place in autumn 2021.

An initiative of CreArt and local organisation Artkomas, the Kaunas artist in residence programme is open to painters, photographers and new media artists. Four artists will be selected for a one-month residency from 4 August – 4 September 2021. To apply artists should be – born or resident – in any of the cities in the CreArt: Aveiro, Clermont-Ferrand, Genoa (Genoa artists should be under 35), Katowice, Kaunas, Lecce, Liverpool, Lublin, Rouen, Skopje, Valladolid, Zagreb.

This year Hållnäs konstkoloni continues their collaboration with sister residency DAR (Druskininkai Artists’ Residence), which since 2012 has seen over one hundred composers and sound artists from Lithuania and other countries participating in its residencies.

The landscape design festival MAGENTA will take place in Kaunas, Lithuania, 9-25 September 2022. MAGENTA aims at actualising landscape design and environmental art, enhancing the role of green spaces in shaping our urban environment while promoting interdisciplinary public art. Project proposals are sought for the 2022 edition of the festival, which is dedicated to tactical urbanism.

Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022 (Lithuania) in cooperation with Liebling Haus – The White City Center (Tel Aviv) has announced an open call for artistic residencies in modernist cities. The organisers are looking for multidisciplinary artists whose projects would be based on locally conducted artistic research (for at least 7 days between 1 May - 30 July 2021), leading to a site-specific interpretation of the cultural heritage in Kaunas and Tel Aviv.