Visual Arts & Design

Forte de ce constat, l’OIF (Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie) à travers son projet « Industries culturelles et découvrabilité » de la direction de la langue française dans la diversité des cultures francophones (DLC), met en place différentes subventions ouvertes aux opérateurs culturels et aux États membres.

The BUTONG International Young Artists Drifting Programme 2026 offers a 15- to 30-day residency and is open to emerging artists worldwide at Beidaihe, BUTONG International Art District, Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, China.

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

National Sculpture Factory (NSF) and The Guesthouse have announce an open call for the International Curator’s Residency, based in The Guesthouse in Cork, Ireland, in August 2026.

The Académie des beaux-arts and the Cité internationale des arts jointly run programmes to welcome French and international artists in residence.

Bærum Kunsthall invites visual and craft artists to apply to be a part of the 2027 exhibition programme through the juried Open Call.

Art Center NEW is calling for applications from artists based in Asia for their NEW AIR 2026, a two-month artist-in-residence programme in Koganecho, Yokohama, from 20 July to 20 September 2026.

The Museo Sant’Orsola, together with the Calliope Arts Foundation and the Levett Collection / FAMM, promotes two residencies dedicated to women artists, with no age limit, aimed at highlighting the contribution of women in contemporary artistic practices.

This residency in České Budějovice is a collaboration between the festival Umění ve městě (Art in the City) 2026 and the European Capital of Culture České Budějovice 2028. ‘Fragility’ is this year’s theme of Umění ve městě and the residency should ideally take place for up to three weeks between mid-May and the beginning of June 2026.

The Office of Contemporary Art and Culture has scheduled an art exchange programme between artists from the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS Artist Residency 2026) under the Mekong River Basin Contemporary Art Festival Project for the fiscal year 2569 BE. (2026 C.E.).

The Künstlerhaus Marktoberdorf is launching its first open call for submissions to enliven the museum’s spaces with an eight-week experimental exhibition and an accompanying programme for visitors in the summer of 2026. This open call seeks to have an external team of artists and/or curators design an exhibition space within the museum to realise a contemporary and experimental art project.

The city of Valladolid (Spain) opens a new call addressed to artists from ‘CreArt. Network of Cities for Artistic Creation’, and will select three artists from other cities who wish to work on their artistic projects for five weeks in Galerías VA in Valladolid, between 18 May to 21 June 2026.