Deadline: 12 May 2021

Il Varco is glad to inaugurate the eight edition of Prisma Art Prize, a quarterly award with cash prizes for artists from all around the world that will become a collective exhibition for the first time in June 2021 in Rome.

Organized with the goal of creating a space for visual artists to share their work with hundreds of colleagues from all around the world, it offers 2000€ in cash awards every year, purchase prizes and packages of services worth 2500€ from Biafarin and Vivivacolors in four seasonal competitions and an online gallery where the artworks are put on display forever.

Jurors are qualified and esteemed painters, curators, mixed media artists and digital artists from different countries all around the world. The exhibition will take place at Atelier Montez, a contemporary art factory born in 2012 from the redevelopment of an urban wreck on a project by the Artist Gio Montez, that has already attracted international artists like Hermann Nitsch, Cheikh Zidor and Turi Sottile.

Visit our finalists gallery and submit on our official website.

Signing up is fast and you can do it entirely online.

Entry fee:

25€

Prizes & Awards:

Various prizes: 

Cash prize (500€), service prizes and interview every three months, live exhibition in a gallery in Rome every year

Details:

https://www.prismaartprize.com/

 

Deadline: 11 March 2021

"Lab.18 art contest, is a call for submissions open to all kind of artists. Works allowed in the art competition are: drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, graphics, mix media and video. A great opportunity for the artists, which can win a cash prize, have the opportunity to exhibit the artworks and much more. 

The following types of works are admitted: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Mixed media, Digital, Video, Graphics, Net art, other (all visual works that can be reproduced through a picture are allowed).

The contest is addressed to professional and amateur artists, graphic designers, painters, photographers, etc. from all over the world. 

Entry fee

45€

Prizes / Awards

5000,00€

- collaboration award for a new Malamegi collection

- artwork acquisition award

- cash prize

- monographic book prize

Details:

https://www.lab.malamegi.com/

 

Deadline: 10 February 2021

"GETXOPHOTO’s Open Call provides an opportunity for visual artists and photographers to exhibit their work in the Festival’s next edition, in September 2021. To Share will be the theme of GETXOPHOTO’s 15th anniversary, aiming to create and use non-conventional installations in physical and digital spaces.

The international jury made up of Cristina de Middel –photographer–, Mariama Attah –curator of the Open Eye Gallery Photography Museum (Liverpool) –, Jon Uriarte –digital curator of Photographers’ Gallery– and Gwen Lee –director and co-founder of the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF)– will select 3 projects that will be part of the artistic programme in the next edition of the Festival."

Entry fee:

20€

Prizes / awards

"3 artists will benefit from (if the jury finds it convenient, the number of winners may be increased):

    The production of an exhibition at GETXOPHOTO Festival alongside recognized contemporary visual artists

    Fee of 400€ as participant of the Festival

    Accomodation for 2 nights during the Opening Week.

    Inclusion in the Festival’s programme and publication

    Inclusion in the Festival’s communication marketing campaign

    Dedicated entry on the Festival website

    Being seen by a large number of visual arts and media professionals"

Details:

https://contests.picter.com/getxophoto-open-call-2021

 

Deadline: 28 February 2021

Festival for Experimental Music, Sound Art & Performance

No entry fee

Organizer provides

We can pay for travel, accommodation and food.

Details:

www.experimance.de

 

Deadline: 8 March 2021

Canada’s leading contemporary outdoor art fair is celebrating 60 years of of launching artists careers, and the #CallForArtists is now open! Visual artists and makers of all backgrounds are invited to apply for the hybrid online/outdoor 60th @torontooutdoorartfair in July 2021. Each year, a loyal following of Fair-goers spend $2 million on art purchases, providing an income to independent artists that contributes to their economic prosperity. The 60th Anniversary Fair will be one to remember with new special programs and awards!
Accepting applications until March 8. Get more info and apply now at www.torontooutdoor.art

Entry fee

$50 CAD

Prizes / Awards

$40,000 cash and in-kind awards, Biggest prize $6,000 to one artist

Details:

https://torontooutdoor.art/

 

Deadline: 3 January 2021

a.topos Venice is pleased to present THE CREATIVE ROOM, an original initiative created by the Curatorial Collective to promote emerging creatives, following the CC’s commitment to enhance their visibility by providing an exhibition space to selected artists in the venetian contemporary art scene.

