Open calls

Open call — Exhibition ‘Verdwalen’ (Gettig Lost) — MOW / Museum Westerwolde

For the exhibition Verdwalen (‘Getting Lost’), expected in May 2025, the MOW challenges artists to work on the theme of walking; walking as a form of slow and therefore intimate way to experience the landscape.

Sensory experience

By walking through the Groningen countryside, you experience your surroundings with all your senses. Every season offers new experiences, every path new discoveries, even when you always choose the same roads. Walking is an intense way to experience the landscape in all its fullness and diversity and to become familiar with your natural environment.

Contact with the land

The Verdwalen exhibition is about walking without a systematic approach or predetermined goal. Walking as a journey of discovery in itself. Getting lost takes you to unexpected destinations and also makes you curious. How did the country become the way it is, what is its history, what are the stories?

Registration and deadline

🧑‍💻 Artists can register with recently existing work or with a description/sketch of new work via the registration form on the museum’s website (www.hetmow.nl)

⏰ Deadline for registration is Sunday 23 February.

ℹ️ For more information, go to 👉 Verdwalen | Het MOW (and scroll down)

Open Call - In Situ Platform 2025-2028 – International

IN SITU PLATFORM* is a four-year programme running from 2025 to 2028 that aims to identify and support 200 emerging artists. It proposes an innovative and efficient support platform to develop artistic creations at the European level in public spaces and non-conventional venues.

It will be developed in three successive one-and-a-half-year cycles. Each cycle will consist of two phases:

– Learning & discovering
– Producing & presenting

This first Open call targets around 60 emerging artists who will be part of the first phase. They will have access to:

– Online content to learn about artistic production related to art in public space
– Peer-to-peer exchange with experienced IN SITU artists
– An immersive lab with networking opportunities

⏰ Application deadline: January 31, 2025
🗓️ Selection results: end of February 2025
ℹ️ For all information about this open call, go to 👉  open-call-1-preview.pdf
🧑‍💻 The application form can be found here 👉  IN SITU OPEN CALL #1 FOR EMERGING ARTISTIC PROJECTS IN PUBLIC SPACE

* Want to learn more about the IN SITU PLATFORM? The coordination team organises an online information session for you to better understand the spirit of IN SITU, the functioning of the PLATFORM and the objectives of the open call:

🗓️ Thursday 16 January 2025
🕞 2:30 p.m.

📧  If you are planning to join, please confirm your presence at 👉  insitu@lieuxpublics.com.
💻 You can access the zoom meeting room via this link 👉 Launch Meeting – Zoom

PLATFORM is coordinated by Lieux publics in close cooperation with more than 20 partners:

1. Artopolis Association (Hungary)
2. Atelier 231 (France)
3. Bildstorung (Germany)
4. Bússola (Portugal)
5. Cielos del Infinito (Chile)
6. CIFAS (Belgium)
7. City of Weaves (Poland)
8. Collectif ACMUR – Rendez-vous chez nous (Burkina Faso)
9. Čtyři Dny / Four Days (Czech Republic)
10. DARI Project (South Korea)
11. L’Art Rue (Tunisia)
12. Eyes Walk Festival (Greece)
13. FiraTàrrega (Spain)
14. Freedom Festival / Norfolk & Norwich Festival (The United Kingdom)
15. Flynn Center (The United States of America)
16. La Strada Graz (Austria)
17. Lieux Publics (France)
18. Metropolis – KIT (Denmark)
19. ODA Teatri (Kosovo)
20. Oerol Festival (The Netherlands)
21. Østfold Internasjonale Teater (Norway)
22. Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof (Belgium)
23. Teatro Di Sardegna (Italy)
24. Zona K / BASE Milano (Italy)

Open Call – Op Woeste Gronden – Fruithof Frederiksoord

🔍 Op Woeste Gronden is looking for professional artists from Drenthe, Friesland and Groningen for an event in July and August 2025 at the Fruithof in Frederiksoord, Drenthe.

On the central terrain of the Fruithof, an 8-hectare park with over 800 fruit trees, there is a canopy (pagoda) of six canopies. There is space under the canopies for art by as many artists.

Each canopy has a ground surface of 6 × 6 meters. Under each canopy there is a low plateau of a maximum of 4 × 4 meters, on which the images, compositions or installations are exhibited. The works are therefore not inside, but outside, despite the protection of the canopies and the yet to be added shell of wind cloth around the entire pagoda.

