Competitions
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film May 5-10, 2026
Submissions for the 2026 competitions have started! Show your film on the big screen or present your animation project in front of an international industry audience. Regulations Short film competitions International Competition:International animated short films up to 30 minutes in length. We charge a fee of 10.00 euros for each submission. Student Competition:Animated short films […]
(UN-)REALLY young + objective sponsorship award Bodenseekreis 2026
Is it still real or already unreal? How much “reality” can a work of art contain? How real can it depict life? And should it do so at all? The sponsorship award jury will soon have to face these and similar questions that arise when it comes to “representational” art. This is because the Lake […]
Talents Contemporains
The “Talents Contemporains” competition, which was launched in 2011, reflects current contemporary art and makes it possible to explore the European and international art scenes on the special theme of water. In this way, a very unique collection has been created that presents artists with degrees from recognized art academies as well as those with […]
Fine Art Awards
This is the third edition of an event aimed at highlighting and recognizing the most outstanding works of 2025. Your talent and creativity are crucial to the success of this initiative. Creativity is the soul of fine art photography. The photographers gathered here aim to convey emotions, concepts and thoughts through their images. Each photo […]
Photo competition: Highlights
The “Highlights of Nature Photography” competition is one of the most renowned nature photography competitions in the world. Since its foundation in 1999, it has established itself as a platform that presents the beauty and diversity of nature in outstanding photographs. Since 2024, the competition has been run by Florian and Lisa Marie Smit, who […]
Photo competition: Environment 2026
The Glasgow Gallery of Photography is running an exhibition in March called Environment. The theme of Environment for this exhibition is quite a wide covering theme, so if you have images that explore the different environmental impacts that the world is currently going through, this exhibition is for you. But it also covers the environment […]
Rotterdam Photo 2026: Echoes of Silence – War in the Artist’s Soul
What does war do to an artist when he or she is not an eyewitness, but becomes a bearer of the emotional legacy? What does the violence sound like in the minds of those who survive, flee, or hear only? In “Echoes of Silence,” we explore how war, conflict and collective trauma reverberate in the […]
German Cancer Research Center, Dresden
The DKFZ Dresden site focuses on technological innovations such as smart sensors and artificial intelligence to improve tumor diagnostics and therapy. A state-of-the-art research building is being built at Mildred-Scheel-Straße 12 in the immediate vicinity of the University Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine Dresden. The new building will be constructed in two phases: Construction […]
Competition Digital Graphics on Paper 2026
In the long tradition of our printmaking biennial 100 Saxon Prints, a trend towards the use of digital image creation and production processes has become increasingly apparent in recent years. We want to pursue this phenomenon with this call for entries for an exhibition. Digital graphic work without the resistance of manual techniques during image […]
KaB: New town hall for the municipality of Zell (Mosel)
Non-open art in architecture competition with preliminary open application procedure for the artistic design of the town hall of the municipality of Zell (Mosel) Competition procedure Following a preliminary open application procedure, a limited number of participants will be selected for the competition procedure (non-open procedure). Thecompetition language is German.The selection committee will select a […]
KaB: New police center in Neubrandenburg
Non-open art-in-architecture competition with preceding open, anonymous application procedure with ideas for the new police center in Neubrandenburg Type of competition There will be a Germany-wide, non-open art-in-architecture competition with a preceding open, anonymous application process with an idea contribution. Ten participants will be selected by a jury.The competition language is German. Realization costs/ processing […]
Oberhausen City Arts 2025
Artist competition For the sixth time, the further education institute WbI, in cooperation with the Künstlerförderverein Oberhausen and with the support of the LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen, is organizing a competition for fine art. OBERHAUSEN CITY ARTS offers local and regional as well as national artists from the fields of painting, graphics, sculpture and photography a […]
Customs GBM New building to house customs offices in Görlitz, OT Klingewalde, Klingewalder Höhe industrial estate
In the period 2025-2026, the federal government, represented by the Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (BImA), represented by the Saxon State Ministry of Finance,Referat 55, represented by the Staatsbetrieb Sächsisches Immobilien- und Baumanagement, Niederlassung Bautzen, is constructing a new building in Görlitz Klingewalde to housecustoms offices. The building will be erected in the Klingewalder Höhe industrial estate, […]
Derwent Art Prize
Derwent, the internationally renowned fine art brand, are proud to announce that the eighth instalment of the Derwent Art Prize is now open for entries! Created in 2012 by Derwent, the Derwent Art Prize celebrates and rewards excellence in contemporary pencil art, inviting artists to submit the very best in 2D and 3D artworks created […]
Lesser Ury Prize for Art
Established in 2024, this award for visual arts is presented to artists for individual works that are recognized by a jury of the KünstlerGilde e.V. as part of an art prize competition with an annually changing artistic focus. The award’s namesake, the painter and graphic artist Leo Lesser Ury, born in 1861 in the province […]
AMADEUS Festival International Design Competition 2025/2026
AMADEUS Festival Vienna launches its fourth International Design Competition 2025/26, celebrating emerging talent in visual arts and graphic design. Framed within the Festival’s communication strategy, the competition offers a platform to showcase creativity inspired by classical music while promoting the Festival’s international image. This year’s theme, Metamorphosis, invites artists to explore transformation and creativity, with […]
“Encounter” nationwide, juried and award-winning art competition
With the “Begegnung” art competition, the Förderkreis Kunst und Kulturraum Erkrath e. V. is holding its 6th nationwide, juried and award-winning art competition. All genres of art can apply. There is no age limit. Application deadline is 08.11.2025. Only the selected artists will be notified and published on this WEB page. All works must also […]
International competition for ceramics
Every two years since 1987, the city of Carouge (Geneva) has organized an international competition for contemporary ceramics, in which the aim is to create works on a given theme. Each work must be an original created specifically for this competition and must not be exhibited before September 19, 2026, the date of the start […]
Prize of the Ulla and Eberhard Jung Foundation 2025
A collaboration between the Verband Bildender Künstler Thüringen e.V. and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Dear artists, dear members, Dear curators, Dear media representatives, Ladies and Gentlemen, We would like to draw your attention to the attached call for proposals for the promotion of a young artistic position in the visual arts in Thuringia, which has […]
Art prize ‘Encounters in focus’
The blooming paradise “Bad Zwischenahn” is located directly on the third largest inland lake in Lower Saxony, the Zwischenahner Meer, and is also proudly called the “Pearl of the Ammerland”. Bad Zwischenahn has a lot to offer: unspoiled nature that invites you to go cycling and walking, the well-known Ammerland hospitality, a varied gastronomic offer […]