Open calls

Open Call — Makers Market Cross Comix Festival 2025 — De Doelen (Rotterdam)

Cross Comix Festival will also be organizing a Makers Market for the upcoming edition, this is their open call:

“A new edition of Cross Comix Festival also means a new opportunity to sell your work at the Makers Market! This year, the festival will take place on September 12 and 13 in De Doelen in Rotterdam. The market will be open both days.

The Makers Market offers you, as an individual artist or collective, the opportunity to sell your small press publications, zines, prints, gadgets, etc. You decide what you bring, as long as the focus is on comics (in whatever form/genre).”

💸 Participation is free.

🧑‍💻 Cross Comix invites all makers to register for a table. You can register for one day or for both days. You can register via 👉  Open call Makers Market @ Cross Comix Festival 2025

⏰ After the deadline of July 28, the organization will review all registrations and make a selection. This will be announced as soon as possible, but no later than one month before the festival date.

ℹ️ For more information, visit the 👉 Cross Comix website.

Open Call – Reisma van den Burg Stipend – Academie Minerva

Did you graduate from Academie Minerva in 2023 or 2024? Submit your proposal by June 23 for the Reisma van den Burg Stipend! This biennial stipend consists of €10.000 and offers recent graduates from all disciplines of Academie Minerva the opportunity to further develop their work through a (inter)national project. This could include participation in a manifestation or event, research, or a residency. Applicants are encouraged to explore new territories and engage in artistic cross-overs.

⏰ Deadline: Monday 23 June 2025

🧑‍💻 More info & apply  👉  Reisma van den Burg stipend | Minerva

Open Call — VHDG CONNECT: InResidence — Leeuwarden

VHDG Connect is VHDG’s new annual program focused on support, guidance and development of emerging artists. In 2025, multiple trajectories will be launched for various (starting) artists based in the north of the Netherlands (Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe), with the aim of discovering new networks for exchange, growth, inspiration and support.

This year, VHDG is offering two artists the opportunity to participate in a one-month residency program in Leeuwarden. You will be given time, space, guidance and financial support to reflect, research and deepen your practice – with the opportunity to connect with a broader community of makers throughout the year.

What is offered?

A fully equipped living and working space in the center of Leeuwarden, access to a strong artistic and professional network, regular individual support sessions, peer moments and the opportunity to participate in excursions, dinners, reading groups and feedback events.

💰 You will also receive a living allowance of €2,250, a material budget of €1,000, and your travel expenses will be reimbursed.

🧑‍🎨 This residency is open to both studio and more committed artist practices. Dutch and English speakers are welcome. Whether you are self-taught or have graduated from an art academy – if you are actively making work, are in the early years of your practice and want to connect with others, this is an opportunity to grow, exchange ideas and get inspired.

🗓️ There are two residency periods in 2025:

🔸 AiR #1: September 8 – October 3
🔸 AiR #2: November 4 – December 7

⏰ Application deadline: Sunday June 22, midnight (Dutch time)

📧 Send your application to 👉 connect@vhdg.nl

ℹ️ For all information about this open call and VHDG Connect, visit 👉 VHDG Connect | VHDG

Open Call — group exhibition ‘Eat this’ — cultural centre De Schakel (Waregem (Belgium))

From September 19 to October 12, 2025, Kunstwerkt and cultural center De Schakel in Waregem (Belgium) are organizing the group exhibition ‘Eat this’, which will feature more than 300 works of art. Below you will find their open call for this exhibition:

“With ‘Eat this’, Kunstwerkt and CC De Schakel (Waregem) are looking for visual work with the theme of food. From fast food to five-course meals, from supermarket shelves to kitchen tables, from breakfast bowls to nightcaps. What will your canvas be serving?

Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, Vincent van Gogh’s Potato Eaters, the fried eggs from Sarah Lucas’ Self portrait with fried eggs, Marcel Broodthaers’ Mussel Pot or Cindy Wright’s rancid leftover photos. Food has coloured art history for centuries. And how. With ‘Eat this’ we challenge you to get started with what you feed yourself with every day, crave or perhaps even spit out.

After ‘Pet Shop’ last summer, in which artists submitted their favourite two-dimensional pet for an exhibition in Kunsthal Gent, a new chapter with an extra challenge follows in CC De Schakel. For this edition we are looking for work with the specific format of 20 x 20 cm. New or existing work: submit it before the end of August via our online platform Beeld.

We have made a radical choice to exhibit all submitted works. More than 300 plas préférés can conquer a place in this exhibition. So take your time to let your idea mature, but full is full. If you are in time, your work will immediately be part of the group exhibition ‘Eat this’ that will be on display in CC De Schakel from 19 September to 12 October 2025.”

⏰ Deadline for this open call: 30 August 2025

ℹ️ For all information, go to 👉  Eat this | BEELD | Kunstwerkt

Open Call — Ooster Art Kunstmarkt — Groningen

On Saturday 21 June, the Ooster Art Art Market will be held again in the Oosterparkwijk, on the square of the Het Werk breeding ground at Paradijsvogelstraat 10.

This is the fourth edition of the art market. This year it will probably be even busier than before, because the entire cultural corner around Het Werk will be open to the public that day; the Maakplek, the Klassieke Academie, Kairos and the Paradijsvogeltuin.

The Bolingo dance community will open the market and will give a workshop later in the day. The duo Vleems en vuur will liven up the market with alternative Country and Bluegrass.

💸 Do you have work that would like to be seen and sold? There are still places! Stall costs: 25 euros (with extra back cover 37.50)

🧑‍💻 You can register via: Ooster.artgroningen@outlook.com

⏰ NB: there is no deadline for this open call.

💎 Ooster Art Kunstmarkt
🗓️ Saturday 21 juni | 🕚 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
📍 Broedplaats Het Werk | Paradijsvogelstraat 10 (entrance Struisvogelstraat)

ℹ️ More info:
👉 facebook.com/Oosterparknooitsaai
👉 instagram.com/oosterparknooitsaai

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