Norway

Short Description: We are now open for applications for self-directed residencies between October 1st 2025 – January 31st 2026.  Applications in English or Norwegian/Danish/Swedish. Looking for that Twin Peaks vibe? What are your plans this autumn/winter? Do you want to come to a secluded place with dramatic surroundings for a period of deep focus on […]

Short Description The Artist in residency in Kristiansand, Norway, is open year-round, providing professional visual artists much-needed space and time to work on a project of their choice. AiR-Kristiansand is run by Agder Center of Contemporary Art, on behalf of the Municipality of Kristiansand.  The applications are reviewed by an art committee whose efforts ensure […]

Short Description: Atelier Austmarka is a self-funded, multidisciplinary artist residency in Austmarka, Finnskogen, Norway, offering artists and scholars a peaceful, nature-immersed environment for research and creative production. Open since 2014, the residency provides shared living spaces and studio facilities for 1 week to 3 months. While it does not offer stipends, it provides networking, exhibition, […]

Short Description The Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action – NAARCA – unites Artica Svalbard (Norway), Cove Park (Scotland), Narsaq International Research Station (Greenland), Saari Residence (Finland), and Skaftfell Art Center (Iceland) to collaborate on research, commissions, institutional change, residency exchange, and public education around climate action.In 2025, the NAARCA network will facilitate […]

Globus Opstart+ supports the establishment of Nordic-Global collaborations with long-term ambitions Globus Opstart+ is a funding programme within the Fund’s thematic initiative Globus. The programme is developed to support the establishment and research phases of projects that could not be developed in the Nordic countries alone. Please note that in 2025 there will be one […]

Moving Identities Residency

Short Description OCA is a key partner of Artica Svalbard Art Residency, one of Norway’s leading not-for-profit residency foundations. Based in Longyearbyen, Svalbard is a place for thinking slowly in a fast-changing world. As key partner we are responsible for nominating artists for their residency programme and supporting them curatorially, as well as playing an active […]

Short Description CAS – Contemporary Art Stavanger and Kiellandsenteret (Stavanger Library and Culture Centre) are thrilled to announce Itchy Fingers – A Writing Residency on Art Books, taking place 8-21 September, 2025. Inspired by Stavanger writer Alexander Kielland’s evocative phrase about ‘itchy fingers’, this unique residency invites a writer to explore the tactility of art books – […]

Description: Tenthaus invites artists, collectives, and arts workers worldwide to apply for Sequence 2026, a program exploring sequence and process as artistic mediums. The initiative seeks projects that engage with the evolving and uncertain nature of the present, using ordered progressions of ideas, actions, and responses to create meaning in flux. Eligibility & Theme Open […]