Finland

The Saari Residence in Mynämäki, Southwest Finland has an Open Call for the 2026 Residency Programme for professional artists and duos.

Helsinki International Curatorial Programme (HICP) offers one-month residencies for contemporary art curators. The programme is co-organised by Frame and HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme.

The House of Text in Helsinki, Finland is hosting the Text Laboratory working residency programme for writers and other artists working with the medium of text, between 14 July and 24 August 2025.

The tenth Oulu Dance Hack will take place in Cultural Centre Valve from 19 – 23 May 2025 in Oulu, Finland. TaikaBox is currently looking for applications from dancers, choreographers, musicians, coders, media artists, designers, engineers and any professionals who work with technology and the moving body.

CreArt Oulu and a non-profit organisation Oulu Urban Culture have an open residency call for artists in the CreArt network as part of the art programme production for the Frozen People festival.

Titanik, in collaboration with HIAP–Helsinki International Artist Programme, invites emerging and established Palestinian artists to submit their one-month solo exhibition proposal accompanied by a three-month residency (in Turku and Helsinki) to take place in spring 2025.

The Tiny Spaces Deep Connections (TiSp) open call 2025 is calling for applications from artists and creatives (resident in EU or Creative Europe countries) who focus on process-led and site-specific creation for six residency spots between May and July 2025, that will take place in Athens, Greece; Oulu, Finland; and Potsdam / Berlin, Germany.

Art in Lov is calling for applications for their artist-in-residence programme ‘A Critical View on Plastic’, from 5 March to 5 June 2025. During these three months, the selected artist(s) will develop work or a body of works for an exhibition shown in parallel to the Loviisa Town Museum’s exhibition on the history of plastic production in Loviisa.

E75 Art Bus is calling for applications from professional artists resident in the regions of the E75 Art Bus route – Finnmark (Norway), Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, North Macedonia, Greece – to participate in a residency between April and June 2025 (ranging from 6 weeks to 2 months).

In the context of the project ‘AWAKE: Arts & Wellbeing as a Creative Business and Future Livelihood’, the NDPC is presenting free masterclasses aimed at strengthening the arts and wellbeing sectors’ entrepreneurial skills.

The Arctic Art Festival is looking for professional and amateur artists passionate about environmental art for their Snow-Ice Carving Competition. A total of eight teams (of a maximum of two people) will be selected to participate, from 20 to 25 January 2025 in Rovaniemi, Finland.

Art in Lov Residence have an open call for two individual artists based in Europe who focus on the relationship between dance and music, film, or visual design for the artist residency project ‘Dance Relationship’, from 7 January to 7 March 2025 in Loviisa, Finland.