SHAPE+

2015 – 2025

The platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, known first as SHAPE and later as SHAPE+, had been active for more than a decade. 

While the individual partner festivals and venues will continue to develop new initiatives, SHAPE+ is reaching its conclusion at the end of December 2025. 

The project has been co-funded by the European Union, in its last years also by Pro Helvetia.

SHAPE+ fostered exceptional emerging talent, connecting them to local communities and audiences through collaborative residencies, commissioned artworks, performances, and large artist meet-ups accompanied by a discourse program. The approach to artist selection has been diverse, spanned many genres of modern music and embraced interdisciplinarity. 

Across its ten years of activity, SHAPE facilitated the careers of 676 innovative artists, and is thankful to them for their trust and participation. The creators of SHAPE owe much gratitude also to the core 18 adventurous music festivals of the platform, as well as external partner organizations, media partners, and participating entities from previous versions of the project. 

The venues and audiences across Europe and beyond were equally important in making the project possible through their openness, enthusiasm, and interest in forward thinking music and sound. 

At the time of this announcement, these are the member organizations of SHAPE+:

A full list of SHAPE artists from each year of the project can be found here.

SHAPE (2014-2022)

SHAPE+ builds upon the previous SHAPE platform, which from 2014 to 2022 supported 336 emerging European artists and presented their work at festivals, events and venues in numerous countries across Europe and beyond. It has also been supported by the Creative Europe programme of the EU.

www.shapeplatform.eu

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