Current Open Calls

Gold rush artist project

The Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt promotes the realization of outstanding artistic positions by women. It is an independent professional development project for female visual artists, which includes a one-year postgraduate professionalization course, an exhibition and public events. Each year, 15 female artists can take part. Application deadline: September 15, 2024


Kuboshow art fair in Herne

The KUBOSHOW KUNSTMESSE takes place in the Flottmann-Hallen, a former jackhammer factory, in the heart of the Ruhr region, in Herne. 74 young international artists show their latest works there in the fall. Around 50% of the participants change every year. The price level tends to be between € 5 and € 4,000. The program […]


Funding for media art projects in Karlsruhe

The City of Karlsruhe promotes the production and presentation of cooperative, interdisciplinary and outdoor media art projects in Karlsruhe as well as international network activities. Selected works will be exhibited in the summer of 2025 as part of the “Media art is here” presentation in Karlsruhe. The maximum funding amount is 40,000 euros. Further information […]


BEQISA – Call for funding 2025 “Together – for a neighborhood worth living in”

The call for funding “Together – for a neighborhood worth living in” is intended to provide impetus for the development of age-appropriate neighborhoods, particularly in rural regions in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. The promotion of small-scale individual projects and measures is intended to contribute to the improvement of housing and the living environment, supply, social […]


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 […]


CLAIM Culture makes you strong. Alliances for education: “We can do art” – AUGUST/SEMPTEMBER 2024

Under the title “We can do art”, the Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler e. V. (BBK), as a program partner of the BMBF, supports art projects of local alliances that are carried out by professional visual artists for children and young people whose educational opportunities are limited. In the projects, classical artistic techniques such as […]


Farm Studio International Artist Residency 2025

Artists of all disciplines creating in any media are welcome to apply: dance, theater, music, sound, performance art, writing, painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, culinary, photography, video/film, animation, architecture, sculpture (any material), ceramics, pottery, mixed-media / multi-media, interdisciplinary, installation, and other new/alternative media. Researchers, curators, and art critics are also welcome to apply. Open to emerging […]


Close-up view of dirty paint brushes on aluminum tray, shallow DOF

Erlebnis Kunst Foundation / Project funding

The Erlebnis Kunst Foundation supports artistic and art education work in the fields of visual arts, theater, music and new media. In particular, projects that demonstrate a creative, innovative, original and reflective concept in dealing with art and interpretative experience are supported. The projects to be funded must show evidence of substantiated planning in terms […]


Course work database 2024

The BBK Saxony-Anhalt has been operating the “Visual Arts Database Saxony-Anhalt” since 2017. It publishes catalogs raisonnés and lists of estates of female visual artists with a connection to Saxony-Anhalt. The work database informs the public – including curators and researchers, for example – about the life’s work of individual female artists and reflects the […]


Woman* creates space

FRAU* schafft Raum is a hybrid of a place of remembrance and an art space. The artistic presentation will focus on the topic of “femicide” in connection with the history of the site. Artists* are invited to submit exhibition concepts that fit thematically into this framework. Exhibitions dealing with femicide, violence against women, women’s rightsas […]


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 […]


Project funding Visual arts project fund

With the Visual Arts Project Fund, the Goethe-Institut supports the international networking of artists from Germany and around the world. It promotes projects that engage in artistic and curatorial cooperation across national and continental borders. The fund thus offers the opportunity to work on cross-border discourses and research issues in complex and supra-regional projects and […]


Course work database 2024

The BBK Saxony-Anhalt has been operating the “Visual Arts Database Saxony-Anhalt” since 2017. It publishes catalogs raisonnés and lists of estates of female visual artists with a connection to Saxony-Anhalt. The work database informs the public – including curators and researchers, for example – about the life’s work of individual female artists and reflects the […]


Course work database 2024

The BBK Saxony-Anhalt has been operating the “Visual Arts Database Saxony-Anhalt” since 2017. It publishes catalogs raisonnés and lists of estates of female visual artists with a connection to Saxony-Anhalt. The work database informs the public – including curators and researchers, for example – about the life’s work of individual female artists and reflects the […]


Special edition of the German Medal Art Society

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medaillenkunst e. V. invites all artists to explore the theme of “RESONANCES” in the medium of the art medal. Everything is possible, from decorative to politically and socially critical to purely abstract pictorial inventions. The decisive factor is a reference to current conditions, symptoms and consequences of “resonances” in all their […]


Open Call 2025: Residence for the Lichtenberg Studios

The residency project gives international artists, but also artists living in Berlin, the opportunity to live and work in a very interesting former East Berlin district and to gain their first impressions of Berlin and its art scenes. With a stay of usually one month, there is enough time for both. The project is primarily […]


Otto Ditscher Prize 2025 for book illustration

Every four years, the Rhein-Pfalz district awards the Otto Ditscher Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of book illustration. The prize is endowed with EUR 7,500. In addition, a prize of EUR 1,500 will be awarded to book illustrators under the age of 40. The illustrations to be submitted must deal with one of […]


Exhibition opportunity in Wernigerode (without appointment)

Our member Frank Täubner gives the following information: “I would like to inform you about an exhibition opportunity in the Bürgerpark Wernigerode, where there is an exhibition space and many tourists visit the park every day. This is a good and easy opportunity for artists who are looking for exhibition opportunities. There are four to […]


Global Forest Residence (ongoing possible)

The premises of Martin Kippenberger’s former studio are used by Global Forest as the artists’ residence at Friedrichstrasse 5a. Since May 2019, national and international artists have been given the opportunity to deepen their artistic practice, explore new themes, develop new works on site and exhibit or present them as part of a funded residency. […]


Promotion of aktion mensch (possible on an ongoing basis)

Until 2026, small local projects in areas such as art and culture that make a concrete contribution to the funding priority of inclusion are to be supported with up to 5,000 euros. The funding period is between one day and twelve months. In particular, Aktion Mensch e.V. invites initiatives and associations that have not yet […]


Frau*Now – Women start up now!

We want to strengthen female entrepreneurship in Halle (Saale) and the surrounding area. Let’s make room for creative women and turn dreams into reality together. Frau*Now is aimed at women of all ages, backgrounds and educational levels. We accompany you from brainstorming to the growth phase. In this project, we are focusing primarily on networking […]


Micro-grant program of the German Foundation for Commitment and Volunteering

DSEE funding program for structurally weak and rural areas Do your volunteers need an extra dose of recognition? Do you have a good idea for recruiting more volunteers for your initiative? You finally want to do this training and put your club work on a secure footing? You don’t need much, but you can’t do […]


Open Call: Urban Dance Festival Magdeburg

The state capital of Magdeburg is still looking for creative ideas from the city’s artists and cultural workers for the supporting program of the Urban Dance World Championships! A total of around €30,000 is available for this purpose, which has been taken or reserved from the municipal funding pot for the independent cultural scene and […]


Community Fund Future Paths East (without deadline)

Fast, uncomplicated and without own funds: The micro-project funding of the Zukunftswege Ost joint fund starts on July 1, 2024. At least 100 projects are to be supported with up to 5,000 euros. Applications are possible on an ongoing basis. The first payments are planned for September. In the long term, the fund is to […]