Initiated by werkleitz and co-funded by Creative Europe since 2018, the European Media Art Platform is a network of 15 leading European organisations working at the forefront of digital and media art, bio art, and robotic art.

Through an annual open call, EMAP offers fully funded two-month residencies for artists. Each residency is designed as an intercultural and interdisciplinary exchange between artists and host organisations, providing an artist fee, travel support, production budget, free accommodation, and access to professional labs and facilities.

With the support of the European Union’s ‘Creative Europe’ programme, the European Multimedia Art Platform (EMAP) is continuing its residency programme for artists, artist duos, collectives and other artistic collaborations working in the fields of digital art, new media, robotic art and bioart.

The call for applications offers two-month production residencies throughout 2027 for European artists and collectives, based on an original project proposal, at one of the 15 institutions that make up the EMAP consortium.

Applicants must be EU residents or taxpayers in an EU member state, or residents/taxpayers of one of the eligible non-EU countries.

Undergraduate and Master’s students are not eligible. PhD candidates and emerging artists of any age and academic background may apply.

Artists apply to the EMAP consortium as a whole and indicate their preferred host organisations in order of priority.

• Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
• Chroniques, Marseille, France
• CIKE - Creative Industry Košice, Košice, Slovakia
• gnration, Braga, Portugal
• iMAL, Brussels, Belgium ✨
• IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Kersnikova Institute (Kapelica Gallery), Ljubljana, Slovenia
• KONTEJNER | Bureau of Contemporary Art Praxis, Zagreb, Croatia
• LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain \
• MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan, Italy
• NeMe, Limassol, Cyprus
• Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece
• RIXC Centre for New Media Culture, Riga, Latvia
• werkleitz – Centre for Media Art, Halle (Saale), Germany
• WRO Art Center, Wrocław, Poland

Please note: as EMAP promotes intercultural exchange, the organisation of your own country is not very likely to select you. There might be an exception for very special reasons, like an artist group with various national backgrounds.

• Two-month production residency at one EMAP host organisation

• An invitation to take part in a networking conference, to be held in March 2027 at LABoral Centre for Art and Industrial Creation.

• €4,000 grant for the applying artist, including subsistence

• €2,000 grant for collaborating artist(s) or €6,000 for artists duo altogether

• €4,000 project budget 

• Accommodation provided by host

• Travel expenses covered by host according to EU ceilings

• Access to technical facilities and/or media labs

The residency also includes professional presentations and opportunities for exhibition tours and potential exhibitions with EMAP Partner.

Applications are only possible on call.emare.eu after registration.

Collaborating artists do not need to be confirmed at the time of application.

For more information, please consult the FAQ section.

General information about EMAP: emare.eu