This autumn offers an exciting line-up of international open calls for residencies, competitions and exhibitions for emerging and established artists and collectives working across a variety of media, including craft, audio-visual, land art and written word.
Ranging across the world from Korea to Poland, we present a curated list of opportunities for the coming months, exploring themes of fatherhood, ecology, design or feminism, and celebrating excellence in artistic and conceptual ability.
KIOSK: Fatherhood – birth announcement cards
KIOSK is looking for birth announcement cards, known as geboortekaartjes, designed by artist-fathers for an exhibition in late October exploring fatherhood and artistic practice. KIOSK welcomes a range of approaches to making the card, from elaborate graphic design to improvised photocopies.
The act of creating Geboortekaartjes to celebrate and announce the birth of their child(ren) is one of the very first creative acts for the father-parent during the period of the child’s birth. It marks a pivotal moment as fatherhood begins to profoundly reshape daily life, attention and artistic production. The individual cards will be displayed as a collection, forming a collective portrait of artists entering fatherhood.
KIOSK, established in 2010, is based in the former anatomical theatre of the Clinical and Outpatient Institute on Campus Bijloke and shows the work of both emerging and established names. The organisation aims to foster experimentation as well as cultural and artistic diversity.
Application Deadline: Post it by 16 October 2026.
Who can apply? Artist-fathers who designed and created their own geboortekaartjes.
How to apply? Post your work to KIOSK (tav Simon Delobel), Louis Pasteurlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Include a return address so it can be sent back to you after the exhibition closes in January 2027.
To find out more, visit the KIOSK website.
LOEWE Foundation: Craft Prize 2027
LOEWE Foundation is now accepting submissions for the 10th edition of its Craft Prize. Inspired by LOEWE’s origins as an artisanal leather workshop, the award aims to spotlight the contribution of craft to contemporary culture, and to acknowledge international artisans who demonstrate exceptional ability to create objects of unique and innovative aesthetic value.
All entries should fall within an area of applied arts, including ceramics, bookbinding, enamelwork, jewellery, lacquer, metal, furniture, leather, textiles, glass, paper and wood. Submissions will be reviewed by an Experts Panel, who will select the finalists. The finalists will then be evaluated by the Jury, which includes leading figures from the worlds of design, architecture, criticism, journalism and museum curatorship, as well as the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2026 winner, Jongjin Park.
The prize for the winning entry is €50,000. Both the works of the winning craftsperson and works of selected finalists will be included in the exhibition and accompanying catalogue of LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2027.
Application Deadline: 15 October 2026 23:59 (CET).
Who can apply? The prize is open to all people 18 years or older who are dedicated to crafts as a profession and work within modern craft. It is open to individuals and collectives.
How to apply? Apply online, completing the form in English.
Secondary Archive: Open call for women artists
The Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation and its partners are inviting a new generation of female-identifying artists from Central and Eastern Europe to contribute to and become part of their platform Secondary Archive — an online archive which platforms the work and diverging perspectives of women artists from Central and Eastern Europe. Its aim is to interrogate the position of the female artist in Central and Eastern European art made since the Second World War and explore debates surrounding gender, agency, (in)equality, citizenship and women’s activism in post-state socialism.
The selected artists will work with the curators of Secondary Archive to develop a personal written and video artist statement, published on the website and also presented as part of a group exhibition in Warsaw on 8 March 2027.
Additionally, €500 grants will be given to one artist each from Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine. An extra €500 award is also available for an artist from the Visegrád Four countries as well as from the previous Balkan partner countries.
Application Deadline: 15 November 2026.
Who can apply? Female-identifying visual artists aged 35 and under from Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine.
How to apply? Complete the application form here, both in English and in your mother tongue.
Material Works: Art Award 2O26
Material Works is an artist-run platform founded in 2024 to recognise artistic excellence and promote career advancement. The 2026 award offers a $2,500 prize for original artwork that will join the Material Works collection. Both the winning artist and the other shortlisted artists will be featured on the platform’s website and social media.
Previous winners include Jonathon Lanier (2025) and Naomi Nakazato (2024).
Application Deadline: First 300 applications or 6 December 2026.
Who can apply? Visual artists working in painting, photography, installation, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, mixed media, experimental and conceptual art are eligible to apply. Those who work in music, writing/poetry, culinary arts, film and time-based media are not being accepted at this time.
How to apply? Submit a portfolio of 1-15 pieces here.
There is an application fee of $40. Material Works will not charge a fee for one day, which will be announced on their social media.