In this OPEN CALL first edition, we are inviting participants to send proposals that address a challenge imposed by the exceptional reality of lockdown and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: How to recreate oneself? Exercising the gaze towards the outside? Repositioning self as subject/object? Share your artwork with us so that we can convert our gallery in an extension of your own CREATIVE ROOM.

Entry fee:

20€

Prizes / Awards:

2 exhibitions

Details:

https://atoposvenice.com/thecreativeroom

 

sound installations and/or live music performances

Site specific art contest

Deadline: 19 April 2020

As a part of the Visual stage, Pohoda Festival is launching the sixth year of Pohoda Visual Art Contest.
Anyone can send their proposals for a site-specific art installation for Pohoda festival and the author(s) of the chosen project will be granted 3500 € to implement it.

The contest is open to any kind of site-specific works, happenings, spatial media, installations and interactive works with inter-media features that will become a part of the festival life. The winning project will be decided by a board of artist professionals and will form part of the Visual Stage at Pohoda festival. The winner will be announced by the end of April.

 Proposals must be submitted by mail in the application form in A4 format. Each proposal must contain a visualisation of the artwork (by any graphic method).

Authors must be able to ensure the actual implementation of the work.

The work must be safe, controllable, and in accordance with applicable legislation of the Slovak Republic.

No entry fee

Prizes:
The contribution for one piece is €3,500.

Details:
https://www.pohodafestival.sk/sk/contest

Artist in Residency India

Deadline: 20 February 2020


Artists of all disciplines creating in any media are welcome to apply: dance, theatre, music, sound, performance art, writing, painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, culinary, photography, video/film, animation, architecture, sculpture (any material), ceramics, mixed-media / multi-media, interdisciplinary, installation, other new/alternative media, etc. Researchers, curators, and art critics are also welcome to apply. Open to emerging and established artists.

Sessions:
1. Session:   10th October – 4th November 2020
2. Session:   5th November – 30th November 2020
3. Session:   1st December – 25th December 2020
4. Session:   6th January – 31st January 2021
5. Session:   1st February – 25th February 2021


No entry fee

Residency fee:
$650 USD Residency fee


Residency offers:
Accommodation (Private tents with bed and bedding)
Meals (Vegetarian breakfast, lunch, dinner included)
Tea (coffee on request)
Studio space
Exhibition opportunity
Invitation letter
Local sight-seeing
Internet
Electricity
Basic kitchen
Printer B/W
First aid kit (medical box)
Basic tools
Farm Studio residency provides three types of working spaces where artists can explore their art and ideas in the rural Rajasthani environment; at the Farm Studio indoor studio, the outdoor and farm environment, and in Andore Village.

Details:
https://farmingstudio.wordpress.com/art-residency/

Artist grant

Deadline: 5 February 2020

The Foundation of Lower Saxony grant at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art supports a wide spectrum of media art, from video art and net-based projects to audio works and audio-visual installations.
Each of the three grants will be awarded for the production of a new project in the area of media art.

The grant is valid for a duration of six months (July–December 2020). It cannot be prolonged and residency is compulsory; grant recipients can expect to stay in Oldenburg at least one month.

No entry fee

Residency offers:
- three Grants for Media Art of the Foundation of Lower Saxony (€12,500 each).
- possibility of using one of the guest apartments at the Edith-Russ-Haus

Details:
https://www.edith-russ-haus.de/en/grants/grants/current.html

Exhibition in NY open call

Deadline: 15 January 2020

THE BORDER is a project space that focuses on supporting, nurturing and showing talented immigrant artists and their siblings living in the United States along with a few locals. The open call is for everyone and not just immigrant artists. The Border Project Space was recently featured in Hyperallergic’s top 15 shows of 2018 plus AM New York, Vernisage TV, Medium Magazine, Hamptons Art Club, Quiet Lunch magazine plus many more.


