12 international residencies for artists, photographers and cultural organisations in the second half of 2026

Applications remain open for international residencies in France, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, and other European countries during the second half of 2026. We have selected 12 programmes offering artists funding, accommodation, studios, access to professional infrastructure, and opportunities to present new projects to international audiences.
The selection includes short production-focused residencies, longer research programmes, formats for creative duos, and opportunities for artists with an established professional practice. The programmes are arranged by the nearest application deadlines, helping you decide which applications to prepare first. The final part also features prominent international residencies that open regularly or are expected to announce new calls later in 2026.

Résidences de l’Avent
The international residency in Luxembourg combines four weeks of research and development with an additional week devoted to preparing a public presentation. Participants receive a €4,000 grant, an additional €1,000 for the installation week, a studio of approximately 40 m², accommodation if required, a production budget, and support from the neimënster cultural centre team. The programme concludes with a series of public presentations held on weekends from 29 November to 20 December 2026.
Applications are open to artists, musicians, writers, directors, dancers, performers, and creators of interdisciplinary projects.
Suitable if: you want to complete the full journey from developing an idea to presenting it publicly and are ready to create a new project during the residency itself.
Application deadline — 26 July 2026.

RostockStipendium
The programme offers artists between two and four months to live and work in the historic centre of Rostock. Participants receive a €1,500 monthly stipend and a free apartment-studio at Schleswig-Holstein-Haus, with separate workrooms, a kitchen, and everything needed for an extended stay. Applications are open to artists working in painting, graphic art, sculpture, photography, illustration, performance, and video art. Artists with children and creative collectives are particularly welcome, although the stipend is not increased for groups. The proposed project must be connected to Rostock, one of its twin cities, or the state of Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania.
Suitable if: you need an extended working period, a fully equipped apartment-studio, and an opportunity to enter the professional environment of a German city. Students are not eligible to apply.
Application deadline — 31 July 2026.

Artist in Residence Gmünd
The two-month international residency takes place in the small medieval town of Gmünd in Austria. Artists receive a free live-work studio, workspace, and the opportunity to focus on their practice while becoming acquainted with the local art scene and other international participants.
The programme is open to visual artists, photographers, designers, and practitioners working in video and media art, with no age restrictions. The residency concludes with a public presentation or exhibition. No financial stipend is provided, so participants must cover their own travel, food, and personal expenses.
Suitable if: free accommodation, a calm working environment, and two months to develop your project are especially important to you, and the absence of a separate stipend will not prevent you from participating.
Application deadline — 31 July 2026.

Art & Environment Prize 2026
The programme by Lee Ufan Arles and Maison Guerlain combines an art prize, a residency, and a final exhibition in France. The winner receives between six and eight weeks to work in Arles in early 2027, along with accommodation, production space, and support from a team that helps establish connections with artists, curators, institutions, and representatives of the region. The completed project will be presented during the summer in one of the Lee Ufan Arles exhibition spaces. The competition is open to international artists working across all disciplines, with no age or education restrictions, although applicants must have experience of at least one solo exhibition and several group exhibitions.
Suitable if: you work with nature, the environment, materials, or long-term processes and want to develop a project within a strong institutional context followed by an exhibition.
Application deadline — 31 July 2026.

Emsländische Landschaft
The residency grant in Germany provides €9,000 for a three-month working period and an additional budget for preparing an exhibition and catalogue. The programme’s theme is “Turning Points at the Border”, inviting artists to explore borders as spaces of migration, memory, identity, cultural exchange, conflict, and new forms of coexistence. The project must be connected to the Emsland and Grafschaft Bentheim regions along the German-Dutch border, and the results will be presented at Kunsthalle Lingen in autumn 2027. Continuous residence for the full three months is not required: the period may be divided into separate research visits and working stages.
Suitable if: you work with themes of borders, migration, language, territory, or cultural identity and are looking for a flexible format with substantial funding and a final institutional exhibition.
Application deadline — 31 July 2026.

Cité Internationale des Arts
One of Paris’s largest international residency platforms welcomes more than 300 artists every year from different generations, countries, and disciplines. Participants have the opportunity to live and work in the city centre, develop a creative or research project, use professional facilities, and become part of an international community. The platform does not run a single general open call: residencies are launched in partnership with foundations, art schools, national institutes, and professional associations, so their duration, funding, and eligibility requirements vary. In August 2026, several calls are open simultaneously, with deadlines on 16, 23, and 30 August, while other programmes close in September and October.
Suitable if: you want to work in Paris and are prepared to compare the available programmes carefully in order to find a call that matches your country, discipline, and professional experience.
Deadlines: several open calls are available in August 2026; new programmes are regularly published on the official website.

