International Art Competitions - art contest for artists

Deadline:10.06.2016For decades now, the Red Dot Design Award has provided a platform where designers can measure themselves against the top names in the industry. In 2015 alone, Red Dot received more than 17,000 applications from 70 countries . This makes the competition, which comprises the three categories Product Design, Design Concept and Communication Design, one of the world’s largest design competitions.From Online, to...

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Deadline:30.06.2016The New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival is intended to support the discovery of creative expression as inspiration for future development, and to promote such expression worldwide. The event is also expected to create a new forum for international exchange through the culture of animation with New Chitose Airport as a base.The festival features the following three competition categories:(A) International Competition(B) Japan Competition(C)...

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Deadline:20.07.2016Our festival uses billboards in an innovative way. We change their function and use them NOT to present advertisements, but moving and thought-provoking art. We take our species name – Homo sapiens / Thinking man– very seriously. Therefore, we put great emphasis on deepened thinking, reflection and awareness rising. Thinking is very closely related to us, people. When we change our thinking, deepen...

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Deadline:5.08.2016The WAC Awards is an open competition for contemporary visual art that is gaining praise and respect in Britain and abroad. It was established five years ago by a group of artists and their friends in Wells, the beautiful cathedral city in the South-West of England. But an idea that came to life around kitchen and dining tables has already established a strong presence in the London art world and...

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Deadline:31.07.2016This year’s theme has been influenced by the social impacts of urbanisation which affects our lifestyle - in the homes we live in, the cars we drive, the furniture we own, and the sports we engage in. The question to be answered is what role can design and innovation play to ensure that we are prepared and equipped for this social adaptation?As such,...

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Deadline:15.06.2016The KLIK! foundation is a national and international force in provocative quality animation. With the festival as KLIK!'s flagship, and other exciting activities happening in its wake, they bring their passion for and knowledge of animation to a wide audience.KLIK! is accepting films for the following categories: Animated Short, Animated Student Short,Commissioned Animation, Animated Documentary, and Animated Music Video. If eligible, a film...

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Deadline:10.06.2016Nesta and Sedition are pleased to invite international artists and creatives to submit work to the 2016 FutureFest Art Prize. FutureFest is a weekend festival of radical ideas, compelling talks and interactive experiences designed to inspire people to question and shape the future. The third edition of the festival takes place at Tobacco Dock in London, 17-18 September 2016, and will be programmed...

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Deadline:5.08.2016Photographs submitted for the Contest must be made in photographic techniques such as: photography from film, photography from membrane, polaroid, camera obscura etc., noble techniques including daguerreotype, wet collodion plate, calotype, kallitype, cyanotype, anthotype, platinotype, palladotype or digital techniques but subjected to such processes (treatment) so that their final version is related to noble techniques (e.g. through Instagram application). Only consistent photographic sets can...

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Deadline:1.07.2016In order to better understand youths’ experience of becoming adult, EXCEPT Project launches a photo competition. We are curious to know what it actually means to become adult for young people today. Is it about getting a job, being able to pay your bills, having more freedom or maybe taking your own decisions and bearing the consequences idependently?... Tell us what do you...

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Deadline:30.06.2016The entire selection process has 4 stages. Except the first stage conducted by the team members of Art & Decoration Service Co., the other 3 stages will all be juried by a select panel of 9 highly recognized judges. The judges’ name will be revealed later on our official website. 1st stage: Digital entries selected by the team members of Art & Decoration Service Co.2nd...

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Deadline:20.06.2016The Guangzhou International Exlibris and Mini-prints Biennial has successfully held for three times, supported by artists around the world. Currently, the Biennial has become an influential academic brand. In order to enhance the communication among artists all over the world and to promote the development of exlibris and mini-prints, we decided to hold The 4th Guangzhou International Exlibris and Mini-prints Biennial in Guangzhou...

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deadline:31.07.2016The International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, organized in Kraków since 1994, is the oldest film festival in Poland which juxtaposes the achievements of students of film and art schools from all over the world, as well as works of fine-art animation films creators: professionals, students, as well as independent producers.The main events of every annual festival are the two contests which give the festival...

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Deadline:14.06.2016Each participant can submit up to one “Series”, defined as a set of photos built around a concept or a topic, often intended to tell a story. The Series must feature a minimum of 8 photos and a maximum of 20 photos.The photos must have been shot from January 2010 onwards and at least 4 photos must have been taken after January 1st2015.The...

