State of Fashion is launching an Open Call for Curators for its 2026 Biennale, taking place in Arnhem, The Netherlands. We’re looking for visionary thinkers and makers with an outspoken view on the challenges the world faces at the moment, the necessity for fundamental change, and the role that fashion has in the ability to transform and reframe social and cultural contexts. Our leading question is: how can fashion & textile contribute to a better world?

  
**THE OPEN CALL**

For our fourth edition, State of Fashion asks prospective curators to build upon the main outcomes from our previous editions. Our goal is to focus on collaborative and collective action, where the global is connected to the local. We urge the curators to respond to the themes from an intersectional approach.

We invite the new curators to ….

  
→ unpack the politics of dress

→ forge community

→ honour unseen labour(s)

→ move beyond the binary

→ amplify voices from the global majority

  
The above mentioned thematic Calls to Action serve as food for thought, not as a fixed framework.

As a platform we continuously research the format of the Biennale and therefore entrust the new curators to challenge and reinterpret ways of presenting and programming their proposal, beyond the format of the exhibition. Examples could be a commission based approach where makers get the chance to create new work. Furthermore, the emphasis is often on the end result, we actively want to make space for the work in process.

The selected curator(s) will receive a fee in the range of €30,000–€40,000, depending on the scope and details of the proposal.

2026 State of Fashion Biennale

IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art has awarded an artist prize every three years since the institution’s beginnings. 2019 was the first time the award was given an explicitly feminist focus. With the 2025 edition of the Feminist Art Prize, we are proud to look back on the past two editions but would also be remiss not to note that the global situation regarding gender-based discrimination has only worsened.

  
We are facing a rampant wave of political revanchism and right-wing populism worldwide, forcing us to question the widespread assumption of linear and inevitable progress. A feminist art prize is therefore more important than ever. And there is no reason to hang our heads in defeat, because feminist art practices are resilient and future oriented. They offer alternatives and a safe haven for alternative way of living. We want to promote and strengthen these positions in contemporary art - especially those that confront us with the complexities of the body, identity and society and are not satisfied with simple answers. Utopia, eroticism, community, energy, resilience: together we want to embark on a journey in search of a better future.

The IKOB team will invite a group of finalists to take part in the prize exhibition after evaluating the applications. Artists will have the opportunity to show existing work(s) and will be featured in an accompanying publication. IKOB will pay each participating artist a fee of 500€ excl. VAT.

  
The prize jury will meet at IKOB ahead of the exhibition opening on 13th April, 2025 and select three winners, awarding a first, second and third prize endowed with €3000, €2000 and €1500 respectively. The third prize is awarded to an artist in East Belgium. The jury consists of: Caitlin Hennen (independent art consultant and curator), Jemima Kulumba (curator and founder of the “Biennale of Women in Art”, Brussels), Noor Mertens (director, Bochum Art Museum), Stilbé Schroeder (curator, casino luxembourg and of the Luxembourg Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2026) and Marnie Slater (artist and winner of the IKOB – Feminist Art Prize 2022).

Feminist Art Prize 2025

**Mazra’ah Media Arts Residency** 

  
Running from February to April, 2025, the three-month Mazra’ah Media Arts Residency comprises two distinct streams for artists and scholars, established in the field of New Media and Digital Art. Designed to foster innovation and intellectual exchange across disciplines, the residency offers participants access to world-class studios and production labs, as well as a production budget.

Work developed during residencies will be showcased or incorporated into scholarly publications, facilitated by DAF and its network of regional and international partners. There will also be opportunities to secure further engagement, through exhibitions, publications, and artist monographs. 

The DAF hub will provide comfortable and inspiring living spaces, while creating opportunities for participants to connect with a diverse network of peers and professionals from across Saudi Arabia and the world.
  
  

Mazra’ah Media Art Residency

**Residency Unlimited (RU) is excited to announce an open call for the 2025 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program.**

This program is dedicated to supporting NYC-based artists traditionally underrepresented in the arts. RU encourages applications from artists who self-identify as part of underserved communities, including but not limited to BIPOC and LGBTQ+ individuals.

Artists working in all mediums are welcome, with a special emphasis on interdisciplinary practices such as social practice, conceptual art, institutional critique, and other discursive approaches.

