Current Open Calls
New online format: regulars’ table “Parenthood in the arts”
“The ‘Stammtisch – Elternschaft in der Kunst’ is a free monthly network meeting on Zoom, initiated by the Bremen artist Anna Bart. It is open to all parents & interested parties from all fields of work and disciplines in the art world and consists of an approx. 30-minute interview that is recorded, an open Q&A […]
OPEN CALL Jewish Art School 2026
The Jewish Art School is now accepting applications from Jewish, Israeli and anti-Semitism-critical students and young adults up to the age of 39. The master classes and workshops in various art disciplines are led by internationally renowned artists, including Yasmeen Godder, Mati Shemoelof and Nir Evron. The focus is on promoting the artistic development of […]
Wanted: Stories of failure and recovery
Call for Entries!For the next edition of FuckUp Night Halle, we are looking for stories of starting, failing and moving on! Because such shared experiences are often more valuable than the smooth success stories. Who has experienced such a story or knows someone who belongs on our stage?We look forward to receiving applications by March […]
“Art meets health 2026
Together with humaQ, the Healing Culture Network is organizing the second call for proposals for three project grants as part of the EU project CULTURE AND HEALTH PLATFORM for artistic works at the interface of art, health and society in Germany. Award period: 15.01. – 31.03.2026 > Project duration: June 2026 – February 2027> Funding: […]
VG Bild-Kunst: Registration deadline March 31, 2026
New registration deadline: March 31 From 2026, the deadline for registration will be brought forward from June 30 to March 31 so that VG Bild-Kunst can meet the statutory distribution deadlines (end of 3rd quarter). Members should prepare for this significant change in the procedure in good time, as the registration deadline is a cut-off […]
Course “Dialogs in photography and text” for women and FLINT*A
“If you could ask me anything” | Under this motto, women and FLINTA* of different generations are invited to engage in dialogues in photography and text
Open Call on the topic of agriculture
For our next exhibition, we are looking for artists whose work deals with the topic of agriculture in their works. The focus is on ideas of agriculture – between dream and reality, utopia and everyday life, idyll and reality. What images come to mind when you think of agriculture? What hopes, conflicts or visions of […]
Open Call Fresh Legs
“Fresh Legs” is our latest exhibition initiative with which we would like to present painting, sculpture, illustration, drawing, street art, photography, short film, animation and related areas. (No graphics/multiple editions except photography and sculptures) Together with our new cooperation partner, INSELGALERIE Berlin, we are creating a platform for our audience to meet and discuss art […]
Increase in the LOKAL funding program: 2.5 million euros extra for the second round of applications
Due to the great demand and the increasing challenges in rural areas, the Federal Cultural Foundation is increasing the funding for the second round of applications by 2.5 million euros. This means that up to 27 local networks can be funded in this round instead of 13. The model program “LOKAL – Program for Culture […]
Online workshop artist profiles BBK homepage
Online workshop on April 1, 2026 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. via Zoom To become visible on the homepage of BBK Sachsen-Anhalt e.V., we would like to encourage you to design your profile. For the first steps, we will be offering an introductory workshop from March 2026. In this workshop, we will show you […]
Open Call: Palastkiosk
Your work at the kiosk? You want to sell your zines, postcards, comics, poetry booklets,pamphlets, magazines or other small-format print products at the Palast? Get in touch with us by April 6 and send us your ideasincluding pictures, dimensions and a suggested price for which you would sell the work: : Open Call Print As […]
Salzburg International Summer Academy
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. This year’s motto is “Common Ground” and is intended to highlight the Summer Academy as a place of common ground. A place where people can have different opinions, […]
Hot Printing! Print Festival 2026
Dear printing networks! On a weekend in August, we are organizing the Hot Printing Festival for the third time in the Klingspor Museum, in the adjacent courtyard of the Büsingpalais, in the Haus der Stadtgeschichte and in the printing workshop in the Bernardbau. Max. 70 stands were allocated to artists, printers and workshop owners to […]
Call for Papers: Women Artists in East Germany 1949-today, Quedlinburg, November 12-13, 2026 (Deadline: 13.04.2026)
