International Art Competitions - art contest for artists

Poster Competition Deadline: 1st October 2019 The International Poster competition launched in 2014 and has received 22,000+ poster entries from 100+ Countries (x5 competitions 2014-2018). Over 37,000 people have attended International Poster Exhibitions (x5 exhibitions 2014-2018). 5x International Poster Catalogues and Book have been published as a result of the competition and exhibition and these can be found in the GDFS shop. Maximum...

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Art residency in Berlin Deadline: 13 October 2019 ZK/U sees itself as a laboratory for inter- and trans-disciplinary activities centered on the phenomenon of “the city”. It promotes international exchange on global issues, in the light of what is happening in one’s own backyard. The work at ZK/U is informed by theoretical and practice-based critiques developed in the disciplines of geography, anthropology, urban...

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Art prize Deadline : 9 September 2019 For its tenth edition in 2019 the COAL Prize will, in collaboration with the Platform on Disaster Displacement and DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys, tackle an essential subject:  displacement related to disasters and climate change. Applicants will be judged on the following criteria: artistic value, relevance (understanding of the theme), originality (the ability to introduce new approaches, themes,...

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"Portrait" art contest Deadline: 31 August 2019 International Art Competition “Portrait” Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 1st “Portrait” Online Art Competition for the month of August 2019. This is an international competition and artists from around the world are welcome to submit their work. We invite artist and photographers to submit their best artworks related to the Portrait theme....

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Deadline: 31 August 2019 Landscape artists wanted for prestigious art gallery in Royal Sutton ColdField Birmingham,UK Dates & location of event context 9-11.2019 210aParade st, old BHS store, Sutton Coldfield, B72 1PA, Birmingham/UK Wanted: Huge Landscape exhibition in planning, apply to exhibit your Landscape paintings with DAA in Royal Sutton Coldfield. Entry fee – There is a fee that starts from £100 per...

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Deadline: 22 September 2019 Folie/Culture invites all those who express themselves through music, poetry, performance, deglutition, car burnouts and all other potential audio works to contribute to the Radio Silence call for projects. As part of our current theme Walk on Eggshells!, Folie/Culture is looking for audio proposals that combine the injunction and the exemplary—intrinsic to our repressive societies—with audio art. As Barthes...

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Open call for videoart Deadline:1 October 2019 The Culture and Arts  Association in Dammam support the creativity and cultural thought; by choosing the means to spread the culture of fine arts, and promote generations to participate in the arts programms, which is the cultural duty; to enrich the fine art movement, especially “video art”, which is rarely found in galleries of plastic arts...

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Artist residency in Hungary Deadline: 15 October 2019 The Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc. (HMC) is a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit corporation, founded in 1990.  HMC's mission is to bridge cultural, geographic, and linguistic divides by bringing people together through the arts in order to foster a greater understanding of world cultures. The HMC's cultural programs are film screening, concerts, workshops, seminars, exhibitions, videofestivals and...

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Art prize for artists Deadline: 31st December 2019 Theme “You can’t paint that!” Freedom of expression and censorship in the modern age. This art prize is designed to encourage artists to examine notions relating to freedom of expression, taboo an censorship. We hope artists can use their works to express their ideas and feelings to the audience on a deep and personal level....

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Artist residency in Spain Deadlines: 30 september 2019 / 31 january 2020 / 30 april 2020 Suitable for all disciplines Because there is a local need for an international platform for art and we want to share with others our space, facilities and expertise. Offering the opportunity to simply have space and time to focus on their own work in a place surrounded...

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OPEN CALL FOR VIDEO ART & PROJECTS Deadline: 1 October 2019 On the occasion of the celebration of our V Video Festival nodoCCS, and being consistent with the experimental and contemporary nature of our platform this year nodoCCS is reconfigured to continue proposing open meeting spaces around contemporary art and video. Since 2015 and until now there are several roles that nodoCCS has...

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Artist residency in Norway Deadline: 31 August 2019 The Residency Program provides space and time for artists. We welcome visual artists, writers, composer/musicians, performance artists at any stage of their careers who are interested in exploring and expanding their work in a unique and supportive environment. KHMessen consists of artistically crafted and unique living and studio spaces. Time spans are individually based –...

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Artist residency in Portugal Deadline: 25 August 2019 MIRA FORUM Gallery and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation propose an artistic residence for three months in Porto. The two entities consider contemporary creation a groundwork for the plural development of citizenship. MIRA FORUM is a gallery basically related to photography, founded in 2013 by Manuela Matos Monteiro and João Lafuente. Hundreds of artists have presented their...

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Art residency in Ukraine Deadline: 26th August 2019 3 weeks residence in Ukraine Dates: from 7 to 30 September 2019 Project ‘Diffusion’ came to life in 2016. It aims at bringing together artists from different spheres (film and photography, multimedia, street arts, fine arts and crafts, contemporary art performance, dance, theatre, design, drawing, etc.) to create artworks that address important social and environmental...