ℹ️ Are you interested or curious?
📧 Mail to info@opwoestegronden.nl and you will receive more information about the concept, what the terrain looks like, the pagoda and the floor plan.

🧠 Good to know:

• There is no deadline for this open call;
• You can also find this open call via 👉 Open call | Op Woeste Gronden
• Op Woeste Gronden endorses the Fair Practice Code and has therefore included the Fair Pay principle in the budget.

Open Call – Artist in residence 'Siel fan Sudwest' – museums Súdwest-Fryslân

In 2025, the nine museums of Súdwest-Fryslân will join forces for a unique joint project: Siel fan Súdwest. The central question is: Who, what or where is the soul of this region? Artists are invited to investigate this question and to visualize their interpretations. The results will form a chain of exhibitions at the participating locations from 17 May to 24 August 2025.

The project is part of Arcadia 2025, with the theme Grûn (soil). At eight locations in Súdwest-Fryslân, artists approach this theme from regional and historical perspectives. They investigate grûn as a physical soil, cultural basis or foundation of traditions. The project thus contributes to a joint storyline about the region.

Application procedure

🗓️ Each museum will host an artist for a two-week residency in February/March 2025.
💰 Artists will receive a fee of €2,480 (excl. VAT) and there will be compensation for accommodation, materials and expenses.
♻️ Sustainability, such as reuse of materials, is encouraged.

Participating Museums

• Museum De Tiid (Bolsward)
• Museum Hindeloopen (Hylpen)
• Museum and workshop Houtstad IJlst (IJlst)
• Casemate Museum (Kornwerderzand)
• Fries Scheepvaart Museum (Sneek)
• Model Railway Museum (Sneek)
• Museum ’t Tsiispakhûs (Wommels)
• Jopie Huisman Museum and Museum Warkums Erfskip (Workum)

Registration

⏰ Deadline: send an e-mail (proposal) to info@museumzuidwestfriesland.nl by 19 January 2025 at the latest, stating AIR Siel fan Súdwest / preferred location. We would like to receive a letter of motivation (max. 1 A4), CV and mention of your discipline.

🗓️ The selection will be announced at the beginning of February.

ℹ️ For more information, visit 👉 OPEN CALL MUSEUMS SÚDWEST-FRYSLÂN

Join us and discover the soul of Súdwest-Fryslân through art!

Open call – Artist in Space 2025 – Noordenaars (Groningen / Friesland / Drenthe)

In 2025, the Noordenaars will organize two new grants to stimulate the artistic and professional practice of strong visual artists (from beginning to mid-career). An Artist in Space grant encourages new work that can make a meaningful contribution to contemporary art in the Netherlands.

The grants consist of a one-year trajectory in which artists collaborate with Art Venues in Friesland, Drenthe and Groningen based on their own development needs:

• During the trajectory, they create new work, which is used at the end of the trajectory in a way that is past the artist’s working method;
• During this tailor-made trajectory, artists use the knowledge, expertise and facilities of the Noordenaars. Parts of the research or project are carried out at these different art venues, for example in the form of a research period, residency or presentation.
• During the trajectory, the artists meet each other to share knowledge and experiences, and to learn from each other.

An Artist in Space Stipend consists of:

• 💰 A fee of €12,000;
• 💰 A working budget of €7,000 for, for example, expertise costs, material costs and documentation costs;
• 🧑‍🎨 Mentorship: a one-year coaching trajectory by one of the Noordenaars;
• 💰 Vouchers to collaborate with at least two Noordenaars art venues in 2025, based on a total amount of €12,000. This budget is intended for the art venues to provide parts of the trajectory;
• 🧑‍💻 In addition to the artistic coaching, you will be coached by a fundraiser and you can apply for additional funds for your research or project.

⏰  If you want to be considered for one of the two courses, please register no later than Saturday 18 January 2025 before 11:00 p.m.

ℹ️ Want to know more about this open call? All information can be found via 👉 noordenaars.nl/artistinspace/opencall

❓ If you have any questions, you can also come to the walk-in consultation hour that will be held on Friday 10 January from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Kunstpunt (Groningen).
📧 Or send an email to info@noordenaars.nl .

Open Call – Art in Porre’s Garden 2025 – De Porrepoele (Alteveer)

De Porrepoele about this open call:

“After the success of 2024 (900 visitors), we will organize an art event in and around our garden (approx. 4,500 m.) for the 4th time in 2025. Just like in 2024, a connecting element has been chosen. This time it will be water.

