Yiddishland Pavilion Residencies 2025
Yiddishland Pavilion, in collaboration with Venezia Contemporanea and La Storta Residency, announces an open call for a short-term residency in Venice, taking place October 13–23, 2025 in Venice.
Conceived as part of the Pavilion’s ongoing exploration of diasporic, Yiddish, and polyphonic imaginaries, the residency situates artistic research in the Venetian Jewish Ghetto — the first ghetto in Europe, established in 1516. A space historically marked by restriction and exclusion, the Ghetto is also a place of creativity, continuity, and cultural invention. Today it stands as a living site of memory and imagination, offering a charged context for artistic reflection and experimentation.
As part of Yiddishland Pavilion’s trajectory at and beyond the Venice Biennale, the residency opens a space for artistic research that resonates with the Pavilion’s position as a non-national, polyphonic intervention into the Biennale’s system of national representations.
The residency is open to artists across disciplines who either would like to start a new project or continue developing an existing one. The residency provides accommodation and workspace at La Storta in the Jewish Ghetto, alongside curatorial support from Yiddishland Pavilion and Venezia Contemporanea. Projects developed during the residency will also have the possibility to be presented in the next edition of Yiddishland Pavilion.
Applications are open until September 10, 2025.
To apply, please submit a short bio, a portfolio (pdf or link), and a description of your project or research focus.
Participants will be selected by Yiddishland Pavilion and Venezia Contemporanea and notified by September 17, 2025.
Conceived as part of the Pavilion’s ongoing exploration of diasporic, Yiddish, and polyphonic imaginaries, the residency situates artistic research in the Venetian Jewish Ghetto — the first ghetto in Europe, established in 1516. A space historically marked by restriction and exclusion, the Ghetto is also a place of creativity, continuity, and cultural invention. Today it stands as a living site of memory and imagination, offering a charged context for artistic reflection and experimentation.
As part of Yiddishland Pavilion’s trajectory at and beyond the Venice Biennale, the residency opens a space for artistic research that resonates with the Pavilion’s position as a non-national, polyphonic intervention into the Biennale’s system of national representations.
The residency is open to artists across disciplines who either would like to start a new project or continue developing an existing one. The residency provides accommodation and workspace at La Storta in the Jewish Ghetto, alongside curatorial support from Yiddishland Pavilion and Venezia Contemporanea. Projects developed during the residency will also have the possibility to be presented in the next edition of Yiddishland Pavilion.
Applications are open until September 10, 2025.
To apply, please submit a short bio, a portfolio (pdf or link), and a description of your project or research focus.
Participants will be selected by Yiddishland Pavilion and Venezia Contemporanea and notified by September 17, 2025.
October 13 - October 23, 2025, Jewish Ghetto, Venice
Deadline: September 10, 2025
Deadline: September 10, 2025
Open Call
Yiddishland Pavilion Research Residency
Yiddishland Pavilion Research Residency
In the first part of October, the Sala-Manca group (Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman), a duo of artists and performers, will spend a few days at the Yiddishland Pavilion Residency, co-organized with La Storta exhibition and residency space.
During their residency, they will develop a new edition of their continouos Sukkah project, adapting it to the local context of Venice. The project, an ongoing exploration spanning over a decade, builds on their long-standing work with the sukkah as a structure of radical imagination and cultural critique, transforming fragile architecture into a vessel for mobility, hospitality, and diasporic poetics.
Sala-Manca (Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman) is a group of Argentinian born and independent artists that have worked mainly in Jerusalem since 2000 and in Toronto. The group creates in different fields: performance, video, installation, curatorial and publishing. Sala-manca’s works deal with poetics of translation (cultural, mediatic and social), with textual, urban and net contexts as well as social and political issues.
During their residency, they will develop a new edition of their continouos Sukkah project, adapting it to the local context of Venice. The project, an ongoing exploration spanning over a decade, builds on their long-standing work with the sukkah as a structure of radical imagination and cultural critique, transforming fragile architecture into a vessel for mobility, hospitality, and diasporic poetics.
Sala-Manca (Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman) is a group of Argentinian born and independent artists that have worked mainly in Jerusalem since 2000 and in Toronto. The group creates in different fields: performance, video, installation, curatorial and publishing. Sala-manca’s works deal with poetics of translation (cultural, mediatic and social), with textual, urban and net contexts as well as social and political issues.
October 2025, La Storta Space
Artists in Residence: Sala-Manca
(Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman)
(Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman)
In the first part of October, the Sala-Manca group (Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman), a duo of artists and performers, will spend a few days at the Yiddishland Pavilion Residency, co-organized with La Storta exhibition and residency space.
During their residency, they will develop a new edition of their continouos Sukkah project, adapting it to the local context of Venice. The project, an ongoing exploration spanning over a decade, builds on their long-standing work with the sukkah as a structure of radical imagination and cultural critique, transforming fragile architecture into a vessel for mobility, hospitality, and diasporic poetics.
Sala-Manca (Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman) is a group of Argentinian born and independent artists that have worked mainly in Jerusalem since 2000 and in Toronto. The group creates in different fields: performance, video, installation, curatorial and publishing. Sala-manca’s works deal with poetics of translation (cultural, mediatic and social), with textual, urban and net contexts as well as social and political issues.
During their residency, they will develop a new edition of their continouos Sukkah project, adapting it to the local context of Venice. The project, an ongoing exploration spanning over a decade, builds on their long-standing work with the sukkah as a structure of radical imagination and cultural critique, transforming fragile architecture into a vessel for mobility, hospitality, and diasporic poetics.
Sala-Manca (Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman) is a group of Argentinian born and independent artists that have worked mainly in Jerusalem since 2000 and in Toronto. The group creates in different fields: performance, video, installation, curatorial and publishing. Sala-manca’s works deal with poetics of translation (cultural, mediatic and social), with textual, urban and net contexts as well as social and political issues.
May 2024, Venice
Artist in Residence: Daniel Toretsky