Open calls

Open call — ‘pilot’ of the resort: for starting & self-taught artists (formerly: midseason) — Groningen / The Hague / Amsterdam / Antwerp / Brussels

The resort is launching: pilot (formerly: midseason). It is a practical learning trajectory for starting artists, recent graduates (2022-2024) and self-taught artists (2021+). The program offers tools for an independent art practice through workshops, excursions and meetings. During the program you will gain hands-on experience in how to position yourself on your own terms and become more aware of who you are as an artist. You will develop your professional position, expand your network and learn to present yourself. The program ends with a site-specific project week in which you investigate how and where your work can be shown in a (semi-)public space.

Good to know:

💰 Participation in the program is free and you will receive a fee for participating in the project week. In addition, you will receive travel expenses.

🗓️📍 These are the dates and locations:

🔸24+25 May (Groningen)
🔸30+31 May (The Hague+Amsterdam)
🔸12+13 June (Groningen)
🔸19+20+21 June (Antwerp+Brussels)
🔸3 to 11 July (Groningen)

6️⃣ A total of six artists will be selected, three of whom are based in Groningen and three outside of Groningen.

⏰ Deadline for applications: 14 April 2025, 11:59 p.m.

ℹ️ For more information and to apply, visit 👉 Het resort ― pilotprogram-25

❓Do you have any questions? Then send an email to Jorien Ketelaar, producer: jorien@hetresort.nl

🧑‍💻 Or take part in the online Q&A on Monday 7 April from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m., where you can ask all your questions. The language will be English. You can register for this Q&A via this registration form: online Q&A ❋ pilot program. You will receive the link for the meeting earlier on the day itself.

Open Call — exhibition Ostfriesland Biennale — Ludgerikirche Norden (Ostfriesland / Duitsland)

The second edition of the Ostfriesland Biennale will take place from 6 June to 7 September 2025. On this occasion, an exhibition for artists from the region will be organised as a supplementary programme. Artists can now apply for a group exhibition that will be on display in the Ludgerikirche Norden from 7 June to 3 August 2025. Like the Ostfriesland Biennale, the theme of the exhibition is “Landscape”.

The Open Call is aimed at all professional artists with a degree from an art academy or comparable university who live and work in Ostfriesland, the province of Groningen and surrounding regions.

You can apply with a PDF document (max. 5 MB) with one or two images of completed works that you wish to submit for the group exhibition. The works must be on the theme of “landscape” and belong to the genres of painting, graphics, photography or sculpture. The application must also contain a short description of the work, precise details of the work (title, technique, dimensions, year of creation) and a short description of your artistic activities (maximum one DIN A4 page).

🧑‍💻 You can send the documents to: kultur@ostfriesischelandschaft.de
⏰ Deadline for this open call: Friday, April 25
🗓️ The works will be selected by a jury of experts by May 1, 2025

ℹ️ Want to know more? 👉 Ostfriesland Biennale – German-Dutch contemporary art festival

Artist in residence — EWE Stiftung Art Lab 2025 / Ostfriesland Biënnale 2025 — Gut Altenkamp (Emsland)

In the context of the Ostfriesland Biennale 2025, the EWE Foundation is offering talented artists a special opportunity: a stay at the inspiring artist residency Gut Altenkamp in Emsland. This grant puts exceptional artistic visions in the spotlight and promotes art in rural areas.

🗓️ It is for a period of 4 weeks from an agreed date, between 1 July and 30 September 2025;
💰 The prize money for the grant is ​​5,000 euros;
🧑‍💻 You can apply by sending an email to ewe-stiftung@ewe.de;
⏰ Deadline: Wednesday 30 April

ℹ️ For all information, go to 👉 EWE Stiftung Art Lab – Kunststipendium auf Gut Altenkamp – EWE | STIFTUNG Aktuelle News

Artist in residence — EWE Stiftung Art Lab 2025 / Ostfriesland Biënnale 2025 — Gut Altenkamp (Emsland)

In the context of the Ostfriesland Biennale 2025, the EWE Foundation is offering talented artists a special opportunity: a stay at the inspiring artist residency Gut Altenkamp in Emsland. This grant puts exceptional artistic visions in the spotlight and promotes art in rural areas.

