Open Calls


Social media marketing for creatives

How can good design be strategically placed in social media? In this workshop, you will get an overview of relevant platforms, content and planning tools – and develop creative ideas for your own social media campaign in a team. For anyone who wants to combine design with impact. Ursula Schreck taught marketing for several years […]


Individual legal and start-up advice – ONLINE

Questions about contracts or property rights? About starting up and self-employment? For all your legal and start-up questions, you can make an appointment for a personal and individual consultation with Alexander Bretz. The consultations take place as half-hour appointments for one issue. Personal details:Alexander Bretz is an honorary professor of design law and business start-ups […]


Open Call Exhibition Time Waves

The “Time Waves” exhibition provides the impetus to revitalize the Fläming region in Saxony-Anhalt as a place of culture and art. With the help of contemporary art contributions and artistic positions, we want to enrich the beautiful Elbe landscape into a lively meeting place for culture and art. Using the history of the Simonetti House […]


Call for Abstracts: Performing Transformation

We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the interdisciplinary conference “Performing Transformation” with you. Please feel freeto forward the call to anyone who might be interested. We are pleased to share the Call for Abstracts for the interdisciplinary conference “Performing Transformation”. Please feel free to forward the call to anyone who might […]


Climate Art Collection

With its continous open-call concept the climate art collection aims to be inclusive towards all kinds of artists and art formats relating to climate change, everyone is welcome to contribute to the global collection. Please submit your artwork through the form on the website. If you face any challenges or want to add specific information, […]


Workshop leader wanted in Leipzig

Workshop leader (d/w/m) wanted for the project “A city draws – Leipzig”: “A City Draws” is a participatory cultural project in which pupils explore their city through drawing and document it artistically under the guidance of artists and/or art educators. With the “A City Draws” project, artist Yadegar Asisi is bringing drawing back to the […]


Work grants for contemporary printmakers

The idea The Museum für Druckkunst and the Giesecke+Devrient Foundation are offering three scholarships for artists who have completed their artistic studies. The four-week scholarships with compulsory residency at the Museum für Druckkunst are intended for artistic development in the field of printmaking (relief and intaglio printing).With these scholarships, the Museum für Druckkunst and the […]


Open Call Braid

The next Open Call is starting and we are delighted to have the opportunity to exhibit again! We are looking for diverse positions of different media from the field of visual arts, individual perspectives and a coherent argumentation in dealing with the exhibition concept. ​ Please fill out the form below. We will get back […]


TOKAS Residency Programs 2026

Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS), operated by a division of The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, offers artist-in-residence programs for international creators working in various creative fields to stay, engage in creation and conduct research activities. TOKAS now calls for creators from various backgrounds and seek to actively exchange ideas while engaging in creative activities […]


re:natura #05 – Crescere

Synopsis Why do we grow? Should we advance? How should we develop? When do we thrive? Where do we spread? After last year’s breezy topic Æther, the fifth annual compilation, re:natura #05 – Crescere asks crucial questions about the concept of growth. Derived from Latin Crescere (to grow – think Crescendo), you are encouraged to […]


Call for artists: GEMISCHTE PLATTE

We are looking for artistic perspectives on prefabricated buildings and everything that takes place in and around them. For a long weekend of culture, information and music from September 26 to 28, 2025, an uninhabited prefabricated apartment block from the 1970s will be available in Altenburg. A group exhibition will bring together artistic works that […]


Open Call for the 2026 – Central Laundry

We are launching an open call for the period of January to March and 2 projects in 2026. ZW is in a diversity-oriented development and particularly encourages submissions from people who are socially marginalized. Our curatorial guidelines as well as our general principles are linked online. What can you apply with? We welcome a wide […]


Open Call for the 2026 Artist-in-Residence Program

We are now accepting applications for our 2026 Artist-in-Residence Program. The theme for the year is “In Motion”. Full details of the call for applications can be found in the full terms and conditions: Open Call 2026 The Villa Sonnenberg Foundation invites professional artists of all disciplines to apply for a three-month residency in 2026. […]


Open Call 2026 – Gallery mladých

Galerie Kontext utilizes the gallery foyer with 4 niches for the presentation of contemporary art. Its alternative location is shared with Galerie mladých and Galerie U Dobrého pastýře at Radnická 4 and it has become an integral part of the year-long exhibition program. In previous years external curators of galleries operating in a similar “off-space” […]


Art on the water 2025 / Wood sculpture symposium

Since 2001, the “Art on the Water” symposium at the Kriebstein Dam has been a permanent fixture on the Central Saxon Cultural Summer schedule. With the support of the ZWA Hainichen, the Zweckverband Kriebsteintalsperre and the municipality of Kriebstein, the idea has become a tradition and numerous works of art on a wide variety of […]


Applications for KUNST/MITTE 2025

The regular application phase for KUNSTMITTE 2025 starts on April 1. Dear gallery owners and artists, some of you have been with us for quite some time, some of you have been with us from the very beginning. For us as the organization team and organizers of the art fair, it is particularly important to […]


Open Call Program 2026 | Art Pavilion & New Gallery

Under pressure – a pair of words that oscillate between collective mood and individual experience. Whether social pressure, divisive tendencies, ecological tipping points, psychological strain, economic pressure or performative stress: our present is characterized by multiple tensions. On the occasion of its 80th anniversary, the Künstler*innen Vereinigung Tirol 2026 is using the annual curatorial concept […]


The arts open up worlds – opening up opportunities for education and participation together

The Arts Open Worlds program supports cultural, youth and educational institutions in implementing joint projects for children and young people in which they can discover the arts, culture, play and media. This strengthens their opportunities for education and participation. Strengthening the participation and educational opportunities of children and young people and focusing on their living […]


Funding: RWE Foundation

The foundation provides funding for projects with a volume of 20,000 euros or more. For funding of 50,000 euros or more, public stakeholders must be involved. The focus is on children and young people. The topics are the promotion of equal opportunities and the strengthening of international and intercultural understanding as well as the improvement […]


FLUTES

Project overview FLUTEN links the historical perception of flooding as a punishment with the modern responsibility of humankind in the climate crisis. It raises questions about guilt, consequences, and the potential for building a more resilient society through urban and artistic measures. The project is understood as an interdisciplinary platform that brings together art, science, […]