Open Call: Research Visit & Production Residency for Ukrainian Performing Artists

Initial Visit Dates: November 26–30, 2026
Application Deadline: October 11, 2026 (23:59 CET)

Lost Farm in partnership with Odden Sauna Festival, Antonin Artaud Fellowship in Ukraine, and the Danish Cultural Institute invites Ukrainian performing artists to apply for a two-stage collaborative exchange and residency opportunity.

This possibility may be suitable for artists working with a site responsive practice, live art / performance practice, participatory and social practice and experimental sound practices.

What We Offer

Phase 1: Site Visit, Research (November 26–30, 2026) & participation in Odden Sauna Festival

Selected artists will travel to participate in the Sauna Festival, conduct a site visit hosted by the curator of Lost Farm, and engage directly with the Lost Farm’s ethos and experience the landscape and community for inspiration. During this period, participants will have the opportunity to:

Phase 2: Commission & Creation Residency (Up to 3 Months)

If the initial research reveals strong artistic synergy, the partnership will offer a new commission for the upcoming Lost Farm Festival in 2027. This next stage includes an extended production residency at Lost Farm A.I.R. program of up to three months to develop, rehearse, and premiere the new work on-site.

Who can apply

Selection process

  1. Stage 1: Expression of Interest (Deadline: 23:59 on October 11, 2026)
    Short application to get to know your work and motivation.Please include:

    • A short letter of motivation and why you would like to come to Lost Farm?
    • Short bio and pdf portfolio of images of previous works
    • What existing work such as a performance or participatory workshop would you like to test out at Odden Sauna Festival
  2. Stage 2: Final Stage
    Shortlisted artists may be invited for a brief online conversation or/and asked to provide more materials.

Please submit your Expression of Interest by October 11, 2026, via link.

Learn more about hosts of the Visit and potential future residency

Lost Farm. Since its beginnings, Lost Farm has worked from the belief that ambitious contemporary art does not require a conventional institutional setting. The curatorial approach combines artistic trust and risk-taking with sustained attention to place, inviting artists to work across disciplines and develop new projects through encounters with people, materials, histories and landscapes. Lost farm seeded as Lost Farm Festival in 2025 and has grown into an art organisation with a growing public art programme, where site-specific commissions, performances and artist-led encounters test alternative ways of presenting contemporary art across Sjællands Odde – a coastal peninsula in Denmark. From its earliest programme, Lost Farm has sought to challenge conventional notions of public art through experimental work embedded within the peninsula’s everyday and natural environments. The organisation’s developing strategy continues this commitment to artist-led practice, participation and the peninsula as both an exhibition and artistic learning space. Learn more about Lost Farm and Lost Farm Festival — www.lostfarm.org

Lost Farm is close friends with Odden Sauna Festival and invites contemporary artists into the broad and vibrant community program.

Odden Sauna Festival

Odden Sauna Festival is a community of international artists and cultural entrepreneurs who have chosen to settle on Sjællands Odde creating a community of creativity, innovation, and change through action and anti-hiracy collaboration. Two times they have arranged the sold-out sauna festival at Odden Harbour on a beautiful November night together with local organic food producers, chefs, DIY people, guest artists, and volunteers.

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