AiR Goyki 3: 2027 residencies
AiR Goyki 3 Art Inkubator has opened applications for its two-month 2027 spring (05/04 – 05/06) and autumn (13/09 – 13/11) residencies. The curators are looking to support visual and literary artists working on new and existing projects by providing space and time for them to carry out thoughtful and research-based work. They particularly invite projects related to the site of the Goyki 3 Art Inkubator and Sopot City in Poland.
The residents will be invited to co-create the 13th and 14th season of the AiR Goyki 3 programme, and visual artists are required to organise at least one public event. The organisation will provide artists with a studio, connections to the local art scene and accommodation. For the Spring residency, they can provide free accommodation in Sopot and a project budget of 2000 PLN per resident. For the Autumn residency, they can provide a stipend of up to 10,000 PLN per resident to cover accommodation and living expenses, as well as a project budget of 2000 PLN.
Application Deadline: 14 October 2026.
Who can apply? Visual artists and literary creators.
How to apply? Apply to the visual arts and literary residencies here.
Eulsukdo Open Call
Busan Metropolitan City has an open call for a site-specific ecological land artwork on Eulsukdo in Busan, responding to the theme “We Pass, the Earth Endures”. Eulsukdo is situated in a Brackish-water zone, a diverse habitat where forms of life are constantly in flux, and which is particularly vulnerable to climate change. It is one of Korea’s major migratory bird habitats; however, industrialisation and development in the late twentieth century significantly altered its environment. Since 1999, rewilding efforts have begun to revive its ecological diversity, yet Eulsukdo is now facing further biodiversity loss and rising sea levels.
Proposals should respond to the intersecting cycles of disappearance and emergence, degradation and recovery on Eulsukdo, and provide a vision of a future in which humans and nature coexist sustainably, moving beyond anthropocentric perspectives. The Urban Parks Division hopes that this project will establish Eulsukdo as a hub for environmental art and foster environmental awareness and action.
The project will receive 380 million KRW in support funds and a 20 million KRW artist fee.
Application Deadline: 22 November 2026, 23:59 (KST).
Who can apply? Individuals or teams professionally active in art, landscape architecture, architecture, design or related fields
How to apply? Applications should be in English or Korean. For further details on the site, project and how to apply, visit the website.
Mamidakis Foundation: Art Prize 2027
The Mamidakis Foundation welcomes proposals for an original, large-scale outdoor sculptural installation that focuses on the connection between art and nature. The Foundation is particularly interested in site-specific works that engage the viewer. There are three proposed sites for the works: a grassed area, a Japanese garden area and a dense olive grove. The production period will run from February to May 2027, and the work will be unveiled to the public in June 2027.
The work will become part of the Foundation’s art collection, which focuses on strengthening contemporary artistic leadership and innovation. It includes contemporary Greek artists such as Varotsos and Lappas, as well as international artists such as Lydia Benglis, Cecilia Campos and Magdalena Abakanowicz. Previous winners of the Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize include Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett, Chronotopia (2026), and Danae Stratou, Virtuous Spiral (2025).
The Foundation will cover the production and installation costs of the work, the artist’s return journey, and accommodation and meals. The artist will also be awarded €15,000.
Application Deadline: 30 December 2026.
Who can apply? This opportunity is open to Greek and international visual artists who work within sound, installation, sculpture and mixed-media practices, as well as applications from artistic duos.
How to apply? Find out more about the organisation and the prize on the Mamidakis Foundation’s website and fill out the form in Greek or English.
Way Beyond: Arteles Creative Centre 2027
Applications for Arteles Creative Centre’s 2027 iteration of the month-long transdisciplinary Way Beyond programme are now open to individuals interested in the cosmos, consciousness and the unknown.
It invites artists, writers, scientists, researchers, mystics and others interested in transcending the boundaries of mind, matter and the mundane to collaborate with other thinkers and expand their understandings of reality, perception and experience.
Based in Finland, the residency offers daily meditation sessions, multidisciplinary group meetings, access to Nordic forests and lakes, a sauna, residency cars, and 24/7 access to facilities. The programme will run for 29 days between April and May 2027.
Application Deadline: 29 October 2026 23:59 (UTC-10).
Who can apply? The residency is open to individuals only, and no pets or children are allowed. The applicant must be 23 or older and have completed a university degree.
How to apply? Complete the application form here.
A registration fee of €120 applies, and a regular program fee of €1950 per person is payable if accepted. There is limited availability of a fee waiver for accepted applicants who would otherwise be unable to participate due to financial circumstances, which reduces the residency price to €1350 per person.