🗓️ It is for a period of 4 weeks from an agreed date, between 1 July and 30 September 2025;
💰 The prize money for the grant is ​​5,000 euros;
🧑‍💻 You can apply by sending an email to ewe-stiftung@ewe.de;
⏰ Deadline: Wednesday 30 April

ℹ️ For all information, go to 👉 EWE Stiftung Art Lab – Kunststipendium auf Gut Altenkamp – EWE | STIFTUNG Aktuelle News

Open Call — Stop&Breathe — De Sedykster Kunstschuur (Tzummarum (Frisia))

In the dynamic landscape between the Wadden Sea and land, salt marshes and clay, in the middle of the UNESCO World Heritage Wadden Sea, lies De Sedykster Kunstschuur. A place to strengthen your creative skills. Its history and future invite you to research and experiment.

​De Sedykster Kunstschuur wants to open its grounds for a special outdoor exhibition, and is now calling on artists, image makers and installation makers to show work that connects with the landscape. There is also room in the barn for art and images that relate to the theme.

The exhibition opens on Saturday 12 July and Sunday 13 July 2025 during the Slikwerk Atelierroute and will continue until 17 August 2025. The Slikwerk Atelierroute is a well-visited art route that connects more than 25 artists and studios in the area around the Oudebildtdijk (Northwest Friesland).​​​​​

​Is this Open Call something for you?

• You are an (interdisciplinary) artist, photographer, installation maker or conceptual artist – self-taught or professional – and seriously engaged in your work.
• Your work moves at the intersection of nature and art and relates to sea, land and horizon.
• Artists who collaborate with another artist, image maker or a non-commercial party are also cordially invited.

Good to know:

🗓️ Exhibition period: July 12 to August 17, 2025
💸 Costs: €25 as a contribution to the costs. No commission on sales.
🧑‍💻 You can participate in this open call by sending a short motivation, images and a link to your work to info@sedyksterkunstschuur.nl.
⏰ Deadline of this open call: April 13, 2025

Would you like to experience the place first? Feel free to drop by:

🗓️ Sunday April 6 | 1:00 – 4:30 p.m.
📍 De Sedykster Kunstschuur | Sedyk 17 | 8851 RM Tzummarum

Or contact us for a visit: info@sedyksterkunstschuur.nl or 06-1422 5446: Signal, sms, call.

ℹ️ For all information, go to 👉 Open Call Stop & Breathe | Sedyksterkunstschuur

Open call — Wanted: Fantastic Idea Artists — Amersfoort

Artist Dominique Himmelsbach de Vries and curator Arda van Tiggelen have been commissioned by the municipality of Amersfoort to develop a new initiative for art in public space. Dominique Himmelsbach de Vries about this open call:

“This year, as an extension of my Himmelsbach Idea Library, I am collaborating with curator Arda van Tiggelen on a new community art project: Fantastic Idea Artists Land in Amersfoort. Commissioned by the municipality of Amersfoort, we bring artists and residents together to approach everyday issues in an unconventional way.

Fantastic Idea Artists Land in Amersfoort

Are you the kind of maker who comes up with ideas that make people say, “How do they even think of that?!”
Then sign up now for Fantastic Idea Artists Land in Amersfoort—a social art project in which artists collaborate with the people of Amersfoort to find unconventional solutions to everyday problems.

We are looking for artists who can approach social and personal issues of Amersfoort residents in a surprising and visual way.”

🗓️  The project runs from May to December 2025.

💰 Selected artists will each receive:

• A fee of 2565 euros (excl. VAT)
• A modest material budget
• Travel allowance

⏰ Deadline for this open call: Monday 7 April

ℹ️ For all information and registration, go to 👉 Fantastic Idea Artists Land in Amersfoort | Domenique Himmelsbach de vries

❓ Any questions?
📧 Mail to 👉 fantastisch@himmelsbach.nl

Open Call — Kaalstaart 2025 — Amersfoort 🛥️ Zwolle 🛥️ Groningen 🛥️ Dokkum

The latest edition of Kaalstaart, a festival for beta art, is in the making. This floating festival will take place in April and will visit four cities: Amersfoort, Zwolle, Groningen and Dokkum. Artists who want to participate can register now.