Archipel Butor
The two-month residency in France is designed for a creative duo consisting of an artist and a writer. Participants are invited to create a Livre de dialogue together — an artist’s book in which text and visual art develop as a single work. Each participant receives €2,000 per month, bringing the duo’s total funding to as much as €8,000. The programme also provides accommodation at the Michel Butor house, a shared workspace, and reimbursement for up to two round trips for each participant. Around 70% of the residency is devoted to creating the book, while the remaining 30% is dedicated to workshops, meetings, and engagement with the local community.
Suitable if: you are an artist or writer ready to submit a joint application with a partner. Previous experience of working together is not required, but both participants must stay at the residency at the same time.
Application deadline — 30 August 2026.

Maison d’Emma
The programme invites professional artists to spend between one and two months in a village at the foot of Pic Saint-Loup in southern France. The organisers provide a grant, accommodation, workspace, and support from the Les Vendémiaires team. Artists may also bring one accompanying person, making the programme more accessible to those who find it difficult to separate a residency completely from family or personal life. The proposed project must be connected to the Grand Pic Saint-Loup area and involve engagement with residents, schools, the library, or other local communities.
Suitable if: you value a calm environment, research focused on a specific place, and the opportunity to develop a project through interaction with people and the local cultural context.
Application deadline — 31 August 2026.

Moulin du Got
The six-week residency takes place in a working 15th-century paper mill in France and is intended for French-speaking artists and graphic designers. The selected participant receives €3,000, private accommodation, and access to equipment for handmade papermaking, letterpress printing, engraving, and embossing, as well as support from professional craftspeople. The organisers reimburse the cost of up to three round trips and may help present the results through an exhibition, public event, or collaborative publication. Participants are required to dedicate half a day each week to meetings with school groups, visitors, and other participants in cultural programmes.
Suitable if: you work with paper, printmaking, materials, or experimental craft techniques and speak French. Publishing projects are not eligible under this open call.
Application deadline — 30 September 2026.
Крайний срок подачи заявок — 30 сентября 2026 года.

Camargo Fellowship
The research residency in Cassis in southern France offers artists, writers, composers, curators, translators, researchers, and interdisciplinary teams ten weeks to work. Participants receive fully equipped accommodation, workspaces, a library, an art or music studio, a stipend of €350 per week — €3,500 for the full period, as well as reimbursement of basic travel expenses. The programme focuses not on the rapid production of finished works but on research, reflection, and the development of complex long-term projects. Artists must have at least five years of professional practice, and the working language is English.
Suitable if: you already have an established practice and need time for research, a book, a film, a new artistic direction, or an interdisciplinary project.
Application deadline — 1 October 2026.

Solitude Fellowship
One of Europe’s best-known programmes, Akademie Schloss Solitude, offers artists, writers, designers, architects, musicians, directors, researchers, and digital practitioners 6 or 9 months to live and work in Stuttgart. Participants receive a stipend of €1,300 per month, a fully equipped live-work studio, reimbursement of travel expenses, possible project funding, and health insurance for residents from countries outside the EU. Additional benefits include wood and metal workshops, video editing and VR facilities, libraries, and an international interdisciplinary community. The programme requires continuous residence in Stuttgart and active participation in the life of the Academy.
Suitable if: you need an extended period for the substantial development of your practice, an international professional environment, and comprehensive financial and infrastructural support.
A new international open call is held approximately every two years. The next application round should be monitored on the programme’s official website.

Berliner Künstlerprogramm (DAAD)
One of Europe’s most institutionally established international residencies offers practitioners the opportunity to spend an extended period in Berlin, focusing on their own practice and professional exchange. The programme supports literature, film, music, sound art, and visual art, providing a stipend, furnished accommodation, reimbursement of relocation expenses, and access to the city’s cultural infrastructure. Residencies in literature, music, and sound art usually last 12 months, while film residencies last 6 months. Visual artists cannot apply directly: candidates are invited by a dedicated nomination committee. For the other disciplines, the international open call usually opens in autumn.
Suitable if: you have already established an independent professional position, have a strong portfolio, and are ready to work in an intensive international and institutional environment.
The next application round will open in October 2026. The exact deadline will be published on the official website.