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Open call for residency Deadline: 30th August 2019 You are invited to apply and participate in the ”Artistic Research Residency Programme Iran-Europe” on the topic of Industrial Heritage or Living Archives, involving artists in the de-mining of sensitive heritage issues. The programme is organised by BOZAR along with the Goethe Institut(Germany) and HERITΛGE -The Heritage Management Organization (Greece) in the framework of the...

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Deadline: 1st October 2019 Regarding Zines: we’re looking for all kinds of proposals (photography, comic/illustration, poetry, narrative...), b&w and between 8 and 12 pages long. The format you prefer although it can’t be bigger than an A5. We work mostly with projects in Catalan, Spanish and English, but every language is welcome and encouraged! -Prints/Postals: the standard format is an A5, printed. If...

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Short film contest Deadline: 31 March 2020 Shorts of all genres, styles and narrative forms are allowed, realised from January 1st 2018. The short films must have a maximum length of 20 minutes (with credits). Laterale is an international non competitive Festival of cinematic art organized by Associazione Culturale Laterale. Its aim is to enhance the most innovative aspects of audio-visual languages of...

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Open call for 360 VR films Deadline: September 16th 2019 VR Stories is a pitching session where creators and/or producers have 5′ to present VR narrative contents projects. The projects presented at the pitch must not have been shot yet. Project selection will favor projects which use innovative languages to face the question of narration in VR. The pitch will be in English...

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Deadline: 22 August 2019 The broad idea of the WASBiennale is to create an opportunity of transforming boundaries and build a trajectory of dialogue by inviting viewers to take a step into the intimate artist’s zone. Letting anyone in the artist’s studio, as well as welcoming someone in your private space is a gesture of high confidence. Showing art in such format, involving...

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Open call for group exhibition Deadline : 20 August 2019 Maximum 10 artworks (photo, painting, sculpture, installation, illustration, video art, street art) No theme, any size Entry fee: No entry fee, however there are participation fees: Participation fee for Artists from Iran is 850,000 T Participation fee for Artists from Turkey is 380 TL Participation fee for Artists from other countries is 100...

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Open call for GIFs DEADLINE: August 25th 2019 STIFF film festival is looking for the most creative GIF animations to be featured in the special exhibition during STIFF film festival Rijeka, Croatia. STIFF film festival in cooperation with Gallery SKC opened a new festival category for animated GIF films. The selection of the best works will be screened at the art Gallery SKC...

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Open call for exhibition Deadline: 1st September 2019 THE „NARRENKASTL“ is an old window, glass cabinet, in a passage to a house in the middle of the main square of the little city Frohnleiten (25 km near Graz, in Austria) The meaning of Narrenkastl - it´s an austrian expression for people who stare into mid-air,who are lost in their thoughts. It means dreaming...

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Award for photographers Deadline: 12 August 2019 The contest is organized to support photographers who think outside the box of traditional artistic standards. Authors from all over the world are welcome to participate, the choice of theme is unrestricted. The shortlisted projects will be published on the Bird in Flight site and showcased at the exhibition at the Set art space located in Kyiv...

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Art award for young artists Deadline: 19th of August 2019 Trieste Contemporanea presents this Award with the aim of promoting young artists from Central Eastern Europe on the international art scene. For artists: born on or after 18 August 1989 in one of the following countries: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia,...

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Art Residency for photographers Deadline: 19 August 2019 Twice a year Landskrona Foto residency welcomes early to mid-career photographer or artist working with photography and/or lens based media, who wish to further and challenge their practice, to Landskrona to engage in a project related to the city. It’s an opportunity to have time and space away from your usual environment and obligations. Landskrona Foto...

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Open call for performers Deadline: 30th September 2019 KIPAF 2020 invites interest and participation in the promise of exploring through creative expressions that which the myth could not say aloud--the performative lives of tracing, trace-passing--the acts of leaving and carrying threads and their traces. We invite applications to this end, expressing how this theme interests the applicants and what they see themselves doing in...

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Gallery & online exhibition + donation of artworks Deadline: 20th September 2019 (this is the nearest one, check other delivery deadlines below) SURPRISE is a campaign that highlights the power of art to bring positive change. Since 2009 the campaign brings artists together and mobilizes art to offer solutions to major social issues. More than 2000 artists from around the world have joined...

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Open call for exhibition Deadline: 20th September 2019 Emerging and mid-career artists are invited to submit their work for consideration for our November 2019 exhibition juried by David Linneweh from Studio Break Podcast, artist Mychaelyn Michalec and I Like Your Work Podcast at Dutoit Gallery. All submissions will be considered for the accompanying Online Exhibition, future group shows, social media and podcast interviews....

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