Western Europe

The Radio Art Residency is an international fellowship programme for artistic practice on the radio. The scheme supports artists from artists South America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Southern Africa. The next two residencies are scheduled for 1 September – 31 October 2023 and 1 September – 31 October 2024.

The Linden-Museum Stuttgart invites applications for an eight-week Artistic Research Residency for an artist interested in working with the museum’s collections and exhibitions. The residency will take place at the museum in May and June 2023 and is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

In the spring of 2023, Leeuwarden UNESCO City of Literature is offering a writer-in-residence programme. Writers and storytellers can spend a month (from 20 March - 15 April 2023) researching or working on a literary project, and getting introduced to their Dutch and Frisian colleagues. Poets, writers, biographers and literary translators living and working in one of the UNESCO Cities of Literature may apply.

The young, daring and driven are invited to apply to Trans Europe Halles’ free 9 month mentoring programme ‘Duct tape and Dreams’ (running February - October 2023). Duct Tape and Dreams is a hands-on mentoring and capacity building programme for emerging artistic collectives that provides young and committed creatives with the necessary tools and expertise to build a sustainable future in the independent cultural sector.

The Salettl Residency Programme aims to offer artists the opportunity to enter into direct dialogue with the community of the Kleine Stadt Farm in in Vienna’s Donaustadt and the surrounding nature in order to develop a project on site. The residency will run from 28 May – 25 June 2023, with final presentation on 24 June.

Initiated and carried out by 40mcube, in partnership with the company Self Signal, GENERATOR is both a continuing professional development programme dedicated to young visual artists and a residency for curators. Both programmes take place in 40mcube’s spaces in Rennes, France. The programme for artists will run from 2 October 2023 – 26 April 2024, and the residency for curators from 4-29 March 2024. Both programmes are open internationally, with no age limit.

School of Commons (SoC) is looking for groups and individuals who would like to conduct their research and practice as a part of the SoC community and informal study programme from May 2023 - February 2024. This includes bi-weekly meetings and an overall estimated time commitment of 4 days per month, with most work taking place online.

The Goethe Institute is enabling five to eight choral conductors from countries on the DAC list of the BMZ - Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung to participate in the International Masterclass and Competition for Choral Conducting and the International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf. Participation in the lessons of the main class for choral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Saar with Prof. Georg Grün from 24 May – 4 June 2023 will also be provided.

ECHANGEUR 22 is a non-profit association that supports emerging contemporary artists working in the visual arts. For its seventh edition, the ECHANGEUR22 residency will take the theme of Mobility, and will bring together one French artist, one Japanese artist, one Brazilian artist, and one South Korean artist for 6 consecutive weeks.

Forecast offers artists and creative thinkers from anywhere in the world the chance to work with accomplished mentors toward bringing their projects to fruition. Open to all disciplines and genres, the scheme will see 18 applicants selected to present their ideas in Berlin during the Forecast Forum from 10-17 July 2023. 6 will then be selected to present at Forecast Festival in Berlin in March 2024.

In the first call from the European project Hydromedia, four selected residents will work in the Scheldt Estuary, the ecological zone alongside the Scheldt, a living climate laboratory, and a rare phenomenon worldwide. The residency takes place over April 2023 and is open to visual artists currently living in Europe and/or who have the nationality of one of the countries that are part of the EU.

The Digital Flying Carpet is calling for artists’ proposals. The Digital Flying Carpet is a project by Women Connected (WOCO) in collaboration with V2_Lab for the unstable media, Rotterdam. If your project is selected, you will work in collaboration with WOCO and V2_ on a digital dimension to WOCO’s acclaimed project The Flying Carpet, during the spring and summer of 2023.