The three-month residency will run from **April 1 – June 30, 2025**, in collaboration with **RU Guest Curator Jesse Bandler Firestone.**

  

**Residency Features**:

* **Stipend**: $3,500
* **Production Support**: $500
* **Curatorial Engagement**: Weekly one-on-one visits with guest curators and critics, tailored to align with artistic and curatorial interests. Sessions will include meetings with Jesse Bandler Firestone, the RU team, and invited art professionals.
* **Community Activities**: Participation in activities with RU’s international artist resident community, including artist presentations, monthly salons with Jesse Bandler Firestone, and field trips.
* **Project Support**: Assistance with production and project development.
* **Culminating Exhibition**: A group exhibition curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone (location and dates to be announced).
* **Hybrid Format**: Residency activities will include both in-person and virtual components.

  

2025 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program

Our 5th annual journey , is now started again.

  
The fifth "SPC Smartphone Photography Competition" 2024 invites you to share your opinions and your perspective of the world with the lens on your mobilephone. We do believe that the ultimate beauty of the world can be captured by you in every way.

  
Your recording of the world can always start in any place any time, just embrace your life with the art of photography and leave the world with some phenomena shots and impress the world with every single picture.

  
"Just eulogize the world by your snaps."

  
SPC is a long-term and professional annual competition platform, offering the opportunity for mobile photography enthusiasts around the world to compete for various rewards and to exhibit their works in various galleries. This contest is sponsored by EASYART©, the leading platform for contemporary art work retail and art digital copyright brokerage in China.

**The first, second and third place of the Photographer of the Year will be respectively awarded with:**

  
A. 5000 RMB, the SPC trophy

B. 3000 RMB, the SPC trophy

C. 1000 RMB, the SPC trophy

  
**The First, Second and Third Place, and Honorable Mentions of each category will be respectively awarded with:**

  
A. 500 RMB, the SPC trophy

  
Projects of the winners of the contest will be presented in exhibition in 2025.

Smartphone Photography Competition 2025

**_Photopsia_** features installations connected by the concept of projection, derived from the artist's photographic practice. In a dark room, a pre-recorded image of the outside view slowly emerges on a sealed window, creating a haunting illusion of presence and absence. In a white space, light projected onto quartz crystals transforms the space, where light, movement, and the visitor's presence are a part of the image-making process. Exploring photographic abstraction's relationship with time and space, the exhibition challenges the idea of individual perception and reconstructs images as intangible possibilities rather than predefined objects.

  
In addition to Setthana’s installations, Photopsia will also incorporate a series of public programs throughout the four-month duration of the exhibition, intended to enrich the visitor experience. These programs include an artist’s talk, curated screenings, and a live performance. As part of the lineup, we are excited to present Photopsia: Open Call for Video Arts, Moving Images, and Experimental Short Films. Scheduled for mid-February 2025, this initiative invites emerging artists, filmmakers, and creatives to submit their video art, moving images, and experimental works for inclusion, offering a platform to engage with experimental approaches to visual dialogue that echo with the exhibition’s themes of light, images, and the ephemeral qualities of space and time.

  
_Public Program Lineup:_

  
* **Artist’s Talk with Nat Setthana**
* Saturday, 11 January 2025

  
* **Screening Program** (**Submission Period: Today - 20 January 2025)**
* Photopsia: Open Call for Video Arts, Moving Images, and Experimental Short Films
* 13 February – 9 March 2025
* Screening Premiere on Thursday, 13 February 2025

  
* **Live Performance by Tangmo Ladapa S.**
* 14-16 and 21-23 March 2025

Photopsia: Open Call for Video Arts

**SUPER WALLS** is a **Biennial Street Art Festival** held on the walls of the City of Padua and the Municipalities of the Province; conceived and managed by the CIMI Association, it immediately found wide consensus involving all the most relevant public and private entities of the City.

  
**Making paintings on the walls of public and private buildings in order to attract thousands of visitors to the area attracted by this art form;** There are movements of enthusiasts who call themselves "Street Art hunters" (Street Art hunters) who move through Europe organizing Tours and thematic trips with the specific intent of photographing the Murals created. The importance of the Artists involved and the high concentration of works created in a well-defined area create high attractiveness and develop important volumes of increase in the related industry.

