Discover, compare, and apply to current open calls by leading art organizations around the world.

Open Calls for Artists

ArtConnect

We’re on the lookout for exceptional new artistic talents from across the globe to highlight on ArtConnect in 2021. 

Take part in our open call for Artists to Watch for the chance to win exciting prizes that are sure to get you noticed.

Naz Cuguoğlu

David Reves

Radu Sticlea

Romeo Alaeff

Meaghan Gates

Kaija Hinkula

Jia-Jen Lin

Elinor Sahm

Ayin Es

Lisa McCleary

Dorsey Kaufmann

Anne-Marie Giroux

Laura Hart Newlon

Artists to Watch 2021

Boomer Gallery

While some artists are keeping a very traditional approach to art, others are taking risks into the unknown and there has always been a constant debate about “What Is Art” and what makes it valuable. 

In contemporary world success can be seen in both approaches, great examples are Damien Hirst and David Hockney, two of the worlds most famous and richest artists and yet with such a different approach to contemporary art. 

The purpose of this exhibition is to create a dialogue between different approaches to contemporary art and to demonstrate that either way can be successful. 

This Exhibition Will Take Place At Our Newly Opened Space In Tower Bridge. 

The new space is located in Tower bridge, one of most iconic places in the world and the most visited place in the whole UK. 

The space is nestled between modern and classic London icons: The Shard 4 minutes away, Tower Bridge 1 minute away, London Bridge 2 minutes away. 

With a blend of traditional Victorian brick walls and a central private bar just for our audience, the space is unique in the whole city of London. 

Important dates: 

- the open call will run until 02 November. 
- artworks delivery date is 11 November. 
- the exhibition will run from 12 November until 18 November with a private view on 12 November- 6:00 to 9:00 pm at our gallery space in Tower Bridge London. 

Alternatives. 

We had a lot of enquires from foreign artists to exhibit with us but sometimes shipping the work to London in time might be a bit difficult in this challenging period, that’s why we’ve come up with an alternative! If you are one of the accepted artist and you find it hard to ship your work to us, you can send us photos of your work and we can print and frame it for you at no additional cost. 

We have 3 available sizes for the frame: 

1. 32/32 cm
2. 30/40 cm 
3. 40/50 cm 

Good luck to you all! 

What is Art lll

Modrak&Ghidini

Imagine that tomorrow you wake up on this planet and all social, organizational and communication technologies have disappeared—i.e., email, mobile phones, apps. Anyone who considered themselves a technologist has vanished as well. And no one has a memory of any of these technologies, except for you. This is a post-pandemic world itching with dissatisfaction about tedious bureaucracy and how much we labor, and determined to build lives of meaning. In this vision, you value connecting with others, patience, empathy, ethics, and the right to be lazy, unproductive, creative, complicated, and contradictory. You loved certain aspects of the digital world. For example, it allowed you to exist somewhere and in other worlds at the same time. You treasure having access to multiple points of view that catapult you out of one-way, teller-receiver narratives and teach you to be more flexible. And so you have been appointed the Director of Social Technology with the power to commission and design new technologies facilitating social and workplace interactions. No one has any expectations for what you will create because no one remembers the past.
 
UnProductiveSolutions (UnPro) is an artwork/curatorial project presenting as an online “company” invested in revolutionary, values-based, ethical technologies. Italy-based curator Marialaura Ghidini and U.S.-based artist Rebekah Modrak invite artists to submit imaginative and conceptually rigorous proposals imagining technologies. 

Imagined technologies may be digital, a combination of digital and analog, or post-digital (meaning, an imagined mode of transmission). Proposed technologies do not need to be plausible, may be fantastic, and should be sincere. Proposed technologies should be critical of existing ones in their attempt to generate alternative models, but UnProductiveSolutions is not skeptical or meant to be read as parody. 
 

WHAT THE OPPORTUNITY INCLUDES, IF ACCEPTED
— Five proposals will be accepted for artists to develop and complete the work. Artists will receive a $2,000 honorarium / budget upon submission of the final work. As part of the program, we will arrange a studio visit with a specialist, such as a philosopher or astronomer, to further the development of the work. Artists will receive the services of a videographer to create a marketing promotion for your technology. Artworks / technologies will be displayed as a succession of “featured” subsidiary companies on the UnProductiveSolutions exhibition/website.

