Artists:internal exchange Brazzaville/Republic of Congo

Between Congo and Elbe – a dialog between riversCall for applications for an artist exchange for visual artists in Brazzaville/Republic of Congo As part of the Dresden-Brazzaville city partnership, the city administrations of Dresden and Brazzaville (Republic of Congo), together with the Goethe-Institut Cameroon and in cooperation with Zentralwerk Dresden e.V. and Ateliers Sahm/Brazzaville, are […]

Sculpture symposium: 5th knock on Schilling’s door

Location: Museum Alte Pfarrhäuser MittweidaTime: June 18-23, 2025Organizer: City of Mittweida, Museum Alte Pfarrhäuser MittweidaOrganization: Museum Alte Pfarrhäuser Mittweida and Rolf BüttnerArtistic director: Rolf Büttner, graduate designer Call!Apply to take part in a symposium for sculptors. Who was Friedrich Schilling?The sculptor Johannes Schilling was born in Mittweida in 1828 as the fifth child of a […]

Neulandsucher East-West: Tackling the future together!

Are you committed to participation and democratic coexistence in rural areas? Do you have a specific project that you would like to establish in your town over the course of a year? Do you want to share your ideas and experiences with other land activists to help shape social change? Then apply by 04.05.2025 as […]

Weßling New company canteen with conference center DLR

The German Aerospace Center hereby publicly announces the launch of an art competition. A competition for an artistic intervention in the outdoor area of the new company canteen with conference center (BRK) has been announced. A work of art is to be created on an open space in front of the building, which can serve […]

Competition: Get out!

The Bundesverband der Jugendkunstschulen und Kulturpädagogischen Einrichtungen e.V. (bjke) is calling for entries for the competition “Rauskommen!” 2025 competition. We are looking for ongoing or recently completed projects from youth art schools and cultural education institutions. Closing date: May 31, 2025

Yvonne Standke-Schramm

“Betrogenes Glück” invites you on an allegorical journey about hopes and disappointments. The title refers to a deceptive happiness – a promise that does not stand up to reality. How can development succeed in a world in which the shimmering dreams of childhood are overtaken by the demands of adulthood? Freedom and lightness seem like […]

Narine Zolyan in Gernrode

Life palette’ exhibition

Call for open studios in Saxony-Anhalt 2025

September 20/21, 2025, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Application deadline: May 31, 2025 We cordially invite all artists and designers in Saxony-Anhalt to apply for the “Open Studios in Saxony-Anhalt” event. As always, on the third weekend in September, people interested in art will have the opportunity to look over your shoulder as you work. […]

Nora Mona Bach in Halle (Saale)

‘My silence has eaten lightning and thunder’ – Art Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt 2024

Undine Hanemann in Halle (Saale)

Exhibition ‘DUSK’ – A project of the Halle Art Association with the Halle Opera Ballet

Korvin Reich in the oda

Magazine oda – place of the eyes with drawings and paintings by Korvin Reich | issue 1/2025 by dr. zeithen verlag

Workshop “Tax issues of artists and designers” on May 26, 2025

Which income and expenses belong in the surplus income statement? How can freelance and commercial activities be distinguished from each other? Is the small business regulation suitable for me? These and other questions are the focus of a workshop with tax consultant Ronald Ebersbach on May 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Designhaus […]

Court Art Night 2025

This year, the 4th HofKunstNacht of the Lions Club Halle an der Saale will take place in September 2025 in the moat of Moritzburg Castle. It 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 […]

Anca Grigoriu, Iulian Grigoriu and Viktor Ludvik in Halle (Saale)

Spring salon for illustration, jewelry and much more…

Katrin Zickler in Templin

Exhibition ‘In the Moment’ – Painting & Drawing

Application form Open Studios in Saxony-Anhalt 2025

Hermann Grüneberg, Michael Krenz, Matthias Ritzmann, Julia Schleicher and Daniela Schönemann in Allstedt

Art trail “Glowing Horizons” by the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation The year 2025 marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War and the 500th anniversary of the death of the reformer and revolutionary Thomas Müntzer. Both will be commemorated in a variety of events in Saxony-Anhalt under the title “Gerechtigkeyt”. One of the central locations […]

Open Call: Solar Punk

Opening on October 23, 2025 an exhibition on the subject of solar punk. What is Solar Punk? Solar punk is an undercurrent of science fiction and counters the cynicism of prevailing dystopias with hope for a bright future. Solar punk makes us dream and can serve as a role model for a future that unites […]

International Ceramics Symposium Römhild

From October 5 to October 31, 2026, the XIII International Ceramics Symposium “Metamorphosis – Ceramics through the ages” will be held in the town of Römhild in 2026. Conditions of participation: The number of participants is limited to a maximum of 8 artists. These will be selected from the applicants by an expert jury. For […]

LA FABRIQUE DES ARTS RESIDENCY

A cultural hub for all artistic disciplines AIM Exploration, creation, production LENGTH 10, 6 or 3 month SELECTION PROCEDURES Call for applications. Selection and approval by a committee invited by the Fondation Fiminco. LA FABRIQUE DES ARTS: a residency program open to French and international artists in the fields of visual arts, arts and crafts, […]

…fresh – 12th wind art festival “bewegter wind”

The wind art competition is being held for the 12th time. The competition entries will be exhibited from 17 – 31.08.2025 at special scenic locations in Zierenberg, North Hesse. The exhibition will be accompanied by a themed supporting program that invites visitors to discover the exhibits and the landscape. The competition and exhibition are organized […]

Artist residency for the Klimatak Festival

The youth club m24 is launching an OPEN CALL for artworks and installations that deal with sustainable art production in the context of the Klimatak festival.Klimatak is a participatory youth festival that takes place annually and celebrates climate protection with art and music. One of our main goals is to create spaces for feminist and […]

20×1000-ZWANZIGMALEINTAUSEND // New scholarships for photography

Applications are open to professional artists who work with the medium of photography and need financial support to achieve their artistic goals. Proof of membership in the KSK is a prerequisite for participation. The sponsored submissions will be presented in an exhibition on the premises of the BB Foundation. Artistic work requires passion, dedication and […]

Design competition for LGBTI* grave and memorial site

Schwulenberatung Berlin is planning the design and construction of a grave and memorial site in Berlin on the listed Alter Sankt-Matthäus-Kirchhof -Großgörschenstraße- in Schöneberg. Planning/construction is to begin in summer 2025 if possible, and the gravesite should be ready for use by the end of 2025. At the Old St. Matthew’s Churchyard in Berlin-Schöneberg, we […]

Korvin Reich in Dresden

Exhibition Vertical Time

In Situ Residency Program – 2025-2026

In Situ is a multidisciplinary residency program which aims to be both a time and a space for encounters, collective work and individual research, at the very heart of the Cité internationale des arts residency center, but also an area for the production of knowledge and thematic work around the conditions of existence. This programme […]

Artistic assistant – qualification position in the field of textile and material design

Weißensee School of Art Berlin Application deadline: May 11, 2025

Competition Art on Building PIZD Magdeburg (Police Station)

GNUE Magdeburg Police Station including Central Services Police Station, House 4 and outdoor facilities The state of Saxony-Anhalt, represented by the State Office for Construction and Property Management of Saxony-Anhalt, is holding a nationwide open, two-stage art-in-architecture competition for the construction project “Major new buildings, conversions and extensions of the state of Saxony-Anhalt for the […]

Anna Zeitler in Halle (Saale)

Old clothes piles – Multimedia installation

Korvin Reich in Bernburg

Project π

Daniel Priese in Halberstadt

“Hour 0 – after the storm” special exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war. Sculptures by Daniel Priese in dialog with photographs of the time.

Graphic designer

The Good Caf GmbH Erfurt Application deadline: not specified

Kerstin Krieg in Meuchen

Sculpture workshop – working with sandstone Costs: 65€ course fee + 10€ material / total: 75€

Art Award young west 2025 – Painting

The art prize junger westen will be awarded for painting in 2025 and is endowed with €20,000. Artists who are not older than 35 years of age (born in 1990 or younger) and either have German citizenship or reside in Germany are eligible to take part in the competition. Registration for the competition is only […]

OPEN CALL – FLINTA* only on the topic: SOLIDARITY & RESISTANCE

Whether loud or quiet, collective or personal, visible or under the surface – we want to hear voices that strengthen each other, rebel, connect. We are a group of young people from Bielefeld who want to create a place where art doesn’t have to be conformist – but loud, uncomfortable, unifying, resistant. Because FLINTA* voices […]

Open call for a nomination for an art in architecture competition in a cooperative procedure according to the Guidelines for Art in Architecture and RPW

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenNew construction of a central teaching and office building (dean’s office/administration)as well as a catering facility and a new libraryof the veterinary faculty in Oberschleissheim Cooperative procedure with a total contractorCompetition sum: EUR 400,000Nominations for the competition: 15Design fee per participant, nominated: EUR 5,000Realization 2026 The State Building Authority Munich 2 is organizing an […]

OPEN CALL – SCHWARZZSEITE PROJEKT Edition 2025

SCHWARZZSEITE PROJEKTis dedicated to creating encounters in contemporary printmaking, offering a dynamic space for artistic exchange. Showcasing works by emerging artists, it aims to spark dialogue, exploration, and collaboration. The initiative emphasizes experimentation and fresh perspectives, unlocking new possibilities for creative expression in printmaking today. Conditions and eligibility: When: exhibition takes place from June 14th […]

Wilhelm Morgner Scholarship

The call is aimed at artists up to the age of 35. Artists are also eligible to apply if they graduated no more than 5 years ago. The art scholarship is awarded every two years and offers young artists in the visual arts secure working conditions, monthly maintenance and the opportunity to hold an art […]

Gunter Ullrich Prize

Gunter Ullrich – A life for art Gunter Ullrich (1925-2018), born in Würzburg, was a German graphic artist and painter. His works of art have both artistic and documentary value for the region. In particular, he captured the period from the post-war years to the present day. The winner of several awards for art and […]

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 […]

“Henriettenglück “2025 art prize from the Sparkassenkulturstiftung

History of the art prize: The ‘Henriettenglück’ art prize, which is dedicated to the history of the Ruhr region, was launched in 2014 to mark the opening exhibition of the Atelierhaus Recklinghausen in the former Königschule in the König Ludwig district. The title of the art prize refers to the original name of the local […]

Wolfram Schubert in Heringsdorf

20th anniversary of the International Kaiserbäder-Pleinair and opening of the exhibition “7 MALEN AM MEER” This plein air has long been an insider tip in the art scene. 20 years of the Kaiserbäder-Pleinair: the artists have also become ambassadors and contemporary witnesses of our region. They kept a diary in pictures during their stay.

Philipp Eichhorn in Halle (Saale)

New Distance” exhibition About the artist: Philipp Eichhorn (@eichhorn.philipp) – Instagram photos and videos

Christiane Schütze in Magdeburg

Exhibition Figurative – Ink | Mixed media | Red chalk In the exhibition Christiane Schütze shows a portrait series in watercolor and three figurative series in red chalk, ink and mixed media.

Julia Gubitz in Salzwedel

Exhibition space – Studio for contemporary art

Alica Khaet in Karlsruhe

Alica Khaet receives Newbie Award at the Karlsruhe International Film Festival. Congratulations to her!

Kornelia Thümmel in Wernigerode

Line | Surface | Space – Kornelia Thümmel and Uta Wolf Skulptur & Plastik | Schriftbilder

Susanne Theumer at Stolberg Castle in the Harz Mountains

Exhibition “A Homage – Women and Landscapes of the Reformation” by Susanne Theumer and Andrea Ackermann | Drawing, Graphics and Painting The exhibition is part of the Peasants’ War commemoration in the Mansfeld region

Admission meeting in April: 8 new members in BBK Saxony-Anhalt

On April 8, 2025, the BBK Saxony-Anhalt hosted its spring admission meeting at the Paul Scherzer Gallery in Halle. Here, interested artists from Saxony-Anhalt were able to present themselves to the admissions committee in order to become members of our association. We are delighted that 8 artists are now new members and have conjured up […]

First steps towards new admission

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Kerstin Krieg in Nauenhof

Saturday 2 p.m. to around 6 p.m. & Sunday 11 a.m. to around 5 p.m. For 5-8 participants Costs: 95€ course fee + 25€ workshop fee + 15€ materials / total: 135€

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 […]

Project coordination in the artists’ town of Kalbe

City of artists Kalbe Application deadline: April 22, 2025

Nora Mona Bach in Chemnitz

Exhibition Amore Europa

Kerstin Krieg in Meuchen

Sculpture workshop – working with sandstone Costs: 65€ course fee + 10€ material / total: 75€

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 […]

EWE Art Lab Foundation – Art scholarship at Gut Altenkamp

As part of theOstfriesland Biennale 2025, the EWE Foundation is offering talented artists an extraordinary opportunity: a residency at Gut Altenkamp in Emsland. The scholarship highlights outstanding artistic positions and invites artists to bring art to rural areas. The Art Lab art scholarship at Gut Altenkamp enables a talented artist to spend four weeks at […]

Digital Arts Prize 2025

The Fondation Etrillard and the Académie des beaux-arts are launching the Prix Arts numériques (Digital Arts Prize). This is the first time that digital art has entered the French Academy of Fine Arts.Open to candidates of all nationalities living in Europe, with no age limit, this new prize will be awarded each year for a […]

Art in the inner courtyard of the new Esslingen District Office building

The promotion of art has a long tradition in the district of Esslingen. Art also plays an important role in the new district administration building, which is expected to be occupied in the fall of 2025. As part of the new building, the district of Esslingen is inviting artists to submit proposals for the artistic […]

Artist residencies “Minimal Travel” in the Below summer

We are looking forward to summer 2025 with artist residency programs for artists and guests with/without an artistic profession. Program-specific details can be found in the descriptions of the various residency programs, as well as information on contributions/fees/prices.Each program is developed in close cooperation with AG Minimales Reisen.For a stay longer than a residency program, […]

Fleetstreet Residence

Together with the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and the Rudolf Augstein Foundation, the Fleetstreet Theater Hamburg has been running a residency program since 01.01.2011 for groups of artists who work as interdisciplinary as possible in the performing arts, visual arts, film and/or music. The Fleetstreet Residency Program is intended to […]

VIENNA WORKSHOP AWARD

The Vienna Workshop Prize for Literature has been awarded since 1992 as a sponsorship prize for young and lesser-known authors and offers a platform for presenting their works. Since 2019, the The Vienna Workshop Prize for Photography will be held at a higher level for the second time in order to put amateur photographers in […]

OnePlus Photography Awards

The OnePlus Photography Awards are more than just a competition. They represent a global community of smartphone photographers and a platform for visual storytelling. OnePlus invites all smartphone users to share their unique vision, learn from others and push the boundaries of mobile photography. We believe that images are a universal language and have the […]

Kornelia Thümmel in Grimma

Paths and companions – an exhibition of sculpture and collage

Astrid Salewski in Esslingen

Exhibition of the shortlist qualifiers for the Lesser Ury Prize 2025

Katharina Stark in Magdeburg

Shibori and indigo dyeingIndividual appointments for groups of 5 or more possible Shibori is a highly developed traditional dyeing and reserve technique from Japan. The term shibori is derived from the Japanese verb shiboru and means to wring, press, squeeze and refers to a specific treatment of fabrics before dyeing, in which specific areas are […]

Katharina Stark in Magdeburg

Wax batik and indigo dyeing Individual appointments for groups of 5 or more possible Wax batik is a reserve process in which heated and therefore liquid wax is applied to the fabric. The wax penetrates the fabric and reserves specific areas that should be left out during dyeing. Based on traditional Indonesian wax batik, the […]

W2 Professorship Artistic Practice in the basic class of the Fine Arts degree program

University of Kassel Application deadline: April 15, 2025

Annual internship photography editorial office ZEIT ONLINE

ZEIT ONLINE in Berlin Application deadline: not specified

University assistant (f/m/d) in the field of subject didactics in the subject Design: Technology.Textile (GTT) for the subject Technology and Design

University Mozarteum Salzburg Application deadline: May 19, 2025

Senior Artist for teaching and workshop supervision in the field of tailoring and ready-to-wear in the subject “Design: Technology. Textile”

University Mozarteum Salzburg Application deadline: April 30, 2025

University Professorship for Aesthetics

University Mozarteum Salzburg Application deadline: May 30, 2025

Research assistant (doctoral candidate) for the research project “Art in Society – Transfer as Practice and Form of Knowledge” in Research Field 2 “Art as Public Practice in the Process of Social Transformation”.

