Luxembourg

To widen the scope of the upcoming exhibition ‘Graine’ by Thierry Ardouin, neimënster is looking for an artistic project in development that concentrates on the seed, either literally (its form, shape, and usage) or conceptually (for example, the beginning of growth and development).

The Artists Development Programme (ADP) – the European Investment Bank (EIB) Institute’s talent accelerator for emerging European visual artists under 35 – has officially launched its 2024 edition. The EIB Institute has opened four calls for applications.

Enoa – the European Network of Opera Academies is organising an immersive residency programme offering support, mentorship and mobility for artists without significant opera experience. There are residencies available with eleven hosting institutions in various European countries. The programme runs February 2023 - spring 2024. Applicants should be mid-career artists based in Europe who are highly interested in the development of opera creation / interdisciplinary musical and artistic forms but have no significant opera experience.

The municipality of Esch-sur-Sûre, Luxembourg is renewing the WaterWalls Festival for a second edition. It is the first cultural festival based on the principles of the circular economy. As an open-air exhibition of contemporary art, the festival aims to raise awareness about the artistic production and consumption aspects of culture. In 2023, four autonomous and participative art installations will be set up along the Sûre river, at the level of the four compensation dams, downstream of the large dam, in the idyllic valley of Esch-sur-Sûre.

Over the course of 30 months, Future Laboratory will select 15 artists to participate in three research residencies in three partner institutions in three different cities. The artists must be available for 3 residencies in 3 different countries lasting 10 working days (so two weeks in total) to take place between October 2022 and October 2024.

Spektrum, the flagship project of the City of Rumelange within the framework of Esch2022, European Capital of Culture, is a multidisciplinary project conceptualised by The Impact Lab. Spektrum will be implemented in a sustainable manner on the future Spektrum site, whose architecture is provided by the 2001 agency with scenography by Njoy.

DiffMix started in 2020 with the idea of bringing citizens and artists together to transform public places in Differdange, Luxembourg. Citizens identified online and offline five places that they wanted to transform and what their needs were. Now it’s up artists, designers and creatives from Europe to propose how these transformations can take place, and how they can be realised together with the citizens of Differdange.

Tipperary Dance Platform’s International Residences Exchange programme is designed to support dance creation and the development of international links in the dance sector in Ireland. This open call is directed to mid-career or experienced Irish-based artists in search of space and opportunities to develop new European partnerships for their work. The opportunity includes a combination of three weeks of residence, in Tipperary and in one of the partner spaces in Trois C-L in Luxembourg or Grand Studio in Brussels, Belgium.

Located in Lasauvage, Luxembourg, the Nomadic Island project it is a platform for experimentation which unites a diverse group of artists with an equally diverse group of local residents. Artists are invited to apply for a three-week residency (18 July - 8 August 2022) to realise a project with this international community around the theme of ‘alternative ways of living and working’.

For the 2021, edition of its Artists Development Programme (ADP), the EIB Institute is issuing two thematic calls: ‘Disruption: The Imprint of Man’ and ‘Climate Action in the Wake of COVID-19: Build Back Better’. Selected artists will be awarded a residency in Luxembourg between early May and end of June 2021. Applicants should be EU nationals born after 1 January 1986.

The 2021 edition of the EIB Institute’s Artists Development Programme (ADP) is looking for one visual artist (born after 1 January 1986) from Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Poland or Romania. The ADP offers emerging European visual artists a 6-8 week residency in Luxembourg, which will take place between early May and end of June 2021.