Western Europe

As part of its action to support cultural and creative industries, the Institut français launches a call for applications for its programme at the Cité internationale des arts for residencies of three or six months, between April 2022 and April 2023. Artists must be supported by one or several cultural partners.

The Designers in Residence programme addresses young designers working in the fields of jewellery, fashion, accessory and industrial design. Three scholarship holders will be invited to the EMMA – Creative Center Pforzheim for a three-month working phase. The scholarship will run 1 April 2022 – 30 June 2022.

Next year Camargo celebrates its 50th anniversary. During the past five decades, the Foundation has welcomed nearly 1000 accomplished artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world to Cassis, France, offering time, space, and a vibrant community to inspire collaboration and exchange.

The fellowship ‘Torschreiber am Pariser Platz’ (Gate Scribe at Pariser Platz) enables one author to work on their own literary projects of choice for six months, starting in November 2021, in Berlin. Applications are open to writers from Europe and the Mediterranean Region who are threatened or persecuted in their country of origin or residence, as well as Afghan writers who have had to leave their country.

The European Network of Ancient Music (REMA) is a professional network which brings together 130 organisations in some twenty European countries. It is now looking for an Executive Secretary who will, in conjunction with the executive board, ensure that the objectives and orientations of the network are put into practice, while coordinating its strategic development, its finances, its budget, links with members and partners, and human resources.

DiffMix started in 2020 with the idea of bringing citizens and artists together to transform public places in Differdange, Luxembourg. Citizens identified online and offline five places that they wanted to transform and what their needs were. Now it’s up artists, designers and creatives from Europe to propose how these transformations can take place, and how they can be realised together with the citizens of Differdange.  

The city of Rouen invites one visual artist from the CreArt Network to work for a month in Rouen at La Maison Pressée 15 November – 18 December 2021. Applicants should be resident in any of the cities taking part in the CreArt project: Aveiro (Portugal); Valladolid (Spain); Clermont-Ferrand (France); Genoa (artists should be under 35) and Lecce (Italy); Liverpool (UK); Lublin and Katowice (Poland); Kaunas (Lithuania); Skopje (Macedonia) and Zagreb (Croatia).

Weltmuseum Wien is launching an open call for a residency and the production of an artwork on the topic of ‘Imagining Caring Futures: Art, Imagination, and Empathy’ using sound as medium. The residency will take place May and June 2022, with final results shown late 2020 or early 2023. Individuals and collectives can apply.

Since 2011, the Fleetstreet Theater Hamburg has – together with the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and the Rudolf Augstein Stiftung – been running a residency programme for groups of artists working across all genres by means of performative arts, visual arts, film and/or music. Residencies last 1-3 months and the next round of residencies will be awarded for the period from March 2021 to February 2022.