Braunschweig University of Art Application deadline: April 27, 2025

Wiebke Kirchner in Berlin

Exhibition “Transformative togetherness”

Free studio space in the Forum Gestaltung in Magdeburg

Since summer 2019, the association Forum Gestaltung e. V. has been responsible for the further programmatic development and management of the entire quarter of the former Magdeburg School of Arts and Crafts. The building complex has around 8,000 square meters of enclosed space and an inner courtyard. In addition to promoting art and culture, the […]

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 […]

Edenkoben Scholarship

Two scholarships are awarded each year in the field of fine arts: one scholarship for the period from 15.1. – 15.6. and a scholarship for the period from 15.7. – 15.12. The application period for both scholarships is from January 15 to April 15 of the previous year (the postmark counts for postal mailings). Rejected […]

Gunter Ullrich Prize

Gunter Ullrich was an enterprising networker and an important artistic witness of the 20th and 21st centuries. He actively shaped the cultural landscape of Aschaffenburg through his many years of cultural and political involvement in the BBK Unterfranken.The art prize is donated by Dr. Andreas Ullrich on the occasion of his father’s 100th birthday and […]

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 […]

The mobile studio as a guest at the Holzmühle in Remlingen

The mobile studio will be making a guest appearance at KUKUK – Kunst Kuchen Kommunikation in the Holzmühle, Remlingen, from the end of July to mid-September. The Holzmühle is an old flour mill in the Lower Franconian community of Remlingen. It is located outside the village, in a hamlet between three villages, surrounded by fields […]

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 […]

Art in architecture competition Berlin

For the new school site at Schulstraße 97, 13347 Berlin, the State of Berlin, represented by the Mitte District Office of Berlin, in coordination with HOWOGE, is launching a two-phase, Germany-wide open and anonymous art-in-architecture competition.The competition procedure will be carried out anonymously until the end of the 2nd phase. Closing date: May 12, 2025

Sponsorship awards 2025/26 – Art, science & ecology

Attention regional restriction: only people from Northern Germany can apply! The Arthur Boskamp Foundation is offering two sponsorship awards for the 2025/26 cycle. The call is aimed at artists with participatory practices and/or artistic researchers who deal with current topics at the interface of art, science, ecology and sustainability and open up new perspectives on […]

Places still available: Art flea market at the Scherzer Gallery

The date for the art flea market at Galerie Paul Scherzer has now been set! On Labor Day (1.5.) you can haggle for art and art supplies for little money in the gallery. There are still places/tables available! So if you would like to take part yourself, please get in touch by e-mail. Location: Galerie […]

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 […]

Christoph Ackermann in Haldensleben

Exhibition ‘proForma’

Alexander Lech in Dessau

Risografix – Workshop spring: Goodbye winter, divorce hurts – not! Spring is coming to BüroHallo and we want to share this with you. The next round of Risografix workshops is finally starting. Join us and transform your black and white templates into colorful graphics. We print in an environmentally friendly way with the Riso printer. […]

Be part of the art exhibition -Contrasts in Symbiosis- at the CoSy-Festival 2025!

From July 10 to 13, 2025, Dornburg Castle (near Magdeburg) will open its doors as part of the CoSy Festival for a unique experience of music, workshops, art and creativity – and your works could be part of it! CoSy is an acronym for “Contrasts in Symbiosis” and aims to merge contemporary music with modern […]

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 […]

KVOST Scholarship and Claus Michaletz Prize

The Berlin association KVOST is offering a scholarship with a six-week stay in August/September 2025 and the Claus Michaletz Prize. The prerequisite for applying is a connection to Central and Eastern Europe. Of the prize money, 8,000 euros are freely available; 2,000 euros will be used to purchase a work for the Secco Pontanova Foundation […]

“in circuit 2025” residency scholarships

This year, the Kunsthof Niederarnsdorf is awarding 4 residency scholarships to professional visual artists and artistic researchers with the support of the Kulturstiftung Thüringen. The call for entries is aimed at work concepts and artistic methods that deal with the subject of sustainable processes and make them aesthetically sensible. The claim “sustainability” refers to social, […]

Melanie Kuna-Drechsler, Korvin Reich and Sabine Riemenschneider in Wernigerode

Exhibition ‘9fach’

Reneé Reichenbach in Fürstenberg

Group 83: One FÜRSTENBERG, please! Special exhibition of contemporary ceramic art

Reneé Reichenbach in Hamelin

Group 83 Wandel” exhibition

Early Bird registration for KUNST/MITTE 2025

An Early Bird application is possible until March 31, 2025; the regular application phase for KUNSTMITTE 2025 will start on April 1. Dear gallery owners and artists, some of you have been with us for quite some time, some of you have been with us from the very beginning. For us as the organization team […]

Nora Mona Bach, Franca Bartolomäi, Claudia Baugut, Sabine Brauns, Hermann Grüneberg, Ilko Koestler, Rita Lass, Stephan Schieritz, Bianka Strauch and Marco Warmuth in Chemnitz

“Aus den Häuschen” enters its second round. In Part I, the artists and producers of Klub Solitaer exhibited their work – curated by Nora Mona Bach, an artist from Chemnitz and 1st Deputy Chairwoman of Künstlerhaus 188 e.V. in Halle. For Part II, artists from Künstlerhaus 188 were invited to show their work in a […]

Veronika Kaiping

“INTERIOR VIEWS” In April, the BBKarium Dessau is all about our inner life. Artist Veronika Kaiping makes visible what we don’t normally see – the organs that work inside us and the emotions that move us. Body maps and emotional beings provide humorous insights in which the physical and the spiritual exist side by side. […]

Christine Bergmann as curator in Halle (Saale)

Exhibition “A.D.M.D.M.G.A.G. S.H.D.K.S.K.R.M.D.P.A.S.A.W: Scholarship Holders of the Stiftung Kunstfonds” Space for concentrated work, for innovative ideas and for strengthening the artistic profile: This is made possible by the Kunstfonds Foundation’s scholarship. It supports visual artists throughout Germany and is also a prestigious award for outstanding achievement in the visual arts. The Stiftung Kunstfonds is now […]

Experimental Printmaking at the BBK Saxony-Anhalt

The portfolio project | The symposium | The workshop From April 4 to 27, 2025, the exhibition Experimental Printmaking from Saxony-Anhalt opens up new perspectives on printmaking. Eight artists – Marion Münzberg, Gert Burkard Büttner, Julienne Jattiot, Sebastian Harwardt, Elena Kiseleva-Arendt, Rainer Rausch, Christina Simon and Grit Wolf – will present works that were created […]

Christop Liedtke in Halle (Saale)

What horizons does art open up in times of realistic dystopias? Works, projects, answers, questions from discursive & poetic practice. An evening with new members of the Akademie der Künste Sachsen-Anhalt presented by Dr. Joachim Penzel/Lado Khartishvili & a contribution by Sergej Gladkich translator, actor, radio play & dubbing actor Wolf Guenter Thiel Cultural scientist, […]

Head of Video in the editorial department of Freie Presse

Chemnitzer Verlag und Druck GmbH & Co KG Application deadline: not specified

Video Specialist / Motion Designer / Marketing and Visual Creative Director

S-Markt und Mehrwert GmbH and Co. KG in Halle Application deadline: not specified

Motion Graphics Designer

Spread Group Leipzig Application deadline: not specified

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. […]

Barbara Hoeft in Wolfsburg

Exhibition Burggalerie Neuhaus

Matthias Ritzmann in Halle (Saale)

Photography – showing, looking, talking.

Photo competition “In the mood for more”

Together with Sparkasse Burgenlandkreis, Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, the Rotary Club Weißenfels, dieDAS and Theater Naumburg, Burgenlandkreis invites you to take part in this year’s “Lust auf mehr” photo competition. Images determine our lives. Photographs are mirrors of reality. At the same time, images are always available in the digital space and can be […]

Anett Hoffmann, Martin Patze, Lisa Rackwitz and Deborah Ziller in Halle (Saale)

Easter pop-up “The Golden Egg” From April 1 to 30, 2025, the Easter sales exhibition will take place in the premises at Alter Markt 3.“Das Güldene Egg” presents selected unique pieces, art and design. A new place, a new round of great artists who want to be discovered: From illustration, graphics and fashion to porcelain, […]

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, […]

Residence scholarships Plüschow Castle 2025

The Mecklenburgische Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is awarding five three-month work grants for the period October to December 2025. The scholarship is tied to a working stay at Plüschow Castle during this time. There are five guest studios in the castle, ranging in size from approx. 80 to 100 square meters, each consisting of […]

Petra Reichenbach in Berlin

Book launch in Berlin – On Monday evening, March 24, the focus will be on Lotti Huber as one of the ten personalities in the illustrated book “Starke Frauen in der Lichtenburg”. – Panel discussion with author and journalist Ines Godazgar, head of the concentration camp memorial site Melanie Engler and editor and designer of […]

W2-Professorship for Artistic Practice in the Foundation Class of the Visual Arts Program

University of Kassel limited to six years Application deadline: April 15, 2025

International work scholarship for Pond Farm in California

In cooperation with the artist-in-residence program Pond Farm, the Art Foundation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt is awarding a one-month international work scholarship in California, USA. From 1942 to 1985, Pond Farm was the center of life and work for ceramist Marguerite Friedlaender-Wildenhain. Due to her Jewish origins, she emigrated to Holland in 1933 and […]

Research assistant at the Institute for Experimental Clothing and Textile Design

Berlin University of the Arts Application deadline: April 9, 2025

Katharina Gahlert in Trier

Exhibition “under the weaver’s hands” With the exhibition under the weaver’s hands, the Kunsthalle Trier is opening its doors to an impressive interplay of textile and performance art. From 27 March to 27 April 2025, the exhibition invites visitors to explore the multi-layered connection between body, material and social standardization. Textiles are not just utilitarian […]

Call for entries for the marehalm ART award

The marehalm ART award was launched in 2023 to counteract the increasing marginalization of art and culture. At present, art awards are increasingly being discontinued and the associated recognition and appreciation denied to artists. – Cultural diversity is under threat. The marehalm ART award takes a stand against this with the annual presentation of the […]

Error at the KSK – Why thousands of artists were suddenly no longer covered by health insurance

The Künstlersozialkasse enables self-employed creative professionals to access statutory social insurance. However, due to an error during a system changeover, around 30,000 of those affected were temporarily deregistered from the health insurance funds.

“Culture makes democracy strong”

Dear interested parties, My name is Nicole Thies, I run the “Kultur macht stark” advice center at the .lkj) Saxony-Anhalt. I would like to cordially invite you to the event “Culture makes democracy strong” on Thursday, March 27, 2025, 1:00 to 4:30 p.m., in the Francke Foundations, Orphanage (House 1), America Room, Franckeplatz 1, 06110 […]

W3 university professorship for media aesthetics with a focus on digital media

University of Siegen Application deadline: March 31, 2025

Survey: “Making a living from art. The economic and social situation of visual artists”

From February 18 to April 30, 2025, all visual artists living in Germany are invited to take part in the survey “Von der Kunst zu leben. The economic and social situation of visual artists”. The survey, which takes place at regular intervals, is being carried out this year for the first time on behalf of […]

W3-Professorship Game and Learning Design

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle Application deadline: April 17, 2025

Christoph Liedtke in Halle (Saale)

Reading NIGHTCALL with Anna Egerter, Christoph Liedtke and Emma Meyer as part of the members’ exhibition ALWAYS CHANGE A RUNNING SYSTEM.

Claudius Förster in Halle (Saale)

“Resonance” exhibition by Claudius Förster and Dirk Braungardt at the Stadtmuseum Halle With “Resonanz”, the Stadtmuseum Halle is continuing its tradition of presenting contemporary Halle art. Dirk Braungardt and Claudius Förster combine external perception with inner emotional worlds in their art. Their works speak their own languages and yet they resonate with similar tones.Braungardt creates […]

Wiebke Kirchner in Halle (Saale)

Artistic director of the artistic intervention in the Handel exhibition

BBK General Meeting 2025

This year’s general meeting will take place on Saturday, April 26, 2025. In line with the “Region in BBK Focus” format – this year it is the Altmark – we will be meeting far to the north in the Hanseatic city of Stendal. We are guests at the music and art school, which is within […]

Full-time or part-time restorer

Art Fund Foundation – Artists’ Archive in Pulheim-Brauweiler Application deadline: not specified

Intercultural speed dating for founders

March 18, 2025, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.Existenzgründerinstitut Hoffmann & Partner Fortbildung und Beratung GmbH Halle, Mansfelder Str. 15 The start-up institute Hoffmann & Partner invites you to an inspiring intercultural start-up event.inside speed dating! Our event offers a platform for people from different cultures who have a vision, want to realize their business ideas or […]

Anne Deuter at the Leipzig Book Fair

From 27.3-30.3.2025, BBK member Anne Deuter will have a stand at the Leipzig Book Fair together with artist Marianne Nagel. In Hall 5, Stand C325, they will be showing artist books and graphics.

Appeal for the Day of the Printing Arts 2025

“PRINT ART is ART” On Printmaking Day: Appeal for recognition of screen printing for the reduced VAT rate It was a long and tough road, but it was worth it: as was last the case in 2014, the reduced VAT rate of 7% for commercial art sales has been in force in Germany again since […]

BESTFORM 2025 – Creative Award of the State of Saxony-Anhalt

In 2013, the Ministry of Economic Affairs launched the BESTFORM /// MEHR /// WERT /// AWARD for creative ideas for the first time in order to make the creative potential of creative professionals in Saxony-Anhalt widely visible – and thus broke new ground. Never before had a state competition focused on alliances between creative professionals […]

Foyer des Arts – The art salon with Roman Pliske on “estates”

What remains of an artist’s inner life? And what happens to an artistic legacy if no descendants preserve it or archives reach their limits? These questions are on the minds of many artists – because the concern that works will be lost contrasts with the growing importance of documenting and making visible one’s own artistic […]

Call for proposals “Artists in schools in Saxony-Anhalt” 2025/26

This year, the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. is once again inviting applications 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 11, 2025 and March 27, 2026. The “Artists […]

Art and cultural mediation

Lindenau Museum Altenburg Application deadline: April 4, 2025

Workshop “Between role clichés and rebellion” in Quedlinburg

Workshop: between role clichés and rebellion – women in art historyMuseum Lyonel Feininger, Quedlinburg | March 22, 2025 The Museum Lyonel Feininger invites you to the interdisciplinary workshop “Between Role Clichés and Rebellion: Women in Art History and their Representations”. The event offers an in-depth examination of the role of women in art – both […]

Franca Bartholomäi in Dortmund

The Other Way Around is a showcase of print art production relating to Dortmund and the Ruhr region. To emphasize the artistic freedom and diversity of expression in printmaking, the exhibition deliberately refrains from focusing on a specific theme. Instead, it shows works in different printmaking techniques that explore both traditional and experimental approaches. The […]

Christiane Schütze in Magdeburg

Exhibition “Figurative. Ink/mixed media/red chalk by Christiane Schütze” Vernissage on March 14, 2025, starting at 19:00Music: Vera Kagan violinChristiane Schütze will read poetry from her book “Morgens am Meer” as well as new poetry.You are cordially invited! Duration: 14.03.2025 to 23.04.2025 Christiane Schütze was born in Wolmirstedt in 1952. After graduating from high school, she […]

Susanne Theumer in Frankfurt/Main

Exhibition on the 50th – The light-sighted

Elena Kiseleva-Arendt in Wittenberg

Exhibition “Journey into ICH & ANDERSWO”

Ingrid Müller-Kuberski, Martina Stark and Rudolf Pötzsch in Magdeburg

Turning point exhibition The Stark & Köppe studio is showing works by Magdeburg artists Ingrid Müller-Kuberski, Martina Stark and Rudolf Pötzsch. Etchings, copperplate engravings, embossings and works in free printing techniques provide an insight into the various creative phases of the exhibitors and bear witness to their many years of artistic practice.

