Open Calls
Micro-grant program of the German Foundation for Commitment and Volunteering
DSEE funding program for structurally weak and rural areas Do your volunteers need an extra dose of recognition? Do you have a good idea for recruiting more volunteers for your initiative? You finally want to do this training and put your club work on a secure footing? You don’t need much, but you can’t do […]
BEQISA – Call for funding 2025 “Together – for a neighborhood worth living in”
The call for funding “Together – for a neighborhood worth living in” is intended to provide impetus for the development of age-appropriate neighborhoods, particularly in rural regions in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. The promotion of small-scale individual projects and measures is intended to contribute to the improvement of housing and the living environment, supply, social […]
Project funding from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation
Project grants can be applied for by individuals (natural persons) or legal entities (e.g. associations, foundations under public law, companies, etc.). Artists’ collectives or groups should check whether it makes sense to set up a GbR or whether an individual should take on the application and the associated rights and obligations. Within the framework of […]
Open Call for Art: Theme NUDE
Everyone is welcome to apply, regardless of your background and stage of career. Submission is always free, and only after we send you a confirmation, you will be asked to pay a participation fee. With each exhibition you will automatically be considered for our prizes! (1st place: free solo virtual exhibition, 2nd place: free virtual […]
LIGHTGATE @ CoSy-Festival – Urgent search for visual artists
From 08.08. Until 12.08.2024, an extraordinary art exhibition will take place at Dornburg Castle on the Elbe near Magdeburg as part of the CoSy Festival (approx. 500 participants). CoSy is an acronym that stands for “Contrasts in Symbioses”. Through performing, visual and media art, we, the CREATOR e.V., want to show contrasts (e.g. traditional art […]
OPEN CALL OSTRALE Biennale
O25 – 15th International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts7. 6. – 5. 10. 2025 | Dresden, robotron-Kantine For the 15th time, the OSTRALE – Centre for Contemporary Art is organizing its international exhibition of contemporary art, in 2025 from 7 June to 5 October, in the robotron canteen in the heart of Dresden and at other […]
Frau*Now – Women start up now!
We want to strengthen female entrepreneurship in Halle (Saale) and the surrounding area. Let’s make room for creative women and turn dreams into reality together. Frau*Now is aimed at women of all ages, backgrounds and educational levels. We accompany you from brainstorming to the growth phase. In this project, we are focusing primarily on networking […]
Funding for art and cultural projects
Non-profit recognized legal entities and natural persons with their place of business or residence in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt can apply to the East German Savings Banks Foundation for funding for art and cultural projects. Funding is provided for projects in the fields of visual arts, music, literature, theater and monument preservation. The […]
Project funding Visual arts project fund
With the Visual Arts Project Fund, the Goethe-Institut supports the international networking of artists from Germany and around the world. It promotes projects that engage in artistic and curatorial cooperation across national and continental borders. The fund thus offers the opportunity to work on cross-border discourses and research issues in complex and supra-regional projects and […]
OPEN CALL FOR RESIDENCY AT BULEGOA Z/B
The objective of this call is to facilitate the production of art and knowledge at different stages and levels at Bulegoa z/b. The residency, which is open to artists and researchers, will last for a month and include space and discursive and financial resources. The residency will take place in 2025 and includes two public […]
VI. SUMMER ACADEMY GRÖDEN
FOR DRAWING AND WOOD SCULPTURE// JULY 22 – AUGUST 03, 2024 For the sixth time this year, the La Veta association is organizing the Val Gardena Summer Academy, a two-week course programme focusing on drawing, sculpture and casting in the heart of the South Tyrolean Dolomites. The Summer Academy is dedicated to artists, sculptors, art […]
Call for proposals Program 2025 Art Pavilion & New Gallery
Chronopolitical explorations With the annual theme Chronopolitical Explorations, the Künstler:innen Vereinigung Tirol 2025 is dedicated to the assumption that narratives and developments are influenced by social, political and economic (power) structures. Depending on the location of an individual or a group, these developments take different courses and therefore cannot be subjected to a linear narrative. […]
Open Call: Disappearance: What remains?
The experimental project space “Stockwerk” is located in the E-Werk Weimar, a Gesamtkunstraum in the middle of the city. The concept for the year 2024 revolves around the theme of “disappearance”. This term is linked to the various facets of cultural, political and social events in the history of mankind. With this project, we want […]
OPEN CALL – Kunstfest Zeitz 2024
Call for participation in the Zeitz Art Festival from 06.-08.09.2024 The Kunstverein Zeitz e.V. invites all artists from Zeitz, the Burgenlandkreis and Central Germany and with a connection to Zeitz to apply for participation in the Kunstfest Zeitz. Eligible to participate are visual artists from Zeitz and the surrounding area or with a connection to […]
Open Call: We are looking for exhibition projects & D21/Solo for the annual program 2025/26 “ALIEN”
The D21 Kunstraum sees itself as a platform and field of experimentation for local and international artists. He shows group and solo exhibitions on socially relevant themes, primarily in the fields of new media, performance, photography and installation. As part of its annual theme ALIEN, the D21 Kunstraum is looking for exhibition projects that deal […]
Open Call International Summer Campus in the artists’ town of 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 is […]
Promotion of aktion mensch (possible on an ongoing basis)
Until 2026, small local projects in areas such as art and culture that make a concrete contribution to the funding priority of inclusion are to be supported with up to 5,000 euros. The funding period is between one day and twelve months. In particular, Aktion Mensch e.V. invites initiatives and associations that have not yet […]
Global Forest Residence (ongoing possible)
The premises of Martin Kippenberger’s former studio are used by Global Forest as the artists’ residence at Friedrichstrasse 5a. Since May 2019, national and international artists have been given the opportunity to deepen their artistic practice, explore new themes, develop new works on site and exhibit or present them as part of a funded residency. […]
Call for proposals for a residency in the artists’ town of Kalbe for artists in 2024
The artists’ town of Kalbe is an innovative project in the Altmark region with the aim of countering demographic change through art and culture. In line with Joseph Beuys’ concept of social sculpture, the artists’ town of Kalbe sees itself as a place where the creative potential of art is developed in order to build […]
International Dresden Summer Academy for Visual Arts
Every year, the Summer Academy invites artists and art students aged 20-40 to take part in a course of their choice. The scholarship makes it possible to work together artistically in the artistic workshops of riesa efau, in the media culture center, as well as in the nearby project space “Rösslstube e.V.”. The scholarship includes: […]