Open Calls and Awards for Artists
We are going through difficult times in terms of health and mobility, however we hope to be able to get through this process with good health. For the coming months, we created a list of open calls, artist residency programs and awards held abroad for artists that are willing to improve their production process with a new vision. Good luck!
1- Open Call: Belgrade Artist in Residence
Deadline: 30 November 2021
Location: Belgrad, Serbia
Belgrade Artist in Residence is a program as part of the Center424 non-profit artist-run organization, taking place in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It was founded in 2012, and has since hosted various artists from all over the world. The programs aim to foster cultural exchange between artists from different disciplines, create a dialogue and promote possible collaboration. Art gallery, museum and inter-studio visits will be arranged to facilitate the interaction of international and local art practitioners.
Gordana Zikic | belgradeair@gmail.com
2- Open Call: Artspace & Artists in residence Barcelona
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Deadline: 30 May 2021
Homesession offers a residency program for artists and curators who want to develop their research or projects in Barcelona. This programme, consisting of a flat for residents, as well as an exhibition and work area. The residencies last 2 months, which gives artists the opportunity to enjoy the interactions that can be generated from a culturally active neighborhood in the center of Barcelona.
3- Open Call: BASE 2021
Location: Istanbul Turkey
Deadline: 15 June 2021
Aiming to bring new graduate artist candidates together with the public, art sector, creative industries, and media, BASE aims to support them in their transition from graduation to professional art life and to give momentum and direction to their careers. Base, which will shed light on the future generation of artists in Turkey, also has the mission of helping galleries, collectors, art lovers, and creative industries discover young talents.
BASE 2021; It is open to the applications of undergraduate and graduate students who will graduate in 2021 from painting, sculpture, photography, video, printing, traditional Turkish arts, graphic design, visual communication design, animation, glass, ceramics, and textile departments of universities in Turkey.
4- Open Call :Pocoapoco Residency
Location: Oaxaca City Mexico
Deadline: 30 June 2021
Each year from September through April Pocoapoco hosts five-week residencies made up of both international residents and local residents who come together to think, work, discuss and collaborate in our centrally located home in Oaxaca City.
Pocoapoco would be happy for artists and non-artists across all fields to cultivate personalized research and creative work, focusing on interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration, conversation and connection.
Relationships with individuals, collectives and organizations in the Oaxaca area emphasize exchange — of ideas, information, traditions, processes, and experiences — across countries, disciplines and practices offering a more inclusive creative dialogue and deeper understanding between artists, researchers and people.
5- Open Call : Out Of The Circle Digital Art Residency
Location: Egypt, Cairo
Deadline: There is no deadline for the residency.
Out Of The Circle is a visual arts organization based in Cairo, Egypt. Their mission is supporting, connecting and promoting young visual and new media artists in Egypt with their peers in North Africa and abroad to let their stories be heard through their art. Besides, they open an art residency space for international artists to learn and connect through new media/digital art in Cairo.
The residency is now open for new media artists, researchers, and curators all year. The residency offers a chance for the participant to first conceptualize and then realize a specific residency project. The project can be a visual or digital art project, research as well as a workshop the residence would like to conduct. The Out of the Circle team supports the residents in developing their projects throughout the whole length of their stay.
6- İSTANBUL ROTARY SANAT FONU
Location: Turkey
Deadline: 30 May 2021
7 - OPEN CALL FOR THE POLITICS OF FOOD
Location: London, England
Deadline: 14 June 2021
In Autumn 2022, Delfina Foundation will launch our fifth concentrated season of residencies and public programmes focusing our investigations on the most pressing issue of our time: the climate emergency. Agriculture alone is responsible for 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, 92% of global water use, 38% of earth’s ice-free land, and is a major source of biodiversity loss and land degradation. In our oceans, the impact of the world’s fastest growing food production system – intensive aquaculture – encapsulates the complexity of future “sustainable” diets as nutritional, policy and environmental factors rub against one another. Addressing how and what we eat is critical to the survival of both human and more than human species.
For this open call, they are open to a variety of responses to our sub-theme, but they are particularly interested in interdisciplinary collaborations between artists/curators and researchers seeking to evolve ideas beyond this residency and traditional art spaces.
8- Open Call : SOMA Summer
Location: Mexico
Deadline: 23 May 2021
SOMA Summer is a space for reconsideration and reflection, where participants have the opportunity to critically analyze their proposals, and where revisiting creative processes is encouraged. Each SOMA Summer is organized around a different theme, which provides a compelling conceptual framework for research and creative work.
Titled, Yet to Come, SOMA Summer 2021 will be framed around a series of questions about time, labor, land, and living. Held for the first time in collaboration with Fundación Casa Proal, the program’s activities and lodging will take place in San Rafael, state of Veracruz, Mexico.
The program that is built around a series of activities (seminars, workshops, group critiques, site visits, etc.) will be led by a group of renowned Mexican and international artists and researchers.
9- Open Call : Caravan Residency Program: Thinking with Alexandria
Location: Cittadellarte, Biella Italy
Deadline: 30 May 2021
The Caravan Residency Program is part of Alexandria: (Re)activating Common Urban Imaginaries, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union (2020-2023). The project aims to survey the European cities of Athens, Brussels, Marseille, and Nicosia, through the lens of Alexandria and its contested urban imaginaries.
The opportunity to think with and through Alexandria allows us to exercise worldmaking against erasure and towards futurities. Worldmaking starts from worlds already at hand: the making is a remaking (Nelson Goodman); The Caravan Residency Program is thus an invitation to compose, toy with, and re-figure existing parts and elements structuring our every day through a peripatetic format in Alexandria and other cities across Europe and the Mediterranean.
10 - Open Call : Mamut Art Project
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Deadline: 20 May 2021
Mamut Art Project is the biggest art event and first fair dedicated to providing a dynamic platform for independent & emerging artists and to the concept for attainable art since 2013. Mamut Art Project is dedicated to providing a dynamic platform for undiscovered creative talent and engaging them with new and established collectors, galleries, curators and art lovers.
Each selected artist gets their own individual space, to exhibit their works throughout the event.
11 - Open Call : Postane Duvar
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Deadline: 7 June 2021
The works to be exhibited in the hall of the Post Office Istanbul will be renewed periodically and will be determined by an open call on a theme announced during the period. Also, as a result of the call, which is aimed to be a tool of solidarity with the artists, the purchased work will be displayed until the next call. If the income to be obtained from the sale of the artwork as NFT on the blockchain two years later, they plan to use the production cost of the next work and to support the artists whose projects will be realized.