Approved funding

We are applying for funding to offer an artist residency for visual artists from Ukraine at BEAST on the island of Bornholm. The residency offers time and space for artistic immersion in unique natural surroundings. With a focus on photography and visual arts, BEAST provides a peaceful environment for research, creation, and reflection, supported by an active local art community.

‘WITH CARE’ is a residency program for Ukrainian artists at MARC focused on performance. It features Ukrainian artist and curator Pavlo Kerestey, curator and dramaturg Valeriia Buradzhyieva, and five artists selected for their prior work engaging with communities, space, and place. Their practices span performances, workshops, documentary filmmaking, immersive live choreographic installations, and visual art with a strong connection to performance.

VARES is an international architecture residency focused on sustainable and inventive spatial practices that expand the sphere of imagination related to everyday spaces and propose an alternative to the current wasteful practices. Over 2 years, we will host 4 Ukrainian architects, offering them time and space to explore personally important topics alongside international peers. The residency also fosters sharing of knowledge, experiences and practices in a supportive, collaborative environment.

This project enables Artists at Risk (AR) to host four 2-3-month residencies of Ukrainian art professionals and their dependents at the AR-Finland Network in 2026–27. Artists applying to AR's Ukraine Public Call are selected according to highest risk (occupied/heavily attacked regions), with priority given to applicants with children and those affected by war-related trauma. AR provides a safe environment for rest and respite, networking, and the continuation of their artistic practice.

The Ukrainian Solidarity Residencies Programme (USRP) is a network of Finnish arts organizations that offer Visual Artists, Musicians, and Arts Professionals funded residencies in Finland. Each artist is placed within an organization from the Ukraine Solidarity network that can best support their practice. As well as residencies, career building events and Artist Talks and exhibitions are organized to facilitate artists’ inclusion in the Finnish arts scene and develop artists support networks.

Trainspotting Art Residency invites 4 Ukrainian artists to Švenčionėliai, a town shaped by its train station infrastructure and creative community Forest Harbour, activating local spaces with artistic interventions, workshops, and collective rituals of leisure. Through community participation and site-specific activities, the residency reimagines recreation as a shared culture of healing, everyday renewal, and positive emotions rooted in both local traditions and contemporary needs.

The project aims to support modern Ukrainian theatre during war, fostering collaboration and post-war structures. Since spring 2022, Rikstolvan has been running a residency for Ukrainian playwrights and a secretariat for translation of Ukrainian drama. This grant is intended for extension and development of the project for a sustainable consolidation of the activity for dissemination and exchange that can continue to flourish the day the war ends.

The International Writers' and Translators' House is a multifunctional international centre for writers and translators that promotes the development of literature and encourages intercultural dialogue. We are applying for this additional funding in order to continue to provide professional writers and literary translators from Ukraine with a safe place for creative writing, translation, international cooperation, and the expression of the free word.

The Ukrainian Solidarity Residency Programme is a network of Finnish arts organizations that offer Visual Artists, Musicians, and Arts Professionals funded residencies in Finland. Each artist is placed within an organization from the Ukraine Solidarity network that can best support their practice. As well as residencies, career building events and Artist Talks are organized to facilitate artists’ inclusion in the Finnish arts and culture scene.

Analogue Adventure Ukraina is a residency program dedicated to analogue film and photography. It offers artists from Ukraine the opportunity to gain knowledge, develop skills, experiment and share their work. We are looking for innovative proposals that challenge or change the conventional ways of working with or looking at these media.

The Estonian Creative Residency Network (Eesti Loomeresidentuurid MTÜ) will connect nine Ukrainian artists with a 9 residency programs, hosted by various organizations across Estonia. The project will bring together the resources of its network members to provide artists with a safe space for artistic creation, support for those seeking protection, and unique networking opportunities both within the network and with the wider Estonian and international creative communities.

Since spring 2022, Rikstolvan has been running a residency for Ukrainian artists, writers, playwrights, as well as a secretariat for Ukrainian contemporary drama with the goal of building a unique competence for a cross-cultural exchange with Ukrainian cultural life. The grant is intended for extension and further development of the project for a sustainable consolidation of the activity, including creating tools for dissemination and exchange that can continue to flourish the day the war ends

The International Writers’ and Translators’ House is a multifunctional international writer’s and translator’s centre, which promotes the development of literature and encourages cross-cultural dialogue.
We apply for this particular grant to support the literary process of Ukraine by offering a safe place for the professional writers and literary translators from Ukraine for creative writing, translating, international co-operation and expression of free word.

Eesti Loomeresidentuurid MTÜ or Estonian Creative Residency Network, will connect 8 Ukrainian artists with a diverse range of residency programs in various host organisations across Estonia. The project will unite the resources of its members, to provide artists with a safe space for artistic creation, support for those wishing to seek protection support, alongside the unique networking opportunities betweens its members and the wider Estonian creative scene.

This project will provide Artists at Risk (AR) Residencies for three Ukrainian art professionals and their dependents at “AR-Safe Haven Helsinki” for periods of 3–4 months in 2023–2024.

The selected artists have fled the war in Ukraine and are currently unable to return. AR will provide a safe and productive social environment, a comfortable place to live and offer artists multiple instruments and opportunities to continue their artistic practice.

We aim to provide Ukrainian Visual Artists, Musicians, and Arts Professionals with working grants and residency slots in residency organisations within Ukraine Solidarity Residencies network that can best support their practice. Apart from that, we will organize networking events and Artist Talks to facilitate artists’ inclusion in the Finnish arts and culture scene. HIAP is applying on behalf of Ukraine Solidarity Residencies – collaborative residency program launched in March 2022.

Millions of people are fleeing war-torn Ukraine. It is particularly important under these conditions that professional cultural creators get a haven, can continue their work and the right to express themselves, as well as convey it to a wide audience, within Sweden, in their home countries and the rest of the world. Therefore the Swedish national residency network SWAN supports cultural workers at risk by inviting them for an Emergency Residency in Sweden.