IN SITU is now calling for applications from emerging artists creating in public space for their second open call. Around 60 European artists will have access to online content to learn about artistic production related to art in public space from March 2026 to June 2026 and an in-person immersive lab with learning and networking opportunities (between 6 May and 8 August 2026).
Online content includes:
- Three online support sessions with On the Move
- Four peer-to-peer exchange sessions with experienced IN SITU artists
- Short videos and online webinars to learn from IN SITU programmers and artists
An immersive lab is an artistic seminar designed for IN SITU emerging artists to provide food for thoughts to nourish their artistic projects. These six-day gatherings take place during an event or festival hosted by one of the IN SITU partners and bring together around 15 artists at a time.
This open call is for artistic proposals in development: that have not yet premiered or toured but are further progressed than the ideas stage. As an indication, the call aims at identifying projects that would be presented to an audience around Summer 2027. Applicants must be a resident in one of the 41 Creative Europe countries. To be considered ‘emerging’, artists must fulfil two of the following angles: aesthetic emergence, geographical emergence, or generational emergence.
The costs covered for the participation in the immersive lab include: a writing aid fee of 1,500 EUR including taxes, plus travel up to 300 EUR roundtrip for air travel, meals, and accommodation. Maximum two artists from a collective can attend a lab, and they should apply as a duo in the application form.
IN SITU will then directly support around 10 of the selected projects with production residencies. At the end of this process, a FOCUS event will take place in August 2027 in the context of the HAPU festival, Pristina, Kosovo, organised by ODA Teatri, that will present artistic projects co-produced by IN SITU.
