OPEN CALL #1

Amarte and Motel Mozaïque are happy to collaborate once again for the upcoming edition of MOMO Festival, taking place from 15–17 April 2027. For this open call, we invite emerging artists to present their projects as part of the festival. Whether you’re reimagining an existing work, developing a work-in-progress or starting something entirely new, we invite you to apply.

OPEN CALL #2

With support from Amarte, Wisseloord offers a unique development programme for musicians. The programme is specifically for musicians that want to learn more about creating their release strategy, covering aspects ranging from effective use of social media to establishing communication with publishers and record labels. Are you looking for professional advice and want to connect directly with music industry professionals to develop longterm career plans? Apply now!

OPEN CALL #3

Amarte is pleased to collaborate again with Rotterdam Photo to present the Dutch Talent Project Grant. This initiative gives emerging photographers the opportunity to create new work exploring the festival’s theme: Vibrance - The Pulse of a Living World. Selected artists will receive financial support, artistic mentorship, and a platform to showcase their projects during Rotterdam Photo 2027.

They received a grant

Forget-Me-Not

Cinzia Nistico
Cinzia Nistico received a grant for the development of new work. Forget-Me-Not is an expanded cinema performance combining 16mm b/we film, live trumpet, projection and spatial staging. Loosely inspired by the Event Horizon Imager, the work imagines three astronauts in separate spacecraft trying to observe a rotating black hole through shared data. A slight deviation in alignment gradually destabilises the whole system: signals begin to drift, responses arrive too late and reality can no longer be reconstructed as one shared moment. Rather than telling a linear story, the performance recreates this mechanism of desynchronisation through image, sound, communication and live performance. Through analog film, optical sound and live trumpet, Forget-Me-Not reflects on abandonment, becoming irrelevant and the difficulty of sustaining attention and care for what remains distant, fragmented or only partially understood.Cinzia is an Amsterdam-based artist working with analog film, expanded cinema and performance. Her practice explores existence, identity, memory and the fragile relation between the individual and the world around them. She is interested in forms of being that are not defined by biography, belonging or fixed identity, but by transformation, perception and connection. Treating 16mm film as a material presence rather than only as a support for images, she works with projection, optical sound, live music and spatial arrangements to question what can be considered alive, visible or present, from the smallest particle to a larger cosmic whole.
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The Amarte Foundation was founded by a number of individuals and their families who share a deep love for the arts. They wish to support the development of creatives and talent in arts and culture by providing financial means and where possible coaching, knowledge and experience. Artists who are active in the cultural sectors of the Netherlands or the ABC and SSS islands (the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) can apply to Amarte for the support of projects in the field of theatre, film, music, visual arts and literature, as well as interdisciplinary projects.