Open Calls

Open Calls © Goethe Institut, Groupe Dejour

Here you will find a selection of current international and national open calls and opportunities (i.e. competitions, prizes, exhibitions, awards, proposals, residencies and grants) across art forms for artists, creators, translators and makers to participate in exciting international programmes.

If you would like to see an opportunity added to our listing, please don’t hesitate to contact us. Listings are regularly updated.

The Arts Infopoint UK initiative

Arts Infopoint UK is a pilot initiative to support the arts sector with information on practical issues relating to artist mobility. The project will look at ways to provide support for international artists visiting the UK as well as venues or companies in the UK who want to invite an international artist or company to perform here.

Deadline: 19.05.2024
SCIENCE_TECHNOLOGY_SOCIETY

Delfina Foundation is pleased to announce an international open call for its upcoming winter 2025 residency season from 6 January to 30 March under its recurring thematic programme science_technology_society.

Deadline: 31.05.2024, midnight
Making Tracks

Making Tracks, an international music exchange programme with an environmental focus, has an open call for its artist residency and tour based around the themes of musical traditions and the natural world. The residency will run in September where the artist will receive professional development, incubate new work and develop craft and career plans. This will be followed by a short tour and series of workshops in late September to early October. Making Tracks is open to collaboratively minded, emerging music professionals from anywhere in the world.

Deadline: 16.06.24, 17.00 BST
Image, scrape, synthesise, collapse

The Photographers’ Gallery, a public gallery in London dedicated to photography, is inviting proposals for an artist or collective working with photography, digital and moving image practices to develop research and create a new digital commission around generative AI, self-made tools or similar advanced technology. The research will be presented online via online resource Unthinking Photography and at the Gallery in February 2025. The selected artist or collective will receive a £4,000 fee and £5,000 production costs. Applicants can be based in the UK and internationally.