AFTER THE PALACE: Resonance – Video Mapping Contest
UnLoc are looking for artists to create new, site-specific audiovisual interventions to feature in a video mapping showcase projected onto the courtyard of Building “Z” of the New Administrative Centre in Nowa Huta. The site was the former Administrative Centre of the Lenin Steelworks, and the building’s scale and architecture have earned it the nickname “Doge’s Palace” among local residents. Building “Z” in particular was reserved exclusively for the plant’s high-ranking authorities, with regular factory workers barred from entering the space.
The event asks, “What happens to the architecture of power when the political and social system for which it was designed ceases to exist?” The proposed works should explore themes of dissonant heritage, the architecture of power and the identity and transformation of public space. This competition stems from research carried out within unLoc with a multidisciplinary team of historians, sociologists, artists and designers, exploring the intersection of architecture, art, technology and urban transformation.
The first-place prize is 10,000 PLN, the second-place prize is 6,000 PLN, and the third-place prize is 3,000 PLN. All three pieces will be presented during the AFTER THE PALACE: Resonance 2026 event on 23 November 2026 as part of the programme of the 34th Audio Art Festival.
Application Deadline: 30 October 2026, 23:59 (CET, UTC+1).
Who can apply? Open to international artists working within video mapping, animation, media art, site-specific projection and public space art.
How to apply? Find out more about the opportunity through the unLoc website and fill out the online form here.
The Homiens Art Prize
Submissions for the Fall 2026 round of the Homiens Art Prize are now open to artists working across all media and art forms. The Prize provides selected artists with the opportunity to have their work presented in the Homiens online seasonal exhibition programme. Entrants can also gain certificates of participation demonstrating professional participation in the art industry.
Central to Homiens is career acceleration, providing artists entry into the global art market’s key stakeholders, including public institutions, curators and private buyers. The prize also offers international visibility through curatorial programmes including Meet the Artists, Promoted Artists and, for the winning artists, The Art of Art: Interviews.
The Homiens Art Prize runs year-round with quarterly submission deadlines, and each round of the Prize announces ten winners and up to two hundred highly commended artists.
Application Deadline: 30 October 2026, 04:00 (GMT).
Who can apply? Open to international artists, working across all mediums and art forms. It is also open to artist representatives.
How to apply? Apply online with photos or links to the artworks.
There is a $35 USD fee to enter one artwork, and a $25 fee to enter each additional artwork. The sixth and twelfth entries are free.
European Media Art Festival 2027
Entries for the sections Film, Installation and Expanded have opened for the 40th edition of the European Media Art Festival (EMAF). The EMAF is an internationally recognised festival connecting contemporary artistic practice with social discourse. The 2027 theme is the Archive, examining it as an instrument of knowledge production, a site of critical intervention, and a space for alternative visions of the future.
The artists whose works are selected through the open call will be invited to the festival, with free accreditation, three nights at a hotel, and a contribution toward travel costs. The festival runs from 21 to 25 April 2027 in Osnabrück, Germany.
All films in the International Selection are awarded the EMAF Award and will receive €400. For the curated programmes, the screening fee ranges from €80 to €250, depending on the film’s length. Installations and Expanded projects will receive €500, and the festival will cover production costs.
Application Deadline: As soon as 2,200 entries have been received, or 15 December 2026.
Who can apply? International applicants who have made work recently related to the open call sections or have proposals for the Expanded section are welcome to apply.
For the Film section, curators are looking for experimental films of any length and subject completed no earlier than 2026. There is no requirement for a premiere. During selection, the entries will be chosen for both the International Selection and the Features Section. All film submissions not in English must have English subtitles.
For the Installation section, the curators are looking for interactive, site-specific or sculptural media artworks that relate to the theme of the 2027 festival. The works should have been completed no earlier than 2026.
For the Expanded section, the curators are looking for submissions of performances, live events or workshops. From this, the curators will select submissions for the Performance programme or the Talks & Workshops programme depending on their concept and thematic focus.
How to apply? Submit your entry on the EMAF 2027 online platform here.
The Hopper Prize
Fall applications for the Hopper Prize are now open to artists internationally, working in all mediums. The Hopper Prize aims to provide artists with financial support and platform grant winners in its online archive.
There are 2 grants of $4,500 and 4 grants of $1,000 to be awarded to selected artists. In addition to grant recipients, a shortlist of 30 artists will be selected to have their work archived alongside grant winners.
Applications are accepted twice a year, in the Spring and Fall, and this round’s winners will be announced on 26 February 2027.
Application Deadline: 17 November 2026.
Who can apply? All artists working in any media can apply, including international artists.
How to apply? Apply online here. JPEG files should be 2500 pixels wide on their longest dimension and not exceed 2 megabytes per file.
There is a $40 application fee.
