International Art Competitions - art contest for artists

Deadline: 8th January 2019 The competition is open to illustrators over the age of 18, both student and professional. This year we are asking you to submit three illustrations and a binding design for Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Entry fee: Entries cost £25. £15 for students Prizes: The winner will receive a career-changing commission, worth £5,000, to complete a total...

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Deadline: 10 February 2019 Ibrida, festival of intermedia arts is launching an open call for the 2019 edition. Ibrida Festival will be held in April 2019 in Forlì (Italy). The festival is particularly focused on videoart, experimental cinema and live performances that have video as an important part of the exhibition. Each artist may submit up to 3 works, also in different media. No...

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Deadline: 15 May 2019 Kuma International welcomes researchers, scholars, visual artists, photographers and filmmakers from all over the world, while fostering educational programmes through summer and winter schools, conferences, seminars and workshops. Sarajevo, July 8-14 2019 Optional Field Trip: July 16-22 2019 The second edition of Kuma International Summer School will focus on the contemporary art production from Bosnia and Herzegovina. After a...

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Deadline: 3rd January 2019 Proposals may refer to one or more finished and already debuted works. Works must be original. Subject, contents and themes of the proposals are free. Proposals will be considered only if regarding Live Arts field (theatre, dance, performance, and their cross-disciplinary declinations). Artist will be invited to a residency to re-qualify their work, for five days. The work will...

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Deadline: 7th March 2019 1st Edition of the International Prize and Exhibition of Contemporary Art,  the "VeniceLands ArtPrize" All Italian and international artists can apply for VeniceLands Art Prize, especially emerging artists, who are at least 18 years old at the time of enrollment. Artworks according to the following categories are eligible: 2D for artworks lying on a surface (such as painting, drawing,...

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Deadline: 15 December 2018 We are looking for comics on the added value of the European Union. What are the advantages of the European Union? What did the EU do well according to you – in general terms or in your personal experience? Anyone is welcome to participate! All you need to do is register and send us the first finished page as well...

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Deadline: 12th December 2018 invites watercolor Artists from all over the world for International Watercolor Workshop BY MASTER ARTISTS: Bijay Biswaal, India Roberto Zangarelli, Italy, Vasudeo Kamath, India Sanjay Desai, India Rajat Subhra Bandopadhyay, India Praween Karmakar,India Fauzia Shabnam, Bangladesh Rahul Chakraborty, India FROM 1st - 3rd Feb 2019 ( 2 Days Residential Workshop ) AT Sadabahar Moments, Mulshi, Pune. Entry fee: participation fees...

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Deadline: 20 March 2019 Opportunity for artist collectives, nonprofit & artist-run centres and galleries to showcase or sell their members work, promote their mission and reach out to new audiences at the 58th Toronto Outdoor Art Fair July 12-14, 2019. By participating at TOAF, you will access an unprecedented level of visibility and public exposure at one the best-attended art fair in the...

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Deadline: 15 December 2018 If you are searching for an online art gallery that will showcase your art, then submit to our art call for a chance to be part of our online juried exhibition art show. All art mediums will be considered in this call for submissions, from photography, wall sculpture, ceramics, fabric, mixed media, all paintings and drawings including, oil, acrylic,...

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Deadline: 20th December 2018-for January 2019 edition (ongoing) Quality photo-art in all genres and techniques welcome. Back issues at: www.dekunumag.com/issues. Non-profit, non-advertising, respectable and respectful place for fine photography. One artist's solo portfolio and in-depth interview per issue. No entry fee Details: https://www.dekunumag.com/terms-of-publication?fbclid=IwAR1hIHnL-jpayNW4hCZwaAOMVUnWxFYLJ30jfrZM-oNjW3ssfvTpLMcQD8I ...

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Deadline: 31 December 2018 The 8th edition of POPPOSITIONS will revolve around the term “woke” and how its mainstream popularity and increasing application intersects with corporate and capitalist structures. The idea of being woke and wokeness concerns raising social awareness, taking actions in response to dominant paradigms, acknowledging one’s privileges towards understanding the struggles of others, and giving space to social bodies that have...

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Deadline: 23 December 2018 Artists needed to showcase during the Carnival in Venice. We expect 100-120 artists from all around the world to present their films, music videos, multimedia projects, music compositions and photos. Entry fee 20 Euro, there is no extra cost to showcase Details: http://movinglab.org ...

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Deadline: 31 May 2019 The competition is open to artists of all nationalities, without age restrictions. The participants are divided into two age categories: - Artists up to 18 years of age; - Artists over 18 years of age. All graphic techniques are eligible in case they allow replication labelled according the International standard identifier for EX LIBRIS. The authors may participate with...

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Deadline: 31 December 2018 Passion To Perform is an international art contest that aims to recognize and reward outstanding emerging art talent. Through each edition of our contest, we build a collection that reflects our ideals of excellence in performance and expressing passion in what we do. The competition is open to any person practicing art, and each artist can submit up to...