Anett Hoffmann and Lisa Rackwitz in Halle (Saale)

You can view and try on the collection pieces at POPETT.77’s studio ‘In Bunter Runde – Druckgrafik auf Stoff und Papier’. The graduate fashion designer printed the fabrics herself using screen printing and had her graphics digitally printed on fabrics. She also shows graphics on a wide variety of papers using different printing techniques. We […]

Christoph Ackermann, Frank and Helga Borisch, Marion Münzberg and Iris Trostel Santander in Magdeburg

Printmaking day in the Q-Hof with a group exhibition of regional and national artists, open studios, workshops. The vernissage will be accompanied by music and a bar.

fair share: Women Art Open – International Women’s Day 2025

On International Women’s Day 2025, fair share! is celebrating the achievements and significance of female artists together with 30 Berlin museums, municipal galleries, art associations and project spaces. Under the motto WOMEN ART OPEN – female artists* in all places, fair share! is bundling events throughout Berlin that focus on a total of over 150 […]

Kim? Summer Residency Open Call

Kim? Contemporary Art Centre is excited to invite international artists, curators and writers to apply for its first ever short-term summer residency in Riga. The residency will host two art professionals (artists, curators, writers, producers, etc.) simultaneously for a six-week period (June 1 – July 13/ July 17 – August 31), welcoming four residents in […]

W2-Professorship Artistic Practice in the basic class of the Fine Arts degree program

University of Kassel Application deadline: April 15, 2025

Open Call: Guest at Urbane Künste Ruhr

Together with various regional cooperation partners, Urbane Künste Ruhr is awarding six artist residencies in the Ruhr region for the year 2025. During a three-month research residency, we invite you to develop a situation-specific project that is expected to be presented to the public in a curated exhibition in Dortmund in 2026. The program is […]

Research Associate History and Theory of Art and Design

Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig / Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig Application deadline: March 31, 2025

KaB: Humboldt Forum – contemporary façade on the north gable facing the Lustgarten

Open, single-phase competition Building project The competition documents are available in the download area. Please use a suitable unpacking program for the zip file. Double-clicking on the zip file is not sufficient. Freeware programs are available on the Internet. Update 18.02.2025 | The query log and the attachments to the query log are available for […]

European Art Prize 2025 of the B. and G. Rosenheim Foundation

The Bernd and Gisela Rosenheim Foundation was established in 1993 by the sculptor and painter Bernd Günther Rosenheim(www.berndrosenheim.de). It serves to promote contemporary fine art and awards an art prize with an associated exhibition. Topic of the competition: Magic and ritual.Medium and dimensions: Painting on a solid support, min. format: 30x40cm, max. format: 70x100cm (please […]

Felix Schoeller Photo Award

Felix Scholler Photo Award – international photography prize for professional photographers and up-and-coming photographic talent. The photo competition has been announced and awarded by Felix Schoeller every two years since 2013. The competition starts on 20.01.2025. Submission is free of charge. You can access the upload tool here. The following categories will be announced as […]

Baltic Sea Scholarship Kunsthaus Stove 2025/26

Visual arts, music, literature/philosophyThe Meerkultur e. V. association is offering three residency scholarships at the Kunsthaus Stove on the Baltic Sea, for which people from the fields of visual arts, music, literature and philosophy can apply. All applications that formulate a concrete artistic, musical or theoretical concern that will be worked on during the residency […]

Experimental Printmaking at the BBK Saxony-Anhalt on March 15, 2025

Experimental Printmaking at the BBK Saxony-Anhalt on March 15, 2025 In a cooperation between Künstlerhaus 188 e.V. and BBK Sachsen-Anhalt e.V., the results of the symposium “Experimental Printmaking 2024” will be shown at Posa Monastery from March 8 to 30, 2025. In addition, 30 prints from the portfolio project initiated by the Bundes-BBK in 2024 […]

Marie Mandalka

Mandalka’s garbage reliefs attract attention with their organic aesthetics and haptics. Memories of skin and anthropological traces unfold a fascinating effect. By using recycled, cut-up packaging waste that shimmers through under layers of latex in kilim structures, these works focus on themes such as the use of resources, political communication, interaction and effectiveness. Further information […]

Individual/cooperation scholarships at Schloss Wiepersdorf

The Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf grants residency scholarships to artists and scientists at Schloss Wiepersdorf (Brandenburg/Fläming) in accordance with the following guidelines and subject to the availability of state funds.There is no entitlement to the scholarship. RequirementsNational and international artists and scientists from the following countries are eligible to apply – Literature (including poetry, prose, drama, […]

Mail Art Open Call: Lebens.Mittel

The Künstlerbund Tübingen e.V. invites all artists to design a postcard in A6 size on the theme of means of life. All techniques (painting, drawing, graphics, photography, collage…) are welcome, as long as the post is carried. Send the works to the gallery by April 15 at the latest. About the theme: The Künstlerbund Tübingen […]

Art as a guest in science

In 2025, the WZB is offering an artist the opportunity of a guest residency for the first time. For a period of two months, the recipient of the artist-in-residence fellowship can pursue their own work in dialog with the researchers. The application deadline is March 31, 2025. In 2025, an artist-in-residence fellowship will be offered […]

Contribution to the Green Culture Festival June 12 and 13, 2025 at PACT Zollverein

At the Green Culture Festival 2025, the handprint of culture is our guiding theme. Together with you, we want to answer the question“Who do we want to have been?” Please help us with the following questions about yourself and your contribution idea:– Share your contact details with us.– In which federal state do you work?– […]

art-figura 2025 / 11th Schwarzenberg Art Prize

Art will continue to sweeten life in Schwarzenberg in 2025. The 11th Schwarzenberg Art Prize art-figura 2025 will be awarded with the theme “Wood and Stone”. from 30.08. to 02.11.2025 has been announced. National and international artists have until 15.03.2025 to submit a competition entry in the form of a sculpture that deals with the […]

Residency scholarships from the Atelier Foundation Art and Nature

The Atelier-Stiftung Kunst und Natur awards residency scholarships at the Scharrlberg farm in Steinbeck/Luhe. Three four-week residencies are offered to scholarship holders working in the fields of visual arts, music, composition or literature. A total of up to twelve scholarships are awarded each year. The idyllically situated former farm in Steinbeck/Luhe, a district of Bispingen, […]

Scholarship Eduard Bargheer Foundation

On the occasion of his 75th birthday, the painter Eduard Bargheer (1901 – 1979) set up a foundation which has been awarding grants to young artists since 1978. He himself had been sponsored at a young age and had received scholarships that enabled him to travel to Florence and Paris, among other places, which gave […]

Art in architecture competition in Ludwigsburg

The university campus at the Reuteallee site in Ludwigsburg is being further developed with a new building. “As part of the art competition, an artistic contribution is to be developed that relates to the use and/or architecture of the building or the landscaping of the outdoor space.” Two locations, one indoors and one outdoors, are […]

Martin Roth Initiative

This funding from the Martin Roth Initiative enables cultural institutions (host organizations) in Germany to temporarily take in artists and cultural workers at risk and enable them to continue their work in a safe context. The application is made in tandem between the artists and cultural workers and the host organizations. In addition to a […]

Hanna Sass in Dorsten

Exhibition ‘Matti and the birds’ Hanna Sass took part in the competition for the Tisa Prize 2023 and left a lasting impression on the jury, which has now resulted in a solo exhibition at the Tisa Foundation in Dorsten.

Astrid Salewski

In the March edition of the BBKarium’s showcase exhibition, Dessau artist Astrid Salewski invites you to explore the sometimes disturbing beauty of quiet moments with her small selection of images. On display are works that were created as part of a work scholarship on the subject of “Under the Ice” and for the exhibition “” […]

Jette Held in Braunschweig

Exhibition CULTURAL LANDSCAPES WATER

Crowdfunding by Mario Schneider

Photo book – Crowdfunding – Your help is needed! Photographer (“Tourist”) and documentary film director (Mansfeld trilogy, “Heinz and Fred”, “UTA”) Mario Schneider is publishing a photo book about New York this year. The renowned Kehrer Verlag will present it at the Arles Photo Festival. You can help fund the project now.

Rita Lass in Halle (Saale)

COLORED PAPER – LAYER BY LAYER – 3 courses on colored paper techniques Registration about the Künstlerhaus 188()

Employees:in graphics/online communication

Theater Magdeburg Application deadline: March 9, 2025

Lectureship “Artistic Practice” 30%

Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) Application deadline: March 16, 2025

Artistic W3 Professorship for Environmental Practices

Hamburg University of Fine Arts Application deadline: March 16, 2025

Artistic W3 Professorship for Public Intervention

Hamburg University of Fine Arts Application deadline: March 16, 2025

Professorship for Art Therapy and Visual Media

Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg Application deadline: March 28, 2025

Professor of Cultural Education, Aesthetics and Media in Social Work

Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences Application deadline: March 2, 2025

W3 professorship for sculpture

Düsseldorf Art Academy Application deadline: March 14, 2025

W2 Professorship for Art and the Public Sphere

Düsseldorf Art Academy Application deadline: March 16, 2025

Matthias Behne and Stefanie Demmel in Halle (Saale)

Riso Workshop: Collage At the beginning there is a brief insight into the world of risography. Then it’s time to get started. With scissors, glue and all kinds of other tools, you can bring together what was previously more of a separate project.We offer a wide range of options and suggestions.You can take your collage […]

Qualification programme to promote inclusive access processes in cultural organizations

From July 2024 to June 2027, Un-Label will offer three to four cultural organizations each year a comprehensive qualification to implement their inclusive opening process. The program takes place as part of the nationwide Access Maker – Innovation Hub project. Cultural organizations wishing to apply have the opportunity to benefit from our wide range of […]

Designer / Illustrator

sandruschka creative agency in Weimar Application deadline: not specified

Christoph Ackermann, Marie Mandalka, Katharina Stark Anne Pruy and in Magdeburg

ARTISTS FROM SAXONY-ANHALT FOR THE MAGDEBURG WOMEN’S SHELTER The Magdeburg Women’s Refuge is a safe haven for women and children affected by domestic violence. To support this important work, committed artists from Saxony-Anhalt have joined forces and donated their artworks for a special charity auction. Every auctioned work is not only a sign of solidarity, […]

Petra Reichenbach in Dresden

“Strong women” book presentation – Saxon electress and communist resistance fighter – what connects these women?

“Museum makes you strong”

With the program “Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung” program, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research has been funding extracurricular cultural education projects for children and young people who have little access to it since 2013. 27 program partners from education, culture and social services implement the program and support local projects that are […]

RESIDENCY at the Meetfactory Prague in May 2025

The International Center for Contemporary Art MeetFactory and C. Rockefeller in Dresden announce a new round of residency exchange for a one-month residency in Prague in May 2025 and for participation in the Liquid Sound Festival at Toskana Therme Bad Schandau on November 1, 2025. MeetFactory Prague will host a Dresden artist from the field […]

Call for proposals KUNSTFONDS_Werkverzeichnung

Visual artists, artist duos and their legal successors can apply for funding to create a digital catalog raisonné until May 31, 2025. 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 are eligible […]

Anna Zeitler in Dresden

Fadentrieb – Embroidery exhibition by Anna Zeitler | The black yarn makes its way without a preliminary drawing, without a plan.A graphic, sketch-like image grows on white textile. Stitch by stitch, shapes emerge.Growing forms, structures and landscapes only take on a true form in the eye of the beholder.Let yourself drift – the process itself […]

German Photo Book Award

From April 15 to June 15, 2025, publishers, editors, artists, authors and designers from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the extended D-A-CH region can submit their titles to the competition for the German Photo Book Award. This includes photographic images in book form, photo books as well as photographic text and illustrated books. Every year, special […]

BBK members at BLECH in Halle (Saale)

Exhibition ‘ALWAYS CHANGE A RUNNING SYSTEM’ with our members: Katja Neubert, Taha Bader, Amar Guebailia, Hermann Beneke, Sebastian Harwardt, Christoph Liedtke, Alica Khaet, Susanne Langbehn, Katja Jaroschewski, Charlotte Antony, Sofia Mayer, Alexandra Stein, Elisabeth Otto, Susanne Henny Kolp, Arif Amirov, Michael Seefeldt, Franz Rentsch

PACT Zollverein Residences

The year-round residency program for the development of artistic projects and productions, in which artists from all over the world have participated since 2002, is the ‘heartbeat’ of the daily work at PACT Zollverein. In conjunction with the work areas of stage, platform and urban space, a fruitful exchange of theoretical and practical work is […]

Grand Prix Images Vevey 2025/2026

The Grand Prix Images Vevey is one of the most prestigious and long-standing photography awards in Europe. Open to artists and photographers around the world, the grant aims to support original creation and is awarded every two years. This CHF 40,000 prize enables one artist to develop a new photography project over the course of […]

Project call HALLIANZ for Diversity 2025

Active for a democratic urban society? Applications for funding for projects with a minimum application amount of 3,000 euros can be submitted until March 1, 2025. HALLIANZ for Diversity supports engagement for more democracy, diversity, encounters and solidarity in Halle (Saale) and against racism, discrimination and misanthropy. In addition to the various HALLIANZ funding funds […]

Chiaroscuro

Photographers are invited to submit their work for Chiaroscuro: The Art of Light and Shadow – a curated exhibition celebrating the striking interplay of light and dark. This exhibition explores the timeless power of contrast and how light and shadow shape emotion, narrative and visual impact. From dramatic silhouettes to subtle tonal gradations, we are […]

Iris Band in Halle (Saale)

Exhibition ‘Over the mountains to the sea’ Painting

Barcelona Experimental Hub

The Barcelona Experimental Hub Open Call invites photographers and artists worldwide to submit their creative, alternative and experimental photography projects. This open call offers a unique opportunity to explore the future of photography – without thematic restrictions – allowing for a wide range of innovative and unconventional work. Whether you are an established professional or […]

Research assistant in the field of sustainable product design

University of Kassel Application deadline: February 24, 2025

W2-Professorship Interior Design/ Spatial Composition

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle Application deadline: March 15, 2025

Carola Helbing-Erben in Halle (Saale)

Poetry of Time – Painting and mixed media by Carola Helbing-Erben Supported by the Department of Culture and the Equal Opportunities Officer of the City of Halle.

Halle Association Forum 2025

The association forum once again offers a wide range of practical know-how for association life, networking opportunities and information on current topics relating to the promotion of volunteering in Halle. You can look forward to a variety of workshops in which you can learn more about funding opportunities for your project, the legal framework, AI […]

Media Art 2024 scholarships at the Edith-Russ-Haus

Made possible by the Lower Saxony Foundation, the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art is awarding three scholarships to support an artistic work in the field of media art (€12,500 each). The scholarship of the Lower Saxony Foundation at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art promotes a broad spectrum of media art, from video art and net-based projects […]

Yes AI CanFestival for digital art & performance

projekte.art invites artists and interdisciplinary teams to submit digital artworks and performances for the first edition of the “Yes AI Can” festival. From September 25 to 28, 2025, the Nikolaikirche Rostock will be the venue for an art festival that combines exhibitions, performing arts and happenings. We are looking for works in the fields of […]

Open Call: Wiesbaden Photo Days

The OPEN CALL for the exhibitions of the 13th Wiesbadener Fototage is in full swing! We are inviting photographers and artists to submit photo or video projects on the festival theme “Future? What future?!”. What can the selected applicants expect? Among other things : International promotion An exhibition during the Wiesbadener Fototage from August 23 […]

Matthias Behne and Stefanie Demmel in Halle (Saale)

Now it’s getting concrete! Art and hands-on activity hr. fleischer e.V. – art and project space Kiosk am Reileck

Michael Kott on Rügen

Exhibition FUND – ORTE

Call for proposals Community Art Center

Are you an artist and would like to set up your own Community Art Center? Apply now until February 14, 2025! Application deadline: January 31, 2025 (extended until February 14, 2025) The Kunst & Demokratie association is using funds from the Freudenberg Foundation to support the establishment of further community art centers in Germany. Initially, […]

Nora Mona Bach in Berlin

Exhibition Nora Mona BachMETAMORPHIT6.3.-26.4. 2025 Opening: Thursday, March 6, 5 – 8 p.m. Location: Galerie BornPotsdamer Str. 5810785 Berlin

Sabine Riemenschneider at the Waldgasthaus Armeleuteberg (Harz)

Reading & vernissage Experience a literary evening that makes the 17 Brocken poets audible, visible and drinkable! Catharina Karn (author)reads from her book “Berg der Poeten” and tells how the Brocken poets have changed her view of the Hexenberg. Sabine Riemenschneider (graphic artist)shows the original portrait drawings of the Brocken poets for the first time […]

Postblock South Berlin ministerial use

The historic urban building block in the Postblockareal Süd between the former Berlin Wall, IBA 87, Checkpoint Charlie and Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus forms the last mosaic in the dense Berlin block landscape. The plot to be built on is located at the corner of Wilhelmstraße and Zimmerstraße, 10117 Berlin The site is divided into two clear blocks: […]

Expansion of the art-in-architecture competition for Ortlerweg daycare center

We have decided to remove the age limit/time limit for graduation as a prerequisite for participation. The submission deadline for the 1st phase will be extended accordingly to 23.04.2025. ” All artists who can provide proof of a degree from an art college/university/academy in the field of (book) art, graphics, illustration, design or a comparable […]

Children’s and Youth Culture Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt

We are looking for creative minds who would like to share their ingenious and magical ideas and thoughts with us. Whether it’s imaginative stories, innovative projects or fantastic works of art – we are looking forward to your unique submissions on the theme: “Hocus Pocus” Let your imagination run wild and submit your entries to […]

Worpswede scholarship for BURG graduates

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, in cooperation with Künstler*innenhäuser Worpswede e.V., invites applications for the 3rd Worpswede Scholarship. The three-month scholarship serves to provide postgraduate support for particularly outstanding graduates of the art department at the BURG. The scholarship holder will be provided with an artist’s house in Worpswede as a place […]

Brochure: Toolbox for communication and group processes

A handbook by KOMMA Mediationskollektiv Leipzig on behalf of Input Consulting gGmbH for the “Haus der Selbstständigen” project

Printmaking Day in Saxony-Anhalt on March 15, 2025

With numerous BBK members, such as: Christoph Ackermann, Frank Borisch, Helga Borisch, Marion Münzberg and Iris Trostel Santander at Q-Hof in Magdeburg and Martina Stark, Ingrid Müller-Kuberski, Rudolf Pötzsch at Atelier Stark&Köppe in Magedburg, Lutz Bolldorf at Atelier und Malschule Lutz Bolldorf, Anett Hoffmann and Lisa Rackwitz at MODEWERKSTATT Popett.77, Katja Labedzki in the 38Punkt […]

Ines Buff in Boizenburg/Elbe

Exhibition entitled “Of people and dolls” We humans leave traces everywhere, in nature, in the lives of others, in society and beyond our planet. But in doing so, we lose ourselves from time to time. Let yourself be inspired by the mind games.

