Open calls

Offered — workspace at De Loskade — Suikerunieterrein (Groningen)

Are you an artist, maker, or creative entrepreneur looking for a place to work, meet, and experiment?

At De Loskade, you’ll find a unique workspace in the heart of an experimental pop-up neighborhood on the Suikerunie site. De Loskade is a temporary neighbourhood experimenting with the future of living and working, featuring circular and fully recyclable homes and studios where new materials, energy concepts, and ways of living and working together are being tested.

In several of these circularly designed homes, we offer permanent workspaces for artists and creatives. A quiet, bright space, part of a small community that enjoys brainstorming and collaborating.

💼 Fixed workspace from €250 per month

Includes everything you need to create, build, and grow:

• ✔ Super-fast Wi-Fi
• ✔ Sit/stand desk & ergonomic chair
• ✔ Shared lunch and meeting room
• ✔ Access to networking & community events
• ✔ Inspiring neighbors: from artists and designers to innovative startups

🎁 New to the scene? We’re happy to help. Ask us about discount options for newcomers.

Practical information

• 📍 Suikerlaan 3 – Suikerterrein Groningen
• 🚲 Only 2 km from the city center
• 🚗 Easily accessible via the ring road
• 📧 deloskade@fijnwonen.nl
• 📱 06 5765 4297
• 🌐 www.deloskade.nl

Open Call — artspace bremerhaven art festival — Bremerhaven (Germany)

The interdisciplinary art festival artspace bremerhaven once again opens its doors to art and culture from a wide range of disciplines in the trendy Alten Bürger neighborhood. During the festival, streets, workshops, galleries, stairwells, studios, apartments, commercial spaces, and vacant buildings are transformed into exhibition venues and action spaces.

artspace bremerhaven brings together regional, national, and international artists who use unusual locations to present contemporary art, new ideas, and experimental forms. The aim is to create new art spaces and redefine public space from an artistic perspective.

The festival, now in its eighth year, invites visitors on a journey of discovery through interdisciplinary art moments. It presents a diverse spectrum of artistic perspectives that emphasize crossing boundaries, breaking conventions, and innovative approaches.

🗓️ The festival will take place on August 22nd and 23rd, 2026.

🧑‍🎨 Individual artists and collectives are eligible to apply.

💰 In addition to a fee, all selected artists and collectives will receive compensation for materials, as well as accommodation and travel expenses. The festival welcomes international applications. Please note that the maximum travel allowance is €1,000.

⏰ The application deadline is March 15th, 2026.

ℹ️ For all application criteria and the application form, please visit 👉 artspace-bremerhaven.de/mitmachen-take-part/

Open Call — Greening former gas sites — Groningen

Gas extraction has ceased, installations are being dismantled and sites are being restored to their original state. However, the impact on the landscape and residents remains. With this open call, we are seeking innovative ideas for these locations: as places of remembrance, of hope or as a starting point for a new, green future. Deadline for this open call: 19 February 2026.

We ask you to contribute your thoughts on the question: How can we make the gas heritage visible and preserve the history of gas extraction?

The open call is an initiative of the residents’ initiatives EPIQ and Vergroenen gaslocaties (Greening gas sites) and is being carried out by Utrecht University in collaboration with the Landschapswerkplaats (Landscape Workshop).

Who can participate?

Anyone with a good idea can participate, either individually or as a team. We expect you to have an affinity with and an in-depth understanding of the Groningen gas extraction issue and the Groningen landscape. This way, we give everyone the opportunity to participate, including residents of the area who are themselves affected by gas extraction.

What is required?

The open call is divided into three phases.

In phase 1, you will develop an overarching concept for the promising gas locations around the Schildmeer (the area between Loppersum, Kolham, Zuidbroek and Siddeburen). How will you connect these places with each other, with the landscape and with the bigger story of gas extraction?