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Deadline: 21st December 2018 Artrooms Fair ROMA 2019 takes place at the iconic Church Palace Hotel, right off Via Aurelia in Rome, Italy, from the 22nd March to the 24th March 2019. Over three days, more than 100 artists will be hosted. There are 4 categories: ROOMS 18/24 sq mtr hotel rooms. Artists are invited to transform the rooms into studios or create an...

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Deadline: 31 January 2019 Eligible to participate are works on paper by artists up to the age of 35. All works on paper are admitted to the competition. Excluded is pure, graphically or digitally unprocessed photography. The maximum dimensions are 100 x 140 cm without frame and 110 x 150 cm with frame, with a maximum depth (thickness) of 15 cm. The participants...

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Deadline: 15 December 2018 MAGNA MATER Collective exhibition want to be a homage to the Nature of the planet Earth: animals, seas, lakes, rain, wind, clouds, mountains, deserts, forests, flowers… Free submission open to types of art: painting, comics, tattoo, fiber art, land art, photography, sculpture, video, music, poetry… Number of submissions: max 3 Selected works will be permanently documented online on the...

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Deadline: 28 November 2018 Frame & Frequency 4 Vol. 2 is an ongoing International Video and Sound Art Exchange program presented concurrently at VisArts in our In(Site) Project Gallery in Rockville, MD and at PLECTO Galeria in Medellín, Colombia, opening December 7, 2018. Video, sound art (up to 8 channels), film, and new media work will be accepted: experimental, documentary, animation, narrative, non-narrative, multimedia,...

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Deadline: 14 December 2018 thismustbe_ are accepting photographic submissions for the inaugural exhibition exploring the notion of place. This could be centred around its identity, how a space is inhabited, its everyday changes or how a place can be altered by human interaction. We are looking for an eclectic range of submissions and different responses to the notion of place. The work selected...

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Deadline: 12 December 2018 Frame it! Venice welcomes you to the first year of celebrating audio-visual art forms from all over the world. Our aim is to showcase and highlight local and international photos, film posters and films up to 3 minutes in length. We invite artists that demonstrate that creativity has no limitations and that the language of art can be translated...

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Deadline: 2 February 2019 The objects of the competition are drawings, graphics and other works of fine arts and photography created with the use of optional techniques, being originals, completed within the recent two years (2018-2019) WORKS AWARDED IN OTHER COMPETITIONS will be excluded from the SATYRYKON competition. Categories: I – Theme: STOP II – SATIRE & JOKE Prizes: Grand Prix SATYRYKON 2019 ...

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Deadline: 13 December 2018 Adult competition: Each entrant is allowed a total of twenty-five (25) entries into the Adult Competition. Categories : 1. Animals in Their Environment 2. Animal Portraits 3.  Behaviour: Amphibians and Reptiles 4. Behaviour: Birds 5. Behaviour: Invertebrates 6. Behaviour: Mammals 7. Plants and Fungi 8. Underwater 9. Urban Wildlife 10. Earth’s Environments 11. Black and White 12. Creative Visions 13....

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Deadline: 11 November 2018 We are seeking sculptural work that explores the theme of Play. We are particularly interested in work(s) that have one of the following: Encourage new thinking about sculpture or sculpture history Raising public awareness and/or appreciation of sculpture Has an element of interactivity Has an element of public engagement. Is a unique approach to sculpture and/or pushes the boundaries...

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Deadline: 1 November 2018 We are seeking artworks that explore the relationship between ourselves and the technology we use. Examples of topics could include: - Social Media - Avatars and online presence - Internet - Virtual selves vs reality - Impact of technology on our lives - Our reliance on technology - VR and fictional worlds - The act of monitoring others online...

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Deadline: 31st of October 2018 Workshop: Performance Studies & Composition: Migrant and Refugee Voices Event Timing | Workshop: 7th of November from 6pm-9pm | Presentation/Show: 8th of November at 7.30pm Event Address | Fabrica Gallery - 40 Duke St, Brighton BN1 1AG, UK Workshop held by | Filip Canha Submissions deadline | Wednesday 31st of October 2018. The workshop aims to engage in...

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Deadline: 10 November 2018 Art calls are open to all local, domestic, national and international professional and amateur artists. All art mediums will be considered in this call for submissions, from photography, wall sculpture, ceramics, fabric, mixed media, all paintings and drawings including, oil, acrylic, pastels, ink, graphite, etc. This call is for online exhibition. Entry fee: $35 for 3 entries, $5 for...

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Deadline: 12 November 2018  The Art of Building photography competition is an international showcase for the very best digital photography of the built environment. It is open to both professional and amateur photographers. If you have a good eye for a photograph and are passionate about the built environment then take part in this year’s Art of Building competition. Previous winners have been featured...

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Deadline: 26 November 2018 we invite all artists to participate in RU's fifth annual Residency Raffle to win a fantastic month long residency opportunity hosted by two partnering organizations in Serbia: REMONT Gallery and Gola Glava (Naked Head). Suggested dates for this residency are May through October 2019. OPPORTUNITY IS OPEN TO ARTISTS AS WELL AS ARTISTS' SUPPORTERS WHO CAN NOMINATE ONE OR...

