Activities // Open Calls

As part of its participation in the European CreArt program, the City of Rouen is launching a joint residency for two artists, one artist living and working in Rouen and one artist from the network, at « Centre Culturel André-Malraux », from October, 06 to October, 31 2025.

The Centre André-Malraux
The André-Malraux Centre is a municipal structure, located on the place “de la Grand- Mare”, whose aim is to welcome all residents of the districts without distinction of
age, social or cultural origin, and to offer spaces for meetings and activities allowing the participation of residents. Its missions are:
- The organization of municipal artistic and cultural activities,
- Welcoming and supporting artists and cultural associations,
- The organization and running of cultural projects involving the neighborhood's residents,
- Hosting cultural or artistic events.

AiR Rouen /CreArt program
Within the framework of CreArt 3.0, the City of Rouen is launching a cross residency for 2 artists, one from Rouen and one from the Creart network, and will take place as part of “Automne Curieux”, a cultural event dedicated to the visual arts, and supported by the City of Rouen. The artists will be guided and shown around by members of the André-Malraux Cultural Center. They will make them discover cultural places and organize events to introduce them in the local artist’s community and the neighborhood (workshops, openings).
The residency will have the theme of “happy futures”. It will switch between periods of individual research and creation and period of collaborative works, involving teenagers,
through workshops during the school holidays. The workshops will have to be carried out with the Rouen artist also selected for this joint residency.
Provisional schedule:
- The first two weeks of the residency will be dedicated to individual research and creation and getting to know one another.
- During the last two weeks of the residency, which will take place during the school holidays, five two-hours workshops will be held to create the collective work(s).
- During the residency, an open studio event and a final presentation of the work will be organized.
The collective work(s) will remain at Malraux. The artists may take back the pieces resulting from their individual research.
The CreArt artist will have a studio to share with the artist from Rouen, and will be able to stay in an apartment during the residency. Accommodation will be in a private
room in a shared apartment.

Conditions and Stipend
The organization will cover, for both artists, the material costs (up to 400€), subsistence costs (500€) and will provide 1000€ as artist’s fee.
The city of Rouen also covers travel costs to Rouen [up to €500] and accommodation (Anatole France apartment in Rouen).

Who can apply?
The residence is open to professional artists (art and design degree) within the Creart 3.0:
- Artists born, resident or domiciled in one of the cities in the project network: Kaunas (Lithuania), Liepaja (Lithuania), Skopje (North Macedonia), Aveiro (Portugal), Valladolid (Spain), Lublin (Poland), Venice (Italy), Clermont-Ferrand (France), České Budějovice (Czech Republic) and Oulu (Finland), Regensburg (Germany)
- Artists-members of HDLU (Croatian Association of Visual Artists);
- Ukrainian artists through our collaboration with Public Organization Lviv Artistic Council «Dialogue».

This call is intended to professional visual artists with a wild range of medium: drawing, engraving, illustration, video, installation, collage, new media, painting,
performance, photography, sculpture, design, textile, graphics, micro-editing. For logistical and security reasons, monumental creation cannot be offered and spray paint is not permitted. A particular attention will be paid to artists who interrogate the environmental impact of artistic production in their work.

Documents to be submitted in English in https://creart2-eu.org/open-calls/:
- A CV
- A portfolio [with technical specifications, representative artworks and pictures. Links can be included];
- A short written project proposal. This document should also contain a list of technical needs and other relevant technical details, which can help the organization
to understand the project.
- ID or passport (scanned copy)

The applications must be submitted before Sunday, June 15, 2025
Only applications with complete information will be accepted. The City of Rouen will inform of the results by the end of June.

More informations:
· Creart : https://creart2-eu.org
· Ville de Rouen: https://rouen.fr/creart

Dorothée Paroielle, Cultural Projects and Audience Development : dorothée.paroielle@rouen.fr 02 35 08 88 99
& Fanny Laurent, Responsable du Centre André-Malraux : fanny.laurent@rouen.fr

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