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

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

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

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

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.

Cine al Patio: Open call for Film and Video

Chromart Magazine

Chromart Magazine is an online publication with international recognition that supports emerging artists to get the attention they deserve. We now invite artists to submit their work for our next issue.
We aim to offer all creative people, regardless of the stage of their careers, the opportunity to submit their work and ensure that each of their submissions will be selected for our next Chromart online magazine.
If your work is selected for our magazine, you will have your name and your social media account included with your work. If your artwork is not chosen for the magazine, you will be featured on our website.

Emily

Hi There! 

We are producing an immersive experience and searching for a CGI / video artist to join our team to create content for projection mapping in a large environment, most likely a dome. We have a production team that will be able to assist in adapting the content for the projections if necessary.  

The photo attached (link below)  is a screenshot from our current video. We are interested in works that relate to this, are generative, and also flow into new ideas. 

 Our timeline for the project is 3 months.  

 This is a paid job, please send some samples / links to your work, and current availability.  

 Looking forward to hearing from all of you. 

x Emily. 

Link to photo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f0JT2IQ6yDjB1MOfcpOc5FOikWkelXYt/view?usp=sharing  

OPEN CALL | CGI / VIDEO ARTISTS | IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE

Lucca Biennale

LUBICA - Lucca Biennale Cartasia is the world's biggest art event dedicated to paper art. The Biennale takes place every two years, in 2022 it will be held from the 31st of July until September the 25th. The Biennale is looking for emerging and affirmed artists to work in Lucca, Tuscany, during an artistic residency in July 2022. This call for entries aims to select artworks that involve the use of paper and its by-products to show how versatile this material is: artists that work with cardboard and paper are encouraged to participate in the contest with a challenging and innovative project for a monumental sculpture. The selected artworks will be exhibited in the most popular squares of the city during the event and will  then become part of the Biennale's permanent exhibition. 

"The White Page" is the theme of the XI edition
 "White page" has a double-sided message: could represent endless opportunities and at the same time the anxiety of it all, the possibility of a brighter future and a leap of faith into the unknown, a white page is a bridge between the past and the future. 