Visual Arts & Design

7th Extinction is an international artistic residency project focused on the most pressing issues of evolution, extinction and environmental crisis. This open call is for musicians, music producers, and visual artists (VJs, video producers, visual creatives) between 18-35 years old who are resident or domiciled in Portugal or Germany. Selected applicants will join an educational programme (in Italy, Portugal and Germany) September - December 2023, and an artistic residency spread over a 2-week period at 3 different points in 2024.

The contemporary art festival Steirischer Herbst’s fellowship programme is aimed at established as well as emerging researchers who would like to delve into the festival’s rich history. 

With the programme The Resistance of Nothingness, Tiroler Künstler:innenschaft is devoting itself to forms of feminist refusal as a withdrawal from unjust patriarchal and neoliberal systems. It is calling for exhibition projects and artistic interventions that take up new narratives for our complex contemporary present, thoughts and conversations.

The artist-in-residency programme Hydromedia: Seeing With Water proposes to sidestep conventional visual approaches to global warming. Artists and experimental photographers are invited to submit a proposal to develop innovative and hands-on tools during a one-month residency in October 2023 at the Utrecht University of the Arts (HKU) and in their own studio in the months thereafter. Applicants must be active visual artists currently living and working in Europe and/or possess the nationality of one of the countries in the European Union.

The German Embassy Pretoria and LIA - Leipzig International Art Programme invite visual artists from Eswatini, Lesotho and South Africa to apply for a three-month residency exchange in Leipzig, Germany. The residency will run 1 November 2023 - 30 January 2024.

Guandu Nature Park is calling for three artists with a focus on the human-nature relationship to participate in the 2023 Guandu International Nature Art Festival, themed ‘Nature, a Gift - Connection, Giving, and Exchange’. Selected artists will use natural or environmentally friendly materials to create artworks on-site that can convey environmental messages and raise awareness. The residency period will run from 9 August 2023 – 11 September 2023, with artworks exhibited from 10 September – 31 December 2023. 

The Dëkandoo Artistic Residence is a production residency for artists of Spanish or Equatoguinean origin who wish to develop a research and artistic creation project linked to the commune of Gandiol and the Natural Park of the Langue de Barbarie. The residency will run for five weeks, starting 1 November 2023.

Verein K is happy to launch the call for the residency programme Visiting Curators Vienna 2023. Four international mid-career curators will be chosen to spend ten days in Vienna, from 13-22 November 2023. The programme is looking for curators who will realise an exhibition in the upcoming two years outside of Austria including one or several artist(s) based in Austria.

Tulsa Airports Improvement Trust (TAIT) is seeking to commission an artist to create a bold, innovative and engaging suspended art installation at Tulsa International Airport (TUL).

Trieste Contemporanea is pleased to announce the fourth edition of the SQUEEZE IT competition. The contest invites artists and young professionals under the age of 30, born in the EU countries and in the CEI member states, to squeeze their talent and work at the crossroads of three creative languages: Visual Arts, Digital Technology, and Theatre. Applicants apply with a clip of their performance, with finalists invited to a three-day workshop in September 2023 in Trieste, Italy.

CIMAM’s 2023 Annual Conference will be held from 9-11 November 2023, hosted by the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina. CIMAM will award over 50 travel grants to attend the CIMAM 2023 Annual Conference, titled ‘The Co-Creative Museum: Social Agency, Ethics, and Heritage’. Grants are addressed to modern and contemporary art museum directors and curators, researchers, and independent curators whose field of research and specialisation is contemporary art theory, collections, and museums.

REAKTOR, a privately run transdisciplinary art institution based in Vienna, is calling for conceptual proposals for a visual arts project that will respond to the architecture of the organisation’s main hall. The chosen artists will be invited to further develop their concept and to plan its practical implementation and realisation supported by REAKTOR’s team, for presentation in February 2024.