Open Calls


Promotion: Active together for inclusion

Inclusion means creating a diverse and open society in which everyone can participate in social life regardless of individual differences. The funding is intended to help create additional opportunities for inclusive encounters in order to make inclusion a tangible experience. In this funding program, Aktion Mensch supports inclusive projects in the areas of “education and […]


Call for Artists – WindArt 2025

Travemünde is a modern Baltic seaside resort with great recreational value. The main attraction is the beach promenade, the fine sandy beach and the many large ships that sail right past the beach chair. And then there’s the art! Galleries in the town invite you to visit and there are many works of art in […]


Sculpture workshop in Querceto/Val de Cecina

Workshop from June 21, 2025, 6 p.m. to June 28, 2025, 10 a.m. in Querceto/Tuscany. Number of participants:limited to 10 peopleNew: 4 places for accompanying persons Lecturer:Reinhard Pontius, sculptor/Dresden “My aim is to support and accompany your individual process in conversation with the stone.” You can find all information here. Registration deadline: January 31, 2025


Call for projects: “Versehen – fassbar gemacht: Collective ceramic project by julakim”

julakim, musician and architect, invites you to be part of a collective art project based on her song VERSEHEN – a feminist funk-swing anthem that celebrates the spirit and strength of women*. What is the project about? The project “VERSEHEN – made tangible” is a collective art project that makes women* visible in their diversity […]


Federal Cultural Foundation: General project funding

As part of the Federal Cultural Foundation’s general project funding, artists can apply for funding for projects in the artistic fields of visual and performing arts, literature, music, dance, film, photography, architecture or new media. Funding is available for large, innovative projects in an international context. The application amount must be at least 50,000 euros […]


Design as intervention

The upcoming issue of “Neuwerk – Zeitschrift für Designwissenschaften” focuses on the topic of intervention. The editorial team particularly encourages submissions that deal with the topic from intersectional and/or marginalized perspectives. The aim is to create a space for the exchange of diverse knowledge practices. Submissions are welcome in a variety of formats, including both […]


OPEN CALL FOR THE EXHIBITION “WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER”

BACKGROUNDIn the planned group exhibition “We’re All in This Together”, the GEH8 art and culture center is devoting itself to the current discourse on social cohesion and the perceived division of society. In our time, social, political and economic differences are becoming increasingly visible and are being discussed more intensively. The theme for the year […]


KUNSTMARKT Friedrichsrode

For over three decades, the KUNSTMARKT has been held on the third Saturday in June in the small half-timbered village of Friedrichsrode between Nordhausen and Mühlhausen in northern Thuringia. For a single day, the entire town, which is then closed to through traffic, is transformed into a colorful promenade and cultural mile. Numerous stalls along […]


Annual conference of the knowledge platform kubi-online: Cultural education – an oasis of resonance?

Approaches and limits of the world relationship The Akademie der Kulturellen Bildung des Bundes und des Landes NRW is hosting the annual conference of the kubi-online knowledge platform in Remscheid from March 17 – 18, 2025. Based on impulses from the sociologist Hartmut Rosa, we would like to explore the question of the extent to […]


Curating certificate course

Course from May 16 – July 19, 2025 Exhibitions on art, culture or socially and scientifically relevant topics inspire a large audience and provide impetus for current discourse. The venues, formats and professional fields of curating have expanded considerably in recent years. The Curating course picks up on this development and offers a comprehensive introduction […]


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, […]


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 […]


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 […]