Current competitions
TISA PRICE
The Tisa Prize commemorates the life and work of Tisa von der Schulenburg. She was born in 1903 in Tressow and died in 2001 in Dorsten, where she had lived and worked as Sister Paula in the Ursuline convent since 1950. Throughout her life, Tisa worked intensively with people in borderline situations. Situations that affect […]
August Sander Prize 2026 for portrait photography
The August Sander Prize for Portrait Photography, donated by Ulla Bartenbach and Prof. Dr. Kurt Bartenbach, will be awarded for the fifth time in 2026 in collaboration with the Photographische Sammlung/ SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne. The idea behind the award is to promote young contemporary artistic approaches in the sense of objective and conceptual photography. […]
Lesser Ury Prize for Art
Established in 2024, this award for visual arts is presented to artists for individual works that are recognized by a jury of the KünstlerGilde e.V. as part of an art prize competition with an annually changing artistic focus. The award’s namesake, the painter and graphic artist Leo Lesser Ury, born in 1861 in the province […]
Tender “Water cover 2026”
Pure Water for Generations e.V. invites art students and professional visual artists to design the “Water Cover 2026” and make their connection to water visible – on a small format with a big message. What’s behind itThe “water lid” is the symbol of the Association for Water Awareness. One side bears the messages of Pure […]
Promoting Democracy competition
We now hear and see it all over the world: democracy can no longer be taken for granted! But without a democratic form of government, there can be no free practice of art. Art needs democracy and democracy needs art! With this competition, we want to make a contribution to the defense of our democratic […]
KaB: Bingen University of Applied Sciences
The new lecture hall building (Audimax) on the grounds of Bingen University of Applied Sciences (TH Bingen) is to be given an artistic design. The new building closes a gap in the university’s teaching facilities and completes the campus area. In addition to a sufficiently large lecture hall with modern equipment, the university will also […]
Bernhard Müller-Feyen Art Prize 2026
The Bernhard Müller-Feyen Art Foundation is awarding the Bernhard Müller-Feyen Art Prize 2026. Bernhard Müller-Feyen created sculptures as well as paintings, which are often in an exciting dialog with each other. His work is characterized by a clear, abstract formal language.(https://www.kunststiftung-bmf.com/ZUM-WERK) The competition is aimed equally at sculptors and painters. Artists who combine both disciplines […]
ART.PRIZE DIANA RUMPENHEIM 2026
VORBRENNER is a contemporary art platform that promotes process-oriented work across all disciplines and genres. It offers short-term opportunities for collaboration for both collectives and individual artists in search of new insights and contemporary forms of expression that engage with an interdisciplinary concept of art and science. The focus is on a movement that is […]
Artus Art Prize
EigenArt has been awarding the Artus art prize since 2012. The Artus art competition is aimed at self-taught, educated artists. The competition sees itself as a forum for contemporary art – regardless of academic career or commercial success.The competition for the Artus Art Prize takes up a different theme each year, which invites participants to […]
Federal Ecodesign Award
The Federal Ministry for the Environment and the Federal Environment Agency have been awarding the prize in cooperation with the International Design Center Berlin since 2012. Innovative content, design quality and environmental characteristics are at the forefront of the assessment. The Criteria matrix and the material instructions in the Ecodesignkit provides an overview of the […]
Video Art Award Bremen (ongoing possible)
With prize money totaling 10,000 euros, the Filmbüro Bremen enables the production and presentation of at least two video art projects every two years. All facets are welcome: classical, (non)linear, audio-visual project ideas, those with an installation character as well as all those that move at the boundaries of media art. Funding is provided for […]