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The Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa announces a call for applications to assign two young artists a space in Venice (at Palazzo Carminati in San Stae) where they can study and work for a period of five weeks: from 14 September - 19 October 2026.
The artist residency programme is part of the European project CreArt 3.0 #stringing_together. Creart 3.0 is a project funded under the Creative Europe Programme. 13 European cities will be involved in the exchange of experiences and good practices to promote contemporary art in all its forms: visual, performing and musical.

ELIGIBILITY

To participate, applicants must:

• be between 18 and 40 years of age on the deadline date of this call
• be born, resident or domiciled in one of the cities in the project network: Valladolid (Spain), Aveiro (Portugal), Lublin (Poland), Skopje 8North Macedonia), Kaunas (Lithuania), Rouen (France), Clermont-Ferrand (France), Venezia (Italy), Liepaja 8latvia), Ceske Budejovice (Czech Republic), Oulu (Finland), Regensburg (Germany)
• Members of HDLU (Croatian Asociation of Visual Artists)
• Ukrainian artists through our collaboration with Artistic Council Dialogue from Lviv
• Applications must be strictly individual.Submissions from artist collectives will not be accepted.

DOCUMENTS

Registration is carried out on the CreArt website to this link: https://creart2-eu.org/open-calls/

The following documents must be uploaded to the applications:

• • • • • • Photocopy of a valid identity document;
          • Any kind of document proving your connection with the city of the Creart 3.0 network and/or self-certification proving your domicile or residence in one of the 13 cities listed above;
          • A short CV and a portfolio of a maximum of ten pages, not exceeding 10 MB in size and digital, highlighting in particular the work carried out over the last year. The application must be accompanied by a motivational letter.
          • The concept of the project the applicant will realise if selected for the CreArt 3.0 residency, in relation also to the use of the prize money.

 

The documentation must be received no later than 12 pm on 30 June 2026.

The applications will be assessed by an internal jury of the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa Institution.

PRIZE

Each artist will receive a prize of 4000 € gross. The prize awarded for the residency is to be considered all-inclusive of any expenses incurred, including the production of a work.

The guest houses are located in Palazzo Carminati, top floor, Santa Croce 1882, not accessible to the disabled. (Download information on the guest quarters https://bit.ly/guesthousesBLM)

At the end of the residency there will be a presentation of the work produced,

the costs of which are to be considered entirely included in the 4000 € gross fee. The list of beneficiaries will be available on the Institution’s website on 31 July 2026.

The data provided will be processed in compliance with the provisions of Legislative Decree no. 196 of 30 June 2003, “Personal Data Protection Code” and subsequent decrees.

The documentation accompanying the requests will not be returned.

OPEN CALL

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