Open Calls


Promotion fund int. Cooperation projects fine arts/ Goethe Institute

The Goethe-Institut is launching a new project fund to promote international cooperation projects in the field of visual arts and thus the global networking of creative artists even more strongly in the future. From March 1, 2021, artists, curators and art mediators from Germany and abroad can apply together with their project ideas for the […]


Call for proposals for a residency in the artists’ town of Kalbe for artists in 2024

The artists’ town of Kalbe is an innovative project in the Altmark region with the aim of countering demographic change through art and culture. In line with Joseph Beuys’ concept of social sculpture, the artists’ town of Kalbe sees itself as a place where the creative potential of art is developed in order to build […]


International Dresden Summer Academy for Visual Arts

Every year, the Summer Academy invites artists and art students aged 20-40 to take part in a course of their choice. The scholarship makes it possible to work together artistically in the artistic workshops of riesa efau, in the media culture center, as well as in the nearby project space “Rösslstube e.V.”. The scholarship includes: […]


Exhibition in Schwetzingen

This year, Elector Carl-Theodor would celebrate his 300th birthday. celebrate her birthday. Although he was an absolutist ruler, he is regarded as a good regent and sovereign who ruled the Palatinate and Bavaria for 50 years and stayed out of all wars. His palaces, especially his summer residence in Schwetzingen, made him immortal. He was […]


Sculptures & installations for Open Air music festival

We are looking for sculptures and installations for an open air exhibition at the 6*-Festival in Bayreuth. This is a festival for electronic music LIVE. So it’s not a techno party, but many facets of electronic music as an art form. The works must be weatherproof as they will be standing/lying/hanging outdoors. We pay a […]


Art symposium 17th workshop week Lüben in June/July 2025

Our call for applications until September 30, 2024 is aimed at professional artists and students of art or design. Promoting young talent is even more important to us than before. There is also a cooperation with the Young Generation of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, which will also be responsible for selecting the young talents who are […]


Open Call Light your Vision

LIGHT OUR VISION calls on artists to transform non-places into places of light with their contributions. All forms of light art are in demand – classic, large-scaleProjections with moving images as well as slide projections, light sculptures, interactive contributions, purely scenographic approaches, classical lighting art. The application is open to both collectives and individual artists. […]


City illuminations “Fürth highlights” 2024

Since 2018, the “Fürth Highlights” have been a real bright spot in late fall and a special event for the cloverleaf city. November has a special significance for Fürth: Fürth was first mentioned in a document over 1000 years ago this month and was elevated to the rank of a first-class town over 200 years […]


Open Call for the Festival of Regions 2025

The Festival of Regions invites artists, cultural initiatives and people with a cultural, social and political commitment to once again not let things take their course. The upcoming Festival of Regions will take place from June 13 to 22, 2025 in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria, with the main focus on Braunau am Inn […]


MikroKulturFonds – small projects can achieve big things!

The state of Saxony-Anhalt is once again making a total of 74,000 euros available to associations and initiatives for small cultural projects. The advice center for civic engagement of the Landesheimatbund provides support with applications and processing. The regular MikroKulturFonds provides up to 1,000 euros per project. Projects that mitigate the consequences of the corona […]


Hot Printing! Offenbach Print Festival from 6. – July 7, 2024

On the weekend 6. – July 7, 2024, the city of Offenbach is hosting the Hot Printing Festival in and around the Klingspor Museum for the second time. Max. 50 stands were allocated to artists, printers and workshop owners to present their own work for sale. In order to spend a lively weekend together and […]


Renewed call for entries for the 32nd KUNSTMARKT Friedrichsrode (not specified – old deadline has been extended again!)

Artists and cultural craftspeople are also invited to apply to take part in 2024. The market has long attracted national attention and attracts several thousand visitors to the picturesque northern Thuringian village of Friedrichsrode with its 70 inhabitants between Nordhausen, Mühlhausen and Sondershausen on the third Saturday in June. In addition to a colorful market, […]


Art on the water (31.05.2024)

Since 2001, the “Art on the Water” symposium at the Kriebstein Dam has been a permanent fixture on the Central Saxon Cultural Summer schedule. With the support of the ZWA Hainichen, the Zweckverband Kriebsteintalsperre and the municipality of Kriebstein, the idea has become a tradition and numerous works of art on a wide variety of […]


OPEN CALL: Short film competition 20 seconds for art

Open, anonymous short film competition. Topic: Soundless 20-second films on the topic “Community 3.0. Public space in the digital age” are to be created that interpret this artistically. Persons addressed: The call for entries is aimed at artists, students and graduates of art, graphic design, film, architecture and urban planning courses or people working in […]


Short-term call for tenders Course work database for BBK members (14.04.2024)

We recently advertised a course on work databases for heirs and estate administrators. As we have not received enough registrations from this group of interested parties, we would now like to open the course to BBK members at short notice. The dates have already been set and two participants have already confirmed their attendance. If […]


Last chance to apply for KUNST/MITTE

Professional artists and galleries can present themselves and their works at KUNST/MITTE 2024. KUNST/MITTE has created the YAS – Young Artist Space – for up-and-coming artists, an area financed by the fair with the help of sponsors. Terms and conditions on our home page. Artists up to the age of 30 and new galleries/gallery projects […]


Art by the water

Since 2001, the “Art on the Water” symposium at the Kriebstein Dam has had a firm place in the schedule of events of the Central Saxon Summer of Culture. With the support of ZWA Hainichen, the Zweckverband Kriebsteintalsperre and the municipality of Kriebstein, the idea has become a tradition and numerous works of art on […]


PROJECT CALL FOR PROJECTS “Changing signs – 50 years of regional reform in Münsterland”

Art projects on regional reform in Münsterland wanted! On January 1, 1975, a reform of the century comes into force in Münsterland. As in the whole of Germany, numerous municipal and district boundaries are being shifted. Many a small town is incorporated into a larger one, town signs are exchanged, areas of life change from […]


Exhibition project “Between root and treetop – fragments from the forest network”

Since 2004, the Walkmühle artists’ association in Wiesbaden has regularly presented thematic exhibitions with an international line-up. A particular focus of the exhibition program is on topics with social relevance. For example, the artists’ association has organized group exhibitions on the themes of idyll, home, flight and escape, what is wealth, puberty, the cult of […]


Mentoring program: re:balance – gender equality in the arts

Gender equality is still a long way from being achieved in the arts. Whether in terms of payment, presentation opportunities or the awarding of prizes: Success continues to depend on the gender of the artist. The Rudolf Augstein Foundation is therefore launching a new funding line: re:balance – gender equality in the arts. The aim […]