Open calls

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Loops for Ukraine is a musical fundraising project. Donate what you can. One charitable donation provides ongoing access to a bank of loops specially created by artists and will help to support the people in Ukraine in the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Featuring original sound loops by VTSS, Laraaji, Coby Sey, Mount Kimbie, Object Blue, umru, Laurel Halo and more. All proceeds go to the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

Deadline: Ongoing / A self-directed, open-source artist residency to empower and inspire artists who are also mothers.

Deadline: ACCEPTING URGENT APPLICATIONS AT ANY TIME

Deadline: 3.1.2025 // The Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) announces its inaugural Artist Residencies programme. The residency programme invites applications from artists, writers and researchers across the globe and the residencies are scheduled from 3 February to 30 March 2025 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

E75 Art Bus Project and Artist Residency 2025–2026 Deadline: 6.1.2025 // E75 Art Bus is calling for applications from professional artists resident in the regions of the E75 Art Bus route – Finnmark (Norway), Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, North Macedonia, Greece – to participate in a residency between April and June 2025 (ranging from 6 weeks to 2 months). The artists are expected to present their work during the E75 Art Bus journey (Oulu – Siteía – Vardø – Oulu, 9 April – 18 May 2026). The duration for artists’ participation for the journey will be negotiated with the artists later.

Deadline: 7.1.2025 // The Tiny Spaces Deep Connections (TiSp) open call 2025 is calling for applications from artists and creatives (resident in EU or Creative Europe countries) who focus on process-led and site-specific creation for six residency spots between May and July 2025, that will take place in Athens, Greece; Oulu, Finland; and Potsdam / Berlin, Germany.

Deadline: 11.1.2025 // Tanzplattform Bern is an international dance festival and competition for choreographers, with three awards: a Jury Award a commission for Bern Ballett, an Audience Award fellowship for a movement research with Bern Ballett and a Special Award Residency at Residenzzentrum tanz+, Königsfelden (CH).

Deadline: 15.1.2025 // Art in Lov is calling for applications for their artist-in-residence programme ‘A Critical View on Plastic’, from 5 March to 5 June 2025. During these three months, the selected artist(s) will develop work or a body of works for an exhibition shown in parallel to the Loviisa Town Museum’s exhibition on the history of plastic production in Loviisa.

Deadline: 15.1.2025 //Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships are open to all artists whose work would benefit from significant primary research related to the histories, concepts, art, and objects of the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and its legacies. Artistic applicants may apply for one, two, or three months of research support and have the option to take their fellowships fully onsite, fully virtual, or a combination of the two. Fellowship awards may be taken any time between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026.

Deadline: 20.1.2025 // Diriyah Art Futures (DAF) is calling for applications from established new media artists and scholars for their inaugural residency season, ‘High-Resolution Dreams of Sand’, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The three-month residency comprises two distinct streams for New Media Artists and Scholars. The inaugural three-month residency will launch in Spring 2025 (February – April). A 2nd 2025 period will be available.

Deadline: 21.1.2025 // The Prince Claus Fund is calling for applications from emerging artists and cultural practitioners who work in contexts where cultural expression is under pressure for the 2025 Seed Award. The Prince Claus Fund offers 100 Awards.

Deadline: 24.1.2025 // BIRCA eco Matter is a joint residency of two weeks for six international performing artists, who seek to create new solo, shared and collaborative performance works.

Deadline: 27.1.2025 // STARHAUS, a project funded under the Horizon Europe programme, is calling for EU-based SMEs for their Arts and Technology Residencies, to work with the project’s technology partners to define new concepts for services and processes and to adapt existing hardware and software to the specific project use-cases (pet food, fertilizers, beverages, and breakfast cereals), while contributing to raising the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of these technologies.

Deadline: 6.1.2025 // Vera List Center for Art and Politics: 2025–2027 Fellowship and Open Call on ‘Matter of Intelligence’ (USA, Online)

Deadline: 6.1.2025 // Paradise Air is calling for applications from all people of all nationalities working in the arts field for their 11th Longstay Programme between May and July 2025 (70–90 days duration) in Matsudo, Japan.

Deadline: 7.1.2025 // CYCLE UP! is launching the second round of residencies to develop artistic perspectives on bicycle cultures in four European cities between May and June 2025. This is an opportunity for artists to create impactful interventions that inspire local communities and decision makers to reimagine bike-friendly, inclusive urban spaces.

Deadline: 7.1.2025 // Sandnes City Council and Rogaland County Council in Norway offer an independent residency to professional artists. The artist may be from abroad, a Norwegian national or a regional artist wanting an alternative project space. The offer consists of a 1–3-month residency in a rent-free studio with accommodation situated in the city of Sandnes in the second half of 2025.

Deadline: 12.1.2025 // Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac: Sound Art Residency 2025 (France)

Deadline: 14.1.2025 // Island Connect: Residency Programme for Performing Artists 2024–2026 (Denmark, Croatia, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy)

Deadline: 15.1.2025 // Emmanuel College: Artist Residencies in Ceramics, Photography, Printmaking and Social Practice 2025 (USA) Emmanuel’s six-week Artist in Residence programme supports a diverse group of artists, providing time and space for established and emerging artists to develop their work from mid-June to late-July 2025.