A professional jury will select four proposals that will be further developed in phases 2 and 3 for one specific location. In these phases, the emphasis will be on spatial design and/or visual arts. The ambition is to give at least one, and preferably several, locations a new purpose and design between now and 2028.

How to participate?

Send your submission by 19 February at the latest by email to: pitch@uu.nl  You will receive a confirmation after submission. The submissions will be assessed by a professional jury.

Would you like more information before participating? We are organising two online meetings (22 and 23 January) to explain the open call and answer any questions.

More information

All conditions, the procedure and background information can be found at www.landschapswerkplaats.nl/open-call/

Open Call — Fire Horse — Riso Pop (Amsterdam)

This open call text is from Riso Pop:

“We’re welcoming 2026 with one of our much-loved Open Calls!

Inspired by the Chinese horoscope, this edition invites you to explore the theme Fire Horse through illustration or design. We’re inviting artists, illustrators, designers and print lovers of all levels to create a (fire) horse artwork that will become part of a collaborative Riso-printed zine. From all submissions, 20 artworks will be selected for the final publication and exhibition at our Amsterdam studio.hours.

What to do: reate an illustration or design featuring a (fire) horse. Your interpretation is completely open, as long as it follows the guidelines:

• ✅ A5 format, landscape
• ✅ Horse facing to the right
• ✅ Limited colour palette: Yellow, Fluo Pink, Burgundy & Medium Blue
• ✅ Artwork prepared for Riso printing
• ✅ A full colour reference of your image (for us to also check your files!)

The full technical guidelines, including tips for analogue and digital workflows,  are available in our downloadable handout below.

What to expect

• ✅ 20 artworks will be selected for a collaborative Riso zine
• ✅ The zine will be printed and produced at our studio
• ✅ Selected works will be exhibited during our Open Studio Weekend, February 20–22, 2026
• ✅ Selected artists receive a special discount on the printed zine
• ✅ All valid submissions will be included in a special Open Call poster, celebrating everyone who took part.

💰 Funding & Sales:
This project is entirely self-funded. We cover materials and printing costs through the sale of prints and zines, and hope the event brings new audiences to Riso Pop.”

⏰ Deadline for this open call: Saturday 31 Januari 2026

ℹ️ For all information & registration, go to 👉 Fire Horse Open Call — Riso Pop

Open Call — paint the official portrait of Elisabeth Neurdenburg — University of Groningen

This open call text is from portretneurdenburg.com:

“The University of Groningen invites artists to participate in a special competition: the creation of the official portrait of Elisabeth Neurdenburg (1887–1957), the first female professor of art history in the Netherlands. The winning portrait will receive a permanent place in the Academy Building and will become part of the university’s portrait collection.

Participants are invited to submit a sketch design in the required format. Based on these sketches, the jury will select a winner who will be invited to execute the portrait according to the formal guidelines:

• ✅ the portrait must be a good likeness and at least life-size;
• ✅ Neurdenburg must be depicted wearing an academic gown with a white collar (bef) and bow tie, optionally accompanied by an academic cap;
• ✅ the final work must be executed in oil paint or another durable medium, on canvas or panel measuring approximately 70 × 55 cm (excluding the frame).

Benefits

• 💰 €3000 prize money for the winner, who will also be commissioned to execute the final portrait using this budget.
• 💰 €500 for the second and third place finalists.
• 👀 The possibility of having your sketch included in an exhibition on Neurdenburg, giving your work visibility to a wide and diverse audience.
• 🧑‍🎨 A unique opportunity to contribute to the university’s history and to become part of a long-standing tradition of professorial portraiture.

Submit your Sketch Design! 

We invite all participating artists to submit their sketch design for the portrait of Elisabeth Neurdenburg before 1 February 2026. The physical sketch, at full size, can be delivered to the concierge desk at Oude Boteringestraat 34.

In addition, we ask you to send a digital copy of your sketch design and a short portfolio to neurdenburgportrait@gmail.com, or upload these through the submission form on this website. This allows the jury to review your work thoroughly and ensures that the material is included in the project documentation.

