Slovenia

S+T+ARTS AIR is launching a new S+T+ARTS residencies programme focused on two main themes: Resilient Interspecies Urban Ecosystems and Human AI Ecosystems. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents in Member States of the European Union and its Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe.

Are you a passionate maker, innovator, or creative thinker? Are you driven by collaborative projects, cutting-edge technologies, and exploring the limitless possibilities of making? Center Rog is inviting makers with specific sets of skills to apply for their Makers in Residency Programme in Ljubljana, Slovenia — an exceptional opportunity to be part of their journey in establishing a unique creative environment in the largest public creative hub in Europe, opening this October!

The S+T+ARTS in the City residencies programme aims to enhance art-driven innovation at local level and human-centred technologies, such as artificial intelligence, robotics, new digital media, smart cities, high performance computing, data science, or biotechnologies. 11 artists will be supported through a programme that includes a 9-month residency at a Regional S+T+ARTS Centre, beginning in October 2023.

The Inspiration Forum LAB is an interdisciplinary research programme designed to provide a space where artists and scientists can meet and work together on creating research-based multimedia art projects. The 2023/24 LAB will take place in phases from October 2023 – September 2024. The programme is open to applicants from EU Member States.

European artists, or collectives can apply to the EMAP residency programme with a project proposal for a residency of two months in 2024. The artists will be collaborating with an artist of their choice or an artist local to the platform’s host institutions.

BITE of Art 2.0 initiative, run by the consortium of cultural operators from Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, and Serbia, is calling for young emerging artists or groups (max. 3 people) to engage in shaping a future for the European continent and addressing environmental and climate change issues through socially engaging contemporary visual art performances. Selected works will be performed within the festival ‘A Future of Europe: Code GREEN’ in Ljubljana from 9-13 October 2023.

The Twenty Something Project, part of the European Capital of Culture programme, will organise a literary residency on the theme ‘visible and invisible’ in 2023. The residency is aimed at writers, poets, essayists and committed publicists between the ages of 20 and 29 from Slovenia, Italy (FriuliVenezia Giulia, Veneto, South Tyrol, and Emilia-Romagna only), Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, and Germany (Chemnitz and surroundings only).

The project MODINA (Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience) aims to expand the creative possibilities for contemporary dance performances, and augment the experience for the audience, using digital technology – with an emphasis on exploring artificial intelligence (AI) and audience interaction, on-site and online. The project seeks dance and technology duos for residencies in performance centres in Romania, Slovenia, Estonia, Germany and Hungary. Five 8-week residencies will take place between November 2023 and April 2024.

The Eastern European Music Academy is a hybrid capacity building project for independent music professionals from Eastern and Central Europe, as well as the Baltic region. The Academy runs from 30 September 2023, with some students selected to attend an in-person conference and showcase in Slovenia.

Kranj Foto Fest has announced its open call for exhibitions 2023 on the theme of HUMAN — NATURE. They seek visually powerful and thought-provoking stories that showcase the relationship between humanity and the environment. The selected artist will have a solo exhibition in Kranj, Slovenia, at the programme of Kranj Foto Fest 2023 and be invited for the opening week (from 23-27 August 2023).

As a member of the international collaboration A-Place, LOOP (a platform dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image) will commission a video production to investigate the process of creating a sense of place in one of the six cities participating in the project (Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Lisbon, Ljubljana and Nicosia). Multidisciplinary artists who are legal residents in the European Union can apply.

MGLC Švicarija, a creative and residential centre, in collaboration with the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, both based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, is inviting art critics and cultural journalists to apply for a fully funded, one-month residency in Ljubljana during October 2023.