The first East Calls Curatorial Residency is a unique residency programme for emerging curators to gain a comprehensive insight and network of the local contemporary art scene in focus.

East Calls is an intensive 2-week programme that looks directly at the roles and responsibilities of curators as mediators between audiences and artists, as well as research and experience. The residency focuses on contemporary curatorial conditions, institutional situations and the understanding of issues affecting contemporary art. East Calls aims to foster dialogues on issues surrounding curation and to interrogate what constitutes “the curatorial” in the Central European region. The East Call programme focuses on open, horizontal and conversation-based transfers of knowledge.

The Programme is designed for emerging curators and students who expect to work in the field of contemporary art. It intends to introduce participants to current and relevant practices as well as to the mechanisms of curating in relation to exhibitions, institutions, audiences, aesthetics and cultural political discourse.