Open calls

Open Call — RAAMH —– Leeuwarden

This open call text is from RAAMH:

“RAAMH is looking for two sculptures and installation artworks by current or recently graduated artists. Send us your concept for an adaptation of an existing work, adapted to one of the two spaces.

🗓️ Dates:

• February 24: Start of set-up
• February 27: Opening
• April 24: Last day of the exhibition

The selection process takes into account the extent to which the work responds to the public space and the specific preferred location.

Please consider the lighting of the work, so that it is clearly visible, especially in the evening and at night, despite reflections from the windows.

In addition, we ask the two selected artists to jointly fill the space on Haniasteeg under the roof of the Neushoorn with existing work. After the selection, we will discuss the exact use of this location.

What do we offer?

• 💰 A fee of €1,226 (excluding VAT)
• 💰 A modest budget for the exhibition to be realized
• 🤝 Coaching and technical assistance in adapting your work to the RAAMH location
• 📸 Professional documentation of your work
• 🌐 Your work will be promoted through RAAMH channels and those of our partners

🧑‍💻 What should you submit?

• ✅ A brief description of one work and how you intend to adapt it to the space
• ✅ Your preference for space 2: Visit Leeuwarden or space 3: Formerly the Municipality
• ✅ Clear documentation (photos, videos, sketches) of your work
• ✅ A short CV
• ✅ Possibly links to your website, social media, or other online portfolio

🧑‍💻 Send your submission to 👉 ophetraamindehaniasteeg@gmail.com

⏰ Deadline: Sunday, December 14

🗓️ We will let you know whether your plan has been selected during the week of December 21.

ℹ️ For more information about this open call and RAAMH, visit 👉 raamh.hotglue.me

Open Call — Winter Salon 2026 —– Pictura (Groningen)

This open call text is from Pictura:

“The Pictura Winter Salon. It has become a well-attended and successful event, born from the need of the Kunstlievend Genootschap Pictura in Groningen to stimulate the regional art scene. That’s why there will be another edition in 2026, where professional visual artists from the North can show and sell their work to a wide audience.

👉 The Winter Salon 2026 is intended for recent work created in 2024 and 2025.
🗓️ The salon runs from January 24 to March 8, 2026.

Please register as follows:

• 🧑‍💻 Send an email to salon.picturagroningen@gmail.com
• 📧 In the subject line, put ‘Registration Winter Salon 2026’ and your first/last name;
• 📸 In the same email, send a maximum of five images of recent works (from 2024) and 2025) that are available for a possible exhibition during the Winter Salon;
• ✅ Please include the title and dimensions of each work;
• ✅ The resolution of each image may not exceed 500 KB;
• ✅ Also include your name, address, relevant education, website (if applicable), and a short bio.

⏰ Registration is open until Sunday, December 14, 2025!

To ensure a diverse Winter Salon, Pictura’s exhibition committee will make a selection from all applications. This selection will take place before Christmas. The selected artists will then receive information about, among other things, when the work should be brought and what other information needs to be provided.

💰 Good to know that Pictura charges a 30% sales commission and that there are no costs associated with participating in the Winter Salon.

ℹ️ For more information, visit Aanmelding Wintersalon 2026 geopend – Pictura or send an email to salon.picturagroningen@gmail.com with the email subject ‘Question Winter Salon 2026’ and first/last name.”

Open Call — Groninger Visual Arts Stipends 2026 — Groningen

Are you a visual artist or designer, working in Groningen, and under 35? Then you can apply for the Groninger Visual Arts Scholarships 2026 until December 15th. These scholarships offer two promising artists the unique opportunity to further develop their artistic and professional practice. Through collaboration with the Municipality of Groningen, Kunstpunt Groningen, and the Minerva Academy, you will receive sustainable support for the development of your artistic practice.

You can apply for one of the two stipends:

🌾 Land
🌅 Horizon

Both stipends will be used to create new work in the North or abroad.

💰 The stipend consists of a €10,000 honorarium and a €10,000 work budget. This is linked to the Artist in Space program, in collaboration with residents of the North, worth €12,500.

De Noordenaars is a platform for presentation institutions in the Northern Netherlands, consisting of 16 organizations. For a year, you will be guided in further developing your practice, you will utilize De Noordenaars’ network, expertise, and facilities, and you will collaborate with other participating artists.

