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Facing climate change through social justice and intersectionality – we are inviting artists and researches who want to investigate the urgency of the climate crisis and how it intersects with questions of social justice. Working with methods of intersectionality to understand how characteristics such as race, place, gender identity, and geography intersect with each other and interact with power structures to create and reinforce power, privilege and discrimination in a nordic context.

Small Projects is changing its way of running and existence, and focus more on long term residencies with a focus on Nordic and Baltic artists, performers, curators and academics. Every selected artists will be partnered with a local artist to create an immediate dialogue with someone rooted in Tromsø. Each invited artist will be presented publicly through a talk, presentation, or an exhibition.

In 2023-2025 the Tartu UNESCO City of Literature will organise a residency programme aimed at writers of all genres (fiction, poetry, documentary, drama) who are residents of a Nordic or Baltic country and have strong connection to at least one other UNESCO City of Literature in the region: Reykjavik, Lillehammer, Göteborg, Kuhmo or Vilnius. The program offers 2-month residencies for 5 writers altogether and the selection process of the writers will be organised through an open call.

The Trainspotting Art Residency invites four sound artists/ workgroups from Nordic and Baltic countries for a residency across a four month period. Through a focus of placemaking, artists will create sound works for train passengers based on their experiences of Švenčionėliai – a derelict town built around a train station, transformed by creative community ”Miško uostas”. The residency invites a sonic discovery of the town’s heritage through engagement with its developing local community.

Helsinki Urban Art will open a residency for Nordic and Baltic street artists in Helsinki, Finland. The residence offers two-month stays in 2023 and 2024 during time periods suitable for working outdoors. The residency program is in continuum with Helsinki Urban Art’s aim at strengthening the Nordic and Baltic network of street artists and cultural operators. Should the residency program be successful, Helsinki Urban Art has interest in continuing running the residency in the future.

Laboratorium for new ecological performing arts around the Baltic Sea is inviting 12 performing artists located in Nordic/Baltic region for a residency of 2 weeks on Bornholm with the aim of creating a network of artists who works in the area of ecological art. The residencies will in close relation to nature investigate how to use sensous emotional tools to create strong artistic expressions and interventions, that will shape visions for a future where we can live in harmony with nature.

The support for the AIR program will go towards funding costs with having 6 AIR persons at Trykkeriet over 3 years (2 annually). Due to our production means, the artists are encouraged to produce graphic art in the expanded field and/or large scale prints. During their stay, each will have up to 20 workdays with our professional master printers pluss 40 days of studio time. Trykkeriet will arrange artist talks in collaboration with Hordaland Art Center.

CUNE Comics-in-Residence will arrange four residencies for comic artists and professionals in Helsinki in 2023. CUNE CiR is organised by Finnish Comics Society in partnership with HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme and Villa Eläintarha. CUNE CiR enables mobility of Nordic and Baltic comics art and essential networking between the region’s creators.

The Creative Home Residency, hosted by Residence Botkyrka and AllArtNow, is supporting artists who are parents and in any type of family constellation. The programme takes into consideration the challenges artists face when trying to further their international networks and artistic careers, and offers child friendly accommodation where partners / accompanying persons are welcome to join, possibilities to present their work or research in Botkyrka Konsthall and/or Extension Art Space.

With the N/B AiR program, MASSIA invites 6 individual artists and 2 artist collectives whose work engage with the intersections of art and ecology. MASSIA, located in the Estonian coastal countryside and with its emphasis on art and ecology, provides an ideal environment for the residents to work, to build networks with other creative professionals, and to develop their artistic work in relation to regional and global crisis, resilience and wellbeing of human and non-human communities.

The Hands on Press residency invites artists whose practice focuses on small editions of printed-matter. The main objective of the self-directed artist-in-residence programme is to set up an opportunity for Nordic artists, illustrators and/or visual researchers to explore their own creativity through self-publishing and riso-printing, in the context of Kaunas, Lithuania and its creative community.

VARES is an international multidisciplinary residency for spatial practice, whose main task is to seek, find and create alternative spatial practices that are not dictated by market logic. We are interested in finding ways to practice slow architecture, critically rethinking the discipline of architecture, learning and resurrecting vernacular and traditional crafts, gathering old and used materials and creating a place for lifelong learning for architects and spatial practitioners.

‘WITH CARE’ is a residency program for site-responsive performance interventions and community-based artistic practices at MARC. It encompasses five artists/artist groups from the Nordic and Baltic regions handpicked for their previous work with communities, space, and place, ranging from workshop-based performances and film documentaries to immersive live choreographic installations.

The Mustarinda Association is a group of artists, researchers and educators, whose goal is to promote the ecological reconstructions of society, a diversity of naturecultures, and connection between arts and sciences. At the center of it’s activity lie contemporary art, boundary-crossing research, practical experimentation, communication, teaching and events. During the years 2023-2024 Mustarinda work focuses on the overarching theme of “Art, communality and eco-social transition”.

The Festivity Residency programme, organized by Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artist Association (LIAA) is dedicated to the research and artistic interpretation of the holiday phenomenon. The Festivity Residency is open for the artists, art and humanities researchers, and activists who are exploring the phenomenon and elements of different celebrations in their practice. 6 participants will be selected by open call for a 3 month long residency in Vilnius, Lithuania.