Norbergfestival AiR Open Call

The festival presents contemporary music, performances and interdisciplinary works for three days in July and gathers around a thousand visitors yearly. This year's iteration is planned for July 6–8, 2023.

Since a few years back, the festival has been expanding the program of visual art presented at the festival site and around the town of Norberg. News for this year is that the festival is announcing an open call for an artist in residency to produce a new work presented at the festival.

Apart from producing a work shown at Norbergfestival 2023, the one-month-long residency is an opportunity to do research, location-scouting and networking. They encourage visual artists from all disciplines to apply. The work can be presented for example as an exhibition or as a performance.

The chosen resident will be provided with:

• An artist fee (30 000 SEK, excl VAT)
• Housing during one month (the time span can be divided if needed, in dialogue with the festival staff)
• A budget for production while on site
• Possibility to work on artworks on site; for example in workshops, studios, etc.
• Help with finding networking opportunities

The application should include:

• An updated CV
• brief outline of your artistic practice and ideas for what you want to do during the residency period

The application should be sent to [email protected] no later than March 17th.

The chosen artist is obliged to:

• Be available during the spring to spend the residency period in Norberg (dates will be decided on together with the festival staff)
• Produce and present new work at Norbergfestival 2023
• Present their work at Sommar i Norberg, a local festival held the weekend before Norbergfestival.
• Meet with local professionals

They have deliberately formulated the residency in a flexible way, to allow the artist, in dialogue with the festival, to plan the residency according to their needs and ideas.

If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact them. Alice Söderqvist (project manager for the visual art program) can be reached at [email protected]

The residency is supported by the Swedish Art Council and the Region of Västmanland.

Image from the exhibition My Melody by Hamilton & Pedersen at Galleri Norberg, part of the Norbergfestival visual arts program 2022. Photo by Abby Quick.