Conference “Between system and self-design. Women artists in East Germany 1949-today.” With the interdisciplinary workshop “Between role clichés and rebellion: women in art history and their representations”, the Museum Lyonel Feininger opened up an in-depth examination of the role of women in art – as producers and as represented subjects. The conference “Between system and […]
Time management – strategies for more focus and productivity on April 13
Date: Mon, April 13, 2026, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Do you know the feeling that there just aren’t enough hours in the day? Despite working hard, do you still feel like you never really get everything done? In my keynote speech, we will take a look at the invisible time thieves that determine our […]
Appeal: AKTION Cohesion in Diversity
On May 21, 2026, the broad-based Cultural Integration Initiative is calling for a day of action for Cohesion in Diversity. The German Cultural Council is a co-initiator of the day of action. For “Cohesion in Diversity”, organizations, alliances and individuals (including artists and BBK associations, of course) are invited to organize as many activities as […]
Time management – strategies for more focus and productivity on April 13
Date: Mon, April 13, 2026, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Do you know the feeling that there just aren’t enough hours in the day? Despite working hard, do you still feel like you never really get everything done? In my keynote speech, we will take a look at the invisible time thieves that determine our […]
Time management – strategies for more focus and productivity on April 13
Termin: Do, 16. April 2026, 11 Uhr – 17 Uhr Gründerin und Anwältin Katja Dunkel erklärt in dem Workshop die Basics für Eure Selbstständigkeit als Designer*innen mit allen Vor- und Nachteilen. Welche Legal Bodies sind interessant für Euch, wie sieht ein rechtssicherer Auftritt aus? Was git es außerdem noch juristisch zu beachten. Ihr erhaltet einen Überblick über die […]
Call for proposals “Artists in schools in Saxony-Anhalt” 2026/27
This year, the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. is once again inviting tenders for the implementation of cultural education projects, which are primarily open to the artists of the BBK Sachsen-Anhalt and all general education schools. The projects of approx. 20 hours can take place between August 17, 2026 and March 19, 2027. The “Artists […]
Call for proposals “Artists in schools in Saxony-Anhalt” 2026/27
This year, the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. is once again inviting tenders for the implementation of cultural education projects, which are primarily open to the artists of the BBK Sachsen-Anhalt and all general education schools. The projects of approx. 20 hours can take place between August 17, 2026 and March 19, 2027. The “Artists […]
Culture Moves Europe: Call for individual mobility 2025-2026
As part of the European mobility program “Culture Moves Europe”, artists and cultural professionals from the fields of music, literature, architecture, cultural heritage, design and fashion design as well as visual and performing arts can apply for travel funding. The call is aimed at creative professionals who are planning a project with a cooperation partner […]
Open Call Festival of the Regions 2027
Festival ahoy!The Danube is the festival. Immersion / Diving Deeper Water is political. The Danube connects. It changes. Landscapes, economies, societies. Current creates resistance. Diving in means touching. Let us read the river not as a backdrop, but as a protagonist of social, political and ecological negotiation. Let us immerse ourselves in the interplay of […]
Time management – strategies for more focus and productivity on April 13
Termin: Do, 16. April 2026, 14 Uhr – 17 Uhr Deine unternehmerische Identität und ein ganzheitlicher Blick auf deine Gründung stehen im Fokus dieses Workshops. Wer willst du als Unternehmer*in sein und mit welcher Haltung arbeiten? Wofür stehst du – und wofür nicht? Wie entstehen nachhaltige und authentische Verbindungen zu deiner Kundschaft und Community? Welche […]
Promotion of participatory projects
In its “General Project Funding” program, the Socioculture Fund supports specific socio-cultural project ideas. Funding is provided for time-limited 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 […]
Guest studio of the GEDOKmuc
Nationwide call for applications for female artists Four weeks of creative work in a guest studio in the period from August 2026 to December 2027 Application deadline: May 1, 2026, 23:59 (receipt) Please send us an informative PDF with your artistic career, current work samples and plans for the desired period. Artists from the GEDOK […]
Förderung Fond Soziokultur U25 – Richtung: Junge Kulturinitiativen
