Norway

Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava in Estonia and Davvi - Center for the Performing Arts in Norway are looking for 4 Estonian artists and 4 Norwegian artists for a collaborative project to develop choreographic interventions in public space. The project consists of 3 parts: 2-week research residency in Tartu in August 2023; 3-week research residency with a public presentation in Bodø in June 2024; 3-week residency and rehearsal period with 3 public performances in Tartu in July 2024.

The 17th International Assitej Festival will take place in Kristiansand from 12-16 September 2023. In 2023, the festival will also host the extensive EU project ConnectUp. The organisers are now calling for performing arts productions for young audiences between the ages of 0-19 and contributions to the professional programme.

Aldea - Center for Contemporary Art, Design and Technology in Bergen, Norway is offering Aldea is offering a residency from 16 March - 29 April 2023 for three artists, followed by a group exhibition in the Aldea gallery from 28 April -25 May 2023.

The BUZZ Network, an EU project aiming at cross-pollinating youth theatre practice, is calling for professional directors and artists who create performance work with young people to participate in an Artists Training Lab at Rogaland Theater in Stavanger, Norway from 6-10 March 2023.

This open call is looking for site-specific projects to be produced in Vadsø during the Varanger festival 9-12 August 2023. The call is open to professional artists or artist groups from Finland or Finnish Lapland, as well as those who may not originally come from these areas, but who identify as northerners by virtue of either living in or having a connection with the north.

Located on the northern tip of the Varanger peninsula in Norway, Kvitbrakka residence is a quiet bay for restless minds. The programme will offer residencies of 1-3 months during March-May and September-November 2023. Kvitbrakka welcomes artists working in painting, sculpture, performance, film, photography, music, text, research, relational aesthetics and/or installation.

The project Dance and Performing Arts Criticism in Europe, a collaboration of Czech Dance News and Performing Arts Hub Norway, is organising a seminar from 20-24 October during Oktoberdans in Bergen for emerging dance critics which will address the practice and new forms of dance criticism.

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.

‘A Natural Oasis?’ is a two-year nomadic free school dedicated to the development of new curatorial research paths in the field of contemporary visual and performing arts starting from the geopolitical peculiarities of the artistic scenes of those South-European and Mediterranean territories which are commonly considered remote, marginal, small, insular or liminal. 6 fellows (under 35) coming from Lebanon, Sardinia, France, Cyprus, Albania and Norway and working as curators, writers or artistic researchers will be supported to join the project.

Fjord Oslo is a free art festival that transforms Harbour Promenade in central Oslo into a large-scale outdoor exhibition of light. The dates for the third edition of Fjord Oslo are 3-6 November 2022, and the organisers are seeking works aligning with the theme of ‘Perspective / Prospective’.

Contemporary Art Stavanger (CAS) is excited to announce an open call for the 2022 CAS Residency in Art Writing. Applications are open to national and international writers, curators, and artistic researchers interested in pursuing research, curatorial and critical writing opportunities related to the region of Stavanger, Norway. Residencies will last 1-2 weeks and take place August - November 2022.