Open Calls


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 […]


Open Call Exhibition Gallery Group Motto

For our second Season September-December 2023 we are looking for artists who want to participate in our group shows.There will be a total of 4 exhibitions. We are searching for 5-10 positions for each exhibition. September: HouseOctober: SexNovember: MachineDecember: Garden Please include to your application: portfolio, CV, (short) artist statement, work/project description including sketch (or […]


Application for the 15th brau.ART

This year’s 15th brau.ART will take place from September 6 to 22, 2024. Artists from the fields of fine arts and design are invited to explore the theme of REFLEXIONS. Applications should preferably be submitted online using the application form. The decision on the application is made by the curatorial team. There is no legal […]


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: Art auction on the occasion of the Court Art Night

This year, the 3rd HofKunstNacht of the Lions Club Halle an der Saale will take place in the Moritzburg courtyard in September 2024. This is a charity eventduring which an auction will be held for the purposes of the Lions organization in the city of Halle. By sharing the proceeds, we also want to directly […]


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 […]


International art project HolzART XXVI

Sculptors from Germany and beyond saw sculptures from local trees in “open” studios in the context of the Rentei, mainly in Stockheim and again in Nordhalben. 500 euros in hand money, fuel costs, costs for accommodation and meals, a budget for small items, a tree trunk – are covered. Exhibition of the resulting sculptures at […]


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 […]


The Power of the Arts

In 2024, The Power of the Arts will support five socially relevant projects with 50,000 euros each. Project plans as well as projects already underway from non-profit institutions based in Germany and from all artistic disciplines as well as interdisciplinary concepts aimed at people aged 18 and over can be submitted. The prize-winning projects are […]


Work art market – Von Taube Preis

The Werkkunstmarkt at Wasserschloß Klaffenbach is a sales exhibition for arts and crafts and design, where visitors are presented with selected and sophisticated products from all areas of work, from unique pieces to small series, and offered for sale. Outstanding products are honored with the “Von Taube Prize” in the arts and crafts category. The […]


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. […]


Special edition of the German Medal Art Society

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medaillenkunst e. V. invites all artists to explore the theme of “RESONANCES” in the medium of the art medal. Everything is possible, from decorative to politically and socially critical to purely abstract pictorial inventions. The decisive factor is a reference to current conditions, symptoms and consequences of “resonances” in all their […]


Promotion fund int. Cooperation projects fine arts/ Goethe Institute

The Goethe-Institut is launching a new project fund to promote international cooperation projects in the field of visual arts and thus the global networking of creative artists even more strongly in the future. From March 1, 2021, artists, curators and art mediators from Germany and abroad can apply together with their project ideas for the […]


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: […]