— Five proposals will be accepted in their current state as proposals. These will receive a $100 honorarium and will be presented in their proposal form as “future projects” on the UnProductiveSolutions exhibition/website.
 

THE SELECTION PROCESS
The Open Call will be reviewed by curator Marialaura Ghidini and artist/writer Rebekah Modrak. We have worked together as Modrak&Ghidini since 2015, starting with the project  #exstrange (2017), an intervention into the online marketplace that we enacted between January 15 and April 15, 2017. http://exstrange.com/  This curatorial project developed our collaborative interest in disrupting the rhetor http://exstrange.com/ogies, e-commerce, and the workings of online platforms. 

Ghidini is a contemporary art curator and founder/director of the web-based curatorial platform or-bits.com. Her expertise lies in web-based curatorial practices and intersections between art, technology, and society in relation to ideas of “progress” and “betterment.”

Modrak’s practice is at the intersections of art, activism, critical design, and creative resistance to consumer culture. Her Internet-based artworks critique brand messaging. She is a professor at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

Marialaura Ghidini

Rebekah Modrak

Five proposals will be this budget upon submission of the final work

Five proposals will be accepted in their current state as proposals.

UnProductiveSolutions

INTQRVENTION

INQRVENTION is a project that started in 2020, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The initial objective of the project are attract the public in strategic locations to giant murals full of QRcodes spread throughout the city. — Each code will give access to a link to audiovisual works, installations and visual arts. The main objective is to use art as an attraction for the QRcode, generally used for transactions involving money, purchasing and capitalism. Our first intervention began in the famous artistic occupation Centro Cultural Ocupa 63, the biggest cultural occupation in the Latin America and would proceed to other cultural centers in the city of Salvador, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro. In the beginning of the pandemic of COVID-19, we decided to prioritize the project in digital and virtual format and move it to 2021, but now we are back in art spaces and in the streets, WE NEED U!

INQRVENTION IS A PRIMITIVE AND TECHNOLOGICAL BOLDNESS: ON THE WALLS AS RUPESTRAL PAINTINGS, ON LINKS AS THE NATURE OF CYBER CENTURY DEMANDS.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO PARTICIPATE OF INQRVENTION AN ART/FILM FESTIVAL IN THE STREETS AND ART SPACES AROUND GLOBE.


Awards & Prizes

Selected artists will receive a confirmation email including their own QR

Personalized QR code with the link to your work published inside an art gallery

Published posterbombs with your art link in the streets of Brazil with recorded audiovisual content

Rules & Terms

Conditions: Video projects must have a max. 30 minutes.

paintings, digital arts, photographs are accepted, but we prioritize video files.

The project seeks to exhibit ALL the QRs in art galleries after the urban interventions.

Any artist over 18 is eligible.

Selected artists will receive a confirmation email including their own QR


INQRVENTION

Chromart

Virtual art is a virtual exhibition, dedicated to promoting artistic and creative expression.

This project is defined by a need to accurately express art, appeal to several senses, move within the light, the shadows, and the colours, play with the intersections of reality and phantasy, and the boundaries of digital and analogue.

This exhibition, which features a collection of high digital artworks, represents fresh insights, perspectives, and ideas that change our reality.
The Virtual Art Gallery seeks to provide selected works with significant worldwide exposure for artists to assist them in negotiating and confronting their works and their creations in a virtual environment.

If everything looks good to you, then send us your submission
We are looking forward to it
Regards,
Digital Chroma Team

Open Call for Artists

IAVPOA ART

2ND INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNALE “VISUAL EXPRESSIONS OF DETAILS”
New opportunity for all artists around the globe to showcase their work in our virtual exhibition!
Living in a global world, we focus only on extreme events such as pandemics or corruption, and we pay less attention to aesthetic or non-aesthetic details of the world, for example, melting ice-cream or falling leaves. Uncaptured small elements of the visual world simply disappear. Therefore, we invite you to find such details in your environment and capture them. Try to admire their aesthetic or non-aesthetic side. The world is not only beautiful but it also has its non-aesthetic elements. This exhibition wants to combine these two elements. We usually think globally, but after all, we are here and now where many unexpected things happen.
Artists are welcome to submit their works.

