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Please note that the information on this page only applies to funding opportunities through our programme line 1 "Temporary relocation to Germany: Artists and cultural actors at risk have the possibility to temporarily stay and work in Germany with the assistance of a host cultural institution.".
Monthly evaluation from October 2022-May 2023.
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Culture Moves Europe: Call for Individual Mobility of Artists and Cultural Professionals
Deadline: 11.4. 2023 // In 2023, the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, represented by its Office for Further Education and Culture, will
for the first time award two scholarships to art and cultural mediators who have fled Ukraine.
The scholarships aim to provide direct support to artists and cultural workers among the refugees who have fled
Ukraine, to facilitate their access to the district’s institutions and structures that are relevant to their
professional fields, and to organize associated administrative duties and hurdles in a manageable and
comprehensive way.
Please note that the information on this page only applies to additional scholarship opportunities specifically for Afghan artists and cultural actors. As of now, the Martin Roth-Initiative offers support for Afghan artists and cultural actors at risk who have been issued with a residence permit according to section 22 sentence 2 of Germany’s Residence Act (Aufenthaltsgesetz, AufenthG) since August 2021.
Loops for Ukraine is a musical fundraising project. Donate what you can.
One charitable donation provides ongoing access to a bank of loops specially created by artists and will help to support the people in Ukraine in the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Featuring original sound loops by VTSS, Laraaji, Coby Sey, Mount Kimbie, Object Blue, umru, Laurel Halo and more.
All proceeds go to the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.
Deadline: Ongoing /
A self-directed, open-source artist residency to empower and inspire artists who are also mothers.
Deadline: ACCEPTING URGENT APPLICATIONS AT ANY TIME
Deadline rolling
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The Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism (ECFJ) is an experimental grant-making program that supports artists and artist-journalist teams producing innovative and revelatory journalistic work for major media outlets.
Deadline: 14.5.23 // In June 2023, music theatre collectives and artists are invited to participate in a one-week-residency in Vienna, Austria. It is an opportunity for international artists to work on their projects in a focused and safe environment while also experiencing the diverse contemporary music theatre scene in Vienna and having the chance to establish new connections and relationships within the local performing arts network.
Deadline: 19.5.23 // Rewilding Cultures (RC) is a Creative Europe collaboration project which wants to reposition the wild within the field of art practices connecting to science and technology. As the European cultural sector has been and still is affected by multiple subsequent and coincident crises (incl. COVID-19, war-induced inflation, migration) we need to rewild on terms fit for the present and future.
In this spirit and with this open call, Rewilding Cultures aims to initiate a conversation on cultural exchange and offers grants for mobility beyond the current forms of support, as well as backing for work and experiments which contribute to the rethinking of mobility and cultural exchange in novel ways.
Deadline:24.5.23 // In the scope of MODINA, the partners are opening a call for artist residencies for multidisciplinary duos, encompassing competences in dance and in technology (particularly related to computational creativity and audience interaction), for example: a dancer/choreographer and a creative technologist. In the first stage of MODINA, 5 residencies of 8 weeks will be organised across 5 performance centres: CNDB (Romania), Kino Siska (Slovenia), STL (Estonia), tanzhaus nrw (Germany), and Trafo (Hungary). These residencies will receive mentorship from academic partners, from 3 universities: Hochschule Düsseldorf, Tallinn University and University of Lisbon.
Deadline: 31.5.2023
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Housed in the Breezeblock building in the suburb of Brixton, Johannesburg, LAPA is a place to gather, for collaboration, experimentation and developing new trajectories in artistic practice. LAPA makes its connection with communities and asks what kind of potential could we encourage when we are housed together. Enacting the term LAPA, the residency becomes a space of communing to explore themes of home, family and place.
In 2023 the open call extends within Africa to expand on the continental network and establish necessary travel and connection.
Deadline: 30.5.2023 // Hand to Hand is a European cooperation project which aims to explore the issue of sustainability through learning and experiential spaces of innovation and research for circus artists, especially emerging artists in their artistic practice in public space, and give them new capacities of initiating such a transition.
Deadline: 31.5.2023 //
Art Center Nabi is restarting the annual Nabi Artist Residency programme dedicated to fostering innovation and creativity at the intersection of art, technology and society. Nabi Artist Residency is a platform that supports artists from diverse cultural backgrounds to explore their ideas and connect with fellow practitioners at the heart of Seoul.
