Western Europe

The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, a joint project of TUD Dresden University of Technology and the Schaufler Foundation, is inviting applications for its six-month Artist-in-Residence at the interface of art and science starting in April 2027.

With MEMPHIS CALLING, Kunstraum Memphis are opening to external curatorial perspectives through an international open call for the first time. MEMPHIS CALLING is looking for a curatorial concept for an exhibition bringing together several artistic positions, to be realised in early 2027 (exhibition period: mid-January to the end of February).

Maison Ackerman and Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud are calling for applications for the 2027 artist residency to create an artwork in the Maison Ackerman cellars. The residency is from mid-January 2027 and the opening is in May-June 2027.

Trame is a residency programme for French-speaking artists from around the world and all disciplines (exhibition curating, visual arts, performance, literature, cinema, music, architecture and design) who wish to develop a research and creative project in Paris for a period of three months in spring 2027.

TRACES (Transdisciplinary Research in Arts, Creation & Sciences) is a new international Art & Science residency programme based on the Energypolis campus in Sion, Switzerland.

For 2027, the association Lendhauer invites artists, designers, architects, performers, theorists and practitioners working in interdisciplinary contexts to develop projects for Klagenfurt’s Lendhafen addressing the theme ‘Urban Ecologies: Coexistence and Control’. The selected projects will be realised between June and the end of September 2027.

With TANZRECHERCHE x SPRUNGBRETT, the NRWKS and the tanz NRW festival are offering a production-independent research grant comprising a two-week residency from 26 April to 10 May 2027 in North Rhine-Westphalia, followed by participation in the tanz nrw 27 festival from 12 to 23 May 2027.

Download this report on the state of artists’ visas to France and their deterioration, which is distributed very unevenly across different countries of origin.

The forces transforming work are reshaping a cultural and creative sector in which livelihoods have long been precarious. This Cultural Futures Forum will explore this topic online and in March 2027 in Salzburg, Austria.

The Designers in Residence is an international design scholarship of the city of Pforzheim in cooperation with Pforzheim University – School of Design and the Design Center Baden Württemberg, granted to young design artists from the fields of jewellery, fashion, accessory, industrial and graphic and other areas of design.

Art Explora has launched the call for applications for the Art Explora – Cité internationale des Arts Residency Programme 2027.

The make-a-thek Mobility Scheme and Knowledge Exchange Programme connects creative spaces, public libraries, and makers across Europe and beyond to share skills in circular fashion, traditional crafts, and technology.