SHAPE+

SHAPE+
Sound, Heterogenous Art and Performance in Europe

SHAPE+ is a platform for innovative music and audiovisual art co-financed by the Creative Europe programme. It brings together 15 organisations from 15 countries across Europe to create a platform which fosters exceptional emerging talent and aims to support, promote and exchange innovative and aspiring musicians and interdisciplinary artists with an interest in sound. SHAPE+ builds upon the previous SHAPE platform, which from 2015 to 2022 supported 336 emerging European artists and presented their work at festivals, events and venues in numerous countries across Europe and beyond. This new stage of the SHAPE platform will be marked by an emphasis on residencies and, where possible, greener forms of travel.

Each year, the curatorial teams of all SHAPE+ festivals and initiatives come together and choose a roster of artists. The artist roster has been created disregarding divisions of genre, age or popularity. Rather, creative novelty and successful experimentation have served as core values, with additional emphasis on the inclusion of upcoming and underexposed artists as well as representing local scenes of involved festivals and art centers. Once a year, SHAPE+ platform announces an open call and the submissions are also taken into consideration when creating the artist list.

For more info follow the official website.

For details regarding an open call for artist submissions for the upcoming working period of the platform (2024 - 2025), follow this link.

Partners:
European Union - Creative Europe / Ministry of Culture Czech Republic / ICAS / GoodShape

Media partners:
Crack Magazine / The Wire / The Quietus / Electronic Beats / NTS Radio / The Astral Plane / Resonance FM / Radio Campus / Secret Thirteen / The Attic Mag / We make money not art / Music Map / Cashmere Radio

Artists nominated by MeetFactory for 2023 / 2024:

• Koruth
• Petra Hermanova
• Paul Gründorfer
   

Artists nominated by MeetFactory for 2022:

• Forces
• Qow
• Ursula Sereghy
• Eliška Jirsová
• Simona Machovičová
   

The member festivals and art centers of SHAPE are:

• CTM Festival / DISK e.V. – Berlin, DE
• Construction Festival / Kultura Medialna – Dnipro, UA
• Intonal Festival / Inkonst – Malmö, SE
• Les siestes électroniques / Association Rotation – Toulouse, FR
• MeetFactory – Prague, CZ
• Sonica Festival / MoTA – Museum for Transitory Art – Ljubljana, SL
• musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst / ORF – Graz, AT
• Rokolectiv Festival – Bucharest, RO
• schiev Festival – Brussels, BE
• Skaņu Mežs Festival – Riga, LV
• UH Fest / Ultrasound Foundation – Budapest, HU
• Terraforma Festival / Threes Productions Srl – Milan, IT
• Unsound Festival / Fundacja Tone – Krakow, PL
• Mutant Radio / Tbilisi, GE
• OUT.FEST / Barreiro, PT

SHAPE+ is a three-year initiative, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.