Switzerland

The Alt. +1000 photography festival will host its 7th edition in the Jura mountains (Switzerland) from 27 August – 18 September 2023. For the next edition, the festival will bring together a group of curators. They will each propose photographic works to be shown in the banks of Lac des Taillères. 

BRÜCKEREI is a biennial choreographic development platform taking place in Zürich, Switzerland. The next mentored artistic laboratory will be held from 18-31 July 2022 at Tanzhaus Zürich. For the 3 spots for choreographers, applications are invited from any performance-makers, regardless of background, aesthetic expression or level of choreographic experience.

ALTER- is a three-month residency in Chandolin, a village perched at an altitude of 2000 meters in the Val d’Anniviers in the Swiss Alps, that invites one transdisciplinary team of 3-5 artists and researchers to rethink and respond to growing environmental crises and their associated social, economic, and cultural shifts. The next residency takes place 6 June – 3 August 2022.

Founded in 2021, the artist residency Sihl Delta offers artists a quiet space in the vibrant surroundings of a Zürich shopping mall – an unusual but inspiring working environment. Artists and duos/collaborators with an established artistic practice can apply. The rooms are suited for photography, painting, drawing, new media, and writing. The residency duration is between 4 and 10 months, with the next residency starting 1 April 2022.

Extra Muros is an itinerant creative residency programme that aims to bring together innovative and creative music artists from all around the globe for a two-week long production and writing camp. This autumn, the Extra Muros Artist Residency will take place in Switzerland, hosted within the Museum of Ethnography of Geneva, from 13-18 December 2021 and 7-12 February 2022.

The EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) College of Humanities artist residency is a new programme that aims to foster transdisciplinary encounters and collaborations between artists and EPFL’s scientific community. Four artists will be selected for 3-4 month residencies at the EPFL in four sub-programmes: Open Transdisciplinary, Wearable Technologies, Interface Design and Animation, Scientific Imaging.

Bern Ballett is calling for chorographers to submit dance pieces for the international dance festival and competition Tanzplatform Bern. Submitted choreographies must be between 10 and 30 minutes long, with a maximum of 6 performers and no or a reduced stage design.

Artists across all countries and creative disciplines are invited to submit a project proposal for a research-led residency at CERN in Geneva and in various laboratories and research centres in Barcelona, while being hosted at the Hangar Centre for Art Research and Production. The artist will spend two months at CERN, followed by a one-month stay in Barcelona (not necessarily consecutively), with dates to be agreed on selection.

The pre-PhD programme PEERS aims to support emerging artistic researchers who are interested in pursuing a doctorate in the arts. For a period of one year, starting in March 2022, participants will be offered the opportunity to benefit from an intensive mentoring and training programme. ZHdK are looking for five mid-career artists with profound artistic practice in theatre, dance, performance or film. Candidates must hold an MA or an equivalent degree.

IG Rote Fabrik has opened applications for its next residency slot, which will run from April-July 2022, and is open to professional artists from abroad (non-Swiss artists outside of Switzerland) who exhibit high artistic and professional quality in the fields of visual arts, dance, theatre, music or film. 

The Jan Michalski Foundation lies at the foot of the Swiss Jura Mountains in Montricher. Its residency programme is open to all types of writers engaged in literary creation. While they give priority to writers and translators, the Foundation are also open to any other disciplines as long as writing is at the heart of the project. Stays in the Jan Michalski Foundation can be granted for individual projects or projects in pairs, and can last two weeks, one month, two months, three months or six-months. The next wave of residencies will begin from February 2022. Applications are open internationally.