Deadline: 5.6.23 // Are you interested in exploring the role of food in human and planetary well-being? MUSAE is looking for artists who can provide critical reflection, and envision future potential and challenges of the topic of Food as Medicine by producing future scenarios and artworks. The first open call of MUSAE is a unique opportunity for artists to explore the future challenges of food systems of production, supply and consumption by applying an innovative Design Futures Art-driven (DFA) method to develop future scenarios which will be the starting point for the second MUSAE open call and residency in 2024.
ONGOING / Artists, creatives and arts practitioners are one of the most instantly impacted groups of people in this unprecedented crisis that we find ourselves. In light of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the artist community, many arts organisations, foundations and governments are creating additional immediate support to meet artists needs.
To help you in this emerging situation, we have prepared the list of available grants and funds. We will continue to update it over the next few weeks. We hope you will find it helpful. Stay tuned!
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Deadline: 15.5.2023 // Hungry EcoCities is a groundbreaking initiative that seeks to develop responsible, art-driven solutions for the agri-food industry using AI-enabled technologies. This programme will host 20 S+T+ARTS residencies aimed at prototyping these solutions for end-users. These ‘experiments’ give an opportunity to think differently, to bridge perspectives, to give a voice to unheard actors.
Deadline:16.5.23 // This call consists, in the second part of the project, in granting road travel grants to artists and professionals from Central Africa who have dissemination and exchange projects in at least two countries of the sub-region. .
These grants relate to artistic dissemination or exchange projects, scheduled between May 30 and September 30, 2023, and no travel grant, regardless of the route and per individual, may not exceed the sum of 327,900, i.e. 500 euros
Deadline: 17.5.23 // studio das weisse haus is announcing a three to four weeks residency for one international curator with a focus on photography. The goal of the programme is to realise a presentation in combination with two Open Studio Days on 24 and 25 June with the Studio Artists of studio das weisse haus’ programme as part of FOTO WIEN festival (1-30 June 2023).
Deadline: 18.5.2023 // IDENSITAT and Centro Huarte are initiating the Transversal Aesthetics / In the Air programme. This will develop two research and production projects within the local contexts of Huarte and Barcelona, based upon the concept of the hybrid residency and aiming to work with the specific nature of these local contexts using social space activation processes. The hybrid residency will combine an on-site temporary presence along with previous and subsequent work to be carried out remotely. The two projects will be selected through a joint open call for submissions, and will be carried out between September and December 2023.
Deadline:22.5.23 // Gasworks is inviting applications for a fully funded 11-week residency in London for an artist in the early stages of their career based in South Africa or Zimbabwe. The residency will run from 2 October – 18 December 2023. Gasworks’ residencies are opportunities for self-led professional development, artistic exchange, and experimentation.
Deadline: 31.5.23 // Poland’s National Institute of Music and Dance has announced the second call for applications for the ‘Dancing Together, Again!’ creative residency project implemented under the Creative Europe programme. Its main objectives include cultural exchange, interaction between artists, producers and dance researchers with an emphasis on the creative process and integration with local communities.
Deadline: 2.6.2023 // the sustainable institution residency is an opportunity for artists to produce new material solutions in the fight against climate change.
Three artists will be selected to develop a new prototype for sustainable exhibition making with an artist fee, travel budget and production grant of 20.000 EUR. Each artist will be mentored by the jury over a six month research and development period, with a studio at their respective institution between March–April 2024.
Deadline: 2.6.23 // The Lake Balaton Art Residency is the main programme of the South-Balaton Contemporary Art and Sustainability Foundation in Szólád, organised for the first time in 2018. Its aim is to provide a high quality professional environment and a relaxed and calm atmosphere for the artists to realise their ideas.
The residency programme and the creative work of the artists are supported by an established, successful contemporary art mentor. The art mentor is a facilitator and supporter, helping artists realise their own potential and ideas – if the artist wishes to take up the opportunity. In 2023, the residency will run for two weeks, 31 July - 13 August 2023.
Deadline: Varies depending on the project type. Read the guidelines :)
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The Nordic Culture Fund supports projects which stimulate the development of artistic and cultural life in the Nordic region. Here you can read more about our current funding programmes.
With its grant programme, the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg (Arts Foundation Baden-Württemberg) provides targeted support to young talents from the visual and performing arts, literature, music, art criticism and cultural management, whose permanent residence or focus of work is in Baden-Württemberg, or who have spent a significant part of their life in Baden-Württemberg, which has been decisive for their artistic work.
ONGOING / ARAK Collection, based in Doha – Qatar is inviting applications from Curators from Sub-Saharan Africa, this is an opportunity for Young and Mid-Career Contemporary Art Curators to be selected for their Annual Curatorial Residency Fellowship Program based at their Collection Exhibition and Research Space in Doha – Qatar.