International Art Competitions - art contest for artists

Deadline: 26th May 2019 Submissions Open! neo: are pleased to announce the launch of the neo:artprize 2019 in partnership with Bolton Museum Gallery. The critically acclaimed biennial competition offers a prestigious showcase for contemporary visual artists from around the world alongside an impressive list of sponsored prizes and the opportunity for a new graduate to be considered for the 12-week neo:residency supported by University...

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Deadline: 1st June 2019 Open Call for artworks from North West based arts degree graduates. Work covering any subject or theme may be submitted, and we accept works of all media. The entry may be a degree show piece or another piece, but must be a recent work that reflects the artists current practice. Shortlisted artists will be exhibited in a curated group...

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Deadline:  June 7th, 2019 Marine Debris Art Contest 2019! As part of Artist Boat's free World Oceans Day Festival in Galveston on June 8th, we are highlighting the theme of “Plastic Pollution Prevention” with an art contest designed to help educate and inspire visitors. Artwork may be submitted between May 28th and June 7th prior to the World Oceans Day Festival. World Oceans Day...

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Deadline: May 31, 2019 The International Electronic Art Festival Timeline: BH invites artists/authors from all over the world to participate in the Timeline: BH 2019, the fifth edition. The inscriptions are open for experimental electronic films, documentaries, videoperformance and any format for single channel projection. In accordance with the diversity and aesthetic similarities of what will be inscribed by the interested parties and...

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Deadline: 17 May 2019 Fresh From Poland and Paper Beats Rock are pleased to announce an open call for photo books and zines publications as part of PAPERLUST Photobook Fest 2019. Submission is open to citizens of the countries from the Visegrad Group: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. The received submissions will be presented during the PAPERLUST Photobook Fest 2019 at an...

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Deadline: 30 April 2019 A night of interdisciplinary mingling. Xsection: A Dance and Science Film Festival sparking interdisciplinary collaboration between dance - science - film. As physical beings, we naturally engage with laws of motion. Therefore what better way to show this innate intuition but through the art of dance film. The methodologies of scientific research and dance creation are abstract. The film...

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Deadline: 1 July 2019 L’Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, celebrates its 26th edition in 2019. For 26 years we’ve been offering filmgoers, filmmakers and industry professionals a unique opportunity to discover and enjoy screenings and activities that value creative freedom, diversity, innovation, commitment and thought-provoking reflection. The Call for entries for the next edition is now open! International and national competition for feature...

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Deadline: 1st August 2019 Fellow artists, be aware that although this website deals with sensitive subjects that should concern all of us… please be alerted that it may contain language and imagery not suited for all humans. On previous curated mailart and artbymail open calls we’ve dealt with similar content… at “desAMORes” (www.desamores.yzonk.com) we’ve worked around the concept of unmatchable loves and at...

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Deadline: 1 November 2019 At this 2019’s edition, the Amanita Bunker exhibition returns to the streets of this small village reinforcing the artistic bombings of the previous 2018’s edition. Authors are invited to create artwork regarding the requested theme and join the yearly Mushroom Festival. Amanita Bunker, wears now robes of a fictional political party. The Amanites manifest themselves and demand distinction and...

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Deadline: 30 April 2019 Our gallery is situated in the Exarchea / Neapoli area of Athens, Greece. The area is the center of art and culture in Athens, it has a thriving arts scene and community. Exarchea has an edgy alternative vibe, its streets decorated with politically charged murals and lined with anarchist bookshops and stores selling rare vinyl and vintage antiques. Bars...

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Deadline: 30 April 2019 Disciplines: • Visual arts: painting, drawing, sculpture, media art, installation, graphic arts • Performing arts: theater, dance • Film, photography • Music and sound art • Literature and literary translation • Illustration and design • Art theory, curatorial and art management ACCOMMODATION AND STUDIO Our residence program offers all entering participants a fully furnished private room within a communal...

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Deadline: 25 April 2019 Residency Dates: June 10 – September 27, 2019 ThoughtWorks, a global software consultancy with an arts residency based in New York City is partnering with Scatter and their groundbreaking volumetric video software Depthkit to offer a funded artist residency focusing on volumetric filmmaking technology. Volumetric film has made great strides in recent years, gaining mainstream attention in virtual and...

