EMAP is a European platform and residency programme dedicated to supporting emerging artists working in media art and related fields, including digital, technological, and interdisciplinary practices. The platform fosters collaboration between leading media art institutions across Europe, providing artists with the opportunity to develop and produce new work within an international context. The 2026 selection reflects the transnational scope of the programme. The participating artists come from a range of European contexts and institutional backgrounds, underlining EMAPʼs role as a platform for exchange, mobility, and collaboration across different cultural and geographic environments.

The selected artists will join residencies at one of EMAPʼs member institutions, gaining production support, access to facilities, and the opportunity to develop new projects in close exchange with local contexts and international peers. The 2026 programme brings together a wide spectrum of artistic approaches and topics, engaging with contemporary questions through experimental, technological, and research-based practices. Selected EMAP Artists 2026

Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria)
Calin Segal

Chroniques (Marseille, France)
Noemi Iglesias Barrios

CIKE Creative Industry Košice (Košice, Slovakia)
Ida Hiršenfelder

gnration (Braga, Portugal)
sikau/půbalová (Dr. Lea Luka Tiziana Sikau and Denisa Půbalová)

iMAL (Brussels, Belgium)
Éva Csonka

IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Paolo Cirio

Kersnikova Institute [Kapelica Gallery] (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Ivan Iovine

KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis (Zagreb, Croatia)
Where Dogs Run

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón, Spain)
Mohsen Hazrati

Meet Digital Culture Center (Milano, Italy)
Ariella Vidach

NeMe (Limassol, Cyprus)
César Escudero Andaluz

Onassis Foundation (Athens, Greece)
Celine Daemen and Aron Fels

RIXC Centre for New Media Culture (Riga, Latvia)
Agnieszka Pokrywka

Werkleitz Centre for Media Art (Halle/Saale, Germany)
Loïs Soleil

WRO Art Center (Wrocław, Poland)
Thomas Garnier

We are looking forward to a year shaped by wounded landscapes and ecological recovery, intimate entanglements with AI, strategies to confront algorithmic bias, and critical reflections on data, infrastructure, and power.

More about EMAP: emare.eu