OPEN CALL Arcadia Festival #4 WAR

How do artists deal with war? What views do they have on the current conflicts, on the phenomenon itself? Approaches to solutions? For the fourth festival edition (May 2 – 31, 2025), the phenomenon of WAR has been chosen as the theme. International artists are invited to submit a design on the theme for a […]

Project coordinator for the “Northern Lights – Art in the Neighborhood” project

Community Foundation Halle Application deadline: February 20, 2025

Editor for web design/online editing/social media

City of Ilmenau Application deadline: February 23, 2025

Office assistant to the director of the art museum with pro rata processing

Art Museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen of the state capital Magdeburg Application deadline: February 26, 2025

Open Call – Oldenburg Drawing Festival: “Drawing & Sex – Body vs. Society”

For the tenth time, the Oldenburg drawing festival ausgezeichnet! invites you to draw, reflect and discuss together in the fall of 2025. In workshops, public events and drawing experiments, ausgezeichnet! explores the limits and possibilities of drawing together with young people and young adults in Oldenburg and encourages them to participate in drawing discourses. The […]

Open call 2025 – Art in Horner Eck

Period: 2025 by arrangement / Exhibition fee: 500€ / Exhibition duration from 4 to 8 weeks / Application deadline: 28.02.2025 / For artists not based in Bremen, simple accommodation can be provided during the installation. Horner Eck is looking for unexpected positions from artists of all disciplines that deal with the questions and themes of […]

Bernd Papke in Quedlinburg

Workshop exhibition “Wir machen Druck” – 10 years of the Lyonel Feininger Museum’s graphics workshop – A decade of creative passion under the direction of Bernd Papke

Residence scholarships at Scharrlberg Farm

In 2025, the foundation will once again award 12 four-week residency scholarships, starting on 22.04.2025, 02.06.2025, 14.07.2025 and 25.08.2025. Applications will be accepted from 02.01.2025 to 15.03.2025. Detailed information can be found at Award guidelines Application deadline: March 15, 2025

Course plant database spring 2025

In spring 2025, the BBK Saxony-Anhalt is offering a new fee-based course for artists, heirs and estate administrators under the direction of art historian Katharina Lorenz M.A., which consists of three dates. The following documents must be submitted for the application: Letter of motivation, short biography, list of exhibitions, list of publications, digital image of […]

JUNGE KUNST! sponsorship award in the Hildesheim region

The Friedrich Weinhagen Foundation, in cooperation with the BBK Hildesheim and the Galerie im Stammelbachspeicher, announces the JUNGE KUNST! sponsorship award in the Hildesheim region for the year 2025/26. The prize is awarded in the form of a studio grant(studio rent incl. ancillary costs) for one year, from April 2025 – April 2026, as well […]

Art and Beer 2025 competition

A competition for artists since 2002 on the subject of “Art and Beer”, which is particularly dedicated to the cultivation of Bavarian pub culture. Artists are invited to take part in the public competition and are selected by the jury. The competition participants are invited to Andechs and produce their works of art on the […]

International Call for Art Scholarship Land Economy

The Bösenberg Foundation in cooperation with the Künstlerhaus Meinersen is offering an art scholarship for 2025 / 26 for visual artists with a residencyat the Künstlerhaus Meinersen. Both the landscape and agriculture are undergoing enormous processes of change. The scholarship is aimed at young artists who accompany these changes artistically. Services: The scholarship includes a […]

Sculpture symposium City of St. Blasien

The streets of the town become a studio and art becomes tangible: Every year, Hochschwarzwald Tourismus GmbH, the town of St. Blasien and the Werbe- und Aktivkreis St. Blasien invite full-time artists to apply to take part in the International Sculpture Symposium. The event, which is known far beyond the borders of the country, will […]

Open Call: The Other Way Around – Day of Printmaking in Dortmund 2025

As part of the Day of Printmaking 2025, artists are cordially invited to apply for the exhibition “The Other Way Around”. On March 15, 2018, traditional printing techniques were added to the German UNESCO Commission’s nationwide list of intangible cultural heritage. Since then, numerous events have shown how vibrant this cultural heritage is – even […]

SAVE THE DATE Workshop “Art and Inclusion” on March 28, 2025

SEMINARChange of perspective: Inclusion in the visual artsA lot is happening in culture in Germany. It has become more sustainable, more diverse and more inclusive in recent years. Artists withphysical, mental and cognitive impairments can now be seen more frequently and as a matter of course on stage in particular; institutions are opening up to […]

MikroKulturFonds Saxony-Anhalt

Achieving great things with small projects – that is the motto of the MikroKulturFonds Sachsen-Anhalt. It supports and promotes micro-projects in the cultural sector, makes civic engagement visible and aims to encourage new and young initiatives to be active and creative. The fund is open until March 31, 2025. You can find the application form, […]

The BBK homepage is growing

We are constantly working together with the artists to ensure that they are adequately represented on the BBK website. New artist profiles are added week after week. We hope that this development will continue. If all artists are represented, it is not only possible to filter by trade, but also by region. We are delighted […]

Digital information event on 06.02.2025 on the call for proposals We can do art

The project office is offering a digital information event on the application process on the following date: 06.02.2025, 15:00-17:00 (registration by e-mail by 05.02., 14:00) The information event will take place via Zoom; you will receive the link with which you can dial into the event after you have registered. If you are interested, please […]

Save the date: Open studios on September 20 & 21, 2025

On the third weekend in September, i.e. September 20 and 21, 2025, the “Open Studios” will once again take place in Saxony-Anhalt. We hope that many artists from the various trades will once again open their doors to visitors, as they do every year, and invite you to save the date in your diary. Further […]

Viktor Ludvik in Halle (Saale)

Exhibition ” wide awake wide awake” Diplomas of Art

Professor for Communication Design

University of the Arts Bremen Application deadline: February 27, 2025

Workshop manager ceramics

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle Application deadline: March 07, 2025

Teachers for elementary school, special schools and all types of secondary schools (ongoing possible)

CAMPUSERVICE GmbH / CAMPUSERVICE Akademie – Servicegesellschaft der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Application deadline: not specified

Artistic and managing director Werkraum Schöpflin & Fabric

Schöpflin Foundation Application deadline: not specified

Publications work database February 2025

The Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. (BBK) published new works in its “Werkdatenbank Bildende Kunst Sachsen-Anhalt” at the beginning of February 2025. The focus is on the estate catalog of Magdeburg artist Walter Bischof (1919-1968) and the catalog raisonné of Halle artist Sabine Kunz (*1962). In addition, numerous artists have completed the catalogs they began […]

New publications in the work database

The Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. (BBK) published new works in its “Werkdatenbank Bildende Kunst Sachsen-Anhalt” at the beginning of February 2025. The focus is on the catalog raisonné of the Magdeburg artist Walter Bischof (1919-1968) and the catalog raisonné of the Halle artist Sabine Kunz (1962). In addition, numerous artists have completed the catalogs […]

Call for participation in the Europe Weeks in May 2025

In his capacity as Saxony-Anhalt’s Minister for Europe, Rainer Robra is calling for the diverse European references in our region to be presented to the public and for current European issues to be introduced into the public discourse in a creative way. The call is aimed at committed associations, institutions and organizations in Saxony-Anhalt. It […]

Reminder: Admission of new members to the BBK Sachsen-Anhalt e.V.

The next recording session will take place on April 8, 2025 in Halle (Saale) at Galerie Paul Scherzer. If you are interested in becoming a member of the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V., we look forward to receiving your application by March 15, 2025. If you have any questions, please contact us by e-mail or […]

Management of the office

Jena Art Association Application deadline: February 17, 2025

Reinforcement of the “Talstrasse” art gallery team

Kunstverein Talstraße e.V. Start in March 2025

Part-time production coordination

Spinnerei e.V. Chemnitz Application deadline: February 23, 2025

Lutz Bolldorf in Halle (Saale)

INTERMEDIATE GAME – Lutz Bolldorf. Painting

Beate Schotte in Halle (Saale)

Opening of the exhibition “WAS BLEIBT – On the 70th birthday of Beate Schotte”

Open Call “The theatrical in art”

in the Kunstraum Halle e.V. Production period: 01.03.25 – 15.04.25 – (The exhibition period is freely selectable in the production period) Budget: 1,000 € (incl. material, fee, expenses) Application deadline: 15.02.25 until midnight Contact: Project description:We are looking for an artistic contribution on the subject of “The theatrical in art” that integrates performative approaches […]

Thomas Leibe in Arneburg

Thomas Leibe & Max Heckel: “Stories and songs about this Valentin”

Open Call: Künstlerstadt Kalbe is looking for an intern

The City of Artists Kalbe is looking for an intern for the 11th International Wintercampus. The internship (can be chosen for 4, 5 or 6 weeks – core period 24.2.-23.3.) includes the supervision and support of the national and international artists and the preparation of the studio tours (each Saturday from 2 p.m., Gerichtstr. 31 […]

Workshop: Bread in process

Ciabatta, pretzel, yufka or toast? Bread shapes our society. In Germany alone, an average of 74.5 kg of this staple food is consumed per capita every year. It not only reflects our individual tastes, but also cultural, economic and ecological interdependencies. Bread is also seen as a link between humans and nature, as a symbol […]

Research Associate:in Education and Mediation

Chemnitz Art Collections Application deadline: February 07, 2025

Project staff member “Teacher training in the field of WIW – media design of further education and information material”

Merseburg University of Applied Sciences Application deadline: February 07, 2025

Prix Ars Electronica 2025

The Prix Ars Electronica is the most traditional media art competition in the world. The winners receive the coveted Golden Nica and prizes of up to 10,000 euros in each category. In addition, they will be presented at the Ars Electronica Festival from September 3 to 7, 2025 in Linz, Austria! Submit now! About the […]

Art in architecture” competition: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg – “Landmark Hubland”

A work of art is to be created on the Hubland university campus, at the interface between the old and new campus, which represents the university and acts as a “landmark”. The process will be carried out as an open competition in 2 phases. In phase 1, 8-10 participants will be selected for further competition […]

Anne Pruy in Halle (Saale)

Exhibition ‘only what is perceived as an edge can be recognized as an edge’

Lisa Reichmann in Magdeburg

Introduction to hand embroidery course In this workshop you will learn the basics of hand embroidery. I will teach you the different types of stitches. The introduction to the stitch types will build on each other, e.g: Front stitch, back stitch, stem stitch, chain stitch, festoon stitch, cross stitch, knot stitch, witch stitch, wrap stitch, […]

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 […]

Schwalenberg Scholarship 2025

Young art in an old artists’ town: Schwalenberg scholarship from the Lippe regional association 1 residency grant for visual artists The 2025 scholarship is valid for the period from May 1, 2025 to October 31, 2025. In addition to a monthly allowance, the scholarship offers a simple apartment and a workplace in the spacious communal […]

artist in residence: Kunsthof Barna von Sartory

The “Barna von Sartory” art farm in Grimme near Brüssow in the Uckermark region offers: A one-month work stay in one of the newly built artist studios for visual artists in May 2025. The artist studio offers a large, heated work area with light from above. There is also a small living room/bedroom, a shower […]

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 […]

Julie Boehm in Lutherstadt Wittenberg

“Flowing connection” exhibition with paintings and body art prints

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

Diffring prize for sculpture

The Diffring Prize for Sculpture is awarded to artists in the genre of sculpture and is endowed with 5,000 euros. It is awarded by the Mittelrhein-Museum on behalf of the City of Koblenz, which has taken over the assets of the JACQUELINE DIFFRING FOUNDATION. The prize is aimed at young, not yet established international artists […]

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 […]

Anja Wolf

In February, our newcomer Anja Wolf will be presenting her work in the window of the workshop café. The exhibition will be on display around the clock until February 28. On display in the exhibition are collages from the year 2024, which show an artistic examination of the “Potsdam Memorandum 2005”. This is a manifesto […]

Meeting of the Cultural Education Working Group on February 17, 2025

On Monday, February 17, 2025 at 1 p.m., the Cultural Education Working Group will meet at the BBK office (Gr. Klausstr. 6, 06108 Halle). We would be delighted to hear of your interest in the working group and cordially invite you to attend. Please register by February 12 at .

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. […]

WORKSHOP SCHOLARSHIP 2025

The 2025 scholarship has a duration of six months and spans the period from June 1 to November 30, 2025. During this time, the scholarship holder will receive a monthly maintenance allowance of €700. It is expected that the scholarship holder will live and work predominantly in Altena for the duration of the scholarship, so […]

Network meeting “Art and Parenthood” on February 3 in Halle (Saale)

An open network meeting on the topic of “Art and Parenthood” will take place on February 3, 2025 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. We would like to think together about how to proceed with our concerns. At the workshop with MATERNAL FANTASIES in November 2024, some ideas were raised in the open final round that […]

Future Vision Free Culture Part II on January 30

We would like to remind you of two dates right at the beginning of the year. A lot has been happening behind the scenes again. On the occasion of the Lord Mayor election on February 2, 2025, we have planned a second event format “Future Vision Free Culture” together with the Alliance, very similar to […]

Christoph Ackermann, Frank Borisch, Jochen P. Heite and Christoph Kunze in Magdeburg

“Art against the right” exhibitionWith more than 40 works by artists from Magdeburg and the surrounding area With BBK members Christoph Ackermann, Frank Borisch, Jochen P. Heite and Christoph Kunze as well as other artists Location: Library of the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Breitscheidstraße 2, Campus Herrenkrug, House 1, 39114 Magdeburg Duration: January 9 […]

Artist in Residence – Heimatverein Göpfersdorf

For over 36 years, the Heimatverein Göpfersdorf has been running a gallery in which more than 175 exhibitions of paintings and graphics by regional and well-known artists have been shown. Our special intention is to promote and appreciate printmaking.For this reason, we have been awarding a scholarship since 2018, which allows artists to work in […]

Open art-in-architecture competition for the digital building in Ingolstadt

The Ingolstadt State Building Authority is organizing an invited, single-phase art-in-architecture competition at two locations with a preliminary, open application procedure. Professional artists and artist communities who are citizens of the European Union (EU) at the time of application are eligible to participate. Application deadline until February 14, 2025, 11:59 p.m. online at . The […]

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 […]

Oscar Wippermann in Halle (Saale)

“The exhibition” at the Zeitkunstgalerie Rüdiger Giebler – painting, graphics, ceramics, enamel painting | Oscar Wippermann – jewelry | Moritz Jason Wippermann – painting, graphics, objects

Art competition “Place of remembrance for the victims of homosexual persecution”

Competition for art in public space: Place of remembrance for the victims of homosexual persecution in the state capital Saarbrücken Application deadline: February 10, 2025

Glossary for fair pay in the visual arts

New publication from the IG Bildende Kunst in Austria Pay The Artist Now! | Glossary for fair payment in the visual arts | Publication of IG Bildende Kunst The IG Bildende Kunst, artists’ association and national committee of the IAA in Austria, published a glossary for fair pay in the visual arts in September 2024, […]

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 […]

Ina Jaenicke in Meissen

Meissen Porcelain Biennale No other place in Europe is as synonymous with porcelain as Meissen. The technology was developed at Albrechtsburg Castle in Meissen, the first production site for porcelain in Europe, and the secrets of the material were researched and shaped by artists. The Porcelain Biennale aims to raise public awareness of porcelain as […]

Grit Wendelberger in Halle (Saale)

Art workshop on Caspar David Friedrich We want to bring light into the winter and build our own light-winged altar and (back) flat figures as an alter ego to the work of the Romantic master. Inspired by the production “With your back to the world”, in this workshop you will embark on an artistic journey […]

Appeal for the 2025 federal election by the BBK federal association

Strengthen the interests of artists at federal level! In the face of major social and economic challenges, the visual arts need a cultural policy at federal level that strengthens the potential of art and culture and creates the conditions for good framework conditions for artistic work. In the run-up to the 2025 federal elections, the […]

Annekathrin Pohle in Halle (Saale)

Installation Kunst : Pause | The graphics of the installation Kunst : Pause were created by the artist on the basis of the common test image of digital screen, GDR and FRG.

