Open Call. Residency for Ukrainian artists. Art is urgent!

“Art is urgent, Residency for Ukrainian artists” is an emergency art program for artists and families from the war zone in Ukraine, including visual art projects, action art, dance, curating, sound art, music, literature, and all form of creative work. The goal is to generate a unique space that is interdisciplinary and self-regulated by the participants through the experiences in situ, to bring the residents a space of reflection, creation, and catharsis within the critical moment they are living in a quiet and safe environment.

It starts on the 05 of June and will end on the 2 of July.

Deadline for submissions: 04.06.2022. 

NEW: We have one free spot!!! send an email to: info@sorora.org

This call is open to ALL artists fleeing from Ukraine, without distinction from nationalities. We strongly encourage submissions from artists who experience multiple forms of oppression from Black, Indigenous, and people of color and artists with disabilities, queer, trans, and non-binary/gender-nonconforming people.

Project by Karne Kunst in collaboration with Sorora e.V with the support of Culture of Solidarity Fund – Ukraine special edition.

The Program includes:

• Shared workspaces.
• Accommodation for the artist and their family in shared rooms.
• Shared common spaces like kitchen, bathroom, patio, and garden.
• High-speed Internet.
• Basic food for meal preparation.
• Art supplies
• Exhibition during the last week of the program, with an opening.
• Press releases and promotion.
• German visibility.
• Support for social media marketing, communication, and public relationship.
• Weekly visits from artists and curators to work with the residents.

The Space

Both local and international artists come together, located in the historic center of Coswig (Anhalt), on the banks of the Elbe River, in Germany. Projektraum Coswig is a space dedicated to the experimentation, research, and dissemination of artistic practices. Projektraum Coswig has shared dormitory rooms, a living room, a bathroom, a kitchen, creative workspaces, a patio, and a large garden. It is located 100 km away from Berlín.

The Team

Project Management: Marcela Villanueva. 

Cultural manager, mother, migrant and feminist. Born and raised in Argentina and has lived and worked in Berlin since 2017. She leads an initiative: Karne Kunst, with a committed feminist agenda, in which she regularly curates art exhibitions and organizes art events, workshops, and artist meetings.

Project Execution: Carolina Boettner

She is a visual artist and Head of transdisciplinary projects based in Berlin and Buenos Aires. She is the director of FlussLab, a partner residency program (https://www.flusslab.com/) 

Project Communication: Natalia Golubenko. 

Natalie Golubenko is a Ukrainian-Russian visual artist, journalist, creative director, and content producer passionate about video storytelling. Founder of visual production platform Myopia Studios and AV label Nadryv Records. She will be our link between German and Ukrainian culture.

Project by Karne Kunst in collaboration with Sorora e.V with the support of Culture of Solidarity Fund – Ukraine special edition.

Previues experiencies

We carried out the first experience of the residency for artists during March and April: “Art is Urgent.”
During this period, six women artists from Ukraine share the spaces of creation and reflection.