ℹ️ For all information and registration, go to 👉 Groninger Visual Arts Stipends | Minerva

⏰ Deadline for this open call: Monday, December 15, 2025

❓ Would you like to learn more about the Noordenaars Stipends and the Groninger Visual Arts Stipends, and the Artist in Space program?

• 🚶 Then come to the drop-in consultation hour at Kunstpunt Groningen (Trompsingel 27a) on Thursday, December 4, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. All your questions about the differences between the scholarships and the Artist in Space program will be answered there.
• 📧 Unable to attend the consultation hour and still have questions? Please email artistinspace@noordenaars.nl.

💡 In 2026, the Noordenaars Stipends and the Groninger Visual Arts Stipends will be awarded in parallel. Both have their own terms and conditions and fees. Duplicate applications will be excluded. More information about the Noordenaars Scholarships can be found on this page, in the next open call block⤵️.

Open Call — Noordenaars Stipends 2026 — Groningen + Friesland + Drenthe

Are you an artist based in one of the three northern provinces? Then you can now apply for one of the two stipends from the Noordenaars! These stipends are intended for artists who have a professional or artistic development need.

👉 Would you like, for example:

• Experiment with a new medium?
• Reexamine your working method?
• Explore other forms of collaboration?
• Or are you ready for a professional development boost?

👍 Then this open call is for you!

💰 The stipends consist of a €12,000 honorarium and a €7,000 working budget. You will also receive a €13,500 budget linked to the Noordenaars Artist in Space program. ℹ️ For all information and registration, visit 👉 noordenaars.nl/opencall2026

⏰ Deadline for this open call: Monday, December 15, 2025, 10:00 a.m.

❓ Want to know more about the Noordenaars Scholarships and the Groningen Visual Arts Stipends, and the Artist in Space program? These are the options:

• 🚶 Drop-in consultation
  📅 Thursday, December 4, 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
  📍 Kunstpunt Groningen | Trompsingel 27a
  Here, all your questions about the differences between the stipends and the Artist in Space program will be answered.
• 🧑‍💻 Online consultation hour
  📅 Friday, December 5, Noon – 1:00 p.m.
  This is a separate online consultation hour for the Artist in Space program and for applicants from Drenthe and Friesland. You can register for this via this link.
• Contact
  Want to know more about the Noordenaars Stipends and the Groninger Visual Arts Stipends, and the Artist in Space program? Are you unable to attend the consultation hour and do you have any questions? 📧 Then send an email to artistinspace@noordenaars.nl

💡 NB: In 2026, the Noordenaars Stipends and the Groninger Visual Arts Stipends will be awarded in parallel. Both have their own terms and conditions and fees. Duplicate registrations will be excluded. More information about the Groningen Visual Arts Stipends can be found on this page in the open call block above⤴️.

Open Call — Residency at Jan van Eyck Academie — Maastricht

Residency at Jan van Eyck Academie – Apply by 4 December 2025

Artists, designers, architects, curators, writers, and thinkers — individuals, duos, and collectives — are invited to apply for the 2027 residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.

🗓️ Application period: 3 October – 4 December 2025 (23:59)
🗓️ Residency: 15 January – 15 December 2027
🗓️ Outcome: May 2026

Participants receive time, space, and expert guidance from advisers, curators, and lab specialists across various disciplines (e.g., Photography, Future Materials, Printing & Publishing). The academy supports material-based and research-driven practices engaging with global or personal themes.

The residency fosters exchange, collaboration, and experimentation among peers. Residents can also contribute to public programmes that explore speculative concepts and socio-environmental issues.

What’s included:

• 💰 Monthly stipend: €1,500 (€2,000 for parents; €2,500 for duos; €4,500 for collectives)
• 🛋️ Furnished private studio apartment (housing is mandatory)
• 💰 Annual working budget: €2,000
• 🛂 Visa support where relevant

Fees:

• 💸 Application: €65 excl. VAT (waived for eligible countries)
• 💸 Enrolment: €2,750 excl. VAT

Eligibility:

✅ English is the main language.
✅ Residence in Maastricht is required.
❌ Alumni of the Rijksakademie or De Ateliers are not eligible.

🧑‍💻 Apply: Complete the online form with your motivation, project proposal, artist statement, portfolio (PDF), and CV.