Network meeting BBKarien Saxony-Anhalt in Dessau on February 4, 2025

The aim of the meeting could be to develop a common strategy/concept for all BBKarien or to consider which criteria the BBKarien have or should have in common. How could a rotation of artists be organized? An exchange of experiences between the regional groups would also be great and motivating. Participation without prior registration is […]

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 […]

Elena Kiseleva-Arendt in Blankenburg

Exhibition of acrylic paintings from her virtual herbarium, portraits and ex-libris etchings

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, […]

Matthias Behne and Stefanie Demmel in Halle (Saale)

Riso Workshop: Monotype A self-designed monotype is supplemented in a second layer by your own drawing or typography. The design is purely analog.The result is 10 two-color DIN A3 art prints to give away or keep for yourself. 🙂 In principle, no prior knowledge is required for any of the workshops. The design is analog. […]

Barbara Dimanski in Halle (Saale)

Calligraphy- The art of writing Get to know the diversity and impact of handwriting and how the shapes and formal relationships on paper combine to create unique results.

Rita Lass in Halle (Saale)

Letterpress techniques and monotype

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 […]

Ilko Koestler in Halle (Saale)

Lithography course flat printing with stone

Reneé Reichenbach in Halle (Saale)

Ceramics – interplay of surface and form

Claudia Baugut in Halle (Saale)

Jewelry design course

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 […]

KUNSTSALON 2025 Motto: MACHT & OHNMACHT

The KUNSTSALON 2024 – SINE LOCO III / ABSURD BIS ZYNISCH: ALSO ROSA is a survey of contemporary art. We show what is being created in the studios today, independent of third-party assessments, in keeping with the tradition of the Paris Salons, when artists stood up to the dictates of dealers and museum curators. On […]

Further training for designers in the skilled trades

BECOME A DESIGNER:IN YOUR CRAFT! ‘Trying out things and materials, refining personal perception, getting to know the approaches of others, exchanging ideas, networking knowledge, getting space for ideas – regardless of customer wishes and orders. Acquire new things, enrich the familiar – economically and personally. The ‘Designer in Crafts’ training course is open to all […]

Residency scholarship in Ahrenshoop

The Art Foundation awards an annual residency scholarship for up to two artists at the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The internationally active Künstlerhaus Lukas promotes artistic practice open to all ages in the fields of visual arts, performing arts, literature, music and curating. It offers the scholarship holders a time of special quality […]

International Summer Studio and Artist Scholarship – Aschersleben

Working, learning and well-being are the three key words with which Aschersleben, the oldest town in Saxony-Anhalt, successfully promotes itself. Education, art and culture play a particularly important role and form a strong symbiosis, especially at the Bestehornpark education center. The Aschersleben International Summer Studio, which was initiated by the city of Aschersleben for the […]

OPEN CALL – Evnia.Magazine

Send us your suggestions for a contribution in our 2nd issue “Silent Masters | Maestrxs Silenciosxs “Research & art projects, literary and artistic works, scientific essays, philosophical and psychological reflections and everything else that is not mentioned here – if you are not sure whether it fits – write to us! Our aim with Evnia […]

LOKAL – Program for culture and engagement

The model program “LOKAL – Program for Culture and Engagement”, which is open to applications, supports the establishment of at least 26 long-term networks in cities and municipalities with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants throughout Germany. Up to 240,000 euros are available per project for four years. The overall program will be implemented from 2024 to […]

CLAIM Culture makes you strong. Alliances for education: “We can do art”

Under the title “We can do art”, the Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler e. V. (BBK), as a program partner of the BMBF, supports art projects of local alliances that are carried out by professional visual artists for children and young people whose educational opportunities are limited. In the projects, classical artistic techniques such as […]

open call: The Male Figure 2025

Since 2010, Galerie Kunstbehandlung has placed the subject of “The Male Figure” at the center of an annual, internationally acclaimed group exhibition. Part of the concept is that the gallery’s well-known artists, who work on the classic theme of male figures, are constantly joined by new talents, thus opening up new perspectives on this part […]

Neuchâtel Art Week

On the subject of “Sound art” from 25.08. – 31.8.2025 For one week in the summer, Neuchâtel becomes a stronghold of creative art. Selected artists from all over the world come to Neuchâtel and create their very own art on the annually changing themes of our art weeks. Always very close to the population – […]

Work scholarship in New York

The Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation is once again inviting applications for a working fellowship in New York for the period from November 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025. Since 2006, the Art Foundation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt has been awarding grants to artists and curators for a residency at the renowned International Studio and Curatorial […]

Katja Neubert in Halle (Saale)

Exhibition of collages and sculpture entitled Hyperbata and the fragile brooch

Art competition “Wir gegen RechtsRuck” – Join in!

The shift to the right in our society is unmistakable and worrying. Thousands of people across Germany raised their voices in spring 2024 and demonstrated for democratic, tolerant coexistence. The upcoming federal elections in February 2025 will not put an end to the shift to the right in society. Artists are called upon to counter […]

University professorship for the central artistic subject of photography

University of Applied Arts Vienna Application deadline: February 26, 2025

Professorship for Advanced Photography / New Media

Alanus University gGmbH Application deadline: February 17, 2025

Valeria Liebermann (Sivtsova) in Halle (Saale)

Jewish exhibition and book reading

Marlen Tennigkeit in Donzdorf

Exhibition in the castle – Gray zone. Marlen Tennigkeit MARLEN TENNIGKEIT2022 – 2023 Master student with Prof. Caroline Achaintre, Textile Arts, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle 2022Diploma in Fine Arts/ Sculpture with Prof. Andrea Zaumseil, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle2019 – 2020 Study of Sculpture with Prof. Dominik Lang, […]

Information event “Culture makes you strong” program

First call for proposals 2025Application period January 1 to February 28, 2025 24.1.2025, 1 – 3 p.m.: Digital information event on submitting applications (registration by e-mail to by 23.1.2025) Apply for project funding from “Kultur macht stark. We can do art”, funding period 2025. Apply with your concept for an extracurricular cultural education project […]

Profession artist with child #2 in Leipzig

Workshop and network meeting on the topic: “Career artist with child” #2 The birth of a child changes the lives of artists.and their everyday working life often change abruptly. Self-employment is particularly difficult, as many artists The employees are living in financially precarious situations or are no longer able to work due to a lack […]

BBK members in Magdeburg’s Himmelreich Gallery

SCHÖNE AUSSICHT – Painting, graphics, drawing, objectPhotography, glass design With BBK members Ingrid Müller-Kuberski, Cathleen Meier, Jens Elgner, Frank Borisch, Annedore Policek, Benjamin Borisch, Reinhard Rex, Helga Borisch and other artists. Outlook is what you allow yourself.And outlook is the “what” and “how” things will continue. I have great respect for artists who stimulate the […]

Julienne Jattiot in Leipzig

Group exhibition “Transfer” Students and teachers of the HGB Leipzig, AdBK Munich and AdBK Nuremberg After stops at the Akademie Galerie Nürnberg and the Radierverein München, the exhibition “Transfer” can now also be seen in Leipzig. For the first time, the exhibition “Transfer” presents printmaking works by students and teachers from the renowned workshops for […]

Group exhibition

Happy New Year and a group exhibition in January with art by Anja Wolf, Elfi Nitze, Elena Kiseleva-Arendt, Sabine Brauns, Veronika Kaiping, 6y_anhalt, Juliane Naumann, Benjamin Kerwien and Jakob Wolf. New Year’s vernissage | January 1 | 4.30 p.m. Further information: https://www.instagram.com/bbkarium_dessau/ Visible from outside around the clock! The project is funded by the NeuSTADT […]

Korvin Reich

Several levels come together in his “flying objects”: Force fields, maps, elements from mathematics and physics. The perception of the spiritual world materializes. Free, intuitively set forms are surprisingly combined with fixed processes. Reich’s hand drawings are often mistaken for prints of computer graphics – calling his own perception into question. Further information about the […]

Exhibition “The Far Country”

Following the open call / call for participation in the joint exhibition, exclusively for BBK artists outside of Halle/Saale, we received numerous applications. 10 artists were selected to present their works in the exhibition. The exhibition “Das ferne Land” is more than just an exhibition – it is a platform for exchange, networking and the […]

“Civil and tax law for non-profit organizations”

Invitation from the Saxony-Anhalt regional office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung to a skills training course entitled: “Civil and tax law for non-profit organizations”, which will take place on 09.01.2025 (09-16.30) at the Hotel Kaiserhof, Bahnhofstr. 1-2, 06749 Bitterfeld-Wolfen takes place. The participation fee for this event includes the program and catering. It amounts to € 10.00 […]

Art competition of the Spiekeroog Cultural Foundation 2025

Three unique outdoor spaces are available for the year 2025 to exhibit temporary sculptures: – Sculpture area (approx. 50 square meters) on the corner of Noorderpad and Noordertün, right next to the “Kogge” guest house.– Outdoor location at the reading pavilion in the dunes.– Location on the Höhenweg with sea view. The exhibition will be […]

August Macke Award 2025

Next year, the Hochsauerland district will once again award the “August Macke Prize” as part of the overall “August Macke” concept. This prize is sponsored by the cultural foundation of Westfälische Provinzial Versicherung and the savings banks in the Hochsauerland district and focuses on the promotion, appreciation and visualization of young artistic positions. The prize […]

Turn of the year 2024/25 at BBK Saxony-Anhalt

An eventful year with many trips to the Harz mountains is (almost) behind us. There wasn’t enough time for a hike, but there was enough time for in-depth discussions with art associations, museums, city councils and artists. Next year we will be visiting the Altmark and are already looking forward to new encounters. Many of […]

Save the Dates: BBK Events 2025

To make it easier for our members and cooperation partners to plan the dates for 2025, we would like to announce the following dates of our projects in advance:

ZEITGLEICH ZEITZEICHEN postcard set

This publication is part of the BBK annual project ZEITGLEICH ZEITZEICHEN – Im Zeichen der zeitgenössischen experimentellen Druckkunst: This set of postcards highlights the diversity and creativity in the art of printing and draws attention to an art form rich in tradition that is characterized by craftsmanship and artistic expression. The print motifs show how […]

Franca Bartholomäi in Leipzig

Exhibition ‘SPRÜNGE’

Further training and advice for the Alliance for Cultural Education

Cultural education is added value! Our nationwide survey at the beginning of 2023 revealed that freelance work in cultural education is highly underpaid across all sectors. 46.8% of those we surveyed earned below the poverty line for a single-person household (€1250 per month threshold 2023 D). The average net earnings of those surveyed here were […]

State capital workshop on art in public spaces

Together with citizens, city councillors and administrative staff, the workshop will look at different perspectives and provide space for wishes, suggestions and ideas. Registration is open until January 26 at www.magdeburg.de/beteiligung.

Open Call – Serendipity – About finding and searching

A group exhibition in July 2025 in the project space “BLECH.” Am Steintor 19, 06112 Halle (Saale) For a joint exhibition, we are looking for positions that see themselves as artistic research. Art that is based on research, art is used for research or Art whose products are research. The non-profit art association “Raum für […]

The anti-colonial curriculum

As the world reconfigures itself in the 21st century, the role of art has become vital in rethinking our relationship to justice. On its 15th anniversary, Arquetopia celebrates its academic legacy by further expanding its anti-colonial curriculum across all residency programs. Participating artists can now deepen their practice through a diverse range of instructional residencies, […]

Metamorphosis, Arquetopia Summer Program

ArquetopiaSUMMER is back!, our flagship residency, is an intensive international critical program aimed at expanding artistic practices through the application of new methodologies and innovative approaches. The goal is to recenter ethics in the process of creating images while rethinking creative practices through Arquetopia’s methodology and program framework, by intersecting academic knowledge, scholarly discourse, and […]

Sixi International Artist-In-Residence 2025

Sixi AiR Project is calling for applications from international artists for a residency in Nanjing, China, from March to May 2025. Lauched in 2024 to support young emerging artists, the Sixi International Artist-in-Residence Project is committed to facilitating exchanges between artists from different backgrounds and helping them achieve creative breakthroughs and personal growth in their […]

Höchster Porzellan-Manufaktur Residency Program 3.0

The Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Offenbach, supported by the Crespo Foundation and the Aventis Foundation, is offering an international residency program at the Höchster Porzellan-Manufaktur (HPM). ‘RESIDENCY 3.0 exploring porcelain’ promotes national and international artists and designers and offers them a free space to research, experiment and develop innovative concepts in working with porcelain and […]

Scholarships of the Tarabya Cultural Academy for the scholarship year 2025/26

From now until December 31, 2024, artists from various disciplines who live and work in Germany can apply for a four to eight-month scholarship at the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul. In addition, the Turkish-German co-production scholarships will once again be awarded in cooperation with the Allianz Foundation; tandems of artists from Germany and Turkey […]

BBK members receive funding from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation

On December 4, 2024, the Board of Trustees of the Art Foundation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt decided to support 33 artists and art projects. Important catalogs raisonnés, exciting films, a wide variety of visual arts, interesting literature projects – all of these projects were considered and can now be implemented. A total of 374,302.96 […]

Information on the introduction of eInvoicing

The EU Commission has set itself the goal of modernizing VAT law and combating VAT fraud in the EU more effectively. To this end, the structure of invoices is to be standardized across Europe in accordance with CEN standard EN 16931. Corresponding regulations are contained in the Growth Opportunities Act, which was approved by the […]

Paper Residency! – Summer 2025

Paper Residency! is aimed at all visual artists. You do not need to have any experience with paper. The aim of Paper Residency! is to inspire artists to work completely freely and experimentally with paper as a sculptural material. 2 weeks in the Studio-Atelier d’mage in Berlin 23.06. – 06.07.202528.07. – 10.08.202518.08. – 31.08.2025 100 […]

Scholarships abroad in Rome, Olevano Romano, Venice and Paris

Exceptionally talented and qualified artists in the fields of architecture, fine arts, literature and music can be supported through study visits to the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo (Rome Prize), the German Academy Rome Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano and the German Study Center in Venice. Conditions of participation PDF for download FAQ PDF for […]

“Culture makes you strong” in Zerbst – information and networking event on the federal funding program “Culture makes you strong”

The federal funding program “Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung” (KMS) offers many opportunities to promote cultural education projects for children and young people. The “Kultur macht stark” Saxony-Anhalt service center of the .lkj) Saxony-Anhalt provides information about the funding opportunities and the support of the advice center. The offer is aimed at daycare centers, […]

Information and networking event on the federal funding program “Culture makes you strong”

The federal funding program “Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung” (KMS) offers many opportunities to promote cultural education projects for children and young people. The focus of this event is the promotion of reading and: How can I submit an application as a library or archive? The service center “Kultur macht stark” Saxony-Anhalt of the […]

What remains empty when art funding comes to nothing?

