Opportunity for two artists to participate in residency in Liepāja

Liepāja invites two new media artists from the CreArt Network to work in Liepāja AiR, between September 23th up to October 27th. During the residency, the artists will have a diversified cultural program, which will aim to widen their knowledge about the city and the region.

Moreover, the artists will have the opportunity to attend and experience New Media and Technology Festival UPDATE, as well as to take an active part in the festival programme with a masterclass, artist talk or presentation.

The final works created during the residency will be presented to the public in the exhibition “UPDATE 2024” together with other festival artists working with digital arts, VR, environmental art, media art.

The exhibition will be open from November 19th until December 9th.

UPDATE is a community of artists and researchers interested in different aspects of the unique combination of creative technologies, artistic mediums, concepts, and technologies. UPDATE festival is a week-long event for emerging artists, art students, people interested in using art tools and techniques in their practices or research. UPDATE offers workshops, masterclasses, performance events and exhibition. Read more

The project “CreArt 3.0 #stringing_together” will include capacity building and mobility activities for civic organizations, artist residencies, and plenty of multicultural events. Covering the period from 2024 to 2026, the activities will feature pleiad of artists with the ultimate aim of increasing the economic and social contribution of visual arts and the cultural sector to the general development of Liepāja.

This project will also enable young artists and culture professionals to experience the European Creative Exchange Programme.

The Valladolid Municipality of Spain has undertaken the lead role in the project, backed up by the partners from the Municipality of Aveiro, Portugal, the Municipality of Lublin, Poland, the Croatian Association of Fine Artists “HDLU-Zagreba”, the Municipality of Skopje, Northern Macedonia, the Lithuanian Gallery “Artkomas-Kaunas”,  the French municipalities of Rouen and Clermont-Ferrand, the Italian municipality of Venice, the Czech public foundation “Češke Budejovice”, the Finnish municipality of Oulu, the German municipality of Regensburg and the Foundation “Liepāja 2027”.‍‍