Visual Arts & Design

The 2021 edition of the EIB Institute’s Artists Development Programme (ADP) is looking for one visual artist (born after 1 January 1986) from Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Poland or Romania. The ADP offers emerging European visual artists a 6-8 week residency in Luxembourg, which will take place between early May and end of June 2021.

L’Œil d’Oodaaq is a French non-profit organisation that researches video art and image-based contemporary art. In 2021, L’Œil d’Oodaaq will organise its 10th(bis) Festival Oodaaq from 21 to 30 May in Rennes. It will be composed of: exhibitions, screenings, performances, lectures, and encounters. Artists are invited to submit work for the festival as well as the organisation’s year-round activities.

CEC ArtsLink invites artists, arts leaders and curators from all arts disciplines from 37 eligible countries to apply for the ArtsLink International Fellowships 2021. The multi-year Fellowships are framed by the creative process, artistic intention, and an active commitment to community engagement and dialogue. The initial six-week residencies will take place in autumn 2021.

Manorama Young Printmaker Award invites application from Indian artists under the age of 35 years residing anywhere in the world. The winner of IPMH will receive a four-week residency in the print studio at Artbuzz Studio, Delhi to develop a new body of work. The residency will take place between the months of Jan – August 2021 (unless otherwise negotiated).

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Goethe-Institut invites graphic artists and teams of graphic artists and writers/authors/scenarists to submit proposals for new comics on Indigenous feminist movements and activists from the Global South. Up to ten selected stories will be published in a Comic Anthology in 2021.

In light of the current pandemic, the Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo has launched #JapanRevisited202x: then–now–after, which reimagines the cultural exchange between Austrian artists and Japan, a bond that has existed for more than 150 years and is now facing an abrupt change. The project invites artists from Austria who live in Japan, who have been to Japan, or for whom Japan perhaps only exists in the realm of imagination, to take part in this new, curated online platform and subsequent exhibition in Tokyo.

A central development for Fakugesi Festival 2020 is an Africa-wide Digital Art Curator Bootcamp. This seven-day, online experiential bootcamp aims to power up the curatorial focus of curators, producers and advocates of digital creativity in Africa. The bootcamp will be followed with an opportunity for participant curators to send proposals for the commission of five online exhibitions in the #POWERTOTHEPIXEL focus.

Fabrik Burgdorf and the city of Burgdorf run an annual artist-in-residence programme. Each summer an artist – from Switzerland or abroad, no age limits – can spend 2 to 3 months at the Fabrik. The residency is mainly for visual artists, but artists from other (‘silent’) disciplines can also apply.

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The Austrian Cultural Forum London invites emerging photographers based in Austria and the UK to participate in a prize in tribute of the late Austrian émigré photographer Wolf Suschitzky. The theme for the competition is ‘Life in 2020’. One UK based photographer will be selected for a residency in Austria, and one Austria based photographer for a residency in the UK. Both residencies take place in 2021.

In the 1920s the ensemble of Masters’ Houses in Dessau came to embody the quintessential artist colony of the 20th century. There artists like Walter Gropius, Oskar Schlemmer, Georg Muche, László Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee lived side by side with their families. They were joined by friends and guests; soon artist collectives, couples and friendships formed.