All work must have been done within the last 3 years

Entry fee:
3 images for $25 and 5 images for $30 (or 3 video links – on the email itself) OR a solo show proposal of your work for $25 (pick one).

Prizes:

1st prize:  Solo Show and $500 in expenses for the show plus an interview on ArteFuse.com
2nd prize: Solo show (more possible solo shows will be awarded depending on the submissions)
3rd prize: 1 Group Show and possible inclusion on future groups shows
The PDF file of your work will be kept in a folder for future solo and group shows at THE BORDER or any other location Jamie Martinez/The Border curate at.


Deadline:
https://theborderprojectspace.com/open-call/

Open call for papers and artworks

Deadline: 15 January 2020

Economia – The Limited Edition is a conference taking place at Natlab, the former Philips physics laboratory, aiming to invent new avenues for playful and imaginative future developments in Economics.

In the search for new economic insights and alternatives to the current model, why not start by treating the economy like any other social and cultural construct, taking ownership so that we can reshape and rework it as we see fit? We welcome academic researchers, designers, artists, scientists, students, scholars, (social) entrepreneurs, visionaries and other creative thinkers and practitioners to submit proposals for Economia – The Limited Edition with regards to the following themes:

1. The economy as evolution
2. The economy as a game
3. The economy as magic
4. The economy as a playground
5. The economy as a caretaker
6. The economy of the commons


Proposal Requirements

Proposals should explore at least one (or more) of the proposed themes. The selected participants will be invited to present their paper/research as part of the conference in Eindhoven.

Artwork proposals

We will select art projects based on quality, feasibility and the connection to the theme.

No entry fee

but there are Conference Registration Fee (Notifications of acceptance will be sent before 28th of February 2020)

Early Bird: €30,00 until 1st of April 2020 / Full Price: €40.00.
Student Early Bird: €15.00 / Student Full Price: €20.00.
Early Bird registration will be open from the end of January, 2020.

Conference offers:
- limited funding available to support the travel/ accommodation of independent artists/researchers.
- limited budget to cover for artists fee


Details:
https://www.baltanlaboratories.org/library/call-for-papers-and-artworks-economia-2020

Art project in United Arab Emirates

Deadline: 10 January 2020

The Sharjah Art Foundation Production Programme broadens the possibilities for the production of art in the MENASA region (Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region) by supporting innovation and excellence in artistic practice through the encouragement of experimentation and risk-taking. Placing artists at the core of its mission, the foundation offers grants and professional support for the realisation of projects selected from an open call.

Arts practitioners are invited to propose imaginative, ambitious and inspirational projects that will transform our understanding of what art is and how it can be experienced. With this initiative, we at Sharjah Art Foundation hope to engage and challenge artists, our audiences and ourselves aesthetically, intellectually, emotionally, socially and politically.

We welcome visual art proposals from artists, collectives and collaborative groups. These collaborations may be between visual artists and choreographers, composers, filmmakers, writers, curators, theorists or other professionals working in fields such as science or philosophy.

In 2020, we are offering production grants to artists working in a range of media, including sculpture, installation, time-based media, artist’s books and performance.

No entry fee

Residency offers:
$200,000 is available in this application cycle

Details:
http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/events/open-call-sharjah-art-foundation-production-programme

Virtual Reality & Arts Festival

Deadline: 9 February 2020

VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival Hamburg is the first international Virtual Reality & Arts Festival. Since its first edition in 2018 VRHAM! has established itself as an important date in the international VR art scene. The festival is a platform for extraordinary national and international artists who are literally exploring new dimension via the unique medium of Virtual Reality. From 5 to 13 June 2020 VRHAM!’s third edition will take place at Hamburg’s Oberhafenquartier.
For the 2020 program VRHAM! is looking for the most innovative artistic VR experiences.


We accept artistic Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality projects. Whether it is installations, 360° films, performances or interactive works – we are interested in new narratives, unconventional approaches and unusual artistic positions as well as your idea for the physical presentation of your project. Submit your work from 5 December – 2019 until 9 February 2020.


