Netherlands

IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art in Eupen, Belgium and Greylight Projects – platform for art and culture in Heerlen, The Netherlands are launching an open call for a residency of three months (September-November 2021). The residency takes place in the framework of the 2021 Very Contemporary project, a network between different art spaces and museums in the border region of the Euregio-Meuse-Rhine. Artists based in either the Netherlands, Belgium or Germany are invited to apply.

EMX’s Music Export programme will engage a group of 45 music industry professionals including 15 exporters, to come together and explore cutting edge methods of music export, from new funding models to digital collaboration, mentoring to job shadowing, while also examining the challenges faced by artists from across Europe when trying to export their music worldwide. The programme is open to applicants who work in music export, are based in the EU, speak fluent English and want to help design the music export programmes of the future.

The Het Nieuwe Instituut and Tilting Axis fellowship is for one mid-career and established researcher, artist, designer, writer, curator, or cultural producer based in the Caribbean region interested in building new links with cultural institutions in the Netherlands, and who has an interest in developing their practice around themes related to architecture, spatial practice, design or digital culture.

The eighth edition of Dancing on the Edge Festival will take place in spring 2022, online and offline. The organisers are looking for contemporary dance and theatre performances as well as multimedia and performance installations / films / artworks / artistic research / podcasts and so on. Applicant artists/groups should identify as from, or in relation to, the Middle East and North Africa, and/or to the theme Rituals of Change.

The Prince Claus Fund seeks a new Director who endorses its vision that culture is a basic need, who believes in a world where cultural expression is free and valued and can offer the leadership experience to ensure the further development and expansion of the fund.

The Summer Sessions are short-term international art and technology residencies for emerging artists and designers. Artists and designers working with art and technology are eligible to apply if they are under the age of 35 and/or have graduated within the past five years, and live in a country where there is a Summer Sessions sponsoring partner (Netherlands, Taiwan, Spain, Austria, Russia, China, South Korea, Croatia and Belgium). Each Summer Sessions residency lasts approximately eight weeks and takes place between July and September.

CROWD is a dance residency programme developed together with European partners in a time when international sharing and human togetherness is needed more than ever. It aims to support dance artists with an established practice in community engaged dance making. Participating artists will take part in a series of residencies in Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and the UK in the second half of 2021. Participants must be based in the UK, North Rhine-Westphalia, the Netherlands or Finland and will need to be able to work in both the UK and the EU.

Dutch festival Dancing on the Edge are calling a new generation of contemporary dancers from the MENA region for the Dancing on the Edge Scholarship Programme. Dancing on the Edge (DOTE) offers scholarships to young talent from the MENA region to attend a three-week summer dance workshop programme. In 2021, there will be an online programme, and an offline one if conditions allow for travel.

The Jan van Eyck Academie is looking for a coordinator of the Nature Research department to join the team. Together with the director and curator, the appointed person will advise on and co-develop innovative programming and an institutional strategy on Art and Climate Crisis in which theory and practice are of equal importance. Related to this, the Nature Research department will provide guidance and develop tools and insights benefiting the institute, its organisation and participants, as well as the creative practices of others working in the arts.

Greylight Projects residency programme is launching an open call for a residency of 2 months (March-April 2021) in Heerlen, the Netherlands. This open call is addressed to artists based in the EUREGIO. The EUREGIO is a cross-border region between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The artist needs to be settled in this geographical area to apply for the residency, no matter his/her nationality. The residency is intended for artists working in visual arts or cross-disciplinary practices.

‘on-the-fly’ is a Creative Europe project, led by Hangar in partnership with ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Ljudmila and Creative Coding Utrecht, committed to supporting the development of European live coding practices. The current open call will award 8 grants and accompanying residencies to develop artistic productions involving live coding practices. Each residency will last from 15 days to 1 month (schedule tbc). Researchers, artists, developers and members of collectives of all ages (over 18 years old) and nationalities working in the field of live coding can apply.

The Alex Adriaansens Residency provides a Dutch or international artist or designer the possibility to conduct a year-long research project into the material basis and aesthetics of our digital culture. The residency recipient will work in partnership with V2_ in Rotterdam, Netherlands over the span of one year.