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Deadline:6.09.2016The salon is open to amateur and professional photographers from all over the world.Each entrant may submit only one (1) photothe theme is free to choose, color/monochrome digital,Entry fee: PLN 30.00 (thirty Polish Zloty)for Poland or EUR 10.00 (ten Euro), or $ 12 (twelve US dollars)Prizes:FIAP: Gold, Silver medals, Blue Badge for the best author, honourable mentions, FRP: Gold, Silver, Bronze medals,SALON AWARD,...

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Deadline:31.07.2016The Festival programme is divided into the following sections:International Competition – for feature films (over 60 min) from all over the world. World, International and European Premieres.Competition 1-2 – for first and second feature films (over 60 min) by the directors from all over the world.Free Spirit Competition – for independent, innovative, rebellious feature length (over 60 min) fiction and documentary films from...

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Deadline:24.08.2016Organized by Bielecki Art Foundation Screen & Sound Fest. - Let's See The Music is an international project in the form of an open competition for creating a film visualisation of distinguished Polish composers’ musical works. This year wa are holding already the 4th edition of the competition.An entry consists in the creation of a visualisation to one of the musical pieces of...

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Deadline:31.05.2016The pictures collected under this contest should portray the diversity of territories, societies and cultures of different continents in order to allow crossed looks on the changes which are taking place in different parts of the world, show different styles of social organization and space, capture signs of continuity and change, archaisms and innovations that manifest themselves in the most populous cities or...

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Deadline:31.05.2016The Festival of Ethical Photography of Lodi is pleased to present the sixth edition of the World.Report Award | Documenting Humanity.The Festival of Ethical Photography wants to bring the general public close to ethically significant contents using photography as communication and knowledge means, and to offer different nuances of the fine relationship between ethics, communication and photography. The Festival has come to the...

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Deadline:1.08.2016A Moving Image Exhibition Space at The University of Mary Washington.The UMW Media Wall is now accepting submissions for the 2016-2017 academic year.Submission guidelines:1. Videos should not have an audio track or be okay playing without sound.2. Videos must be formatted for a 1920×1080 display.3. Videos should not have letterboxing or any other sort of matte around the edges of the frame.4. Videos...

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Deadline:31.08.2016The 2016 competition covers animation of different kinds, including all traditional and experimental techniques, such as stop motion and all its versions, 3D, motion graphics, animated cartoons etc., video art and experimental video production from Latin America and all over the world. Works participating in the competition, apart from being nominated for awards, may be included in the festival's special selections.The festival invites...

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Deadline:3.06.2016We are looking for works of any theme, plus works exploring gender and with feminist and/or queer content We are looking to discover the most interesting experimental moving image from across the world. We invite artists in all stages of their career, regardless of whether you are a student, graduate, practicing artist or those who have not had a formal art education to...

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Deadline:15.07.2016By ecology we mean the whole science of the relations between an organism and the environment, including, in the broad sense, all the “conditions of existence”, – that’s how ecology was defined by its creator, the German biologist Ernst Haeckel.In today’s world the meaning of the term “ecology” has gone far beyond the field of biology. Speaking about the ecology in a broad...

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Deadline:31.05.2016Artists from around the world working in any medium are invited to submit work to Black Box 3.0.Black Box is an annual international arts and technology festival produced by Aktionsart in multiple locations throughout Seattle. The festival presents new work and ideas that explore how technology is transforming the arts, culture, and public life.Challenging our ideas about what art is and what art...

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Deadline:16.09.2016The mission of the International Painting Competition of the Three Bridges Foundation is to support and promote the work of talented painters from Poland and abroad, allowing for an expressive forum to showcase works from Poland and Abroad.The competition format is open – which means that all artistic themes and painting techniques are accepted. Also, artists who are citizens of the Polish Republic,...

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Deadline:30.05.2016The seventh edition of KLEX is looking for submissions! This year, our theme is “SPARK”. Use it as a hint or a source of inspiration and imagination.A spark could start a light, a fire, an electric current, an enthusiasm, or a relationship. It is the crucial moment when things ignite, take it on and simply “happen”. It could turn out to be no...

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Deadline:20.05.2016With two successful years behind and more than 3000 student films submitted from around the world, STIFF opens its submissions window for its 3rd edition.This year we are focusing on documentaries and therefore we are leaving the early bird deadline for submission of the category of documentaries free of charge. Another news are two out of competition categories in which students can apply...

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