Sub-Saharan Africa

The Goethe-Institut invites the festival organizers in West Africa, to apply for grants under the project ‘Africa-Europe Partnerships for Culture: West Africa’.

This assignment relates to the West Africa Fusion Artist Residency, a high-impact programme designed to foster creative collaboration, cultural dialogue and professional development among artists from Ghana and other West African countries.

MASS is recruiting the next cohort of the African Design Centre (ADC) Fellowship, empowering African architects and designers to lead the continent’s urbanisation. Applicants must be able to relocate to Kigali, Rwanda, from October 2026 to September 2027.

Gëestu / Giss is an artist/craft residency located within a spiritual community on the edge of the desert in Senegal. It is aimed at artists wishing to ground their practice in a local context, engaging with traditional skills such as dyeing, embroidery, basketry, and working with cotton, leather, and metal.

The Absa L’Atelier competition, through its prizes, supports visual artists in growing their brand and in equipping them with the relevant skills needed to build their careers.

The Rele Arts Foundation introduces The R2 Space, a visual arts residency programme for mid-career ( ages 35 and upwards) African and diaspora artists. The residency will be open to artists of various disciplines and backgrounds as well as to curators, art writers and researchers.

This programme invites artists to engage with heritage narratives from six countries, reimagining them through a contemporary creative lens. Selected participants will receive a 6,000 EUR grant and take part in a six-month Heritage Narrative process phase, culminating in three coproduced creative works.

CIMAM invites curators, researchers, and museum professionals working in modern and contemporary art to apply for a Travel Grant to attend the 58th CIMAM Annual Conference, taking place in Harare, Zimbabwe (20–22 November 2026).

As part of the regional ICC development project in Indian Oceania, the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) is launching the sixth round of allocation of ‘AléVini, regional mobility support fund’. The project, financed by the French Development Agency (AFD), aims to strengthen regional collaboration and contribute to local economic development linked to the structuring of cultural actors and their ecosystem.

Rotating AiRs is looking for artists working at the intersection of colonialism and climate change to take part in an international residency programme.

MAISON PERRIER is launching the first MAISON PERRIER Art Prize, an international artistic competition open to emerging artists from around the world.