❗ Please make sure your submission is complete — only then can it be considered in the selection process.”

⏰ Deadline of this open call: 1 February 2026

ℹ️ For all information, go to 👉 portretneurdenburg.com

Open Call — Self-taught Designer —– Creative Industries Fund NL

Are you a designer or creator with an emerging practice in design, architecture and/or digital culture, and have you not completed an art degree at higher professional education or university level? With the Open Call for Self-taught Designers, the Creative Industries Fund NL offers self-taught and vocational education-trained creators the opportunity to deepen and professionalise their artistic practice.

🧑‍💻 Through this call, you can apply for a live pitch day, where you will present how you want to develop your practice in terms of content and professionalism in the coming year.

💰 An independent committee will ultimately select ten makers who will be allowed to develop a development plan and will be eligible for a development grant of €25,000.

The call is aimed at starting designers and makers (active for a maximum of four years) with an individual or collective practice in design, architecture, digital culture or crossovers between these fields. This includes fashion design, animation, graphic novels, game design, street art, art direction, styling or urban practices. Creators who use design and imagery to reflect on themes such as climate, heritage, technology or underrepresented stories are also invited to respond.

💰 The development grant can be used for:

• artistic development (e.g. through mentorship);
• coaching;
• attending workshops;
• research;
• experimentation;
• creating and presenting new work.

🗓️ The development year runs from 1 September 2026 to 1 November 2027 and ties in with the content of the Stimuleringsfonds’ Talent Development programme.

Selection procedure

A maximum of two creators per province will be invited to the pitch day; the date of submission will be decisive: the first two complete and valid applications per province will receive an invitation to a live pitch day. A total of 24 pitches will take place.

The committee will assess:

• artistic and reflective ability;
• the proposed direction of development;
• the way in which creators share their work and forge new connections.

Important dates

• 🧑‍💻 Submission: 10 February 2026 (3:00 p.m.) – 25 February 2026 (4:00 p.m.)
  🌐 Via 👉  stimuleringsfonds.nl/en/grants/open-call-self-taught-designer

• 🗓️ Pitch days: 13 and 15 April 2026
• ⏰ Development plan deadline: 24 June 2026

❓ Not sure if you are eligible? Please contact us at:
📧 zelflerendontwerper@stimuleringsfonds.nl
☎️ 010-43 61 600

ℹ️ For all information about this open call, go to:
👉 stimuleringsfonds.nl/en/grants/open-call-self-taught-designer

ℹ️ All conditions can be found here:
👉 SCI_Open-Call-Self-taught-Designer-2025-2026.pdf

Open Call — Folly Art Norg 2026 —– Norg (Drenthe)

This open call text is from Folly Art Norg, which takes place from 2 to 30 August 2026:

“Folly Art Norg is a crossover between architecture, land art, design, craftsmanship and art in public spaces. It is an art event packaged in a 7.5-kilometre walking route that winds its way through the Drenthe landscape.

• 💡 Anyone with a good idea can participate in Folly Art: artists, architects, hobbyists, families, friends, soloists;
• 💯 Every year, we receive over 100 submissions, from which 15 to 20 follies are selected;
• ❗ Read the conditions for submitting your design, as an incomplete submission may be grounds for rejection.

♻️ The choice of materials is up to you, but we encourage the use of sustainable, environmentally friendly, circular and/or reused materials.
💰 The construction budget is €650.

The follies will be judged during the event by an expert jury consisting of professionals from various creative disciplines. They will judge based on the following criteria:

• ✅ design;
• ✅ use of materials;
• ✅ originality;
• ✅ execution in relation to the original design plan.

💰 The winner will receive a cash prize of €5,000.
💰 Visitors will also have the opportunity to vote for their favourite folly, which will receive a cash prize of €500.

⏰ Deadline for this open call: 28 February 2026

ℹ️ For all information & registration, go to 👉 Information | FollyArtNorg

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 (Noord-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