Mikroprojektförderung für junge Perspektiven In seinem Nachwuchsprogramm “U25 – Richtung: Junge Kulturinitiativen” unterstützt der Fonds Soziokultur Initiativen junger Menschen zwischen 18 und 25 Jahren, die sich auf den Weg machen, eigene Projekte zu gestalten und dabei andere aktiv am kreativen Prozess teilhaben lassen. Im Programm werden experimentelle Projekte gefördert, die Menschen vor Ort mit einbeziehen […]
Funding Socioculture U25 – Direction: Young cultural initiatives
Micro-project funding for young prospects In its young talent program “U25 – Direction: Young Cultural Initiatives”, the Socioculture Fund supports initiatives by young people between the ages of 18 and 25 who set out to design their own projects and actively involve others in the creative process. The program supports experimental projects that involve local […]
General project funding from the Socioculture Fund
New funding round for participatory cultural projects and announcement of the 13th Sociocultural Innovation Award The largest funding program of the Fonds Soziokultur is entering the next round. Applications for general project funding can be submitted from April 2 to May 2, 2026. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR We are looking for the best project […]
Call for proposals “Artists in schools in Saxony-Anhalt” 2026/27
This year, the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. is once again inviting tenders for the implementation of cultural education projects, which are primarily open to the artists of the BBK Sachsen-Anhalt and all general education schools. The projects of approx. 20 hours can take place between August 17, 2026 and March 19, 2027. The “Artists […]
Appeal: AKTION Cohesion in Diversity
On May 21, 2026, the broad-based Cultural Integration Initiative is calling for a day of action for Cohesion in Diversity. The German Cultural Council is a co-initiator of the day of action. For “Cohesion in Diversity”, organizations, alliances and individuals (including artists and BBK associations, of course) are invited to organize as many activities as […]
Funding in the KUNSTFONDS_Werkverzeichnung program
The call for applications has started: Visual artists, artist duos and their legal successors can apply for funding to create a digital catalog raisonné until May 31, 2026 (midnight). Works of art are visual sources of the present and will be part of our artistic heritage in the future. The KUNSTFONDS_Werkverzeichnung funding program therefore promotes […]
Call for proposals KUNSTFONDS_Werkverzeichnung
Visual artists, artist duos and their legal successors can apply for funding to create a digital catalog raisonné until the end of May 2026. The KUNSTFONDS_Werkverzeichnung funding program promotes the digital documentation of artistic life’s work that is of supra-regional importance and high artistic relevance. All measures that are necessary to implement the catalog raisonné […]
Course “Dialogs in photography and text” for women and FLINT*A
“If you could ask me anything” | Under this motto, women and FLINTA* of different generations are invited to engage in dialogues in photography and text
OSTEN BIENNIAL of CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS Skopje 2026
OSTEN BIENNIAL (organized by OSTEN Skopje, North Macedonia) is an event open to everything that is new and is much more comprehensive than the traditional one, giving priority to works that break the old and worn-out art matrices, works that have a specific artist’s mark or hint at an attempt for stepping outside the established […]
Open Call for brau.ART Dessau
brau.ART is an annual curated exhibition of contemporary art in Dessau-Roßlau, which is organized by the brau.ART e. V. art association. From September 11 to 27, 2026, the show is already entering its 17th round and will once again take place within the walls of the Alte Schultheißbrauerei (subject to planning permission). Artists in the […]
Online information event for further training in the management of estates and collections
In the fields of: Visual arts, design, architecture, literature, music Online information event on further training: March 27, 2026, 5.00 – 6.00 p.m. Dates of the workshop: Thu to Sat, June 11 – 13, 2026, full day in Berlin, Fri, June 26, 2026, online panel 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. (Registration at: ) Registration deadline: […]
Open Call: timeship.earth
time ship earth – art prize 2026 : FREEFLOW _ LIQUIDATION Addition to the “Manual for Spaceship Earth” Category: Maintenance and servicing Keyword: Lubricant replacement Tool: Art The world machine is running hot. The system is visibly losing the necessary rhythm. A terrible screeching fills the orbit. The roar of bombs, the wailing of the […]
Open Call: Goldstücke 2025 – Light art festival in Gelsenkirchen
The Open Call for the Goldstücke 2025 light art festival is open! The motto of this year’s edition is “Active Positive”, inspired by the concept of “Open Form” by architect Oskar Hansen. We want to promote a shared, optimistic commitment to our built environment and encourage participation and dialog through light art. Whether individual light […]
