International Art Competitions - art contest for artists

 

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: 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

Video art festival

Deadline: 1 March 2020


The International Video Art House Madrid is an initiative to support contemporary video artists and promote their work internationally.

Only selecting works made after 1st January of 2019.

There is no time limit for the submissions.

Competition has no specific theme.


No entry fee

Details:
http://ivahm.com

Video art

Deadline: 20 February 2020

We are looking for a range of VFX and Video artists to answer the question on their own terms, and present it through their art. Each video will be shown alongside music from up and coming DJs at a video art rave set to take place in the new year, therefore must be silent. Applicants must send either their video or proposal of a video to magicsouth4@gmail.com with a brief explanation of the work alongside who they are.

Videos can be anywhere from 5-30 minutes

No entry fee

Contact:
magicsouth4@gmail.com

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 video art

Deadline: 12 January 2020

The Festival presents the most significant lines of research emerged in recent years in the international audiovisual arts.
Over The Real aims to create an opportunity for meeting and promotion for video artists which
favors visibility and contacts with the public, with curators, art critics and cultural institutions that
already during the other editions of the Festival has attracted.
The selected works will show during the fifth edition of the International Festival of Video Art Over
The Real will be in Lucca in april 2020.


Artists must be over 18 years old.

No works are accepted with a date prior to 2018.

Maximum duration of 10 minutes

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

Call for experimental film and video

Deadline: 10 February 2020

Videoex invites you to submit your work for the International & Swiss Competition.

We are looking for: experimental, innovative and progressive cinematic works, moving image works that explore the possibilities of film as a medium, expanding the idea of film and cinema, experimental films (8mm / 16mm / 35mm (screened in original format), digital productions (experimental, videoart, essay, experimental documentary,…), innovative animation, experimental digital & graphic productions (to be screened), experimental documentaries, experimental music videos

Works must have been completed since October 2018

Participants may submit a maximum of three (3) works.

No entry fee

Details:
https://videoex.ch/videoex/callforentries/

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/

Open call for artists

Deadline: 25 January 2020

Little Islands Festival is a festival for people, places, ideas, images. A summer feast of audiovisual arts based in Sikinos island with the intent to connect more and more little Greek islands every year. LIF creates the motivation for gatherings outside the city walls and connects a local and international artistic community with the uniqueness of cycladic islands. Little Islands Festival in its third edition, invites artists working on audiovisual and digital creation to submit their proposals in the following categories. The project theme is open.

Artists can submit more than one proposal and in more than one category. A separate application form must be completed for each proposal.



Video Art (up to 10min)
Animation (up to 20min)
Short Film
Performance
Installation
Digital Art
3D Mapping
Soundscape
VJ Art


No entry fee

Details:
https://littleislandsfest.com/2019/10/24/open-call-for-artists-2/

Open call for films

Deadline: 5 January 2020

The Marseille Underground Film & Music Festival works on the diffusion of audiovisual & artistic productions coming from alternative and underground cultures. The festival team curates an eclectic programme including film projections (personal and thematic retrospectives), an international short film competition, concerts, exhibitions, talks, workshops and other hybrid cultural forms.
MUFF #4 takes place from April 15 to 19, 2020 in various venues in Marseilles.

At MUFF we carry, without any hierarchy of genre, an undisclosed love for the disturbed, the deranged, the degendered, the non-conformist, curious, weird, hilarious, vindictive, pornographic or boring.

Once selected, the films in the international competition will be submitted to the vote of the audience, who will determine the winner of a symbolic “audience award”. The selected films will be screened in two programs. Each program will be shown twice, on a donation-based entry.
Submission:

Each submitted film has to meet the following criteria:

the registration form has to be completed in order to submit one or more films

the submitted films need to be between 0 and 60 minutes long.

the submitted films need to be achieved after 1/1/2019

previews need to be submitted via a URL link to an online video platform (Vimeo, YouTube, etc…). No link to download previews will be accepted.

subtitles in English or French are mandatory when the original language is not English nor French (French subs are preferred).

Films produced independently are encouraged.

No entry fee

Details:
https://www.festivalmuff.com/AAF-MUFF2020-ENG.pdf

https://www.festivalmuff.com/appel-a-films.html

Open call for filmmakers

Deadline: 15 January 2020


That One Film Festival is a biennial film festival dedicated to screening and exhibiting works of moving image that are experimental, weird, obsessive, no/low budget, avant-garde and fun. We are committed to supporting emerging and experimental creators, as well as engaging and educating audiences by facilitating film screenings and broadening an understanding of what moving image can be. We enthusiastically encourage and invite experimental filmmakers, emerging artists, students and other creators to exhibit their work and engage the Delaware County community.

