Tiny Spaces slow travel residency 2025

Tiny Spaces Deep Connections (TiSp) is calling for applications from Europe-based artists and creatives 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.

The residency includes the opportunity to travel slowly using public transport, while artists are also supported to integrate that journey creatively in their residency. Artists are invited to create process-based artwork in trains and ferries or alternatively buses. In the interim stops of the travel, TiSp activates international connections, and fosters deeper ones, by linking artists to cultural or co-housing spaces (such as the Trans Europe Halles network). After spending time with the destination organisation, artists slowly travel back home.

As the project closes in 2026 all participants will have the opportunity to physically and/or digitally exhibit their work at the TiSp International Symposium and Exhibition in Oulu in August 2026.

Eligibility

Artists of any media can apply: all artforms will be considered (eg. visual arts, text, mixed media, sound, audiovisual, digital, actors, dancers, performers, musicians, writers, makers, creative thinkers, designers, etc.). 

Applicants must reside in the EU or in Creative Europe countries. 

Support

Each artist receives a fee of 4,000 EUR (gross) for the one month residency, including the time required for the travel, plus travel costs, depending on the journeys.

Tiny Spaces Deep Connections application guidelines 

Deadline: 7 January 2025