  
The Festival attracts Artists from all over the World who are selected by the Curators based on their skills; they can propose their candidacy by filling out a specific form downloadable from the Super Walls website. To date, there are about a hundred Artists involved.

SUPER WALLS 2025 Street Art Biennale

For more than a century, photography has been used as a documentary medium to detect the signs of human passage in our surroundings. The use of photographic, and subsequently even video, media allows the focus of attention to be placed on the single object or trace "discovered", from which information about human behavior can be captured.

  
One of the major changes that occurred during the early years of the twentieth century in the field of aesthetic phenomenology is, as a matter of fact, determined by the introduction of these new means of detection of reality, means that consent us to adopt a new way of grasping from reality the elements that we believe useful in the creation of a discourse.

  
Grasping and analyzing also means to extrapolate from a context the objects that interest us, found objects that become compositional elements in a new expression of the self.

Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy - April 2025

FOUND AND DISCOVERED: Group Exhibition in Rome

The Don Bachardy Fellowship at the Royal Drawing School enables a gifted and dedicated post-graduate artist from outside the United Kingdom to join the Royal Drawing School during the Summer Term each year. The fellowship gives one artist the opportunity to join London’s vibrant art scene, with the School’s Shoreditch campus and artists' studios located in the heart of East London’s art, design and fashion scene.

  
The fellowship is named after the Californian portrait painter, Don Bachardy (b. 1934), who studied at the Slade in 1961, had his first show at the Redfern Gallery in Mayfair that year, and has gone on to draw and paint over 10,000 portraits from life.

  
The Don Bachardy Fellowship is sponsored by The Christopher Isherwood Foundation.

The next Don Bachardy Fellowship will take place during the Royal Drawing School's Summer Term: 28 April – 5 July 2025\. The Don Bachardy Fellow will spend 3 full days per week for ten weeks, drawing alongside postgraduate students studying on the Royal Drawing School's MA level programme, The Drawing Year, as well as students on the Public Programme. Courses are taught by a distinguished faculty of over 75 practising artists. The Fellow will be invited to curate their own programme, choosing from over 60+ different drawing courses: from drawing out of house in London’s streets and green spaces, to life drawing, and drawing from art in major museums and galleries, as well as intaglio printmaking courses. The artist will also be provided with a shared studio space alongside the School's postgraduate-level Students.

To assist with travel and accommodation costs, the Don Bachardy Fellow will be awarded a $5,000 stipend, half of which will be granted on receipt of the Fellowship and the remainder on arrival in London. Artists applying for the fellowship should show evidence of observational drawing in their practice. The purpose of the fellowship is to help support an emerging artist and to nurture drawing as their foundation skill.

Don Bachardy Fellowship 2025

Rawabet is calling for applications from performing artists (theatre, dance, new circus, and other forms) originally from the Arab region (regardless of ethnicity), who arrived to European territories after 2015, to develop and create works in collaboration with European and non-European counterparts and audiences, in order to create a more diverse cultural scene and combat stereotypes and discrimination.

  
This unique opportunity invites artists from the Arab region, residing in Europe since 2015, to develop and showcase their artistic projects in Malmö, Sweden. The residency aims to bridge cultural gaps, foster artistic innovation, and facilitate meaningful cultural exchanges between SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) artists and the European community.

  
The residency, from 18 to 28 June 2025, will select **five artists based in Sweden, five artists based in Norway, and five artists based in other Creative Europe countries** to prepare a project to be showcased locally or shown at Masahat Festival 2025 in Oslo.

  
The group of 15 performing artists (solo or in a group) to develop, rehearse, and showcase small-scale individual artistic projects in a 10-day period. The projects may be multidisciplinary with an anchoring in performance arts, particularly in dance, theatre, spoken word, puppetry, new circus arts, or interdisciplinary formats.

The programme provides the following:

  
* A stipend of 2,500 EUR (incl. all taxes and social costs)
* Up to 2,000 EUR in production costs support
* **Travel, accommodation, working space in downtown Malmö**
* Networking opportunities with actors from the Swedish theatre industry

AIR: Performing Artists from Arab Region Based in Europe

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