Kaalstaart about this open call:

“Kaalstaart is a festival organised by artists. Together we ensure a great weekend and a good stage. Inspiring for each other and the audience. What does Kaalstaart have to offer artists:

• A stage for artists and the audience focused on art, technology and science;
• A diverse mix of exhibition spaces on board a number of inland vessels and on the quay;
• Documentation in the form of photos of the works, a review and video report;
• PR on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram and the Kaalstaart website, among others;
• An artist dinner on the Friday evening before the festival;
• 💰 A subsidy has been requested to be able to provide travel or presentation compensation. If we succeed, we will share the available resources among all participating artists;
• And of course an unforgettable Kaalstaart!

The rules

• Your work fits within the theme ‘science art’;
• Your submission preferably does something with the input of the scientists;
• Your submission has not been seen at Kaalstaart before;
• You are present (as much as possible) during opening hours for interaction with the public;
• Kaalstaart is an event for experiment and exhibition, not for selling your work.”

⏰ There is no hard deadline for this open call, but registration before April would be most appreciated.

ℹ️🧑‍💻 For more information and the registration form, go to 👉 Kaalstaart

Open call — Seed Grant — Stichting Stokroos

Visual artists, designers, painters and craftsmen can now (27 January 2025) apply for a Seed contribution from Stichting Stokroos.

The contribution is intended for unusual maker practices: unconventional ideas and an original use of techniques, materials and crafts are paramount.

The budgets that are made available are:

💰 €5,000 for an individual;
💰 €7,500 for a collaboration.
💰 Total budget: €120,000 per half year

The Hanzenfonds of the Cultuurfonds contributes to the budget. Stichting Stokroos divides this contribution over plans in which craft training and deepening play a role.

⏰ There is no deadline for applying for a contribution, but responding quickly pays off: gone is gone.

🧑‍💻 You can start your (trial) application here

ℹ️ For all information and conditions, go to 👉Seed – Stokroos

❓ Do you have any questions?
☎️ Call Stichting Stokroos during the telephone consultation hours, every Monday from noon – 1.00 p.m.: +31 (0)6 – 811 077 21
📧 Or send a message to mail@stokroos.nl.

Open Call – Op Woeste Gronden – Fruithof Frederiksoord

🔍 Op Woeste Gronden is looking for professional artists from Drenthe, Friesland and Groningen for an event in July and August 2025 at the Fruithof in Frederiksoord, Drenthe.

On the central terrain of the Fruithof, an 8-hectare park with over 800 fruit trees, there is a canopy (pagoda) of six canopies. There is space under the canopies for art by as many artists.

Each canopy has a ground surface of 6 × 6 meters. Under each canopy there is a low plateau of a maximum of 4 × 4 meters, on which the images, compositions or installations are exhibited. The works are therefore not inside, but outside, despite the protection of the canopies and the yet to be added shell of wind cloth around the entire pagoda.

ℹ️ Are you interested or curious?
📧 Mail to info@opwoestegronden.nl and you will receive more information about the concept, what the terrain looks like, the pagoda and the floor plan.

🧠 Good to know:

• There is no deadline for this open call;
• You can also find this open call via 👉 Open call | Op Woeste Gronden
• Op Woeste Gronden endorses the Fair Practice Code and has therefore included the Fair Pay principle in the budget.

Open Call — International FiKVA Prize for Painters 2025 — online

Figuratieve Kunst Vandaag (Antwerp) about this open call:

“The FiKVA Foundation proudly presents the 3rd International FiKVA Prize for Representative & Figurative Painters – a unique opportunity for artists worldwide to gain international recognition, share their talent worldwide and win great cash prizes. The entire competition is online – so there is no need to send or hand over your work!

💰 Submit your best paintings from the past two years, and you could win cash prizes of up to €5,000, high-quality art supplies and a 6-month gallery representation or an online exhibition!