About 71 percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water and all life on earth consists mainly of and depends on water to survive.

Together with artists from different disciplines, we want to explore the fascinating world of water and bring it closer. To marvel at the beauty of water, its destructive power and/or its vulnerability. We want to look at water through the eyes of the artist and, through art, gain a new perspective on water, nature, the world we live in and how we deal with it.

1. We are looking for an artist who would like to display (aspects of) the element of water in a three-dimensional installation and exhibit it in our garden, during the weekend. It is possible to exhibit the installation for a longer period. We are thinking of an installation that the public can walk around or perhaps through, with an interactive character. It would be nice if contact could be made with water in some way.

✔️ Other boundary conditions:

* maximum dimensions 3x3x3 meters
* windproof, stable construction
* presence of the artist for at least 1 day

2. In addition, we would like to get in touch with artists (painters, drawers, sculptors, mixed-media artists, photographers, poets, musicians, performers, etc.) who have made or want to make work on the theme of water and/or related aspects. We are looking for as much diversity as possible, so that the theme can be investigated, illuminated and experienced in various ways. The work may be both two- and three-dimensional. Vulnerable art will be exhibited in-house, but we explicitly invite the creation of outdoor art.

💰 Depending on the success of crowdfunding and fundraising, financial resources will become available, which we will make available to the participating artists. At this time, it is not yet possible to mention amounts for this.

Keywords water exhibition: H2O, cycle, hydropower, water shortage, water nuisance, water pollution, climate change, sea level rise, subsidence, water pressure, watercourse, groundwater, wave action, drinking water, surface water, water pump, boiling point, distillation, melting point, condensation, sublimation, evaporation, maturation, flow, stagnant water.

ℹ️ For more information and contact:
📧 porrepoele@gmail.com
☎️ call 06-25183239 (Geerte)
🌐 or go to porrepoele.nl/Kunst-en-meer

🧑‍💻 Registration:
> name and address details;
> website or link to social media and a short bio/cv;
> In addition, we would like to take note of your plan or drawings of the (to be built) installation or sketches or photos of the works to be exhibited.

⏰ Deadline for registration: Sunday 2 February 2025

🗓️ Decision on participation: no later than 15 February 2025”

Open Call – International FiKVA Prize for Painters 2025 – online

Figuratieve Kunst Vandaag (Antwerp) about this open call:

“The FiKVA Foundation proudly presents the 3rd International FiKVA Prize for Representative & Figurative Painters – a unique opportunity for artists worldwide to gain international recognition, share their talent worldwide and win great cash prizes. The entire competition is online – so there is no need to send or hand over your work!

💰 Submit your best paintings from the past two years, and you could win cash prizes of up to €5,000, high-quality art supplies and a 6-month gallery representation or an online exhibition!

The International FiKVA Prize for Painters is open to all artists aged 18 and over. The FiKVA Prize accepts all styles of realistic painting – modern and classical realism, imaginative realism, hyperrealism, photorealism, luminism, surrealism, etc. – as long as the artwork is realistic and not stylized or abstract. If your work captures the essence of the world and reflects your unique artistic voice, we want to see it!”

Key dates:

⏰ Open call deadline: April 15, 2025, 11:59 p.m.
🗓️ Top 100 announcement: May 1, 2025
🗓️ Winners announcement: May 15, 2025
🗓️ Online Exhibition launch (Top 35): May 20, 2025

ℹ️ For all information, go to 👉 OPEN-CALL-FiKVA-2025-English.pdf

Open call – Re-creatie Artists-in-Residence 2025-2026 – residential care estate De Heygraeff in Woudenberg (Utrecht)

With a chance of a permanent studio in the province of Utrecht!

In 2025 and 2026, healthcare organization Reinaerde offers three artist in residence work periods of 3 months at the sheltered residential care park De Heygraeff in Woudenberg.

Artists, designers, social designers, theater makers, musicians, dancers and other cultural makers who like to work in a social context are invited to investigate how they can add creative energy and meaning to the lives of the residents of De Heygraeff in and from a studio situation.

In addition, after the residency they have a chance of a permanent studio at the residential care park that is located in a green recreational environment near the Henschotermeer, the Den Treek estate, the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, various campsites and the villages of Woudenberg and Maarn.