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Deadline: 5th May 2019 Open call for brand new arty London club night taking place in The Yard, London on Saturday the 8th of June. Rave and the self-governing spaces it creates has long been a way to breakdown borders in communities. With the current global shift to right-wing movements, borders, walls etc its time to take a serious look at rave ethos...

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Deadline: 30 April 2019 SelvArt - Parco Arte Natura - Selvart is a contemporary artpark of permanent installations in the Kantregar woods in Mezzaselva di Roana on the Altopiano 7 Comuni Asiago. The Park was born in 2016 thanks to the sculptor Marco Martalar Scultore as a tribute to his native land. So far 25 artists of various nationalities were hosted by the...

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Deadline: 24th of April 2019 Residency program for writers, researchers & text-based artists at Arteles Creative Center in Hämeenkyrö, Finland 1 month periods in October & November 2019 Enter Text is an international residency program for writers, researchers and artists working with text. The program brings together a diverse group of writers & artists from various backgrounds, with different ways of applying text...

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Deadline: 19 April 2019 We look forward to receiving applications from artists who have enthusiasm to realize their creative projects at ARCUS Project. Program period: September 4 - December 12, 2019 The Applicant must: — be an emerging artist engaged in contemporary visual arts or other related fields. — be born on or after January 1, 1979. — have nationality of country other...

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Deadline: 15 April 2019 Trestle Residencies are professional development programs that aim to provide space, community, & opportunities for emerging artists. The Trestle Artist Residency (Open Studio or Private) comes with access to affordable studio space, and includes monthly advisor meetings with one of three advisors. Each of the twelve meetings include formal critiques, studio visits with NYC curators and art world professionals,...

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Deadline: April 30, 2019 MORPHOS is a one of a kind digital dome artist-in-residence program that provides workshops and individual support for artists who want to take their work to the immersive level. Our goal is to expose and train artists in full immersion production for a growing need of digital dome (fulldome) art. 2018 welcomes our fifth year of hosting this unique...

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Deadline: 18th May 2019 An international photography competition dealing with the challenge of literature. We read – we read a lot, and often. – Words, texts, writings. But what about the language of images? – An image can say more than a thousand words. Each applicant may submit only one work. The works submitted must be created exclusively by means of photography (including...

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Deadline: 1st June 2019 THEME: SURFACE/SUPPORT The theme "Surface/Support” is taken from perhaps the last modern art movement from France. The experimental movement named “Support/Surface,” and led by the influential Louis Cane. After the failure of Situationism and the socio-political May 1968 events in Paris - the Support/Surface artists had to reconsider the function of art; what it should be; what it could...

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Deadline: April 21st  2019 GETXOPHOTO Festival invites photographers and visual artists from all over the world to share their vision on Post Homo Sapiens. Programming the future. This Open Call is the opportunity to exhibit in GETXOPHOTO Festival. The four selected works will be exhibited during the 13th edition, from September 4 to 29, 2019 in Punta Begoña Galleries, Getxo. We are looking for...

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Deadline: (early bird 15 April 2019) Deepways is a 5-day collective workshop and retreat. 10 - 15 June 2019 Run by Luiza Moraes, it'll be an opportunity to dive into the creative process and explore connections between movement practice and self . ways is a three-bedroom house in Gyula, Eastern Hungary. It is a queer feminist art residency and rest space for artists...

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Deadline: 12th May 2019 Our annual competition is open to photographers of all backgrounds and all levels, including - professionals and amateurs. We accept all forms of black and white photography created with traditional or digital methods. Only black and white images will be accepted. Toned images (like sepia, selenium or gold) will also be accepted. Our aim is to discover the best...

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Deadline: May 15, 2019 The vast majority of photographs we see in our day-to-day lives present idealized versions of their subject matters, often making the world seem cleaner, more orderly, and more beautiful than it actually is. It’s difficult to grasp the profound influence we are subject to within our inescapable media-diets of beautiful images that offer promises of something better. How can...

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