Camera a Sud (Italy), Forgotten Children of War Association (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and The 4th Block (Ukraine) have launched an open call for artists to participate in the TRACE Artistic Residencies Programme.
TRACE is an international artistic residency programme exploring how contemporary art can engage with memory, war, displacement, ecological crisis, and the collective experiences shaping Europe today. It takes as its starting point a series of recent and ongoing historical events and entangled crises, including the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Srebrenica genocide, migration flows across the Mediterranean, the ecological legacy of Chernobyl, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The project brings together artists, curators, researchers, and local communities from these contexts to work with archives, sites of memory, and present-day social realities. TRACE is currently seeking applications from artists working across a range of artistic and interdisciplinary practices, including visual arts, photography, socially engaged artistic research, multimedia and cross-disciplinary approaches. The call is open to artists and cultural practitioners residing in all countries participating in the Creative Europe programme.
A total of 15 participants will join the research and workshop programme:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — July/August 2026
- Italy — October 2026
- Ukraine — online
After the research phase, six artists will be selected to continue into the TRACE residency programme in 2027. The residency programme will include:
- on-site residencies in Italy and Bosnia and Herzegovina
- an online residency programme connected to Ukraine, organised in collaboration with The 4th Block
TRACE covers travel expenses, accommodation, meals, local transportation, mentoring activities, and participation in the full programme.