The parties are currently forging their election programs in a hurry. It is urgently necessary to campaign now for the promotion of the visual arts and against the cuts to the Art Fund Foundation planned before the government crisis.For this reason, we have launched a social media campaign together with the Deutscher Künstlerbund, GEDOK, IKG […]

Introduction of mandatory electronic invoicing from January 1, 2025

What is an e-invoice? An e-invoice (short for electronic invoice) is an invoice that can be transmitted, received and processed electronically in a so-called structured electronic format. PDF invoices are not invoices in this sense (although they are sent electronically); basically, an e-invoice is a data record that contains the usual mandatory information of a […]

Transparency survey 2024/25

Dear members of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt, The annual transparency survey among our members will run for the fourth time until the end of January 2025. The lists generated from the survey will be continuously updated and used to appoint BBK representatives to juries and other committees or to prepare the awarding of services. Specifically, the […]

Melanie Kuna-Drechsler, Sabine Riemenschneider and Frank Täubner in Blankenburg

Group exhibition ‘Harvest 24’

International Open Call for ARToulu art area

International Open Call for the ARToulu art area, for artwork by visual artists – art in public space in Oulu, the European Capital of Culture for the year 2026 The European Capital of Culture 2026 brings us Oulu’s new ARToulu art area, where art will pop up and surprise you in unexpected places. Dozens of […]

Parenting Artist Residency 2025

Building on Satellite, the successful pilot residency run in collaboration with The Mothership Project, Cow House Studios, with the support of Wexford County Council is offering a two-week residency designed specifically for parenting artists, from 14 to 27 April 2025 in Enniscorthy, Ireland. The Parenting Artist Residency makes it possible for awarded artists to dedicate […]

Parenting Artist Residency 2025

Building on Satellite, the successful pilot residency run in collaboration with The Mothership Project, Cow House Studios, with the support of Wexford County Council is offering a two-week residency designed specifically for parenting artists, from 14 to 27 April 2025 in Enniscorthy, Ireland. The Parenting Artist Residency makes it possible for awarded artists to dedicate […]

Confidence & light of hope: an art competition full of good wishes

We believe in the healing, comforting and strengthening effect of art, even in the most difficult phases of life. The children we care for with their families at the Children’s Palliative Care Center suffer from life-threatening, often very rare diseases. We care for many patients for years, some only towards the end of their lives. […]

KUNSTFONDS_Scholarship

The KUNSTFONDS_Stipendium aims to promote concentrated artistic work and new ideas as a sustainable basis for future freelance work. Visual artists, artist duos and members of VG Bild-Kunst Berufsgruppe I who work as freelance visual artists in their main profession, whose main place of residence is in Germany and who are neither enrolled nor employed […]

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 […]

Funding program “EUJA! Initiative projects for the Capital of Culture year”

Under the title “EUJA! Initiative projects for the European Capital of Culture year”, the funding program supports projects in the 30 intervention areas, the urban development project of the European Capital of Culture, as well as initiatives throughout the city and in the digital space. The program is based on three pillars. The special fund […]

Artist in Residence at Schönthal Monastery

The Artist in Residence funding project in the art stable at Schönthal Monastery offers good working conditions for artists from spring to fall. It is part of the concept of the sculpture park that the works find their temporary location here in close collaboration with the artists.After extensive renovation, a beautiful pasture barn was turned […]

INHABIT // Artist-in-Residence

The artist-in-residence program INHABIT invites artists from various disciplines to work with scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt. For a scientific research institute that deals with questions of aesthetics, the presence and challenging impulse of artistic work is of particular importance. The Institute regards the integration of artistic thinking and […]

B.a.c.H. pocket calendar 2025 – Limited book art edition

Book art calendar of the Bookartcenter Halle with Anett Hoffmann, Wiebke Kirchner and Petra Reichenbach

Rotterdam Photo

The new wave of photographic talent that has emerged from the ubiquitous culture of images is made up of true digital natives. They have grown up in a world where images are paramount, and they play a crucial role in capturing the essence of freedom, culture, human connection and unity. This generation embodies the delicate […]

Artheon.art prize 2025

Artheon. Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst und Kirche is offering an art prize for innovative art projects in public spaces on the theme of “Religion” for the year 2025. The winner will be determined in an open, non-anonymous competition. The prize is endowed with €5,000.The prize is awarded to temporary or permanent art projects in public spaces […]

Review of the Maternal Fantasies workshop

Together with Dornrosa e.V. and the initiators Wiebke Kirchner and Daniela Schönemann, we held an eventful workshop last week. Magdalena Kallenberger and Isabell Spengler from the artists’ collective MATERAL FANTASIES were our guests. Not only did they give us great insights into their previous work, they also put on a participatory performance with us. Their […]

Research assistant

Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) Application deadline: November 27, 2024

Survey on artists’ estates completed

From mid-September to mid-November 2024, the BBK Saxony-Anhalt conducted a survey on artists’ estates. Visual artists and estate holders (institutions and private individuals) were invited to take part. The response was great. The Museum and Archive Association, the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation and other partners forwarded our appeal, articles about the project appeared in the press […]

Christina Simon in Bochum

at the Bochum Graphic Exchange

Scholarship Künstlerbahnhof Ebernburg

The association Künstlerbahnhof Ebernburg e.V. awards a scholarship 2 to 3 times a year for 2 months each to artists whose artistic work is the focus of their activity.Preferably, young artists should be given the opportunity to work freely, undisturbed and independently in a wonderful environment. It is expected, but not required, that the artist […]

Wiebke Kirchner in Chemnitz

Workshop zusammen:kleben – Participatory art project in Chemnitz Who for: Young and old, also together – no previous artistic knowledge required! Costs: Participation is free of charge. Registration at:

Teacher for special tasks at the Faculty of Fine Arts

Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) Application deadline: November 27, 2024

Wiebke Kirchner in Chemnitz

Workshop zusammen:kleben – Participatory art project in Chemnitz Who for: Young and old, also together – no previous artistic knowledge required! Costs: Participation is free of charge. Registration at:

Wiebke Kirchner in Halle (Saale)

The group exhibition “madonnen” presents modern interpretations of a classic motif in art history: Madonna portraits and the current resin work “despite the pain” from the“milky poems” series of works

Wiebke Kirchner in Halle (Saale)

The group exhibition “madonnen” presents modern interpretations of a classic motif in art history: Madonna portraits and the current resin work “despite the pain” from the“milky poems” series of works

Call for proposals ‘Rose meets art’ – 2025

“Rose meets art” at the Europa-Rosarium Sangerhausen… From 26.06. – 10.08.2025, the largest rose collection in the world will be the backdrop for the large outdoor art exhibition “Rose meets Art” for the 6th time. The connection between the rose and art runs like a red thread through the over 120-year history of the Europa-Rosarium… […]

Open Call on the topic of ‘Commons’ – the need

das Bedürfnis is issuing an Open Call for 2025: Commons are resources, such as public space, water, air or knowledge, that are appropriated, managed and used in a shared, self-organized and needs-oriented process. In line with the city of Halle’s cultural theme year “Coming, Going, Staying – Halle, City of Bridges”, we at Das Bedürfnis […]

CO.Pilot – Mentoring program at the Designhaus Halle

As part of the “BURG Potentials” funding project, a new round of the CO.Pilot mentoring program will start in February 2025. Applications are open to self-employed people and start-up teams from the design industry based in Saxony-Anhalt. Mentors – experts in their field – share their experience, provide advice on solving specific issues and accompany […]

Baldreit Scholarship 2025/26

The City of Baden-Baden is awarding the traditional Baldreit Scholarship with artist’s residence to artists from the fields of literature, visual arts and composition in October 2025. The scholarship will be awarded to two applicants for 6 months each (October 2025 to March 2026 and April to September 2026). The artist’s apartment on the top […]

Blue Night – Art Competition 2025, Nuremberg

In 2000, the year of Nuremberg’s 950th anniversary, Die Blaue Nacht invited the citizens of Nuremberg for the first time to experience art and culture in an unusual setting and at an unusual time. With around 130,000 visitors from Nuremberg, the region, the whole of Germany and abroad, more than 200 program items in over […]

Alica Khaet in Berlin

Exhibition “The world as a whole…”

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 […]

The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant

Applications for the 2025 Individual Support Grant will open on October 14, 2024. The application deadline for the 2025 grant cycle is January 15, 2025, at 11:59 pm EST. The Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success. Please note that these […]

Lesser Ury Art Prize ’25

The specific key dates for the Lesser Ury Prize 2025 are as follows: Shortlist & Exhibition The KünstlerGilde e.V. is exhibiting participants in the shortlist exhibition for the Lesser Ury Prize 2025 at Küferstraße 37 in 73728 Esslingen near Wolfstor – probably from mid-April 2025. As soon as the participants have been determined, they will […]

Research assistant in the Spoon project

Braunschweig University of Art Application deadline: November 30, 2024

Artistic collaborator in the Spoon project

Braunschweig University of Art Application deadline: November 30, 2024

Artistic collaborator “Basics 4D”

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle Application deadline: December 01, 2024

Gert Burkard Büttner

Title of the exhibition: Bild-Hauerei Gert Burkard Büttner, qualified sculptor/metal designer In my works, I use the various creative means of the visual arts to process paradoxical and strange inspirations from reality that occur to me. The motifs can then be seen in the fields of sculpture and plastic art as well as graphics and […]

Miriam Albert and Linda Margarete Müller in Klaffenbach

Light & Exposure” exhibition

Linda Margarete Müller in Magdeburg and Halle (Saale)

Photo exhibitions with a concert by the Saxony-Anhalt State Youth Choir: Nature. Man.Connected.

Sarah Bartmann, Alexandra Stein and Annegrete Streu in Halle

Open studio

Manuela Homm

Manuela Homm works with a wide variety of materials such as glass, ceramics, wood and concrete. Melting, casting and firing are her favorite processing techniques. She explores the inner life, the core of the material in detail and expresses it in her objects through form and light. Approximation usually occurs through a structure, the meeting […]

W3 Professorship for Games

University of Kassel Application deadline: November 15, 2024

Call for entries for an artist duo: The mobile studio as a guest in Holzhausen am Ammersee

We are looking for a duo of artists who, in the tradition of the Holzhausen artists’ colony, are inspired by the surroundings of Lake Ammersee and dare to experiment with new art in exchange with each other and the local population. The “Malek” house is available as a studio, whose rooms with their rough charm […]

°Ceramic Artist Exchange – Tandem 2025

For the year 2025, the Keramikkünstlerhaus Neumünster is awarding six living and working scholarships as part of the international °Ceramic Artist Exchange – Tandem program! The °CEAT focuses on the examination of contemporary positions in free ceramics, intercultural dialog and the exchange between artists of different generations. The residency program is primarily aimed at artists […]

Art project in memory of two forced laborers murdered in 1945

Call for proposals for an art project in memory of two former forced laborers murdered after their liberation in 1945 Ivan Koval from Ukraine and Stanislaw Gontek from Poland were murdered on April 16, 1945 in the village of Wellendorf by residents of Kloster Oesede. The crime was kept quiet for a very long time […]

Hessian State Prize for German Arts and Crafts 2025

The Hessian State Prize for German Arts and Crafts has been awarded since 1951 to craftspeople who have distinguished themselves with their self-designed works of outstanding craftsmanship and artistry. The aim of the State Prize is to provide an incentive for particularly creative, artistic achievements in German arts and crafts. The prize will be awarded […]

Open Call: Exhibition “Das ferne Land” for BBK members at Kunstraum Halle e.V.

Kunstraum Halle e.V. invites BBK members outside of Halle (Saale) to participate in the joint exhibition Das ferne Land. The aim is to present the artistic potential of the region and to offer a platform for exchange and networking among artists. Works from all genres of the visual arts – from painting to sculpture and […]

Sony World Photography Awards

With their unparalleled reach, the Sony World Photography Awards are instrumental in promoting the careers of photographers. Inclusivity and accessibility (entry is free) have always been at the heart of the awards. They provide an insight into today’s photography in all its diversity and focus on photographers who tell the stories of our time. Alpha […]

Alica Khaet in Halle (Saale)

Exhibition “ver:innern und ent:äußern” as part of the 29th Halle Women’s Culture Days “Spiel-Art(en)” Participatory guided tour through the exhibition on November 6 from 6 pm

VG Bild-Kunst project funding / Professional group II

VG Bild-Kunst’s cultural funding for projects in professional group II (photography, illustration, design) will continue. The next submission deadline is November 15. Then the regular deadlines are May 15 and November 15 of each year. Applications can only be submitted via the VG Bild-Kunst online application portal. Applications can be made for grants for projects […]

Christina Simon in Halle (Saale)

Midissage with Christina Simons “Akhenaten’s Canticle of the Sun” Please contact us by e-mail () so that we can plan the event properly.

Photo competition 2025 | What makes us rich?

Photo competition: What makes us rich? The unequal distribution of wealth is increasing worldwide. The top ten percent of the population own around 85 percent of wealth – and the trend is rising. The poorest, on the other hand, collectively own only around one percent of wealth. In Germany, too, the richest are getting richer […]

Julie Boehm in Wittenberg

Painting exhibition in the Cranachherberge, Lutherstadt Wittenberg | Combination of realistic and abstract painting | The exhibition shows over 23 works that represent a combination of realistic and abstract painting. It includes portraits, animal paintings and emotional, abstract pictures that have been created in my studio in Wittenberg over the last few years. The focus […]

Light art festival in the pavilion at the Milchhof, Berlin

In January and February, Artspring Berlin brings light into the dark season and, in cooperation with the Milchhof studio community, organizes a small light art festival in the pavilion at Milchhof. Since 2009, the Pavillon am Milchhof has offered numerous artists from Berlin and far beyond a unique space for exhibitions. The Pavillon am Milchhof […]

Open Call: Parallel Realities

In their second joint exhibition, PEP (Photographic Exploration Project) and Kommunale Galerie Berlin present the photographs/works of around 30 international artists who are linked by the theme of “Parallel Realities”. Submission fee depending on the number of works: 1 = 5 euros, 3 = 10 euros, up to 10 = 15 euros Closing date: November […]

Kunst am Bau Oberstufenzentrum für Sozialwesen Anna-Freud-Schule, Berlin

Open two-phase art competition for professional visual artists and artist groups The subject of the art competition is the design and execution of one or more works of art for the new building of the Anna-Freud-Schule (Oberstufenzentrum für Sozialwesen) at Halemweg 24 in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin. Application deadline: November 04, 2024

Research assistant in the Faculty of Fine Arts – Institute of Art Studies and Aesthetics

Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) Application deadline: November 06, 2024

Research assistant (f/m/d) in the FEMPOWER II project

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle Application deadline: November 17, 2024

Artistic assistant “Basics 2D” (f/m/d)

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle Application deadline: November 17, 2024

Exhibition project ¡¿Our world is beautiful?!

