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Deadline: 20 October 2025

Open Calls for Residents 2025

transmediale
Berlin, Germany

The transmediale residency programme offers researchers, artists, theorists, practitioners, and activists the opportunity for a two-month hybrid residency, taking place on-site in Berlin and remotely.

Deadline: 31 October 2025

Application for a Baldreit Scholarship - City of Baden-Baden

Stadt Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden, Germany

An open call for the scholarships starting in October 2026 is expected to begin in November 2025. Applicants can be writers, visual artists or musicians living or working in Baden-Baden.

Deadline: 29 September 2025

Artist Residency ‚Minimal Travelling‘ Berlin

Kunsthalle Below
Berlin, Germany

Guest artists work self-organised on their own projects and – optionally – together with the AG Minimales Reisen in the KHBstudios, Berlin Wedding.

Deadline: 29 September 2025

Residency open call for artists based in West Africa - Gasworks

Gasworks
London, United Kingdom

The Gasworks is offering a fully funded eleven-week residency in London from 7 April to 23 June 2026 for contemporary visual artists based in West Africa who have already presented their work in several venues.

Deadline: 30 September 2025

Artistic Intervention in Düsseldorf's Audio/Visual Infrastructure

Stiftung IMAI – Inter Media Art Institute
Düsseldorf, Germany

IMAI – Inter Media Art Institute invites artists, collectives, and initiatives to apply for a new artistic production within the framework of the exhibition project Circulating Copies in the public space of the city of Düsseldorf.

Deadline: 1 October 2025

Atelier Josepha / ARS BALTICA: Residencies for Artist From the Baltic Sea Region 2026 (Germany)

Atelier Josepha / ARS BALTICA
Ahrenshoop, Germany

Residencies

Deadline: 30 September 2025

Contours: Residency programme for EU-based curators and/or art critics

Cité internationale des arts
Paris, France

The Regional Department for Cultural affairs of the Île-de-France region, the TRAM network, and the Cité internationale des arts have developed Contours, a research-based residency programme aimed at curators and/or art critics working and residing outside of France and its overseas departments, within the European Union.

Deadline: 1 October 2025

Open call for Art and Technology residency

Hangar
Barcelona, Spain

This residency offers two Swiss artists active in all disciplines supported by Pro Helvetia (design, game design, literature, music, performing arts, visual arts) the opportunity to develop projects where technological or digital elements play a central role, whether through the materials and tools employed or the conceptual inquiries that drive their practice.

Deadline: 26 September 2025

Interdisciplinary summer workshop program

Berlin University of the Arts
Berlin, Germany

From June to September, over 30 workshops invite artists, advanced students and graduates from all artistic disciplines to develop their artistic practice further, connect with international artists, and create new spaces for artistic exchange together.

Call for Project Kunst fürs Dorf – Dörfer für Kunst

Deutsche Stiftung Kulturlandschaft
Berlin, Germany

The project aims to create a broad and sustainable public opinion-forming and participatory process that makes the village a living action space in a new way.

Artist in Residence Exchange Programme

Goethe-Institut Malaysia
Frankfurt, Germany

The Artist-In-Residence exchange program or AIR aims at supporting and encouraging contemporary visual arts, as well as promoting international exchange between Frankfurt and Kuala Lumpur.

Deadline: 30 September 2025

Call for a new artistic production in the public space of Düsseldorf 2026

IMAI – Inter Media Art Institute
Düsseldorf, Germany

The IMAI – Inter Media Art Institute is calling for a new artistic production in the framework of the exhibition project „Circulating Copies“ in the public space of the city of Düsseldorf.

Deadline: 23 September 2025

Learning Materials Artists in Residence 2026 – for artists based in the Nordic and Baltic countries

HIAP Helsinki International Artist Programme
Helsinki, Finland

Learning Materials partners HIAP, Bioart Society, Koynẽ Program, SWAMP: Art Material and Waste Management Point, and TUO TUO, invite applications for a new pilot residency programme focused on socially engaged, process-orientated and material-driven practices.

Deadline: 15 October 2025

Visual and Sound Artists Residency

Visegrad Fund
Bratislava, Slovakia

Visual and Sound Artists Residencies facilitate mobility and artistic exchanges of V4 citizens in the fields of visual and sound arts, including design, music, video and film, new media and mixed media.

Deadline: 22 September 2025

European Music Council: Programme Assistant Job (Germany)

European Music Council
Bonn, Germany

The European Music Council (EMC) is looking for a Programme Assistant to assist the team with the implementation of the EMC work plan, as well as to contribute to the smooth day-to-day running of the organisation, with a particular focus on EMC’s sustainability policy.

Deadline: 30 September 2025

Open Call - Sardinia Island, Italy (2026)

Open Call - Sardinia Island, Italy
Sardinia, Italy

Nocefresca is the first active and permanent artistic residency program in Sardinia. It is a house that welcomes creative professionals from all over the world to the rural villages of Sardinia for research and creative experimentation, involving both participants and local communities in a cultural exchange experience.

Deadline: 18 September 2025

Call For Applications – Submit Your Proposal Before 18 October 2025

Sonic Acts
Rupert and Sonic Acts, Netherlands

A fully funded sound studies writing residency taking place in Amsterdam in February 2026. Open to one established artist, researcher, or scholar working in the field of sound studies, the residency offers time, space, and critical support to develop a focused writing project.

Deadline: 5 October 2025

Braunschweig Projects 2026/27: fellowships and artist residencies

Braunschweig University of Art (HBK Braunschweig)
Braunschweig, Germany

Open call for Braunschweig Projects fellowships & artist residencies at HBK Braunschweig.

Deadline: 12 October 2025

Institut français x Cité internationale des arts programme

Institut français x Cité internationale des arts
Paris, France

This programme is aimed at artists and cultural professionals who have been living abroad for at least 5 years and who wish to develop a research and creative project in Paris during a residency lasting three, six or nine months, between April 2026 and April 2027.

Artist-in-residence open call

Spreepark Art Space
Berlin, Germany

Forest, path, knowledge—the Spreepark Art Space residency programme invites international groups of artists to explore these three dimensions.

Grant

Photography Contests and Grants Calendar for 2025

Austin, United States
Jasmine DeFoore

About This Opportunity

Photography offers many opportunities to showcase your talent and receive support through contests and grants. Below is a curated list of key photography contests and grants for 2025, including specific grants aimed at documentary photographers who are People of Color, Women, or Indigenous.

What's Offered

Mentorship, Budget, Production, Transport, Facilities, Studio

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