The City of Lublin is opening a recruitment process and inviting artists from the CreArt network to apply for a 4-week artistic residency in Lublin,  from November 5 to December 6, 2025.

CITY OF LUBLIN

Lublin is a medium-sized city in eastern Poland. It is a thriving scientific and cultural center. Considered a city at the crossroads of Eastern and Western culture, in the past it had an international character, with a large Jewish population living here. Lublin is home to numerous cultural institutions, museums and galleries, as well as non-governmental organizations that animate cultural life. There are large festivals such as Carnaval Sztukmistrzów, Night of Culture, East Of Culture – Different Sounds and others. Lublin is competing for the title of European Capital of Culture 2029.

 

WARSZTATY KULTURY (WORKSHOPS OF CULTURE)

Warsztaty Kultury is a local government cultural institution of the city of Lublin, established in 2009. The institution conducts long-term development and education programs based on a community of Lublin cultural operators and recipients, working together and supporting each other. The institution is located at 5a Grodzka Street and 7 Grodzka Street in Lublin’s Old Town.

The mission of Warsztaty Kultury: “We are the heart and mind behind a variety of open and non-standard activities in Lublin. Our programming focuses on promoting the practice of “active culture”. We enthusiastically support and implement long-term development plans based on a sense of community among Lublin’s cultural operators and recipients, acting together and supporting one another. We create culture that is modern, interactive, interdisciplinary and innovative.

We cooperate with artists and institutions from Poland and abroad. We have developed highly efficient methods of cultural education, management and animation. The everyday application of modern technologies in cultural education and in the promotion of cultural heritage also form the core of our mission.

We also organize the four largest summer festivals in Lublin: Night of Culture, East of Culture – Different Sounds, Carnaval Sztukmistrzów and Re:tradition – The Jagiellonian Fair. All of them are rooted in Lublin’s history and traditions, have become an integral part of the city’s cultural landscape and activate the local community”.

More info:

https://warsztatykultury.pl/pl/

https://www.facebook.com/WarsztatyKultury/

CREART AiR PROGRAMME

Within the framework of CreArt 3.0, the city of Lublin and the Warsztaty Kultury launch a residency for 2 artists of younger generation, one from Lublin and one from the CreArt network. Artists in residence will have a mentor to help them to establish in the city (information on cultural institutions, events, useful places…), for their presentation to the artistic community in the city and support in the development and presentation of the project. The last week will be spent putting together a small exhibition, open studio or performance so the residents can share their final works (selected by the mentor and the organization) with the citizens of the hosting town and have some foreign feedback.

RESIDENCY DURATION: 4 weeks

RESIDENCY DATES: November 5 – December 6, 2025

 

WHO CAN APPLY?

• Artists of younger generation born or residing in one of the cities in the project network: Kaunas (Lithuania), Liepaja (Latvia), Skopje (North Macedonia), Aveiro (Portugal), Valladolid (Spain), Lublin (Poland), Venice (Italy), Clermont-Ferrand and Rouen (France), Regensburg (Germany), České Budějovice (Czech Republic) and Oulu (Finland).
• Members of HDLU (Croatian Association of Fine Artists).
• Ukrainian artists through our collaboration with Lviv Artistic Council «Dialogue».

We invite artists working in any field of art – regardless of medium, discipline, or form of expression (e.g., visual arts, music, literature, theater, dance, performance, interdisciplinary activities). A university degree in art or documented artistic achievements demonstrating equivalent competences are required.

Applications must be strictly individual. Applications submitted by artist collectives will not be accepted.

Proposed activities must be site-specific – meaning they must be directly linked to the context of the location and public space. We are interested in projects that involve the temporary capture of space, creating new ways of experiencing the city and its surroundings.

GRANT AND CONDITIONS

• Artist fee of 700 EUR/gross (to be paid up to 21 days after the residency).
• Production cost (if needed) of new artwork(s) up to 500 EUR/gross.
• The Organizer will cover travel expenses (round-trip plane ticket from any CreArt city (or the closest airport) to Lublin or Warsaw) and provide accommodation and meals (2 meals per day) for the artist coming from the partner city.
• For the local artist one meal per day will be provided.
• The artists will sign a contract with City of Lublin before the start of the residency.
• The artists must have a European health card or equivalent.
• On the last day of residency, artists are required to submit a brief narrative report that will include title, description of the project, objectives and graphic dossier (minimum 10 pages in English).

DOCUMENTS

The following attached documentation is required in a single PDF document:

• Identity card or passport (scanned).
• Any kind of document proving you connection with the partner city of CreArt network.
• A short version of your resume/CV (one A4).
• Portfolio of works and artistic activity (maximum 10 pages i 10 pictures, links can be included).
• A site-specific project proposal (max. one A4) with a description of the concept and method of interaction with the public space. This document should also contain a list of technical needs and other relevant technical details, which can help the organization to understand the project.

Evaluation criteria

We will pay particular attention to projects that:

• engage in creative dialogue with public space and its users,
• propose temporary interventions that change the way a place is perceived,
• address current social, cultural, and environmental challenges.

APPLICATION

• The online application form is available here: https://creart2-eu.org/open-calls/ (artists should register first and then upload portfolio in this link).
• In case of any problems applying, you can send your application by e-mail to: creart@fmcva.org, with the subject line: open call Lublin.
• Deadline: applications should be sent by 12th October 2024.

Only complete and timely applications will be considered. Artists will be selected by a jury of Lublin contemporary art professionals from Warsztaty Kultury. The committee is not obliged to provide reasons for its decision. The shortlist will be published on the CreArt website. The participation in this call implies the acceptance of these bases, and the artists selected should include a reference in all their future communications that they have been selected to participate in the CreArt Artists in Residence program in Lublin, project co-funded by the European Union – Creative Europe program.

In case of any questions, please contact: creart3.0@lublin.eu.

 

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Co-funded by:

   

Co-funded by the European Union – CREA-CULT-2023-COOP. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them. [Project number: 101128499]

Project is co-financed by the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.

The views expressed in this announcement are the sole responsibility of HDLU and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.