DECORATOR Artistic Residencies: Call for Applications - new deadline: November 12, 2025 at 12.00am
The DECORATOR partnership, with the University of Nova Gorica leading the Pilot 5, is pleased to announce a call for Artistic Residencies. These are to take place between October 2025 and January 2026 in various locations across the Danube Region, with a focus on Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, and Germany.
Rooted in the New European Bauhaus initiative and driven by the principles of sustainability, beauty, and inclusivity, DECORATOR reimagines the Danube Region as a living laboratory for circular transformation in the built environment. Through a series of site-specific residencies, the project invites artists to engage with pressing spatial, ecological, and social challenges - from adaptive reuse and vernacular knowledge, to new models of cohabitation and participatory placemaking.
Each residency responds to a unique local context:
- Nova Gorica (Slovenia): Rethink the University’s first campus building as a multifunctional, sustainable artistic hub.
- Ebensee (Austria): Reflect on memory, identity, and centrality in a town shaped by industrial shifts and cultural resilience.
- Rosenheim (Germany): Reanimate a 1970s student-built sawmill as a participatory space for aesthetic experimentation and sustainability.
- Croatia (cross-Danube): "Hack the wall" - explore circularity and material innovation through modular timber and straw construction.
Selected artists will work closely with local stakeholders, universities, and community members, contributing to a shared European dialogue on how artistic practice can inform and shape the future of our built environments.
This call on link: https://interreg-danube.eu/projects/decorator/news/decorator-artistic-residencies-2025 invites applications for up to seven Artistic Residencies, to be hosted between October 2025 and January 2026. Funding ranges from 5.000 to 9.000 EUR, depending on the location and scope of the proposal.
Application deadline: 31 October 2025, until 12:00 a.m. CET
Applications must be submitted by email to andrej.sitar@ung.si with the subject line: “DECORATOR_Artistic_Residencies”
An online information session will be held on 21 October 2025 at 4:00 p.m. CET via Zoom: https://ungsi.zoom.us/meeting/register/LNbUi7dSSWWJ3mVEQA8AmA