Artist Opportunities

Are you a performing arts professional eager to explore the intersection of technology and stage performance? The Digital on Stage (DOS) Mobility Programme offers a unique opportunity to collaborate, innovate, and experiment with VR, AR, AI, streaming platforms, and multimedia installations in the performing arts.

Eligibility: Performing arts professionals & artists with an interest in digital innovation Experience with digital tools in the arts is a plus!

What you get: 1,000 € for travel, accommodation, and subsistence

Deadline 04 April 2025

Applications are open for Fluid Earth, the title of GroundWork Gallery’s fifth annual artist residency and exhibition programme for 2025. It builds on our track-record of environmental art residencies which have taken a strongly inter-disciplinary approach. We welcome broad and imaginative approaches to the subject. The Fluid Earth GroundWork Residency runs overall from 4 August – 10 September. During this time, each selected artist is required to join in with a research week from 4-9 August, followed by a choice of venue for the production phase for 10 days.

Eligibility: Any professional artist whose work is in sympathy with the environment, any medium, any age, any nationality

What you get: Accommodation and hospitality, studio space, peer-group & mentoring, opportunity to exhibit in show at GroundWork Gallery

Deadline 06 April 2025

As one of Cove Park’s key programmes, the 2025 & 2026 Awarded Residencies supports local, national, and international artists, researchers, writers, and creative practitioners, working in all art forms and at every career stage. These residencies offer supported time for research, creative development, and the production of new work. The appointed residents will receive a fee, funding for travel and, when required, for materials, access support, and the visa application process.

Eligibility: Please note, for 2025 and 2026 these residencies are open to individuals, collectives, and collaborative groups based in Scotland and the UK and in Central and South America. Artists from the Central and South American diaspora based in Europe and North America are also welcome to apply. Intended for artists, researchers, writers, and creative practitioners, working in all art forms and at every career stage.

What you get: Private accommodation suitable for individuals and for those working in collaboration or attending with children. Cove Park’s residencies are self-catering and each unit of accommodation has its own kitchen. Private studios. Workspace and meeting space within the Jacobs Building, a communal building which has a library, a large rehearsal room with a wooden floor, open-plan kitchen, and dining area. Unlimited access to Cove Park’s 50-acre rural site. A range of tools and equipment, including a 60-litre kiln and upright piano. The full support of Cove Park’s team.The appointed residents will receive a fee/stipend of £750 GBP per week, funding for travel, and when required, for materials, access support, and the visa application process.

Deadline 11 April 2025

Cambridge Artworks and Artspace invites artists of all disciplines to apply for the 2025 Caravanserai summer residencies, located in a bright blue repurposed caravan-studio adjacent to the main studio building in central Cambridge.

Eligibility: Professional artists of all disciplines

What you get: Opportunity to concentrate exclusively on individual practice and take time out of usual routines for experimentation, critical thinking and development of new work in the context of a vibrant artist community.

Deadline 13 April 2025

Writers, visual artists - incl. painting, graphic arts, sculpture, media arts, and photography - and composers as well as scholars with a research project on Romanticism or on questions relating to the previously divided Germany can apply until April 15, 2025, for a three-months residency at Schloss Wiepersdorf in 2026.

Eligibility: Applicants must have completed an artistic or academic course of study, be working on a doctorate, or have distinguished themselves through publications or long-standing professional artistic or academic work, and can provide samples of their work to substantiate this. Applicants may not be under 18 years old.

What you get: All fellows receive a monthly cash stipend of €1200 and a one-time grant of €480 to cover material expenses. In addition to that, room and board (three meals a day) for free.

Deadline 15 April 2025

RUPTUREXIBIT is proud to be part of the Richmond Borough Arts & Ideas Festival 2025. We are offering an opportunity for a four-week residency with a stipend to an artist or artist collective with an established practice to develop work in response to the theme of Cultural Reforesting.

Eligibility: Open to a small group of artists (up to 5) or an individual artist. Open to international applicants (but does not include travel or accommodation costs).

What you get: The artist will be in residence in RuptureXIBIT's 360 sq ft front gallery space for 4 weeks, from 3 June to 30 June. The artist will be in residence for two weeks prior to the Festival and will continue working through the two weeks of the festival. £250 stipend. The studio is based in Hampton Wick, 5 mins walk from Bushy Park and the River Thames, as well as 10 mins walk from Home Park which leads to Hampton Court. and Kingston town centre. Open to a small group of artists (up to 5) or an individual artist. The artist will be required to hold Open Studios as part of the festival during the weekends of 14th & 15th, 21st & 22nd and 28th & 29th June RuptureXIBIT artists in residence Kate Howe and Sally Mins will be responding to the theme in the back studios concurrently with your residency RuptureXIBIT will be open in its entirety during the Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival with all resident artists’ open studios at RuptureXIBIT promoted across the borough This residency also offers the following opportunities (optional): Present an Artist Talk Co-Host workshops Hold a show with PV during the final weekend

Deadline 18 April 2025

CO.LABS Art Residency project is intended for skilled artists as well as for creative people who are at the beginning or their artistic process. Project is open for various art forms – visual arts, fine art, multimedia arts or others.

