Open Calls


Artist wanted: Free studio in Magdeburg from March 2025

Magdeburg, January 2025 – The studio community in the historic Tessenow Garages in the north-east of Magdeburg is looking for a new artist to enrich the lively local art scene from March 2025. The spacious studio with 85 square meters, light-flooded rooms and modern equipment offers ideal working conditions for professional artists of all genres. […]


OPEN CALL – Art festival inspections

The Begehungen art festival will take place in 2025 on the site of the decommissioned Nord lignite-fired power plant in Chemnitz, the European Capital of Culture 2025. In the midst of this impressive industrial architecture, the 22nd edition of the art festival will take a future-oriented look at burning issues such as resource consumption, biodiversity […]


OPEN CALL – Feelings & Photography

The Open Call focuses on contemporary phenomena in photography and at the same time takes a look at what makes us feel in the world. It also poses the question of what we feel and under what conditions. Feelings are one of the last specifics of human or natural life and seem to be an […]


Printing with Lego, gel and Tetra-Pack

Experimental printing techniques in children’s and youth work Do you like printing and want to experiment with different techniques? Then you’ve come to the right place! In this course, you can expect unusual mixed media, relief and intaglio printing techniques that you can easily use in everyday art education with children and young people. You […]


Online course – ‘Book Art: Art with Books’ from the Academy of Cultural Education

Artistic upcycling of discarded books Don’t throw them away! Because in this course, you will give discarded books a new meaning. Be inspired by the content, author, material, smell or typography and use the books to create artistic objects, sculptures, artist books, paper art, collages, stop-motion animations or photographs. Using pictures and playful exercises, you […]


Open Call to support Ukrainian cultural organizations and artists

Attention – Regional restriction: only people from Ukraine can apply! The Open Call focuses on contemporary phenomena in photography and at the same time takes a look at what makes us feel in the world. It also poses the question of what we feel and under what conditions. Feelings are one of the last specifics […]


Art & AI – Fund for new artistic perspectives on AI and society

With its “Art & AI” program, the German Federal Cultural Foundation supports the development and implementation of at least ten projects of excellence. The fund, which is open to applications, is aimed at contemporary cultural institutions and independent artist groups from all disciplines (not individual artists). In addition to the fund, the program includes workshops, […]


Day of the Printing Arts 2025

Dear colleagues, dear artists, dear people interested in the Day of Printmaking,With almost 400 events on the Day of Printmaking, this year’s program was bigger than ever before. In addition, the BBK annual project ZEITGLEICH ZEITZEICHEN was dedicated to contemporary and experimental printmaking. Here, 30 BBK associations participated with over 300 artists. We can therefore […]


Exhibition “Printmaking 2025”

Art exhibition of the Professional Association of Visual Artists in the Municipal Gallery in the Harderbastei from 22.2.-16.3.2025. The BBK Oberbayern Nord and Ingolstadt e.V. would like to show a cross-section of manual printing techniques and invite you to the exhibition “Druckkunst 2025”. On March 15, 2018, traditional printing techniques were added to the German […]


KUNSTSALON 2025 Motto: MACHT & OHNMACHT

The KUNSTSALON 2024 – SINE LOCO III / ABSURD BIS ZYNISCH: ALSO ROSA is a survey of contemporary art. We show what is being created in the studios today, independent of third-party assessments, in keeping with the tradition of the Paris Salons, when artists stood up to the dictates of dealers and museum curators. On […]


Open Call ‘mirrored’

Hello dear Dessau-People!We would like to invite you to creatively explore the themes of reflection, duality and perception in our OpenCall.Whether you paint, draw, photograph, write or contribute something completely different – we are looking forward to your interpretations!Deadline is January 27 – please drop your work in the kiosk mailbox by then. If your […]


Further training for designers in the skilled trades

BECOME A DESIGNER:IN YOUR CRAFT! ‘Trying out things and materials, refining personal perception, getting to know the approaches of others, exchanging ideas, networking knowledge, getting space for ideas – regardless of customer wishes and orders. Acquire new things, enrich the familiar – economically and personally. The ‘Designer in Crafts’ training course is open to all […]


OPEN CALL – Evnia.Magazine

Send us your suggestions for a contribution in our 2nd issue “Silent Masters | Maestrxs Silenciosxs “Research & art projects, literary and artistic works, scientific essays, philosophical and psychological reflections and everything else that is not mentioned here – if you are not sure whether it fits – write to us! Our aim with Evnia […]


LOKAL – Program for culture and engagement

The model program “LOKAL – Program for Culture and Engagement”, which is open to applications, supports the establishment of at least 26 long-term networks in cities and municipalities with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants throughout Germany. Up to 240,000 euros are available per project for four years. The overall program will be implemented from 2024 to […]


CLAIM Culture makes you strong. Alliances for education: “We can do art”

Under the title “We can do art”, the Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler e. V. (BBK), as a program partner of the BMBF, supports art projects of local alliances that are carried out by professional visual artists for children and young people whose educational opportunities are limited. In the projects, classical artistic techniques such as […]


open call: The Male Figure 2025

Since 2010, Galerie Kunstbehandlung has placed the subject of “The Male Figure” at the center of an annual, internationally acclaimed group exhibition. Part of the concept is that the gallery’s well-known artists, who work on the classic theme of male figures, are constantly joined by new talents, thus opening up new perspectives on this part […]


Neuchâtel Art Week

On the subject of “Sound art” from 25.08. – 31.8.2025 For one week in the summer, Neuchâtel becomes a stronghold of creative art. Selected artists from all over the world come to Neuchâtel and create their very own art on the annually changing themes of our art weeks. Always very close to the population – […]


Stage Mothers: Performing Care Network Meeting (remaining places)

On 17. and At the M*halle of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin on February 18, 2025, we want to try out new ways of reconciling care work and work as an artist with you, exchange and reflect, encourage each other and think ahead together with initiatives and associations. The resource for coming together and living our […]


Call for Artists: 11th International Wintercampus 2025 of the City of Artists Kalbe

The artists’ town of Kalbe, an innovative project in the Altmark (Saxony-Anhalt) with the aim of countering demographic change through art and culture, awards scholarships for a working stay. In line with Joseph Beuys’ concept of social sculpture, the artists’ town of Kalbe sees itself as a place where the creative power of art can […]


Digital And Creative Economy” program

With the Digital Creativity program from the “Digital And Creative Economy” program, Investitionsbank Sachsen-Anhalt is announcing a new round of funding. This 3rd competition round ends on December 20, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. or after 130% of the projects expected to be financed from the planned funds have been reached. Application deadline: December 20, 2024