What, How & for Whom / WHW announces an open call for applications to participate in the fifth year of Zagreb based WHW Akademija, an experimental, interdisciplinary, tuition-free art study program for emerging artists. Through generating new models and testing existing ones, WHW Akademija seeks to develop a reciprocal educational process. Its programs encourage participants to coproduce critical content based on how knowledge is produced and questioned through the poetic, the physical, the material, and the eco-social.
The program starts in March 2023 and lasts until November 2023. It combines live and digital sessions, starting online in March and April and intensifying in May with a physical summer school that will take place in Zagreb. The program then continues online until the end of October 2023, when the final meeting of participants will take place in Zagreb.
Application deadline: 25 January 2023
Interviews: 13–18 February 2023,in-person (for Zagreb-based applicants) and over Zoom
Final status notification: by end of February 2023
For WHW Akademija 2023, participants will be selected through an open call. Applicants should be practicing emerging artists with or without formal training.
Please submit applications only through this application form. Applications must be received by 25 January 2023 and include the following information:
• CV
• short biography (250 words max.)
• statement about your work (2 pages max.)
• one PDF portfolio (15 pages max.) containing work descriptions, images with captions, and links to media hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, and SoundCloud.
WHW Akademija is a tuition-free program. Participants will receive financial support during the program, consisting of a seven-month scholarship of 350,00 euro per month. Program-related costs in Croatia will be covered by WHW. Travel costs to Croatia will be reimbursed.
More information on the link.
WHW Akademija is funded by Kontakt Art Collection, ERSTE Foundation, Foundation for Arts Initiatives, and Trust for Mutual Understanding.
Additional funds for the public program are granted by the European Commission’s Creative Europe program,Ministry of Culture and Media of Republic of Croatia, and City Office for Culture, International Relations and Civil Society.
