Turkey

Teatroskop invites cultural and artistic organisations to apply for its 2025 Call for Projects, which supports the development of contemporary performing arts collaborations between France and South-East Europe. This call encompasses cooperation, distribution, capacity building, and networking. The project must be completed before 31 December 2025.

VAHA programme is calling for applications from cultural initiatives and civil society actors from Turkey, other Council of Europe (CoE) countries and Kosovo to apply as hubs in collaboration with local partners to develop and implement both local and transnational cultural programming activities. The programme will take place from March 2025 to April 2026.

FIRECULT (Wildfire Resilient Cultural Heritage) is now looking to appoint three artists who will be working in three of the case study areas (Ireland, Turkey and Italy) to explore the relationship between wildfires, community, and cultural heritage through artistic research, engagement and activity.

‘Decolonizing Food: Water, Land and Heritage’ is the first edition of Residency On The Road, the unique Allianz Foundation Hubs residency programme. It aims at bringing together artists, writers, curators, thinkers, activists, chefs, farmers, designers and many more to explore non-conventional food practices. Artists, thinkers, researchers, activists, chefs, farmers, anthropologists, writers, curators, architects, food, fashion, graphic and social designers, and other cultural practitioners based in Istanbul, Kosovo or Sicily can apply.

Artists Connecting in Transition (ACT) is a new international programme for artists in exile, centring on artistic practice and international exchange in the context of significant global challenges and inequalities around forced migration, exile and displacement. Funded by the British Council, ACT sets out to create environments of care, creativity and support for artists whose practice has been disrupted through forced migration.

Culture and the SDGs is an experimental project that sits somewhere between an action research, capacity-building training, and a creative residency. The programme will host eight CCI professionals and eight professionals from other sectors for an online programme followed by an in-person residency in Istanbul, Turkey, with activities taking place in August and September 2022.

The 22nd International Prokonessos Sculpture Symposium will be held in the Marmara island Saraylar region between 22 August 2022 – 22 September 2022. The aim of the symposium is to provide qualified contemporary works of art, to contribute to the transformation of the region into an open-air sculpture museum, and to promote the island of Marmara on the international art field.

The Global Cultural Relations Programme (GCRP) is a unique opportunity for people working in the cultural and creative sectors to develop lifelong skills, increase their knowledge, build their international network and receive support to engage in international cultural relations. This year the GCRP will take place in Istanbul from 10-13 May 2022. The programme will be conducted in English.

The Ankara Queer Art Program Artist Residency will host visual artists whose practice explores intersecting particularities of artistic expression and queer politics. Each artist in residence will be hosted for a duration of 8 weeks in Ankara.

The Allianz Cultural Foundation is funding co-production scholarships at the Tarabya Kulturakademie for an initial period of three years starting in 2021. The scholarships are aimed at artists from Turkey who are working in tandem with partners from Germany. In this way, the Allianz Cultural Foundation aims to strengthen artistic freedom and exchange in Turkish-German cultural cooperation. The first scholarships will support stays in Istanbul between October 2021 and September 2022.

READ - Regional Network for Cultural Diversity’s residency programme is aimed at writers, translators, playwrights, poets, illustrators, graphic novel artists and comic book writers. Eligible applicants will have published at least two books/works of their own or at least two translations, and must be residents of one of the following countries: North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Albania or Kosovo. Young and emerging authors are welcomed as well as established and experienced ones. Residencies last up to a month and will take place from May – December 2021.

The Octopus Programme is a guided research-based educational programme that encourages artistic research across sectors. The call for the next phase of the programme is open to all Diploma Students, Master’s and PhD students at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design Stockholm, as well as artists from or based in South Africa, Palestine and Tunisia. Applicants should have oral and written proficiency in English and be able to travel abroad twice between June 2021 and June 2022 (5 to 7 days).