TO APPLY
1. Submit up to 3 photographs.
2. Photo submission requirements: 
- the submitted photo must be in JPG/JPEG format;
- the submitted photo must have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi;
- the submitted photo must be approximately 2100 pixels on the longest side;
- the submitted photo must be labeled in the format “NAME_SURNAME_TITLE OF THE WORK _YEAR COMPLETED_COUNTRY”.


We are looking forward to your works.
*By submitting your works, you agree that they will be featured in a video on our YouTube channel “IAVPOA ART” and on other social networks.


Open call for artists

City of Gothenburg

The City of Gothenburg invites artists and artist groups to participate in the international selective tendering process for one of the biggest infrastructure and urban development projects in the city’s history: the West Link. It’s a new underground rail link with three stations in different parts of the city. The vision is for the artists who are awarded public art commissions to participate in the creation of the city’s shared public spaces around these stations.

The Chronotopia art programme
The art produced within the framework of the West Link project is to be rooted in the general art programme developed for the project, called Chronotopia. The name comes from the Greek Χρόνος (chrónos), meaning time, and τόπος (tópos), meaning place. The theme of the Chronotopia programme emphasizes the use of site-specific artistic exploration to investigate our contemporary world, the potential of the past, and possible stories of the future. The city of Gothenburg is both a place and an era in time, or rather many different parallel spaces and times. Cross-fertilisation among these spaces and eras can strengthen and deepen the city’s ethical and existential dimensions.

The urban spaces
This tender covers public art for the urban spaces around the Haga and Korsvägen Stations.

Haga Station lies at the intersection of three Gothenburg neighborhoods of cultural-historical significance: Vallgraven, Haga, and Vasastaden. The station will be an entirely new element in this milieu that facilitates better connections among these neighborhoods. The area around the site is characterised by a healthy mix of housing, workplaces, educational institutions, and commercial activity. There are also large parks that offer rich natural, cultural, and social qualities.

The Korsvägen (“Crossroads”) Station is being constructed beneath a transportation hub where public transit, car traffic, cyclists, and pedestrians all converge. It is a pulsing centre surrounded by some of Gothenburg’s most prominent landmarks, including the Swedish Exhibition and Congress Centre and Liseberg Amusement Park. A constant flow of people fills the place with life, movement, and diverse forms of human expression. Since the 18th century, the site has been a significant crossroads for two important roads leading into and out of the city, Södra Vägen and Örgrytevägen.

Open Call for Public Art | West Link: Chronotopia

Creative Giants

Norfolk County Council (UK) is looking to award five commissions of up to £60,000 for dynamic new artworks to form the Norfolk Way Art Trail, a brand new outdoor public art trail spanning 250 miles of Norfolk, England.

Design a multi-sensory, accessible public artwork that will engage local communities, reveal hidden stories and inspire visitors to explore Norfolk County between off-peak season October-March. There are five locations to choose from, you can submit up to two ideas and the opportunity is open to artists WORLDWIDE. Please follow the website link for full briefs and short films about each location, FAQS and access/application support.

Deadline for submissions 20/10/21; finalists develop designs and submit to panel by 10/12/21; contracts awarded 14/01/22

International Open Call - Public Artwork Commissions up to £60K

Kollektiv Kollektiv

Curatorial group Kollektiv Kollektiv is calling for entries: Submit your images to create an «image library» on the topic of (digital) community.

In relation to last years’ events, the question of community is more important than ever. Under the restrictions people experienced, our desire for community has increased. At the same time, it seems to be the right moment to critique previous forms of being together. In this sense, the exhibition series «Communitas» – curated by Kollektiv Kollektiv (www.kollektivkollektiv.ch) at the Kunsthaus Steffisburg (www.kunsthaus-steffisburg.ch) – examines different modes of community and puts them to the test in various projects and events. For their third project «Communitas III: Digitale Gemeinschaft» (Digital Community) the curatorial group calls for participation: Dear artists, let’s create an image library together!

The aim is to create an international online platform (under construction) with your artworks and images on the topic of community. A selection of these images will be shown in an immersive exhibition at the Kunsthaus Steffisburg (07.11.–04.12.2021) and probably at other collaborating art spaces around the world. The concept is based on the idea of «Movie-Dromes» by Stan Vanderbeek (1927–1984). The experimental filmmaker and early computer artist saw the «Movie-Dromes» as part of a decentralised network of autonomous communities. Inside the dome viewers could watch a flow of images drawn from a global image library.

