Croatia

Art radionica Lazareti, Croatia, Lidice Art Collection – Lidice Memorial, Czechia, and Pro Progressione, Hungary, welcome applications from early-career curators and cultural professionals—especially those from underprivileged backgrounds—residing in the Creative Europe countries to participate in the ‘European Solidarity Residency’ (ESR) in the partner locations.

Outdoor Art Lab is a residency programme focused on the development of performances in public spaces in the city centre of Split, between January and June 2026.

The Artist in Residence is a long-term residency programme of Cirkus Kolektiv, providing production, technical, and logistical support to artists developing new works in the field of contemporary circus.

As part of the Split Calling Festival, a six-day street theatre workshop will be led by internationally acclaimed theatre director, clown, and comedian Adrian Schvarzstein. The workshop will take place from 19 to 24 October 2025.

Curator-in-residence programme in Prostor is a month-long programme open for international curators, with specific emphasis on emerging and mid-career curators.

FAKI Festival – International Festival of Alternative Theatrical Expression is calling for artists, activists, researchers and theatre critics to participate in its next edition happening in Zagreb, Croatia from 25 to 31 May 2025. The theme of the festival is ‘Poetics and politics of failure’.

This residency and/or performance opportunity is open to performance artists innovating their work via avant garde and experimental practices, creating a theatre which is both disobedient and personal, experimental and stimulating, non-profit but sustainable, subversive and independent.

Galerija Siva in Zagreb, Croatia, invites artists to submit exhibition and residency proposals for the 2026 programme cycle. They are seeking works that emerge within the context of contemporary, experimental, and interdisciplinary art, as well as practices rooted in street art, illustration, design, comics, and other unconventional forms of expression.

Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ) invites individual artists and artistic duos from Southeast and Central Europe working in sound and music to join MBZ LAB, a ‘project incubator’ experiment.

STIFF (Student International Film Festival) invites artists to apply to a call to participate in the exhibition that is a part of the side programme of this year’s festival, to take place from 27 to 29 November 2025 in Rijeka, Croatia.

‘Magic Carpets’ is a Creative Europe platform uniting 17 European cultural organisations. It supports emerging artists through residencies and creates opportunities to collaborate with other artists and local communities, fostering socially engaged art practices.

Karas Gallery is calling for international artists for a collaboration in October 2025.