Open Calls


Call for art contributions for the site design at the 6* Festival, Bayreuth

We are calling on artists in Germany and Europe to apply for this public call:For our 6* Festival in Bayreuth, an open air festival with a focus on live electronic music, we are looking for sculptures and installations to design our festival site. Location: Bayreuth, Germany Date: June 12 – 15, 2025 Application deadline: May […]


A summer academy in cooperation with the Alfred Toepfer Foundation

Marketing strategies for visual artists The Summer Academy provides artists with basic knowledge about the art market and the profession of artist. The central theme of the academy is the development of a personal strategy for marketing one’s own work. The summer academy takes place at the Gut Siggen seminar center of the Alfred Toepfer […]


Workshop “From creative mind to successful entrepreneur”

This workshop focuses on your entrepreneurial identity and a holistic view of your start-up. Who do you want to be as an entrepreneur and what attitude do you want to work with? What do you stand for – and what don’t you stand for? How do you create sustainable and authentic connections with your customers […]


Online lecture “Time management – strategies for more focus and productivity”

On 22 April from 10 to 11 a.m., we are organizing the online lecture “Time management – strategies for more focus and productivity”. The speaker will be psychologist Elvira Kuslij. You can join us via this link: April 22, 10-11 a.m., online lecture: Time management – strategies for focus and productivitywith Elvira Kusliy Join the […]


Creative Europe CULTURE: European cooperation projects

2025 Open Call for Applications With the funding area “European Cooperation Projects”, the EU supports cultural projects in which organizations from at least three different eligible countries work together and find European solutions to current challenges. The partner consortium consists of an applicant organization (coordinator) and at least two other cultural institutions (partners). Application deadline: […]


Open Call Art @ Berlin Circus Festival 2025

Artistic works for the exhibition at the 11th Berlin Circus Festival (30.07.25- 10.08.2025) We are looking for artists to present their artworks or create site-specific works during the international Berlin Circus Festival at Tempelhofer Feld. The festival offers a platform for encounters between contemporary circus and visual arts. In an open-air exhibition, you will have […]


Open Call: Shrewdness. Climate protection instead of fake news

Newspapers in the Springer press headline: “Germany facing the solar debacle”. This is fake news. They are being spread worldwide by politicians, the press and on social media.the energy transition is going much better than the right-wing scaremongers from BILD, WELT and others would have us believe. Wind turbines and solar power complement each other […]


PARKOMANIE 2025 transformare*

The exhibition theme is based on the social and economic transformation that is necessary for everyone.With the “transfomare” theme, we want to emphasize the important role of art as a space for discourse. This is where attitudes can be discussed and new perspectives developed. These are processes that can be promoted by change and transformation […]


animation-installation 2025

Works are accepted that in one way or another place animated images (such as computer animation (CGI, VR, AR, AI), stop motion or images animated by other means) in the context of a site-specific installation. Works that seek to address issues relevant to today’s society are favored.We can provide some equipment (projectors, screens, sound), but […]


Online: Individual start-up advice with a focus on funding opportunities

This consultation is all about your start-up process: Where are you right now? What are the next steps and what do you need to take them successfully? Steffen Ahrens gives you honest feedback on your start-up ideas and business models, helps you to implement them and supports you in preparing for market entry. He also […]


Designing Tomorrow action day at the Designhaus Halle

The world is developing rapidly – new technologies, changing ways of working, new challenges and fresh ideas are opening up exciting opportunities. Instead of just watching, we want to play an active role in shaping it. “Designing Tomorrow” stands for exactly that: shaping the future with creative concepts and innovative design while rethinking our own […]


Workshop – Learning to negotiate

Salary, prices, agreements – we have to negotiate a lot. But how do we do it well? With arguments or with tricks? With pressure or by giving in? Instead of dealing with clichés and myths about negotiating, in this workshop we look at our own goals and practise achieving a good result together with the […]


Promotion of the Social Culture Fund – U25 – Direction: Young cultural initiatives

The “Profile: Socioculture” programme of the Socioculture Fund supports the strategic and future-oriented development of independent socio-cultural organizations. The aim is to stabilize their structures in the long term and to sharpen their profile. The project applied for should be embedded in the organization’s overall strategy and not stand in isolation. Funding is available for […]


Promotion Fund Social Culture – Profile: Socioculture (organizational development)

The “Profile: Socioculture” programme of the Socioculture Fund supports the strategic and future-oriented development of independent socio-cultural organizations. The aim is to stabilize their structures in the long term and to sharpen their profile. The project applied for should be embedded in the organization’s overall strategy and not stand in isolation. Funding is available for […]


General project funding from the Social Culture Fund (participatory projects)

In its “General Project Funding” program, the Sociocultural Fund supports specific socio-cultural project ideas. Funding is provided for temporary projects that involve local people as active participants in their conception and implementation and that address a socio-political or social issue using cultural methods. We are looking for the best project ideas, bold approaches and innovative […]


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Between Books. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Art Book Fair

19.9. – 21.9.20253 days80 exhibitors20 workshops, talks & lectures After two successful editions in 2023 and 2024, Between Books will take place for a third time at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf from September 19 to 21, 2025! Independent art book publishers, artists, independent publishing/DIY collectives, organizations, associations, zines and magazines present themselves to a wide audience in […]


BrauArt Dessau 2025

Artists from the fields of fine arts and design can apply for the 16th brau.ART on the theme of “KunstStoff” until June 15, 2025. Application deadline: June 15, 2025


Fresh Air Sculpture 2026

Sunday June 14 – Sunday July 5, 2026 We are inviting applications from artists for our 2026 sculpture exhibition. Click the links in our bio for full details. Fresh Air Sculpture is an outdoor selling exhibition that has been operating for the last 30 years showing renowned national and international artists alongside emerging new talent. […]


Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts

Intensive workshops on current issues of art production with outstanding artists from all over the world lasting two to three weeks – that’s what you can expect. A total of around 100 scholarships are awarded each year. Some only cover the participation fee for a course at the Summer Academy, others also include travel and […]


Call for proposals WAYS – Federal Cultural Foundation for International Partnerships

“To enable cultural institutions and independent groups in Germany to find new partners in non-European countries” and to make these partnerships “fairer and more sustainable”, the Federal Cultural Foundation has developed the WAYS – Fair and Sustainable International Partnerships (formerly: Transcontinental Partnerships) program. Funding is provided for projects in the fields of contemporary performing arts, […]