How do you see the world? Full of curiosity and anticipation, we await your artistic response to our statement and question: ¡¿Our world is beautiful? Every day the sun rises, every day can bring us wonderful experiences: in nature as the seasons and times of day change, when traveling, in a blooming garden, in the […]

Sebastian Kaps in Dessau

Opening weekend of the gallery for landscape photography Landscape photography is a fascinating art form that is unfortunately often underestimated in Germany. The gallery provides a worthy setting to exhibit my own photographs as well as works by other renownedlandscape photographers. I want to give visitors the opportunity to experience the breathtaking beauty ofand the […]

Project grant “KunstKommunikation” 2026

Who can apply? – Prerequisites:Artists with a completed academy/university education or comparable qualifications can apply for the “KunstKommunikation” project grant. There is no age limit.Couples or groups who wish to conceive and implement joint projects are also eligible to apply.There is no residency requirement, but a project-related residency period agreed with the management. What is […]

Artist grant from the H. and H. Kaschade Foundation

Scholarship for domestic and foreign visual artists and master students in the fields of painting and photography, with the aim of artistic engagement with the city of Stendal and the region. Duration: 6 weeks in August and September 2025. Presence in Stendal is required during this period. Conditions: Scholarship of 1,200 euros plus material allowance […]

Astrid Salewski in Dessau-Roßlau

Exhibition “”

Admission meeting in October: BBK Saxony-Anhalt welcomes 19 new members

On October 22, 2024, the BBK Saxony-Anhalt hosted the admission meeting with the artist Elvira Franz in the Blauer Stern exhibition barn in Quedlinburg. Here, interested artists from Saxony-Anhalt were able to introduce themselves to the admissions committee in order to become members of our association. The following 19 artists are new: Ammar Assali | […]

Numerous BBK members at HAL ART

Art fair in Halle. With them are: Lutz Bolldorf, Ulrike Basner, Ines Buff, Barbara Dimanski, Ina Jaenicke, Antonia Jungk, Dorit Kempe, Elena Kiseleva-Arendt, Maximilian Koch, Iklo Koestler, Kerstin Krieg, Silke Lipsch, Hans-Rainer Otto Rausch, Rebekka Rauschhardt, Petra Reichenbach, Sarah Schuschleb, Valeria Sivtsova, Susanne Weise, Franz Gabriel Walther, Dr. Grit Wendelberger

Open Call: Proposals for group exhibition

The apexart Fellowship is an alternative educational program that invites creative individuals to leave their familiar surroundings for a month-long stay in an unfamiliar city. The program provides new sources of inspiration through exposure to new cultures, interests, and experiences. Unlike an artist residency program, the apexart Fellowship provides a rich, 30-day schedule of non-art […]

Art competition “Art on refuse collection vehicles” 2nd round

As part of the Symposion Urbanum Nürnberg (SUN), the City of Nuremberg is holding an open art competition for the artistic design of refuse collection vehicles. Artists are invited to submit designs. From these submissions, the Advisory Board for Visual Arts will select the best designs, which will gradually be applied to the refuse collection […]

Linocut today XIII – Graphic design award of the city of Bietigheim-Bissingen

It’s that time of year again: every three years, the town of Bietigheim-Bissingen awards the “Linocut Today” printmaking prize, now in its thirteenth year. Founded in 1989, the prize has long since become an institution and has established itself as one of the most important international graphic design awards: its focus on a single technique […]

Gaildorf town painter scholarship

Anyone working professionally and freelance in the visual arts can apply for the Gaildorf City Painter Scholarship. The scholarship includes twelve months’ rent-free accommodation in the old castle with a 45 square meter studio and a cash payment of 500 euros/month. An artistic engagement with Gaildorf and the Limpurger Land region as well as a […]

Bamberg Art Scholarship

The city of Bamberg, alternating with the district of Bamberg, offers an art scholarship to give professional artists the opportunity to start, continue or complete projects. The scholarship is limited to six months, begins on March 1, 2025 at the earliest and ends on December 31, 2025 at the latest. The presentation of a work […]

Symposium Künstlergut Prösitz

Call for applications for a one-month scholarship for sculpture, installation and object art The Saxon artists’ house “Künstlergut Prösitz” invites applications for four-week participation in this unique European symposium from May to October each year. The scholarship is aimed at artists who work in sculpture, sculpture, installation and object art. All forms of experimental work […]

Cross Innovation 2021 – 2027

from the “Digital And Creative Economy” program” With the Cross Innovation program, the state and the EU are promoting the formation and work of networks of companies in the creative industries, creative crafts and other sectors with the aim of developing innovative and new products and services. Who is supported? What is supported? Application deadline: […]

Rüdiger Giebler in Halle (Saale)

Special exhibition on the occasion of Moritz Götze’s 60th birthday “Once around Halle. A walk with Moritz Götze, Christian Lohse (photos) and Rüdiger Giebler.”

Annette Funke in Plauen

Icons” exhibition Ikonen focuses on ambivalent figures that can be read ambiguously. Mother, warrior, goddess trigger ambivalent feelings and challenge us to position ourselves. Many points of view are possible, revealing different perspectives. Each placed in the center of the picture, they determine the created scenery and reflect historically evolved stereotypes, social narratives and ideals. […]

Petra Reichenbach in Annaburg

The art book “Starke Frauen in der Lichtenburg” was nominated by the Stiftung Buchkunst as “Germany’s Most Beautiful Regional Book”. We would like to celebrate this with a special kind of book presentation: on Sunday, 27.10.2024 from 10 a.m. we invite you to the Annaburger Porzellaneum for a story breakfast “Strong women in Lichtenburg”. Around […]

Research assistant at the Institute for Art Studies and Aesthetics

Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) Application deadline: November 06, 2024

Line Jastram, Roland Köhler, Sabine Kunz and Jörg Riemke in Radewell

MOVIMENTO – Künstlerhaus Goldener Pflug in action – Exhibition | Workshops | Music

Judith Runge and Alexandra Stein in Berlin

VII International Bad Video Art Festival OPEN CALL

We are looking for videos that are at the intersection of bad art, bad painting, and bad cinema. We propose to study extreme forms of video art and single out certain works as bad videos or “B-videos”. Join us if you are interested in the issue of quality and boundaries in art. This year, the […]

Riddergade Artist-in-Residence 2025

Riddergade AIR is a three-month residency program where professional visual artists from all over the world can develop and immerse themselves in their artistic practice and strengthen their network. With Riddergade AIR, Viborg Kunsthal offers artists workshop facilities, assistance for tasks of a practical and artistic nature as well as access to a broad local, […]

Designers in Residence 2025

“Designers in Residence” is an international design scholarship of the city of Pforzheim in cooperation with Pforzheim University and the Design-Center Baden Württemberg, granted to young design artists from the fields of jewelry, fashion, accessory, industrial and graphic and other areas of design. Three designers are invited to work on their projects from April 1 […]

Art competition: Ferdinandeum – Art on the building site

The Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriebsgesellschaft m.b.H. invites artists to take part in the “Ferdinandeum – Art on the Building Site” competition. The occasion is the renovation of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck from spring 2025 to 2027. The aim of the competition is to realize temporary works of art on or during the construction site […]

W2-Professorship “Animation”

Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF Application deadline: November 17, 2024

W2 University Professorship for Art and Visual Cultures of Africa

Free University of Berlin Application deadline: November 14, 2024

STUDIO TALKS 24/25

WHAT6 joint online meetings and two individual online discussions over a period of 6 months. The meetings and one-to-one discussions accompany the artistic work in the studio through exchanges between colleagues, the thematic focus on topics that are important to the participants and through reflection opportunities, whichcan be individually deepened between the meetings. An intensive […]

New artist calendar by Dieter Gilfert

Calendar “amoreros 2025” now available Size: 30X21cm (portrait format) Offset print spiral binding-signed Circulation: 250 Price: 25,-€ plus possible shipping costs

Mareen Alburg Duncker, Sarah Schuschkleb and Oscar Wippermann in Vilnius

International Biennial of Jewellery and Metal Art | Exhibition METALLOphone “Don’t Tell Me A Story”.

Stefanie Demmel and Matthias Behne in Halle (Saale)

Workshop – Floral Photograms | The design is purely analog with real natural materials, which are supplemented as photograms with your own graphics or typography. The result is 10 two-color DIN A3 art prints to give away or keep for yourself.

Petra Reichenbach in Berlin

Themed evening in Berlin Mitte on Olga Benario, one of the protagonists in the book “Starke Frauen in der Lichtenburg” (“Strong Women in Lichtenburg”) for the multimedia installation “Starke Frauen in der Lichtenburg” (“Strong Women in Lichtenburg”) at Lichtenburg Castle in Prettin. Jörg Sundermeier from Verbrecher Verlag will talk about Olga’s time in Neukölln, Melanie […]

Open Call: 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. We look forward to receiving submissions for contributions in various formats and cross-cutting topics. Based on impulses from the […]

Call for applications for the Bernhard Heiliger Scholarship

In memory of the sculptor Bernhard Heiliger, the Bernhard Heiliger Foundation awards an annual scholarship for sculptors at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee in the amount of a one-off payment of 1,000 euros, combined with a public presentation of works by the prizewinner in Heiliger’s former studio at Kunsthaus […]

Marco Warmuth in Beaugency

During a two-month residency scholarship from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation in Beaugency, France, Marco Warmuth got to know Caroline Gottwald, a lifeguard living there. Together they developed and realized a campaign for breast cancer prevention for French women. This involved taking black and white photographs of women with and after being diagnosed with breast cancer. […]

Dorit Goedecke in Naumburg

On becoming and passing away – meditative drawing seminar in the Saale-Unstrut vineyard

Michalea Benedan, Julia Himmelmann, Romy Pfeiffer, Alexandra Stein, Annegret Streu and Susanne Weise in Halle (Saale)

Fabian Jochen Kanzler

In his artistic work, Fabian Jochen Kanzler unfolds a metaphysical examination of the facets of human perception and the variations of its psyche. With his photographs, he seeks to look behind the visible world – where photography in the conventional sense ends. But this view never remains merely on the surface. With his accompanying texts, […]

“Illustren Advent” – Advent market for graphics and illustration in Halle

We organize the “Illustren Advent” our Advent market for graphics and illustration in Halle and would be delighted if you would exhibit with us. The data are as follows: If you are interested or have any questions, please contact us by e-mail: The illustrious team: Franz Gabriel Walther, Danilo Pockrandt and Ulrike Basner Deadline […]

Franziska Bilharz in Dresden

Artists from various genres show their work on the theme“Nachtschatten”

Ina Jänicke, Judith Runge, Almuth Lohmann-Zell, Katharina Gahlert, Katja Neubert and Sibylle Mundt in Halle

Exhibition “VERSPIELT” by the art collective UKO3 as part of the 29th Halle Women’s Culture Days “Spiel-Art(en)”

Artistic assistant in the New Media department

University of Kassel Application deadline: October 9, 2024

Artistic employee Artistic action and research

Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig Application deadline: October 31, 2024

Artistic assistant at the Faculty of Design – Institute for Transmedia Design –

Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) Application deadline: October 23, 2024

Rednitzhembach: Artwork for the center island of the new traffic circle on state road 2409

The following are involved in the new traffic circle– Staatl. Building Authority Nuremberg– District of Roth– Municipality of Rednitzhembach Extension with a work of art: in spring 2025 The following conditions have been imposed by the State Building authority:Safety and ease of traffic must be guaranteed: The artist must procure the materials. The costs for […]

Scholarships from the Ilse Augustin Foundation

The “Ilse Augustin Foundation for the Promotion of Visual Artists”, founded in 1997, will award two grants of €15,000 each to visual artists in 2024, subject to available funds, in order to improve their social situation and work opportunities. All artists who can provide proof of a degree from an art academy or equivalent training […]

Museum makes you strong

For applications for project funding from the German Museums Association as part of the funding initiative “Kultur macht stark. Alliances for Education” (2023 – 2027) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The aim of the project is to introduce children and young people between the ages of 5 and 18, who have […]

Korvin Reich in Röderhof

Exhibition Centers and Fields with Jörg Wunderlich | As part of a three-month work grant from the state of Saxony-Anhalt

No end to the road: Rethinking the cultural landscape – Fellowship in Witten

Do you see the digitalization of the cultural scene as more than just a livestream from the theater? Do you want to experiment with new media formats? Network with other artists and cultural professionals? And work with them to create experiential spaces for new post-digital forms of expression? Then come to Witten in 2025 as […]

Hans Purrmann Prize of the City of Speyer for Fine Arts

According to Hans Purrmann’s express wish, the “Hans Purrmann Prize of the City of Speyer for Fine Arts” is to be awarded to young artists who are worthy of support and who, comparable to Hans Purrmann’s stations in life (birth in the Palatinate, life and work stations in Munich, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Florence, but also […]

Scholarships 2025 Künstler:innenhaus Lauenburg

The Künstler:innenhaus Lauenburg/Elbe is offering four scholarships for the state of Schleswig-Holstein in the following possible areas: The residency period for the scholarship holders at Künstlerhaus Lauenburg is 4 months from mid-May to mid-September. The duration of the work scholarship is also 4 months from mid-May to mid-September. The scholarships are awarded by a jury […]

Photo competition – Impressions of Romanticism: Caspar David Friedrich and Saxon Switzerland

Saxon Switzerland exerted a great attraction on Caspar David Friedrich throughout his life. He had found the ideal of a romantic landscape here and recorded his impressions in numerous sketches and drawings. For him, the rocky world of Saxon Switzerland was a place of longing and inspiration. What fascinated the Romantics back in the 19th […]

KaB: Osthofen | New construction of an elementary school with five classes and a two-court sports hall

The municipality of Wonnegau is planning the construction of an elementary school with five classes and a two-court sports hall.(…)The implementation of the art on the building as a work of art is intended to reflect the sustainable character of the building principle. The artwork is intended to create an identity that is characteristic of […]

Workshop MATERNAL FANTASIES in Halle

Participatory performance and regional network meeting on art and parenthoodon 13. November 2024 von 10:00 bis 16:00 Uhr A hybrid event organized by the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. and Dornrosa e.V. Halle. For artists who have children, the art world is full of structural hurdles. Parenthood and freelancing are difficult to reconcile and this […]

Frank Borisch in Magdeburg

BILD UND SZENE | Retrospective A colorful mix of things that make a theater evening possible, have prepared it creatively and technically and reflected on it artistically. – Frank Borisch

Application for the Advent gallery at hr. butcher kiosk

THE KIOSK, THE CHRISTMAS COOKIE As every year in December, the kiosk on Reileck becomes a Christmas cookie. From December 6 to 23, 2024, passers-by can purchase beautiful, selected products to admire and purchase in the Christmas kiosk. If you would also like to apply as an exhibitor for the Christmas cookie, please send us […]

BBK workshop “Artist profiles on the BBK homepage” on October 22 and 29, 2024

The new BBK Saxony-Anhalt website was launched in April 2024. The site is optimally geared towards our uses. The design is appealing, the usability is flexible and the new tools bring it to life. One shortcoming of the new site is the extensive lack of artist profiles in the “Artist database” menu item(www.bbk-sachsenanhalt.de/kuenstlerinnen). All BBK […]

hin&herzo project prize 2025

The city of Herzogenaurach is organizing “hin&herzo – The Culture Festival” for the 6th time, which will take place from 18 to 21 September 2025. In addition to a broad cultural program and a variety of different events, the hin&herzo project prize will be awarded.The city of Herzogenaurach is looking forward to receiving applications from […]

Alexandra Stein in Höhr-Grenzhausen

15th Westerwald Prize 2024 Ceramics Museum WesterwaldLindenstraße 1356203 Höhr-Grenzhausen

Franz Rentsch in Halle

Solo exhibition with the title “Water in the eyes”. With musical accompaniment by “soft eject”. www.franzrentsch.de Instagram: @franz_rentsch

Elvira Franz in Quedlinburg

Protected areas exhibition

Valeria Liebermann and Valeriia Karachentseva in Halle (Saale)

Exhibition on the book “Dark Tales” Two visual artists from Ukraine are exhibiting in the gallery of the Women’s Center. Once again, we are making reference to Anti-War Day on September 1 and to September 21, which is dedicated to world peace. Valeria Sivtsova (Liebermann) has lived in Germany since 2004, Valeriia Karachentseva came to […]

Christoph Ackermann, Frank Borisch, Jochen P. Heite and Christoph Kunze in Schönebeck

Art against the right – 30 artists from Magdeburg and Schönebeck Our society is becoming increasingly polarized. Not only is the tone of communication itself becoming harsher, but people are now being insulted, marginalized, persecuted on social media and even physically attacked. The so-called simple solutions spread by right-wing populists are aimed at further exacerbating […]

Call for entries for the “Handwerk & Design” 2025 trade fair

From March 12 to 16, 2025, “Handwerk & Design” in Munich will once again open its doors and invite the crème de la crème – especially you – to present yourself in the field of arts and crafts and design. 70% of the space has already been allocated – a clear sign of the enormous […]

50 BBK members in Halle (Saale)

Anniversary exhibition “WIR SIND KUNST” celebrates 20 years of the Art Foundation with 50 BBK members and other artists. Among them are: Miriam Albert, Nora Mona Bach, Hagen Bäcker, Franca Bartholomäi, Simon Baumgart, Christine Bergmann, Benjamin Borisch, Frank Borisch, Helga Borisch, Christine Budig, Magdalena Cichon, Anne Deuter, Mareen Alburg Duncker, Andrea Flemming, Ondine Frochaux, Marc […]

Junior Professorship “Digital Film in the Context of the Arts”

University of Hildesheim Application deadline: November 15, 2024

Artist residency at the Kulturkollektiv

Artist in Residence in the glassblowing town of Lauscha The Federal Cultural Foundation and the Thuringian State Chancellery provided start-up funding to establish the residency and launch the program. The Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia has been funding the program since 2018. During their one-month residency, the artists receive free accommodation, a […]