The International FiKVA Prize for Painters is open to all artists aged 18 and over. The FiKVA Prize accepts all styles of realistic painting – modern and classical realism, imaginative realism, hyperrealism, photorealism, luminism, surrealism, etc. – as long as the artwork is realistic and not stylized or abstract. If your work captures the essence of the world and reflects your unique artistic voice, we want to see it!”

Key dates:

⏰ Open call deadline: April 15, 2025, 11:59 p.m.
🗓️ Top 100 announcement: May 1, 2025
🗓️ Winners announcement: May 15, 2025
🗓️ Online Exhibition launch (Top 35): May 20, 2025

ℹ️ For all information, go to 👉 OPEN-CALL-FiKVA-2025-English.pdf

Open call — Artist in Residence AnnAtopiA — Het Goordonk (North Brabant)

Professional artists, poets and writers can apply for a working period in AnnAtopiA AiR.
​It is possible to work as an artist in residence in the Boshut and to stay in the Boshuis.

Disciplines
All visual and performing arts, creative writing

🗓️ Residence
Minimum of one week

📍 Locatie
AnnAtopiA
Het Goordonk 15
5111 GG Baarle-Nassau

💸 Cost
The cost for the stay of 1 week are €250 (Excl. costs for living). In consultation there is a special rate for students, starting artist and the less wealthy.

Admission guidelines
– professional art education / CV / portfolio
– motivation and global work plan

Description of the program
– introductory meeting
– filling in and signing the user agreement
– discuss motivation and work plan
– discussing and recording conversations about work process coaching, press moments and the like.
– closure with reflection report

Desired result of stay
– positive contribution to the development of artistry
– at least one work in the discipline (s) of the artist

📧 You can send your motivation, plan, portfolio and CV to AirAnnAtopiA@gmail.com
✉️ Or send it directly to:

      Stichting AnnAtopiA
      Vondelinghof 2
4908 DV Oosterhout, The Netherlands

ℹ️ Request more information for the different options via: AirAnnAtopiA@gmail.com

Open Call — Pop-Up Art Rental Groningen — Vapiano Building (Nieuwe Markt)

Kunstpunt has settled in the heart of the city! Our pop-up of the Kunstuitleen is now located in the former Vapiano building, diagonally opposite Forum Groningen.

Would you like to show your work at this busy location? Then participate in this open call, and who knows, your work might soon be in the window at the Nieuwe Markt! From Thursday, May 16, we will give a new artist a stage here every two weeks.

This is what we ask of you:

• You are a professional visual artist, working or living in the province of Groningen;
• You can register by emailing a photo of the work you want to show to info@kunstpuntgroningen.nl, stating the title, technique, size and sales price;
• The work must be available and suitable for lending; the work must be equipped with a hanging system at the back;
• The size of the window in which the work will be displayed is 319 cm high x 148 cm wide (good to know: it is a window on the shady side, so no sunlight shines on your work);
• You arrange your own transport to and from Vapiano, after coordination with Kunstpunt;
• We select works from all registrations; the artist is then told if and when the work will be shown;
• If a work is loaned, it is for a minimum of six and a maximum of twelve months (longer in consultation)

🗓️ Since Thursday 16 May we show selected work. We will do this at least until April 2025. Would you like to have a chance to show your work to the public at this unique promotional location? Then sign up quickly!

ℹ️ If you have any questions or comments, please email info@kunstpuntgroningen.nl

Open Call — Pakje Kunst — MOW / Museum Westerwolde

Since September 24, 2023, there has been a Pakje Kunst vending machine in the museum shop at the MOW. Pakje Kunst presents works of art the size of a pack of cigarettes in an old mechanical cigarette vending machine. A box costs only € 6,- and you can find every form of art in it. The proceeds go almost entirely to the participating artists.

For the machine, MOW is always looking for artists from Westerwolde, Oldambt, Pekela, Veendam and Stadskanaal who enjoy to surprise, confuse, move or slightly irritatate people with works of art the size of a pack of cigarettes.

ℹ️ For more information, visit Pakje kunst | Het MOW