Kollektiv Kollektiv is interested in your ideas: What do community and collaboration mean to you? How do you experience different forms of social communities? How is it expressed in your work? What is your definition of a digital community? What changes have you been observing in the last year?

OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS | Kollektiv Kollektiv - Kunsthaus Steffisburg

La Fenice Art Gallery

OPEN CALLS FOR ARTIST

We currently have 3 open calls:​

1. Group On-Line Exhibition:

"HAPPINESS-SHARED", (emerging and mid-career artists) exhibition period: 

30 October - 29 November2021. Deadline: 26 October​

2. Personal On-Line Exhibition: from 30 October 2021 exhibition period onward.

3. Artist Residency in Koh Phangan Island, Thailand. See page.

You can APPLY for our Open Calls by sending us your introduction letter, CV and 5 - 10 photos of your work to lafeniceart@yandex.com.

​We will give priority to women artists, (but will not exclude men artists).

Opened to mid-career and emerging artists. In Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Photography, Mixed Media, Digital Art, Sculpture, Ceramics, Textiles, Video, Performance, Sound, Writing.

This is an opportunity for all those artists who are already international artists or for all those who have the ambition to work internationally-globally or have a wish to exhibit and create in the booming parts of Asia...

1.

"HAPPINESS-SHARED", (emerging and mid-career artists) exhibition period: 
30 October - 29 November 2021.
Deadline: 26 October
THEME: Your best biggest masterpieces that made you happy when you created them and you are proud of them, and you want to SHARE THAT HAPPINESS with the rest of the world.

Categories: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Photography, Mixed Media, Digital Art, Sculpture, Ceramics, Textiles.

We look for the artists who work alone without assistants, who's work has intimacy, that we can feel the person behind it, the touch and the closeness, someone's hand, that individual touch. As communication now days is all on the phone and the Internet, we want to reach out for something more personal.

We will give priority to woman artists with at least B.A. Fine Art Degree who had a solid track record of working hard and exhibiting over the years. Who's work is in important collections and who show that they are here to stay.

We will also give priority to women artists that belong to more than one culture due to parents, birth, migration, travel...

Everybody can apply. If selected, there are some exhibition fees, listed below that you will be asked to pay in the 3 days after our positive answer. If your works are sold, the fees will be returned to you. In the opposite case we will donate them to charity, governmental art institutions in Asia that we support. Preference will be given to those works that are bigger in size, more valuable and numerous.

-up to 500 x 700 cm 29 Euros for first work, 25 Euros for second work, 19 Euros for third work, 10 Euros for the 4th and 5th work.

We will do an extensive global promotion of your exhibition on our web site, social media and YouTube, offering your works to a huge global audience and will still be selling your exhibition on our site until 3 months after your exhibition is over (negotiable).

We will make a catalog of your exhibition that will sell on Blurb.com. The catalog will outlive the exhibition.

We ask 20% commission from our sold works.

You don't need to send us your artwork to Hong Kong. You can keep them at home. When they sell, we will send you the courier to pick them up. You will only need to pack them well. You will be paid 30 days after the collector receives your work.

Application fee is 15 Euros. Please, use our email lafeniceart@yandex.com for payments with PayPal.  The fee will be donated to Charities that promote Art in South East Asia.

2.
Solo Show (emerging and mid-career artists) for exhibitions

from 30 October 2021 onward. Online.

DEADLINE: 26 October

Categories: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Photography, Mixed Media, Digital Art, Sculpture, Ceramics, Textiles, Video, Performance, Sound.

We are looking for the artists who work alone without assistants, who's work has intimacy, that we can feel the person behind it, the touch and the closeness, someone's hand, that individual touch. As communication now days is all on the phone and the Internet, we want to reach out for something more personal.
We will give priority to woman artists with at least B.A. Fine Art Degree who had a solid track record of working hard and exhibiting over the years. Who's work is in important collections and who show that they are here to stay.

You can be of any age as long as you are an emerging artist.

We will also give priority to women artists that belong to more than one culture due to parents, birth, migration, travel...
Preference will be given to those works that are bigger in size, more valuable and to those artists who choose longer exhibition periods.