No entry fee

Prizes:
5,000,- Euros


Details:
https://www.vrham.de/en/

Grants for artists

Deadline: 11 February 2020



Innovate Grant is now accepting submissions for the Winter Cycle. Innovate Grant awards (2) $550.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition to receiving a grant award, winners will be featured and recognized on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. For more information and to apply https://innovateartistgrants.org

Visual Artists and Photographers 18 years and older, from all around the world, are eligible to apply. All media and genres are accepted.

Entry fee
$25

Details:
https://innovateartistgrants.org

Feminist Art festival 2020

Deadline: 27 January 2020

For more than twenty years Studio XX has been producing HTMlles, a feminist festival of media arts and digital culture. The festival has established itself as a socially-engaged space, addressing an urgent current issue with each edition. Every two years, HTMlles mobilizes local, national and international artists, theorists, and activists working at the intersection of art and technology, and unfolds in artist-run centres, cultural spaces, and university research laboratories throughout Montreal.


The next edition of the HTMlles Festival will take place in 2020, 10 years before the fixed deadline set by the IPCC for implementing major changes that will limit global warming to 1.5 ˚C (1). In the meantime, public discourse about “crisis,” “cataclysm,” or even “apocalypse,” feeds the collective imagination, leading to an increasing sense of eco-anxiety.


HTMlles is looking for projects that are freely articulated around these environmental, temporal and/or relational issues. These could be critical and creative proposals, inspired by (but not limited to) eco-feminisms, cyber-feminisms, queer studies, Afro-futurist, Sino-futurist and futurist indigenous movements, cli-fi, hopepunk and solar punk, deconstructing greenwashing and whitewashing.

HTMlles welcomes proposals from artists, curators and activists who identify as women, trans, gender non-conforming, and queer, as well as from collectives and organizations that promote inclusive and intersectional feminist values.

We are looking for DIY, techno-critical, and innovative proposals. We hope that the projects proposed within the framework of this call will express, rethink, and explore topics related to the environmental crisis through a critical use of media arts and digital tools.

Examples of media / formats: Virtual reality, videos, installations, IRL or URL performances, video game art, networked works, round tables, conferences, workshops, bio art, 3D animation, augmented reality, public interventions, geolocated media – or something so cutting-edge we haven’t even heard of it yet…


No entry fee

Details:
https://studioxx.org/en/activities/htmlles-2020-call-for-proposals/

Media art festival

Deadline: 1 February 2020

Vector Festival is an annual media arts event dedicated to showcasing experimental art works that engage critically with digital technologies.

The festival is proudly participatory and community-oriented. Hosted by InterAccess and co-curated by Katie Micak and Martin Zeilinger, Vector Festival takes place at arts venues and in public spaces across the City of Toronto.

Since its inception, Vector Festival has been innovative in its inclusion of game-based digital art alongside other new media disciplines. Continuing this focus for the 2020 edition, the festival’s curators pose a deceptively simple question: what comes after gamification?

Now that game culture and game technologies have become so pervasive in popular culture, how do experimental media artists respond critically to the rampant gamifying of everyday life? From online social interaction to digital finance, from education to military conflict, from politics and environmental issues to the ways in which humans (and machines) express themselves creatively, what comes after gamification?

The Festival will take place between July 16-19, 2020, with the flagship exhibition extended until August 22, 2020.

Categories:

FLAGSHIP EXHIBITION
Digital and post-digital art works including interactive installations, experimental game mods, sculptural work, screen-based work, sound art, etc.

ONLINE P ROJECTS
Web-based projects and digital artworks that can be presented online, including experimental interactive and time-based digital projects.

FESTIVAL SCREENING
Experimental film/video/machinima works.

PERFORMANCE
Performance-based proposals including chiptune, sound art, live coding, A/V performances, and telematic performances for virtual and public spaces.

SITE-SPECIFIC OUTDOOR SCREENING
To be presented on two large-scale (4.88 x 8.64 m) outdoor LED screens for a public audience of all ages.