Project funding from the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung
The Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung supports committed people as well as art and cultural institutions in order to sustainably strengthen cultural life in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. We support projects in the fields of visual arts, music, literature, performing arts, cultural education, museums and monument preservation. Interested parties can submit an application for funding until July […]
THE FEMALE GAZE 2/026
Dear artists, We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a healthy, creative and powerful 2026. After the successful exhibition project “THE FEMALE VIEW” in 2013 at the Isernhagenhof, the kunstverein burgwedel-isernhagen is starting a new exhibition project and would like to introduce you to our project “THE FEMALE VIEW 2/026” and invite […]
Superbrick Factory of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
We need your help! Fancy an art project where you can not only watch, but also lend a hand? For the Bauhaus anniversary “An die Substanz. Bauhaus Dessau 100”, we are bringing the Danish artist group @superflexstudio to Dessau – and we need YOU! What we do:Together, we produce so-called “superbricks” – pink clay bricks […]
Funding opportunities from the NORD/LB Cultural Foundation
The NORD/LB Kulturstiftung sees the importance of art and culture in topics that may not be the focus of conventional cultural activities. For us, innovation and change to cope with social adaptation processes are the topics of tomorrow’s cultural work. The NORD/LB Cultural Foundation, founded on November 29, 2012, was established by Norddeutsche Landesbank. The […]
Mobile dome for loan in Halle (Saale)
This year, the cultural theme years of the city of Halle Saale are dedicated to the topic “stadt licht leben energie”. EVH and the Halle Planetarium are in charge of the event. This year, the organizers are offering a mobile dome for rent free of charge, and the projection technology will also be rented out. […]
Exhibition opportunity in Wernigerode (without appointment)
Our member Frank Täubner gives the following information: “I would like to inform you about an exhibition opportunity in the Bürgerpark Wernigerode, where there is an exhibition space and many tourists visit the park every day. This is a good and easy opportunity for artists who are looking for exhibition opportunities. There are four to […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Open Call: Urban Dance Festival Magdeburg
The state capital of Magdeburg is still looking for creative ideas from the city’s artists and cultural workers for the supporting program of the Urban Dance World Championships! A total of around €30,000 is available for this purpose, which has been taken or reserved from the municipal funding pot for the independent cultural scene and […]
Community Fund Future Paths East (without deadline)
Fast, uncomplicated and without own funds: The micro-project funding of the Zukunftswege Ost joint fund starts on July 1, 2024. At least 100 projects are to be supported with up to 5,000 euros. Applications are possible on an ongoing basis. The first payments are planned for September. In the long term, the fund is to […]
Open Call for Solo Exhibitions 2026
We’re looking for artists to present their work in solo shows next year. Hard Facts: – Running time of the exhibition ~ 1 week– There are no rental costs– Solo Exhibitions only– Application via E-Mail (Slide 2 + 3) Apply now & be part of our 2026 program! (Photos of the room + floor plan […]
Accessible Lines invites artists to participate
Accessible Lines is a project that makes illustrations and comics accessible for blind and visually impaired people through audio descriptions. Artists are invited to take part and make their work accessible. The aim of the project is to promote inclusion in art and create new access for a broad audience. Application deadline: not specified
Rural regions committed to combating racism – join in now
The Foundation against Racism invites committed people from rural regions to implement projects, events and educational programs that are critical of racism locally. Initiatives are supported with advice, training courses, materials and networking opportunities. The aim is to strengthen democratic commitment and build sustainable structures against racism. Interested parties can participate on an ongoing basis. […]
Kompass funding for solo self-employed persons
As a solo self-employed person, you can get up to 90% of your training costs reimbursed with the COMPASS grant, for example for qualifications in digital marketing, social media or artificial intelligence. KOMPASS (Kompakte Hilfe für Solo-Selbstständige) is a funding program of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS), which is co-financed by […]