Everybody can apply. If selected, there are some exhibition fees, listed below that you will be asked to pay in the 3 days after our positive answer. If your works are sold and we (the gallery) make least Euros 1500 for a 1 month show, the fees will be returned to you. In the opposite case we will donate them to charity, governmental art institutions in Asia that we support. Preference will be given to those works that are bigger in size, more valuable and numerous.

1. a one month exhibition is Euros550

We will do an extensive global promotion of your exhibition on our web site, social media and YouTube, offering your works to a huge global audience and will still be selling your exhibition on our site until 3 months after your exhibition is over (negotiable).

We will make a catalog of your exhibition that will sell on Blurb.com. The catalog will outlive the exhibition.

We ask 20% commission from our sold works.

You don't need to send us your artwork to Hong Kong. You can keep them at home. When they sell, we will send you the courier to pick them up. You will only need to pack them well. You will be paid 30 days after the collector receives your work.

Application fee is 15 Euros. Please, use our email lafeniceart@yandex.com for payments with PayPal.  The fee will be donated to Charities that promote Art in South East Asia.

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OPEN CALL: HAPPINESS-SHARED Group Online Exhibition for Women Artists

DigitalArt4Climate

The DigitalArt4Climate Art Competition, organized by IAAI GloCha in collaboration with the UN-Habitat youth programme, Unique Network, Social Alpha Foundation,  Exquisite Workers, HubZine and Palette69 wants to inspire and promote climate action through the power of culture and technology and empower the uptake of digital innovation by the creative community in an accessible and meaningful way.

HUMANITY CHALLENGED BY CLIMATE CHANGE

We welcome you to submit a creation that embodies your personal interpretation of the ’humanity challenged by climate change’ theme and to reimagine the impact creators can have on the world and on healing of our Mother Earth. In terms of visual storytelling we are envisioning 3 sub-themes: Storm, Haven and Angel. 
These are just a few ideas and should in no way limit the artist into how the theme can be represented.

NFT PLATFORM

The DigitalArt4Climate’s features include – based on its use of the Unique Network NFT platform -  full proof-of-stake (PoS) infrastructure with Polkadot and Kusama (a sustainable blockchain and approach to NFTs), decentralized media storage, credit-card & crypto payments, automatic collaborator splits and payments on primary and secondary markets, customizable royalties, and the ability to create positive impact and undertake the climate change action.

The selected Artworks which enter the public voting of the Art Competition and the COP26 collection will automatically enter the auction in summer 2022 on the NFT marketplace and will receive a share of 15 % of the net revenues or gross proceeds from the auction (NFT sales) on the primary market if there are any. DigitalArt4Climate will promote the winning Artists’ names. Any remaining proceeds will benefit youth climate action projects as well as global technical and institutional Action for Climate Empowerment support infrastructure development, including World Environment Situation Room Youth engagement programme. Creative direction may be provided to the Artist for final release on the website and the DigitalArt4Climate public voting.

Artists whose artwork will be shortlisted for the Art Competition by the curators, but who do not make it into the initial DigitalArt4Climate COP26 collection, will nevertheless have the opportunity to have prime-access to the DigitalArt4Climate NFT marketplace platform during its first months live (summer 2022).

UNITED NATIONS DigitalArt4Climate Art Competition *No Application Fees*

Envision Arts

Still Life II will be our second virtual installment of contemporary and fine art works depicting a still life arrangement. All genre’s and art styles accepted. The gallery will be on virtual display between November 1 – November 30, 2021. 

HOW TO ENTER
Please read the full guidelines and terms before completing the application process. Please review the dates and deadlines at the bottom of this page. Entries can only be submitted online via the website. A separate application must be filled out for each exhibit.    
NUMBER OF ENTRIES + APPLICATION FEE
Each artist is limited to six (6) images per submission. There is a $10 (USD) non-refundable/non-transferable fee, for up to six (6) images. Payments must be submitted online at the time of application. Deadline to submit work is October 28, 2021 at 11:59 PM CST.

Still Life II Art Exhibit

Amber II will be our second virtual installment of contemporary and fine art works that exemplify the color orange. All submitted entries should be at least 50% comprised of the color, range, tint or shade of orange. The gallery will be on virtual display between November 1 – November 30, 2021. 