Eligibility: Anyone who agrees with co.labs' code of ethics

What you get: networking with other artists who will be in other residencies at co.labs - performing arts, marketing, technics and mentoring support established Brno

Deadline 20 April 2025

Reclaiming Post-Industrial Futures is a multi-residency programme exploring forgotten industrial heritage sites in Romania as places for collaboration and community building, designed and developed by EUNIC Romania. It involves eight cultural institutions operating in Romania - the British Council, the Czech Centre, the Embassy of the Netherlands, the French Institute, the Italian Institute for Culture, the Cervantes Institute, the Polish Institute and Fundația9, each engaged in supporting one residency. The project was framed by this consortium of European partners, in collaboration with curator Ilinca Păun.

Eligibility: Interdisciplinary artists, architecture historians, architects/landscape architects, anthropologists, community organisers from Czech Republic, Italy, UK, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Romania

What you get: Two weeks at various dates between July to August 2025 in post-industrial cities across Romania.

Deadline 27 April 2025

Fall into Focus Periods: 1 month (29 days) When: Oct / Nov 2025 Where: Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland Application deadline: 1st May 2025 Fall into Focus residency program is for artists, writers and researchers who want to concentrate on their creative practice, projects, writing or research. The program brings together creative individuals from various different fields and backgrounds.

Eligibility: Emerging and professional artists, writers, designers from all fields of creativity + Researchers, scientists, philosophers, psychologists engaged with areas such as Psychology / Philosophy / Cosmology / Neuroscience / Nature / Meditation / Mysticism / Spirituality / Metaphysics / Math & Physics / A.I. / Future studies

What you get: Residency program

Fee: No application fee, but monthly residency cost is €1,350-1,950

Deadline 01 May 2025

Walking through the streets of Tokyo, what kind of places and people will bring us unknown discoveries and creative experiences?

We are now calling for new “sanpo” art projects to join us in our explorations!

We look forward to receiving your new “sanpo” art project ideas that match the originality and social engagement of “SOCIAL DIVE,” which is conceptualised as immersing oneself in the local culture and community of Tokyo, Japan!

Eligibility: Open to all ages over 18 years old

What you get: Round-trip Travel expenses (Up to 300,000JPY including tax based on efficient and reasonable economy class tickets between Tokyo and your country.) (Maximum 1 person) / Accommodation in Tokyo -/Coordination of venue for the art program /Support fee for project development (with a budget limit of 200,000JPY including tax) /Honorarium 100,000JPY, including tax /Interpretation and translation support /Issue of Invitation Letter

Deadline 02 May 2025

Asteria Space, a start-up born in 2019 in 2024 was the winner of the call for proposals “Luoghi Comuni” of the Region of Apulia, thanks to which was founded Asteria Guest&Artist House, a structure designed to accommodate tourists and artists in a residence located in one of the most beautiful villages in Italy: Roseto Valfortore. Nestled in the Monti Dauni, immersed in the unspoiled nature of the Vetruscelli forest and surrounded by a timeless atmosphere, this small town of about 900 inhabitants is the perfect place for research and artistic production

Eligibility:

• Dancers and dance companies
• Actors, playwrights and theatre companies
• Musicians, bands and songwriters
• Visual artists (painting, sculpture, installation, illustration, photography, video art)
• Designer

What you get: Roseto Valfortore, immersed in the green landscapes of the Dauni Mountains, is a village that offers an intimate and collected dimension, perfect for those who want to work in an environment free from distractions and stimulated by the beauty of nature. Away from the hustle and bustle of urban life, artists can immerse themselves in a creative environment with historic architecture, breathtaking panoramic views and a welcoming community. Roseto has an ancient history and a sister city in Pennsylvania born during the emigrations to America from late '800. It is a closely linked village, therefore to the Tourism of the Roots since numerous emigrated Rosetan come in the village in search of their origins. Roseto is a town of truffle, preserves the tradition of stonemasons whose shops are present, preserves an old mill water visitable near which is a picturesque pool surrounded by the mountains.

Deadline 20 May 2025