Artists residency in Vaasa

Platform announces an open call for an artist residency in Vaasa, Finland. 2-3 international and 2-3 Balticor Nordic artists will be accepted for the period starting February 2011 till the end of February 2012.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS 31st AUGUST2010

THE PROGRAM Annually 5-6 artists are invited,normally about 2 months, to realize a project. The residency offers accommodation, a studio, covered travel expenses, a monthly grant as well as a production budget.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE An application consisting of a motivation letter/project proposal, documentation of 5 projects and acv, all included in one document, to be sent electronically to info@platform.fi during August, but no later than 31.8.2010. For closer details on the application procedure and the program, please consult our web-page: http://www.platform.fi/residency

The Skaftfell residency program in 2011

Call for applications Deadline 1st. September 2010 Skaftfell Center for Visual Art has opened a call for applications for the residency program in 2011.The Skaftfell residency program’s objective is to create a community made up of artists and the general public in the rural setting of East-Iceland. Creating a platform to stimulate innovative dialogue between art and life. Allowing a space for artists to experience and explore a new angle to their artistic work in context with living and working in a unique, micro community were creativity is applied to every day life. All further information can be found on the website http://skaftfell.is

Till nordiska porträttkonstnärer

År 2011 står det Nationalhistoriska Museum på Frederiksborg Slot för tredje gången för den nordiska tävlingen Bryggare J.C.Jacobsens porträttpris. Priset tilldelas en nordisk konstnär som på ett spännande, konstnäriskt sätt behandlat frågor om verkliga, konkreta människors identitet och personlighet. Detta gäller oavsett om verket har form av måleri, video,installation eller ljudkonstverk. Första priset är 85.000 danska kronor. Andra priset är 35.000 danska kronor. Tredje priset är 15.000 danska kronor. På hemsidan www.portraet.nu  kan du anmäla ditt konstverk till den kommande tävlingen. Anmälningsfristen är 1 december 2010. På hemsidan kan du också läsa om tävlingens regler, tidsplan för tävlingen och datum för utställningsöppningen 2011.

Litauisk internationell konstutställning

Lithuanian Artists Association (Kaunas Department) invites artists of different creative fields to participate in an international art exhibition “Fata Morgana” that will take place on 17 December 2010 – 20 January 2011 in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Applications are awaited till 15 October, 2010.

The tradition of the exhibition

The annual international art exhibition in Kaunas (the second biggest city in Lithuania) has been continued for 10 years already. This exhibition represents the oeuvre of various artistic fields (painting, sculpture, textile, graphics, ceramics, glass art and contemporary art – installations, objects, video art, etc.). Since 2000 a number of such exhibitions took place in Kaunas, e.g. „Mysterium Magnum“, „Ars Longa Vita Brevis“, „The Last Haiku of the 20th Century“, „The Unbearable Reality“, „Ultima Ratio“, „Kaunas in Art: Contexts“ and others that gained the attention of audience, media and art critics. Every year curators of the exhibition formulate a topic that represents the main semantic leitmotiv, revealed in varied art pieces.

The tradition is being carried on: the exhibition will take place at the end of 2010 in various galleries of the city. The main principles of the project – the arsenal of techniques and means of expression are not limited but the quality and sensitivity towards the subject is accentuated.

Kaunas artists are predicted to be the nucleus of this exhibition but authors from other Lithuanian cities and foreign countries are also very welcome to broaden the context of the event.

The subject

The subject of this year‘s exhibition is "Fata Morgana", inspired by a natural optical phenomenon, consisting of several forms of mirages. In the appearance of fata morgana, real objects seen in the horizon look like fantastic shapes – longer, floating up in the air. Depending on the atmospheric changes, those images move – lengthen and shrink again, creating a surreal impression.

In the world of art fata morgana means much more than just a play of optical images. In works of fiction fata morgana is described as moving constantly together with a man who is trying to approach it. That is why fata morgana always stays in the distance, far-off, as a metaphor of the inaccessible, the untouchable and the impossible.

The secret of fata morgana attracted composers (polka “Fata Morgana” by J. Strauss, 1868; opera “The Love for Three Oranges” by S. Prokofiev, 1919); cinema directors (film “Fata Morgana” by W. Herzog, 1971) and other artists. The influence of fata morgana shows how appealing its idea can be – phenomena, existing beyond the limits of a usual perception and an objective reality.

Therefore, the target of this exhibition is to create imaginary, illusory constructs, modified reality and other possible interpretations of fata morgana.

Conditions of participation

We are waiting for applications till 15 October, 2010. Applications must consist of:

1. A filled entry form (se länken längre ner på sidan).

2. Creative biography (CV).

3. Photos of artwork(s). The photos must be digital, optimal quality no less than 300 dpi, CMYK, RGB Color, the size of a file not bigger than 5MB. Photos will be used in the exhibition’s catalogue.

Please send your applications by e-mail: artkaunas@gmail.com

Further conditions:

· All the applicants will be informed by e-mail about the results of jury till 8 November, 2010.

· Selected artworks will have to be sent by post (address is at the top of the document) till December 15, 2010. Sending expenses will be covered by authors.

· The artworks will be returned to the authors after the exhibition together with the catalogue. Sending expenses will be covered by organizers.

· Awards for the most significant artworks are intended.

Metamatic öppnar för konstnärer

The Métamatic Research Initiative is launching a call for entries to commission six individual art works in line with its mission. The initiative welcomes proposals from visual artists working in all disciplines.
The Métamatic Research Initiative's mission is to stimulate research into ideas stemming from the work and philosophy of the French-Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991). Specifically, the research initiative focuses on Tinguely's exploration of the relationship between the artist, the art work and the viewer as expressed in his Métamatic sculptures. The call for entries is part of a broader effort of the initiative, in which funding will be given to both academic and artistic research activities, ranging from educational projects for young people to the commissioning of individual art works. The deadline for entries is 1 September 2010. For further information visit our website www.metamaticresearch.info

Residency i japansk kreativ hub

3331 offers a new model for a creative hub which builds a unique platform for cross-disciplinary, cross-community and cross-regional exchange. Based on the site of a former junior high school, this renovated 4 storey building, with its original character, plays host to an exciting range of events, exhibitions, community facilities, creative organizations and artistic practitioners. 3331 creates a space in which people of many different backgrounds and experiences can come together to explore, learn and create, with support including an artist in residence program and open arts schooling program. 3331 is realizing a new arts network for Tokyo, Japan and East Asia. Residency Applications Deadline:
18th June 2010 & 19th November 2010. For full details please check the following link:
www.3331.jp/news/en/201005/000260.html

Call for residencies - Visual Arts - Milano / Italy

deadline: 31 march

Viafarini promotes exchange of ideas and experiences in the field of visual arts within different cultural realities, offering assistance in getting in touch with Italy?s organisations and art world. In autumn 2007 Viafarini will start VIR Viafarini-in-Residence, a new artist-in-residence programme, which will allow selected artists and curators to spend a period of study in Milan, in one of the new studios owned by Viafarini inside the gallery's building. Applications will be evaluated in two sessions every year after the two deadlines of March 31 and August 31 each year.
contact: Monica Thurner e-mail: viafarini@viafarini.org