Deadline: 18.1.2025 // Fundación Cuerpo Sur’s Avanzada Sur residency programme is calling for applications from artists working in the performing arts within Latin America, residing in a Latin American country, who are under 35 years of age (born after 1990) and who have 1–3 professional work exhibited.

Deadline: 20.1.2025// The A4 International Residency Programme is calling for applications from international artists from any field for the 8–10-week residency sessions in 2025–2026 in A4 Residency Art Center, Sichuan, China.

Deadline: 20.1.2025 // Rawabet is calling for applications from performing artists (theatre, dance, new circus, and other forms) originally from the Arab region (regardless of ethnicity), who arrived to European territories after 2015, to develop and create works in collaboration with European and non-European counterparts and audiences, in order to create a more diverse cultural scene and combat stereotypes and discrimination.

Deadline: 26.1.2025 // Aejlies and Riksteatern are calling for applications from Indigenous artists worldwide who work with choreography and movement for the residency programme Jårrh!, in the heart of the Sámi cultural landscape of Dearna (Tärnaby), Sweden. The residency duration can be two to four weeks between 18 August and 31 October 2025.

Deadline: 27.1.2025 // Montresso Art Foundation: Jardin Rouge Artist Residency for Visual Artists 2025/2026 (Morocco)

ONGOING / Artists, creatives and arts practitioners are one of the most instantly impacted groups of people in this unprecedented crisis that we find ourselves. In light of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the artist community, many arts organisations, foundations and governments are creating additional immediate support to meet artists needs. To help you in this emerging situation, we have prepared the list of available grants and funds. We will continue to update it over the next few weeks. We hope you will find it helpful. Stay tuned! BY CONTEMPORARY LYNX

Deadline: 1.2.2025 // Wave Farm welcomes submissions from artists, researchers, tinkerers, and writers, from a variety of disciplines to create work for a terrestrial radio station that celebrates risk-taking work and prioritises the uniquely urgent and intimate nature of the radio medium.

Deadline: 16.2.2025 // The Eskenazi School of Art Architecture + Design at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a 4–6-week McKinney International Art and Design Residency. An established artist or designer will be selected whose primary country of residence is outside the United States. Applicants should be actively engaged in a contemporary artistic practice and show evidence of a national and international exhibition record. Applications from practitioners of studio disciplines, as well as criticism, are welcome.

Deadline: 31.1.2025 // Cie Omar Rajeh & Maqamat, Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee, and Albania Dance Meeting are calling for applications from dancers and choreographers to participate in Telescope Beirut, taking place from 4 to 10 April 2025 in Beirut, Lebanon. Telescope Beirut is a one-week creative lab offering a unique lens to explore, magnify, and discover new perspectives in dance and performance. Artists selected from across Europe and the Mediterranean will be accompanied by a group of professionals to advise, support, and inspire their ongoing projects.

Deadline: 1.2.2025 // Mophradat has partnered with Kunstencentrum BUDA and NEXT festival in Belgium to offer a three-week residency for a performing artist from the Arab world to finalise a new performance using BUDA’s facilities and artistic support, and premiere their work at NEXT festival at the conclusion of the residency, all of which will take place October/November 2025.

Deadline: 8.2.2025 // The Art House (TAH) and the Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL) are calling for applications from artists living and working outside of the UK in a commonwealth (or former commonwealth) country, the US/EU/EEA or Switzerland for a two-month residency in Wakefield, UK, in 2025.

Deadline: 1.3.2025 // RIDCC invites choreographers from around the globe to submit their duets (7–12 mins) for the 7th edition of the duet competition, taking place from 11–14 June 2025, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Deadline: 4.3.2025 // The organisation NXTHVN welcomes up to seven artists and two curators to participate in its paid 10-month intensive Fellowship Programme in New Haven, USA. Founded by Titus Kaphar and Jason Price in 2018, NXTHVN was designed with a core aim to build an alternative model of arts mentorship and career acceleration through a specially designed curriculum.

With its grant programme, the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg (Arts Foundation Baden-Württemberg) provides targeted support to young talents from the visual and performing arts, literature, music, art criticism and cultural management, whose permanent residence or focus of work is in Baden-Württemberg, or who have spent a significant part of their life in Baden-Württemberg, which has been decisive for their artistic work.

Deadline: 1.3.2025 // SAC International Curatorial Residency Programme 2025 is the residency programme at Barcelona’s Sant Andreu Contemporani, in collaboration with Fabra i Coats – Fàbrica de Creació and Institut Ramon Llull and open to international curators.

Deadline: Varies depending on the project type. Read the guidelines :) / The Nordic Culture Fund supports projects which stimulate the development of artistic and cultural life in the Nordic region. Here you can read more about our current funding programmes.

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