Eligibility

This residency invites fellow organisers, artists, curators, educators and activists who are tackling the tensions of small-scale collective cultural work to share experiences, map obstacles, and imagine strategies for survival, continuity, and more workable conditions. English is the common language at PRAKSIS and residents must be sufficiently fluent to participate in group discussion and activity. Residents are expected to involve themselves fully in the work of the residency: joining discussions, participating in events and engaging with the resident community. Accepting a residency involves a commitment to participation for the full residency term. You will be asked to give a short public presentation to share your practice with your peers.

Number of Participants

The residency will bring together eight participants from Norway, Finland, and internationally for a two-week intensive programme with PRAKSIS in Oslo.

Deadline

February 11, 2026 22:59 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

February 28, 2026 23:00 UTC

Duration

June 01, 2026 - June 14, 2026

Costs

• €7.00 application fee

Facilities

Co-Working, Desk Space

Housing

Apartment

Meals

Coffee, Lunch, Snacks, Tea, Vegan

Public Programs

Community Engagement , Critique, Demo Day, Discussion

Disciplines

Arts Administrator, Collective, Social Practice, Theatre Directors, Visual Arts

Languages

English

Program Description

Research agenda: In precarious times, what stratergies can small-scale arts and cultural organisations adopt to sustain themselves and support one another? Work in small arts organisations is often cast in the language of reproduction: organisers’ projects are “brainchildren” that need to be “grown,” “nurtured” and “kept alive” via labour that demands sustained personal commitment. Presenting arts organisations as passion projects and arts workers as instinctive, unstoppable givers of social gifts, this kind of language obscures the punishing economic and labour conditions most small arts organisations face. This residency offers an opportunity to unpack the situation and discuss sustainable solutions. It is proposed by PRAKSIS (Oslo), the Museum of Impossible Forms (Helsinki), and Tenthaus (Oslo): small independent arts organisations sustained by passion, solidarity and a commitment to cultural change. Like many of our peers we inhabit an increasingly unstable socio-economic environ