open call chornobyl40

CHORNOBYL40 is an international art-science-tech programme exploring the multiple legacies of the Chornobyl disaster — not only as a historical event, but as an ongoing condition shaping our present and future.

The programme begins with an online residency / art accelerator, where selected participants develop their ideas through talks, workshops, mentoring, collective discussions and peer feedback. The residency is designed as a structured yet open process guiding participants from idea to concept to pre-production.

CHORNOBYL40 invites artists and interdisciplinary practitioners to engage with Chornobyl as a landscape, a memory, a political reality and a speculative horizon.

This is not a call for illustration. We are looking for strong artistic positions, critical imagination and concepts for future exhibition works.

Projects may work with ecology and post-disaster environments, memory and trauma, geopolitical narratives, invisible forces such as radiation, data and systems, technological imaginaries, nuclear energy, misinformation and perception.

CHORNOBYL40 welcomes works using image, sound, space, archives, data, body, XR, VR, AI, digital installation, video art, performance, media art and interdisciplinary formats.

Today, Chornobyl is not only about the past. It is a way to speak about responsibility, truth, fragile infrastructure, ecological consequences, war, resilience and the future of Europe.

CHORNOBYL40 is supported by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and co-funded by the European Union within the Creative Europe programme.