Visual Arts & Design

Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Tallinn Art Hall and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius announce an open call to select creatives for an upcoming archipelago of events, tentatively titled History of Joy, Part 4. Visual artists, musicians, performers and writers from, based in or otherwise connected to the Baltic states are invited to propose ideas for contributions, which can take any form, either physical or virtual. All the contributions will be shared in one way or another on a common web platform.

Taepyung Salt Farm X LAMPLAB seeks artists to submit entries for the jury-based exhibition, ‘Art Like Salt.’ The winners will be chosen to participate in a residency programme in Shinan, designated a ‘Slow City’, in South Jeolla Province, South Korea, with the opportunity to create work in any of the following format, photography, video, installation, sculpture, or sound with the theme of ‘Dear Friend’. Due to the COVID-19, the Korean government is not issuing new visas for foreigners including tourists. You must either have a visa issued before or have Korean citizenship, or currently in South Korea in order to participate in the residency programme.

The organisers of the Creadores (Creators) Exhibition in Valladolid, Spain are inviting applications from artists to show their work and participate in internal debates around the event. This call is open to artists born or resident in cities of the CreArt network: Genoa and Lecce, Italy; Liverpool, UK; Clermont - Ferrand and Rouen, France; Zagreb, Croatia (member of HDLU); Kaunas, Lithuania; Lublin and Katowice, Poland; Aveiro, Portugal; Skopje, Macedonia. Artists from Genoa should be under 35.

The Julienne, Métiers d’Art & Tourisme (Julienne, Arts & Crafts and Tourism) Association is organising the 12th International Symposium of Monumental Stone Sculpture, its 2021 Biennial event, in Julienne. The theme for this edition is ‘Metamorphosis’.

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 flesh out and implement their submitted concept as part of a 1 week residency in summer 2021, and then showcase it to the public as part of an exhibition in October 2021.

The Asymmetry Curatorial Fellowship is a six-month placement for a mid-career curator at the curatorial department of the Whitechapel Gallery in London. It will run 20 September 2020 – 20 March 2021, and will be awarded to one Fellow who is a national of Mainland China, Hong Kong or Taiwan, and based in the region or internationally.

Based in Arnhem in the Netherlands, State of Fashion is globally recognised as a pioneering platform that explores an urgently needed radical change in fashion. In the run-up to its next biennial in 2022, it is seeking curators (working individually or as part of a collective) to engage on a project basis from April 2021 until the end of the biennial in June/July 2022.

V_AIR Vimercate Art in Residence is the annual programme of artistic residencies, promoted by the Department of Culture of the City of Vimercate in Lombardy, which rewards and supports contemporary artistic production. Artists and students aged between 19 and 35 who work in the visual arts (photography, graphics, performance, painting, sculpture, video) can send their applications to participate in creation residencies 3-23 May 2021 at the MUST museum in Vimercate.

Tallinn Art Hall is launching a new artist in residence programme for professional artists living in Germany in partnership with Goethe-Institut Estland. It offers a studio apartment in central Tallinn for 2 months, from 1 August – 30 September 2021. The aim of the programme is to spur artistic research and discourse in Tallinn on the topics of ecological awareness, environmental sustainability and the ethics of making art.

The British Council are looking to commission six artists to illustrate a text about their DICE (Developing Inclusive and Creative Communities) programme. They intend to select one artist from each of the following countries to undertake the commission: Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Africa and the UK. Artists can be working in illustration, painting, graphic design, animation, poetry, graphic novel, comic strips, etc.

Bagri Foundation is seeking three new commissions by worldwide-based artists from Asia and the diaspora to premiere online in Summer 2021. The work might be narrated, typographic, filmed, collaged, hand-drawn, stop motion, Claymation, augmented photography or digitally created, etc. Proposals are welcome from individuals or existing collectives with a history of making work together.

SciArt Residency is a residency programme in Heidelberg, Germany that encourages active cooperation and exchange between scientists and artists working in photography. The residency is scheduled for September to October 2021. Applications are open to all artists and photographers working with analogue and experimental photography, or working within science-influenced art and photography.