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<Deadline: 15 November 2018> Do you have a film on architecture or the city? Send it to us! The festival Budapest Architecture Film Days is now accepting submissions for its 11th edition, to be held in Budapest in March 2019. We are looking for works in every genre, form, and length, related to design, architecture, urbanism, urban activism, and built environment. The mission...

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Deadline: 28th February 2019 The VAO art competition is a not for profit event open to both amateur and professional artists based in the UK and internationally. The aim is to give artists the ultimate platform to develop their passion and career in the arts sector. Finalists will benefit from exhibiting, selling and showcasing their work to art critics and art buyers alike.Acceptable media: drawing,...

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Deadline: 31st January 2019Morisawa Type Design Competition has been giving birth to new typeface designs for decades since the first competition held in 1984. Through entries with bold ideas and new attempts in anticipation with unprecedented expressive capacity, the last competition in 2016 received more than 700 entries from 49 countries and regions, including both Kanji and Latin categories.There is no limit to the...

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Deadline: 1 November 2018The general topic of the 2019 competition is free but one of the main awards is intended for an entry with CHILDREN as topic.Everyone living anywhere in the world and aged over 18 can submit his/her prints. Prints from woodcuts to digital prints and almost all types of fine graphic printmaking techniques are allowed.4 only original small impressions from a...

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Deadline: 31 October 2018‘Hope’ is an instinctive human emotion that helps push us towards positivity and optimism.Hope is also considered to be a rare human value that is shared and encouraged by various civilisations and cultures; be it ideologically, intellectually or socially.It is also a universal language, reflected in the everyday lives of the people it connects. Some people have a talent for spreading...

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Deadline:  28th October 2018We are looking for contemporary practitioners that will demonstrate agenuine interest in the social context of Athens and who can engage withit critically by challenging social norms and taboos.We are looking for creative practitioners who will be open to collaborate,work with other artists and curators.Snehta candidates should demonstrate an interest in the local communityof Kypseli or more widely towards other...

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Deadline: 28th October 2018Photometria International Photography Festival continues its upward course in the field of photography for the 11th year. Within this year's event, and in order to highlight new ways of using the image, it invites you to submit your works to the following categories: Animation, Video Art and Short Films.Participants are asked to submit a project, with no restrictions in subject...

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Deadline: 5th October 2018The Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee is now accepting entries for the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival. All artists around the world, without distinction as to professional, amateur, independent, or commercial, are invited to submit their works to the four divisions Art, Entertainment, Animation, and Manga. Eligible works are completed or exhibited within a year before the deadline (October...

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Deadline: 8 January 2019This year we are asking you to submit three illustrations and a binding design for Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.The competition is open to illustrators over the age of 18 from anywhere in the world, both student and professional, who have not been previously published by The Folio Society.The winner will receive a career-changing commission, worth £5,000, to complete...

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International competition for an illustrated children's book project.Deadline: 15th of December 2018We are happy to announce the third edition of the international competition for an illustrated children's book project CLAIRVOYANTS 2018!Since the very beginning, the competition has been very popular  among Polish and foreign artists. Almost 1000 projects from all over the world have been submitted for the previous two editions! Some of the...

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Deadline: 30 September 2018CUVOis an itinerant festival and its intention is to provide artists with an opportunity to disseminate them proposals in a specific place as well as traveling, thus facilitating the understanding by the public of video art.It will consist in a selection of 8 videos that are going to be shown in Art Room gallery in Madrid, museums, publics squares, theaters...

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Deadline: 15 September 2018; November 1st, 2018 (for films finished between September and November 2018)The 12TH edition of One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will take place in Prague, March 6 – 17, 2019,followed by regional screenings in over 30 towns around the Czech Republic and Brussels.We would like to invite you to submit your film to the 21th edition of the...

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Deadline: 30th November 2018Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival is an international festival of experimental film and artists’ moving image. Submissions of artists’ and experimental film from any part of the world are welcome – we celebrate a diverse range of works: the visually experimental, quietly poetic, formally radical, psycho-geographical, politically activist, culturally subversive, psycho-spiritual, the alchemically volatile, the underground and the bizarre. Conventional...

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Deadline: 10th of October 2018The Jean-Claude Reynal Foundation, under the auspices of the Fondation de France, in collaboration with the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux, offers an annual grant of 10,000 euros to enable a young artist, who works on paper, to travel to a country of his/her choice for a period of 3 months minimum and 6 months maximum.Candidates must be between 20...

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Deadline: 21 September 2018The Japanese-German Center Berlin (Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin, JDZB) invites artists living in Germany or Europe to submit a joint exhibition proposal, which will be presented in 2019 in the JDZB's events gallery surrounding its atrium.s. The JDZB would like to primarily offer this opportunity to exhibit in Berlin to up-and-coming artists who have their roots in Japan and in Germany...

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Deadline: Sunday 23 September 2018, until midnight.TERMS OF THE RESIDENCY> 1 opportunity for a 7-day residency is available for each resident, between February and April 2019 (choiceof the week to be decided between thankyouforcoming and the selected candidates).> thankyouforcoming provides a 40m2 fully equipped apartment in the center of Nice (port area).> Return travel expenses refunded (subject to the provision of receipts) up...

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