⏰ Deadline for this open call: December 4, 2025

ℹ️ More info & application 👉 Residency 2027 • Jan van Eyck Academy

Open call — Seed Contribution — Stokroos Foundation

💰 This fall, the Stokroos Foundation has 15 grants of €5,000 available for emerging designers, designers, and craftspeople. Are you a (landscape) architect, graphic designer, illustrator, fashion, jewelry, or textile designer, product designer, animator, printer, mold maker, ceramicist, or goldsmith? Then apply!

What’s important?

✅ You must have been working in the field for at least 3 and no more than 8 years;

✅ An application must include a portfolio, CV, a concise plan, and a budget;

✅ A proposal must address an in-depth development plan (research, experiment, or production, for example, of a prototype). It cannot include plans related to an exhibition, publication, or residency;

✅ The assessment will take into account the focus and ingenuity of your portfolio, the urgency of your plan, and the geographical distribution of the awards as a whole.

⏰ There’s no deadline, but don’t wait too long. The application form will close as soon as it looks like the budget will be fully used. This will prevent disappointment and prevent you from submitting an unnecessary application. Applications will be open again in 2026.

ℹ️ For more information and the application form, go to 👉Seed-bijdrage – Stokroos

❓ Do you have any questions?
📧 Email mail@stokroos.nl.

Open call — Impulsregeling ('Impulse Scheme') — Kunstraad Groningen

The Impulsregeling (‘Impulse Scheme’) of Kunstraad Groningen is intended for Groningen artists who want to boost their artistic development.

↗️ It’s an accessible scheme, specifically designed to give you, as an artist/creator, a boost in your artistic development. You can be a budding artist looking to take the first step in building a cultural career, but the scheme is also intended for more experienced artists who want to develop something new.

✅ The most important criterion for choosing the activity is that it will boost your artistic development in the long term. The activity must take place within six months of the scheme’s closing date.

💰 The Kunstraad Groningen’s contribution amounts to a maximum of 100% of the total costs, up to a maximum of €2,500 (including VAT, if applicable).

💰 The annual subsidy ceiling is set at €75,000 for the period 2025-2028. This amount will be distributed over four grant rounds per year:

⏰ The deadline for the next round of the Impulse Scheme is February 15, 2026

ℹ️ For all information and registration, go to 👉 Subsidieregelingen – Kunstraad Groningen

Open call — Artist in Residence AnnAtopiA — Het Goordonk (North Brabant)

Professional artists, poets and writers can apply for a working period in AnnAtopiA AiR.
​It is possible to work as an artist in residence in the Boshut and to stay in the Boshuis.

Disciplines
All visual and performing arts, creative writing

🗓️ Residence
Minimum of one week

📍 Locatie
AnnAtopiA
Het Goordonk 15
5111 GG Baarle-Nassau

💸 Cost
The cost for the stay of 1 week are €250 (Excl. costs for living). In consultation there is a special rate for students, starting artist and the less wealthy.

Admission guidelines
– professional art education / CV / portfolio
– motivation and global work plan

Description of the program
– introductory meeting
– filling in and signing the user agreement
– discuss motivation and work plan
– discussing and recording conversations about work process coaching, press moments and the like.
– closure with reflection report

Desired result of stay
– positive contribution to the development of artistry
– at least one work in the discipline (s) of the artist

📧 You can send your motivation, plan, portfolio and CV to AirAnnAtopiA@gmail.com
✉️ Or send it directly to:

      Stichting AnnAtopiA
      Vondelinghof 2
4908 DV Oosterhout, The Netherlands

ℹ️ Request more information for the different options via: AirAnnAtopiA@gmail.com

Open Call — Pakje Kunst — MOW / Museum Westerwolde

Since September 24, 2023, there has been a Pakje Kunst vending machine in the museum shop at the MOW. Pakje Kunst presents works of art the size of a pack of cigarettes in an old mechanical cigarette vending machine. A box costs only €6,- and you can find every form of art in it. The proceeds go almost entirely to the participating artists.

For the machine, MOW is always looking for artists from Westerwolde, Oldambt, Pekela, Veendam and Stadskanaal who enjoy surprising, confusing, moving or slightly irritating people with works of art the size of a pack of cigarettes.

For more information, visit Pakje kunst | Het MOW
You can register via info@hetmow.nl