The working periods are from:

🗓️ August 1, 2025 – October 30, 2025
🗓️ January 1 – March 31, 2026
🗓️ April 1 – June 30, 2026.

👀 The work period will be concluded with a public presentation.

💰 A compensation of 6358.95 euros incl. VAT and a material costs compensation of up to 1,500 euros incl. VAT are available for the work period. The residencies are made possible in part by the Cultural Participation Fund.

⏰ The deadline for submitting an application for a work period is January 31, 2025.

🧑‍💻 For registrations or contact with the artistic directors of Re-creatie Sjaak Langenberg & Rosé de Beer, email re-creatie@reinaerde.nl

• A maximum of 10 cultural makers will be invited for an interview;
• You will hear by February 28, 2025 at the latest whether you have been selected for an interview;
• After the interviews, 3 makers will be selected for the residencies and final agreements will be made about the work periods.

ℹ️ For all information, go to 👉 Gastatelier open – Re-creatie

Open Call – International Community Arts Festival 2026 – Rotterdam

Open Call – International Community Arts Festival 2026 – Rotterdam
ICAF Rotterdam about this open call:

“The International Community Arts Festival will take place again in Rotterdam, in March 2026. For this edition of the festival (our 10th edition!) we have chosen the theme: SPACE FOR IMAGINATION. For ICAF 2026 we are curious about community arts projects that collaborate with artistic, aesthetic spaces in inspiring, innovative and/or impactful ways. We actively invite projects that create space(s) for imagination or deviate from the theme ‘space for imagination’.

Who can submit a proposal?
Anyone can submit a proposal: individual artists, thinkers, makers, academics, groups, duos, collectives, organizations, companies and institutions.

What we offer

🌍 Space, time and an international platform during ICAF Rotterdam in March 2026

🤝 The opportunity to meet and exchange with community arts colleagues from all over the world

🌐 Listing on our online ICAF platform

💰 Financial: because every project and proposal comes from a different context and varies in size, scale, number of people involved and location, we cannot give a fixed fee at this stage. For every project that we select for programming, we always look for suitable financial possibilities and support to cover the following: travel and accommodation costs, an artistic fee, reimbursement of expenses, a festival passe-partout with lunch and dinner and access to the full program. To cover these costs, we will enter into a fundraising process in collaboration with the selected participants after the selection procedure. After this fundraising process has been completed, we will know concretely what can be offered in relation to all of the above.”

⏰ The deadline for applications is Wednesday, January 29, 2025.

🧑‍💻 You can apply for this open call via 👉 Open Call Application Form—ICAF 2026

ℹ️ For all information about this open call, please visit 👉 ICAF 2026 Open Call is now LIVE – ICAF Platform

❓ Any questions? 📧 Please email 👉 amy@icafrotterdam.com

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 – Pop-Up Art Rental Groningen – Vapiano Building (Nieuwe Markt)

Kunstpunt has settled in the heart of the city! Our pop-up of the Kunstuitleen is now located in the former Vapiano building, diagonally opposite Forum Groningen.

Would you like to show your work at this busy location? Then participate in this open call, and who knows, your work might soon be in the window at the Nieuwe Markt! From Thursday, May 16, we will give a new artist a stage here every two weeks.

This is what we ask of you:

• You are a professional visual artist, working or living in the province of Groningen;
• You can register by emailing a photo of the work you want to show to info@kunstpuntgroningen.nl, stating the title, technique, size and sales price;
• The work must be available and suitable for lending; the work must be equipped with a hanging system at the back;
• The size of the window in which the work will be displayed is 319 cm high x 148 cm wide (good to know: it is a window on the shady side, so no sunlight shines on your work);
• You arrange your own transport to and from Vapiano, after coordination with Kunstpunt;
• We select works from all registrations; the artist is then told if and when the work will be shown;
• If a work is loaned, it is for a minimum of six and a maximum of twelve months (longer in consultation)

🗓️ From Thursday 16 May we will start showing selected work. We will do this at least until January 2025. Would you like to have a chance to show your work to the public at this unique promotional location? Then sign up quickly!

ℹ️ If you have any questions or comments, please email info@kunstpuntgroningen.nl

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 €4 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 to surprise, confuse, move or slightly irritatate people with works of art the size of a pack of cigarettes.

ℹ️ For more information, visit Pakje kunst | Het MOW