i-Portunus

i-Portunus is a project, selected and funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. It supports short-term mobility of artists and culture professionals.

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i-Portunus is a short-term pilot project, selected and funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, to trial a mobility scheme for artists and culture professionals. It is managed by a consortium headed by the Goethe-Institut with Institut français, Izolyatsia and Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts.

Between April and September 2019, i-Portunus issued three Calls for Applications, providing support for international mobilities of artists and culture professionals active in the fields of the performing or visual arts and residing in a Creative Europe country. All Calls are now closed.

The pilot scheme i-Portunus is the first initiative by the European Commission in organising mobility for artists and culture professionals. In 2020 there will be a second initiative with other consortia. The results of all projects will be taken into account by the European Commission in developing a permanent action under the Creative Europe Programme 2021-2027 dedicated to supporting the mobility of artists and cultural professionals.

i-Portunus Stories

During this residency I wanted to produce an exhibition around the host city, the city of Skopje, sculptures and a video and I was able to do everything for the end-of-residence exhibition. I was able to get a good visibility of many press articles and interviews.

Paul Gounon

This art experience constitutes an immersive ritual, a deep healing process for the artists, and the audience as well. Together, they dive into unknown territories and shake their certitudes to open more their “enclosed garden”, what poets, artists, thinkers from Middle Age would call “Hortus conclusus”, the close chamber of the psychology. I personally discovered as a project manager that it’s not easy to invite artists to open up about intimacy. No matter the country where you would come from, it’s in the end challenging for every woman.” – Celia Stroom

Celia Stroom, Salomé Jashi and Benedetta Barzini

I worked for the first time in a theater abroad with foreign people talking in another language.

Irene Petra Zani

Some key data from the third i-Portunus call