Entry fee:
12$

Details:
https://www.thatonefilmfestival.com

Open call for electronic art

Deadline: 14 January 2020

Since 2000 FILE is a non-profit cultural organization that has been promoting exhibitions, workshops and gatherings that seek to investigate the appropriations of the technologic media in artistic accomplishments. With annual exhibitions in São, in addition to participations in national and international events, FILE is the biggest electronic art event in Latin America. For 2020, artists and researchers can submit their works in the main categories: Interactive Art, Digital Language, Electronic Sonority, Workshops, Symposium and Led Show.

Each participant may send up to 3 proposals of works that have been accomplished in the last 3 years

Categories:
Digital Language: As digital language are understood all the research and experiences in the wide scope of the multiple disciplines that uses digital media.
Electronic Sonority: As electronic sonority are understood all research and experiences in the wide scope of sounds, having therefore a wider comprehension than the ambit of music, and open to possible transversalities with other disciplines.
Interactive Arts: As interactive arts are understood all research and experiences in the ambit of art that uses interactive media and which take into account the relationship between the work and its viewer; works inserted in the intersecting fields of art and science, technology, among others …
Led Show: “In situ” installations, of public character, to be displayed in LED facade of the FIESP-SP building
Symposium: Talk proposals that have the aim to expand an international discussion on electronic digital culture in its interdisciplinary extension.
Workshop: Projects that has the main purpose of transferring knowledge and also the research on the use of computing – and other technological languages – for creative purposes


No entry fee


Details:
https://file.org.br/highlight/opencall_file2020/

Open call for poets and filmmakers

Deadline: 3 May 2020


Poets, media artists, video artists, and filmmakers are called to submit their work to The 3rd Annual Film and Video Poetry Symposium!

Through the month of July 2020 this festival and symposium will screen a large scope of film and video projects developed through the medium of poetry. The symposium programmers also curate and present a 30-day gallery exhibit in conjunction with the film screenings. There are no restrictions regarding when films or video work are produced or if the work has premiered regionally or internationally. There are also no running time restrictions.

The Film and Video Poetry Symposium is accepting digital-poetry, poetry video, Cin(E)-Poetry, spoken word films, videopoema, choreopoems, visual poetry, poetry films, filmpoems, poetronica, and media poetry.

The Film and Video Poetry Symposium also encourages experimental film and video work that explores language and/or literature whether it be oral, written, visual, or symbolic. This includes the essay film or cinematic essay, non-narrative work, and the avant-guard. We strongly consider work that challenges traditional and current visual communication methods while continuing to function as a mode for experimenting with narrative and personal expression.

Performance material, virtual reality projects, video mapping, installation proposals, and video art presentations that hybrid text or contain strong aspects of poetry are encouraged.

entry fee:
20 USD


Details:
https://www.fvpsociety.com/2020-film-and-video-poetry-symposium

Deadline: ongoing



ArtOpenCalls website is visited by both: artists and curators or art gallery owners. That is why we plan to create a special place on the website where the artists will be able to show themselves to the curators, gallery owners and all art fans. It'll be a place where one can look for inspiration for their own work and share their achievements.



Every week or so we will try to pick most interesting artworks, and post them on facebook and/or instagram. Informations about artists will be posted at website of ArtOpenCalls https://artopencalls.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

There is no restriction in theme. There is no restriction in art medium.

We want to give you a chance to promote you and your art.



Rules (as simple as it can be):



1. All artists from around the world may enter this contest



2. The Entrant guarantees that the work entered for the competition is original and that he or she is the sole owner of the exploitation rights attached to this work. As such, the Entrant shall personally obtain permission from any third parties [both actual persons featured, and third parties that may claim intellectual property rights to the aforementioned photographs or videos (for example, photographs or videos featuring architectural monuments or sculpture)] having participated directly or indirectly in producing the work and/or who believes themselves to hold any right whatsoever concerning it. In the event of a third party claim, the Entrant will be liable for any eventual payments resulting therefrom.



3. Artists must be over 18 years old


4. Only completed entries will be taken under evaluation


5.  Artists give unlimited in time permission to the ArtOpenCalls to publish images or videos sent by artist in the selection process:

- on the website of ArtOpenCalls

- on Facebook page of ArtOpenCalls

- on instagram account of ArtOpenCalls

All authors will be credited under the image/video of artwork


6. Taking part in the competition means accepting its rules.



No entry fee


Link to submission:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YTfpXNE0aHjtAqKuHsD_rthK_cnvcLFb-sh5nX72ikU



contact:

If you have any questions please contact through facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/artopencalls/

To see artists selected in the past please visit:
https://artopencalls.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

Open call for video works

Deadline: 15 December 2019

ASG is pleased to announce our Seventh International Video Open Call for time-based media! Yearly we receive dozens of submissions. The theme of the show will grow out of the quality of the submissions we receive and we will start evaluating the submissions immediately.

Videos of all types and genres will be considered.

One entry per artist

Entry fee: $15

Details:
https://aggregatespacegallery.org/voc/