GIFs
Animated GIFs intended for presentation on public screens across Toronto.

CURATORIAL SUBMISSIONS
This year, we also invite curators/curatorial collectives to submit proposals for machinima screenings (on a theme of your choosing). If you are considering a curatorial submission, we encourage you to contact the Vector Festival team for additional practical details.

No entry fee

All artists and curators selected for participation will receive fees in accordance with the up-to-date CARFAC Fee schedule, as well as support to apply for external funding.

Details:
http://vectorfestival.org

Art competition

Deadline: 7 January 2020

Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 1st “Skies” Online Art Competition for the month of December 2019. This is an international competition and artists from around the world are welcome to submit their work. All entries must include the sky as the primary focus. In that representation the gallery seeks artworks with any perspective of the sky, including clouds, night and day sky, dusk and dawn, storms, stars, moon and planets. All visual art mediums are acceptable (painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, digital, prints, fiber art, collage or installation art) except sound and video art.

All winning artists will receive a digital award certificate. First, second and third place will be largely displayed with an article about the artist and their work. Winning artwork (First place) will be on the poster of the show. Depending on the number and quality of all submissions received, Merit awards and Honorable Mention awards may also be presented.

This is an international competition and it is open to all artists of 18 years of age or older. All visual art mediums are acceptable (painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, digital, prints, fiber art, collage or installarion art) except video and sound art.

Entry fee:
15 $ for the 2 images of artwork


Deadline:
http://artroomgalleryonline.com/call_for_artistss.html

International Art Competition “Botanicals”

Deadline: 19 or 28 December 2019 (there are two dates on the website)



Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 1st “Botanicals” Online Art Competition for the month of December 2019. This is an international competition and artists from around the world are welcome to submit their work. The Botanicals theme may include any work with interpretation of botanical and floral art (flowers, herbs, fruit, leaves, plants and related floral subcjects).

This is an international competition and it is open to all artists of 18 years of age or older. All visual art mediums are acceptable (painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, digital, prints, fiber art, collage or installarion art) except video and sound art.

All winning artists will receive a digital award certificate. First, second and third place will be largely displayed with an article about the artist and their work. Winning artwork (First place) will be on the poster of the show. Depending on the number and quality of all submissions received, Merit awards and Honorable Mention awards may also be presented.

There is no limit to the number of images that an artist can submit.


Entry fee
$15 for 2 images of artwork

Details:
http://artroomgalleryonline.com/call_for_artists.html

Art prize

Deadline: 19 January 2020

The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2020 will be awarded to artists that show significant potential, interesting ideas, a relevant message and skillful execution. We understand that talented artists exist in many forms, so endeavour to appeal to emerging artists of all ages and career paths, whether student, graduate, full-time or part-time, and from any country.

You can submit up to 5 different artworks

Any medium

Accepted media include but are not limited to: paintings, drawings, original prints, photography, sculptures, digitally produced artworks, mixed media constructions, video, sound, digital applications and installations.

Entry fee
Entry fee is £20 for first artwork, then £10 per additional artwork.

Prizes:
The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Overall Award:

£3,000 cash prize award, and £500 Cass Art voucher
Exhibition of a collection of your artworks in the Ashurst Emerging Artists Gallery for Sep-Dec 2020

• The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Sculpture Award:

£1,750 cash prize award, and £250 Cass Art voucher
Exhibition of a collection of your artworks in the Ashurst London HQ for Sep-Dec 2020

• The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Choice Award:

£1,500 cash prize award, and £250 Cass Art voucher
Exhibition of a collection of your artworks in the Ashurst London HQ for Sep-Dec 2020

• The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Photography Award:

£1,500 voucher of services with Genesis Imaging
Exhibition of a collection of your photographs in the Ashurst London HQ for Sep-Dec 2020

• The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize New Media Art Award:

£1,500 cash prize award
Exhibition of a collection of your artworks in the Rich Mix Mezzanine Gallery for Nov-Dec 2020

Details:
https://www.artprize.co.uk/