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

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.

​

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. 

Amber II Art Exhibit

Fabrica

The In Between Gallery is a temporary exhibition platform for Fabrica’s picture window in central Brighton. This exciting initiative is now in its fifth year. 
 
Fabrica is partnering with Spectrum Photographic, Photo Fringe and Loupe Magazine to present excellent photographic work by UK-based artists who consider themselves to be early to mid-career. 
 
The judging panel will be made up of our partners as well as being joined by photographer and curator Ibrahim Azab, currently exhibiting in the In Between Gallery and independent curator Cairo Clarke.


About
There is no theme to address but artists are asked to submit a work that will function well within the context of a large format print set within the window frame.. Measurements are approximately: 270cm x 225.5cm. 
 
The window faces directly onto Duke Street, one of Brighton’s busiest pedestrianised quarters, located between The Lanes and Churchill Square, two very popular shopping destinations. The main city centre pubs and clubs are also nearby so the street is normally busy into the evening and throughout the night.
 
The image would be exhibited from early December 2021 – mid-February 2022 when there is no large-scale exhibition in Fabrica’s main space.  
 
One artist/artist group and one image will be selected.


Open Call: Photography 

Cine El Patio Film

Cine al patio presents a monthly selection of short films in the unique outdoor setting of La Casa del Árbol Cultural Centre in the heart of Buenos Aires. Our screenings take place in a relaxed atmosphere, catered to an audience eager to experience high-level artistic content from a variety of culture and genres.

We are interested in receiving entries from all manner of fields, be it fiction or documentary, experimental or narrative, live-action or animated, or perhaps a combination of these.

The winner of each month's audience vote will win a digital poster that has been created especially by our award-winning graphic-design team.

The aim of Cine al patio is to ultimately connect audiences through a shared love of cinema, to reconcile people through the power of stories told over a mere matter of minutes.

We very much hope that you’ll share that experience with us.