OPEN CALL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE VENICE
2026-2027 Fully and Partially Sponsored Residencies
Open Call for artists, writers, and researchers
Fully & Partially Sponsored Residencies at the Jewish Ghetto in Venice 2026 – 2027
Venezia Contemporanea in collaboration with Galleria ScalaMata is offering fully and partially sponsored residencies for artists, writers, and researchers across all disciplines
Applications for the Fully Sponsored Residencies (1 weeks duration)
Deadline: July 31, 2026
Applications for the Partially Sponsored Residencies (Min. 2 weeks duration) accepted all year round with no deadline
How to apply:
- A few lines about yourself,
- Your plan for the residency with
- Links to your work online (No PDF)
- Your preferable dates
Applications and inquiries:
More about the residency
Located in the heart of the world’s first Jewish Ghetto, we explicitly encourage applications from artists, writers, and researchers of all disciplines who address the marginalization and discrimination of vulnerable communities.
We welcome applicants who wish to pursue artistic and research-based projects that engage with a wide range of perspectives on Jewish heritage and identity, and address the challenges that Jewish people and Israelis of all backgrounds are facing today.
Artists are invited to create site-specific work and pursue ghetto-related research, with optional exhibition space available. The residency is open to Jewish and non-Jewish artists, as well as researchers working across disciplines.
We also support site-specific, exploratory creative processes, as well as projects examining the opportunities and risks of AI-generated art in this context.
In parallel, we dedicate a program to artisans and craftspeople working in traditional disciplines such as glassblowing, ceramics, mosaics, marbling, textiles, mask-making, and design, as well as designers whose practice engages in a dialogue between design, 3D-printed prototypes, and AI-generated models.