BBK Saxony-Anhalt conducts survey on artists’ estates

The Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. is calling on all visual artists and estate holders (institutions and private individuals) to take part in an anonymous survey. You have until November 15 to take part. The survey is the first part of a study that the BBK Saxony-Anhalt is conducting from summer 2024 to the end […]

Teacher for special tasks at the Faculty of Fine Arts – Institute for Art in Context

Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) Application deadline: September 30, 2024

Head of the photography workshop

Dresden University of Fine Arts Application deadline: November 04, 2024

Braunschweig Projects Residency Program 2025-2026

A collaboration between HBK Braunschweig and the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, the Braunschweig Projects residency programme combines the goal of promoting young artists with the development of internationalization or the Lower Saxony region. Braunschweig University of Art (HBK Braunschweig) is an artistic-scientific university with the right to award doctoral and post […]

Participatory Residency Program for Disabled Artists, Activists and Cultural Workers

As part of the Participatory Residency Program, the Academy of the Arts of the World (ADKDW), together with Un-Label, is inviting applications for a residency in Cologne, Germany, from April to September 2025 from artists, activists and cultural workers with disabilities, or disabled artists, activists and cultural workers of all disciplines. The Participatory Residency Program […]

Music and Visual Arts Residency 2025

Each September, Pioneer Works selects residents through an open call. Aided by a jury of experts and Alumni Residents, Pioneer Works welcomes residents who work outside existing models and ‘norms’ of their field and will benefit from the unique facilities and culture of the residency. As such, Pioneer Works shifts and evolves to reflect the […]

Residency for Visual Artists from Central Asia

With support from Delfina Foundation’s Network of Central Asia Patrons, the foundation is welcoming applications from contemporary visual artists from Central Asia for a residency in London. This 12-week residency will take place from March 31 to June 22, 2025, during Delfina Foundation’s spring residency season. Applicants must be a national of and/or currently living […]

Rhodes Trust: Rhodes Art for Global Impact Residency 2024-2025

This residency provides an opportunity for an artist to join the community of the Rhodes Trust for one year as a non residential intellectual exchange project culminating in an exhibition at Rhodes House. The Rhodes Trust seeks artists committed to the values and vision of the Trust, with a practice rooted in social justice and/or […]

Into the Fields: Residency for Artists from Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland

Denk-und Produktionsort Libken grants five two-month residency scholarships to artists from Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland who live and work in the countryside or mainly engage with rural environments in their artistic practice. The residency will take place from 1 March to 30 April 2025 in Libken, on the outskirts of the 80-inhabitant village […]

Residency Scholarship Audiovisual Art

The 13th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL SCHLOSSMEDIALE FÜR ALTE UND NEUE MUSIK UND AUDIOVISUELLE KUNST will take place from June 19 to 28, 2025.A five-week residency grant gives three individual artists the opportunity to develop new art in a place steeped in history and to realize it in a creative and open approach in the special rooms […]

The Arctic Circle

Artist and scientist led, The Arctic Circle is an annual expeditionary residency program. Established in 2009, The Arctic Circle brings together international artists of all disciplines, scientists, architects, and educators who collectively explore the high-Arctic Svalbard Archipelago and Arctic Ocean aboard a specially outfitted expedition vessel. The Arctic Circle provides a shared experience for its […]

Marion Ermer Prize 2025

The Marion Ermer Foundation in cooperation with the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig awards the Marion Ermer Prize, endowed with EUR 5,000 each, to four young visual artists. The prizewinners’ works will be presented in a joint exhibition and accompanying publication at the MdbK in 2025. The call is aimed exclusively at young artists who […]

Scholarship from the Peter Jacobi Foundation for Art & Design 2025

The scholarship for art is being advertised for 2025. The annual scholarship promotes the further development of artistic work. Artists are invited to apply if they have developed a convincing body of artistic work several years after graduating from an art academy and already have a diverse, possibly international exhibition record. What does the scholarship […]

Young Art Lemgo

The Young Art Scholarship is awarded annually to a visual artist as part of a competition! The scholarship is awarded by the Old Hanseatic City of Lemgo and sponsored by the STAFF STIFTUNG Lemgo. The scholarship holder will be provided with a studio apartment free of charge for the period from May 1 of one […]

Zeitgleich-Zeitzeichen: Experimental printing art from Saxony-Anhalt now also in Dresden

Printmaking experiments from Dresden and Dessau have already been on show for two weeks this early summer at the Anhaltischer Kunstverein Dessau. Now the BBK portfolio project is also coming to Dresden. In the spirit of contemporary experimental printmaking, works will be exhibited by: Künstlerbund Dresden e.V. Thomas Bachler | Heike Berl | Gudrun Brückel […]

Open pop-up store at Halle (Saale) main station

A store in Halle (Saale) main station will be vacant from 2025. As the owner, Deutsche Bahn would like to establish this store as a pop-up store with changing tenants from the creative industries. The store’s opening hours are not tied to the station’s core opening hours (Mon – Sun from 9:00 to 20:00) and […]

ilka Leukefeld, Sabine Riemenschneider, Kornelia Thümmel in Halberstadt

V.MKH-Biennale – PĂDURE ȘI BINE | COȚOFANĂ ȘI ELAN | COPAC ȘI TUFĂ | WALD UND WOHL | BAUM UND BUSCH | ELSTER UND ELCH

Rector

Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen Application deadline: October 7, 2024

St. Leopold Peace Prize

In 2025, Klosterneuburg Abbey will award the St. Leopold Peace Prize for humanitarian commitment in the arts for the eleventh time. The “St. Leopold Peace Prize”, named after the founder of the foundation, honors works of art that deal critically with humane and socio-political issues. The St. Leopold Peace Prize is awarded to works of […]

Märkisches Stipendium 2025 in the subject of painting

The MKK awards the Märkische Stipendium 2025 in the field of fine arts in the subject of painting. The scholarship holder is given the opportunity to work for a year with a high degree of financial independence and to present themselves to the public. The initiators expect this to be mutually enriching. Scholarship duration:01.01 to […]

Annegrete Riebesel on glass art podium in Magdeburg

Lecture and panel discussion “Preserving cultural heritage. Architectural glass art yesterday – today – tomorrow” on September 10, 2024, 6 to 8 p.m. In July 2024, the state capital of Magdeburg published “Painting with Light and Glass – Architectural Glass Art in and from Magdeburg”. The volume is the result of intensive research and is […]

Franca Bartholomäi at the Operncafé Halle

Exhibition “WE CHILDREN AND WE ANIMALS” From September 7, 2024 – February 2, 2025 Exhibition opening on 7 September 2024, 7 p.m.with a greeting from Dr. Judith Marquardt, Councillor for Culture and Sport of the City of Halle and a laudatory speech in the presence of the artist Midissage on November 7, 2024, 7 pmReading […]

Ulrike Basner, Elena Kiseleva-Arendt, Petra Reichenbach and Valeria Sivtsova in Halle (Saale)

HofKunstNacht of the Lions Club Halle an der Saale with art auction 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 event during which an auction will be held for the purposes of the Lions organization in […]

Friedrich Hensen

Friedrich Hensen works intermedially. He works in social, artistic and non-material spaces, which he summarizes with the socio-philosophical term “traversing the spheres”. This results in site-specific installations, performances and multimedia works consisting of texts, sounds and poetry or socio-cultural projects, such as the Bürgertheater Zeitz. Friedrich Hensen:

Study Center for Artists’ Legacies Saxony-Anhalt 2024-2026

The BBK Saxony-Anhalt has been observing the problems of dealing with artistic bequests and estates for many years. He is committed to keeping this topic in the political discourse and finding solutions. He will now examine whether a center for artists’ estates could be expedient. The state government also attaches great importance to this idea […]

Franca Bartholomäi in Halle (Saale)

Exhibition “WE CHILDREN AND WE ANIMALS”

Christian Nebel in Halle (Saale)

Art project ‘Play of colors in the art space Halle’. The project combines art, nature and community. There are no age limits, everyone is welcome. The aim is to promote a creative community in which the exchange of ideas and the joy of creative activity are at the forefront. Participants have the opportunity to discover […]

BBK members at the Sichtbar art & design market

With them are: Mareen Alburg Duncker, Ulrike Basner, Sophie Baumgärtner, Stefanie Demmel, Anja Geiling , Antje Halter, Laura Hanisch, Anett Hoffmann, Line Jastram, Maximilian Koch, Almuth Lohmann-Zell, Nicole Müller, Friederike Nottrott, Romy Pfeiffer, Annekathrin Pohle, Petra Reichenbach, Lisa S. Rackwitz, Hans Rainer Rausch, Judith Runge, Julia Rückert, Johann Spengler, Alexandra Stein, Annegret Streu , Valeria […]

RostockScholarship

Residency grants from the Kunstverein zu Rostock and the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock for the genre of fine arts for the year 2025 The Kunstverein zu Rostock is offering residency grants for the Schleswig-Holstein-Haus for the year 2025, for which artists can apply. The Schleswig-Holstein-Haus is located in the eastern part of the […]

The arts open up worlds

“Künste öffnen Welten” is a funding program of the Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung (BKJ) and part of the federal program “Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung” and enables cultural education projects for children and young people. Application deadline: September 12, 2024

Future Prize for Cultural Policy: KULTURGESTALTEN

The Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft e.V. is awarding the KULTURGESTALTEN cultural policy prize for the third time With the KULTURGESTALTEN Future Prize for Cultural Policy, we would like to draw attention to cultural policy practice, guiding principles and visions, highlight forward-looking commitment in this area and encourage imitation. We are looking for projects, practical examples and individuals […]

RESONANZLAB production grant

The ResonanzLab opens up a creative space for artists to work on site with people in the Lake Constance region and focus specifically on their approach to climate change. How do our own experiences, everyday narratives or the omnipresent news from the media influence our view of our changing living environment(s)? Are we more sensitive […]

Erlebnis Kunst Foundation / Project funding

The Erlebnis Kunst Foundation supports artistic and art education work in the fields of visual arts, theater, music and new media. In particular, projects that demonstrate a creative, innovative, original and reflective concept in dealing with art and interpretative experience are supported. The projects to be funded must show evidence of substantiated planning in terms […]

Märkisches Stipendium 2025

The MKK awards the Märkische Stipendium 2025 in the field of fine arts in the subject of painting. The scholarship holder is given the opportunity to work for a year with a high degree of economic independence and to present themselves to the public. The initiators expect this to be mutually enriching. Who can apply?Anyone […]

Free web seminars of the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK)

Information on online forms for artists who are already insured In this live web seminar, we will introduce you to the new online forms of the Künstlersozialkasse. This allows you to handle your social security matters for artists easily, quickly and securely digitally. We will guide you through the online forms by way of example: […]

Autumn admission to the BBK Saxony-Anhalt

Visual artists and designers can apply to the professional association twice a year to become part of our solidarity-based community of artists. Now it’s that time again. On October 22, we will meet with the new members for the admission meeting with a pop-up exhibition – this time in Quedlinburg. If you would like to […]

Visible Art & Design Market on 07. and September 8, 2024

Soon the time will come – on 7. and September 8, 2024, the moat of Moritzburg Castle will become a meeting place for art and culture! More than 50 artists and designers will be showing their extraordinary range. Experience colors, shapes and materials in various forms and get to know the creative people behind them. […]

Petra Reichenbach in Bernburg

Book presentation “Strong women in the Lichtenburg”

Artistic university professorship for “Painting”

University of Duisburg-Essen Application deadline: September 23, 2024

Sabine Brauns

In my exhibition “13“, I am showing works that reflect on the articles of the UN Convention on Human Rights of 1948 and the disregard for them. More precisely, the focus is on Articles 1 and 3. The former recognizes the inviolability of every human being’s dignity. It should be the foundation for ethical behavior […]

Philipp Eichhorn in Saxony

Design of a mural as part of the UWE festival

Schöppingen Artists’ Village Scholarship 2024

Since 1989, the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen has been an internationally active cultural production and residency center for artists. The scholarship-supported stay of two to six months enables the realization of projects in the fields of literature, visual arts and composition. When:Applications for the year 2024 can be submitted until August 31, 202.The application portal is open […]

7th edition of the kunst.stück competition

The Kaltern Winery, a cooperative winery around Lake Kaltern and one of the most important wine producers in South Tyrol, invites up-and-coming and established artists to interpret the 7th edition of its kunst.stück project. This year, the focus is on the Vernatsch grape variety, an indigenous South Tyrolean grape variety that has played an important […]

Workshop manager ceramics

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle Application deadline: September 15, 2024

plan.d Art Prize 2024 for the 25th anniversary exhibition “FLAUSENRAUSCH”

The call for entries for the plan.d. Art Prize 2024 “Flausenrausch” is aimed at artistswho would like to support our cultural work through their participation. Content and format of the work The theme of the works to be submitted is “Flausenrausch”. This theme is to be shaped by the personal artistic signature of the participating […]

dpunkt.photo prize

dpunkt.verlag cordially invites flâneurs and walkers with a passion for photography and urban life to take part in the dpunkt.fotopreis 2024. Present your best work in the “street photography” genre to a wide audience and be recognized by our expert jury. Street photography captures the vibrant life of the streets and tells stories that often […]

CALL FOR ENTRIES #30

Revolutionize your photography career with an unparalleled opportunity tailor-made just for you. Imagine: Your work in the hands of the most influential galleries, distributed at the world’s most prestigious festivals and appreciated by the industry’s most prominent agencies.More than a dream, it’s a tangible opportunity that’s within your reach. If you are ready to challenge […]

Alexander Lech in Dessau

Stencil-Workshop | Together with Alex you will develop your European graphic as a stencil and transfer it onto posters, walls or fabric using screen printing, spray cans or brushes (you are welcome to bring bags, shirts and aprons) – it all depends on you. Alexander Lech is the founder of BüroHallo, probably the most unconventional […]

Ideas competition for a memorial to the persecution of homeless people under the Nazi dictatorship

Ideas competition to obtain an artistic design for the creation of a memorial to the persecution of homeless people under the Nazi dictatorship The aim of the competition is a design for a memorial site for the group of homeless victims of the Nazi dictatorship, which includes a free-standing sculpture or group of sculptures as […]

KaB: New construction of the main fire station, Trier

The new main fire station with rescue station and integrated control center is not only the new headquarters of the professional fire department of the city of Trier, but also forms a central base with the rescue service and the integrated control center that extends into the surrounding districts. Total amount awarded€ 192,000.00 (gross) incl. […]

Artistic assistant in the sculpture program, specializing in jewelry

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle Application deadline: September 15, 2024

Graphic Arts Prize of the City of Bietigheim-Bissingen “Linocut today XIII”

Since the first linoleum factory was built in Bietigheim in 1899, the history of the industry and the town has been closely linked to the production of linoleum flooring. When the Bietigheim-Bissingen Municipal Gallery was founded in 1989, the “Linocut Today” competition was also launched, which always receives more than 500 entries from all over […]

REVIERPIONIER Audience Award – online voting until August 26

Online voting for the five LOKALGESTALTEN public prizes in the REVIERPIONIER ideas competition has started. Until August 26, 2024, 11:59 p.m., citizens can vote once at www.revierpionier.de for a total of 15 previously unawarded projects from the REVIERGESTALTEN and ZUKUNFTGESTALTEN categories and cast up to five votes for the Audience Award. Voting runs until August […]

Research assistant for teaching art

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle Application deadline: September 13, 2024

BBK Rhineland-Palatinate presents fee calculator for visual artists, exhibitors and event organizers

The majority of visual artists continue to work under precarious fee conditions. Although the publication of the Guideline on Fees by the Federal Association of Visual Artists in December 2022 created the basis for the joint demand and enforcement of minimum fees for visual artists, the lower fee limits are not implemented everywhere – even […]

BBK summer reception at Q.Hof

The second BBK Summer Reception will take place on August 15, 2024. The board of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt invited network partners from politics and culture, active members and members from the “focus” regions of Magdeburg and Harz to exchange ideas, look back on joint initiatives and make new plans. This year’s co-host is the Q.Hof […]

Scholarships for “Contemporary German Photography”

The Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation has been awarding scholarships for contemporary German photography in cooperation with the Photographic Collection at Museum Folkwang since 1982. The grant is aimed at photographers (no age limit) who wish to develop a photographic project over a longer period of time independently of a commissioned work. The […]

Research assistant in art education and art didactics

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle Application deadline: September 13, 2024

CASE REMAPPED: a call for two residencies