Open Calls

This is a call for young curators residing in the Community of Madrid, organized by Sala de Arte Joven. The initiative awards curatorial projects and its main objective is to highlight an overview of current artistic creation to professionals in the sector and the general public. Applications can be submitted until June 11, 2021.

Twenty proposals will be selected to be part of the Transe exhibition, part of the 13th edition of the Mercosul Biennial, which takes place in September 2022. Applications can be submitted until July 20^th, and the selection will be announced on September 22nd.

Argentina - The Bunge y Born Foundation announces a contest with the aim of valuing the role of artists and their perspective on the current context since the pandemic, the confinement and the reconfiguration of our lives, the new ways of connecting with each other, work, school, the value of solidarity and collaborative work. Application deadline May 14.

Tate announces open calls for two roles: Curator-at-Large, North American Art and Estrellita B Brodsky Adjunct Curator, Latin American art.

Pinta Art invites you to the Masterclass (Friday, March 19) and to compete for 2 scholarships to be part of the Getting it Across: Communicating Your Art Practice program of the ACT.

The Botín Center (Santander, Spain) announces the selection process to occupy the position of Exhibitions and Collection Director of the Botín Foundation.

Until March 19th, Art(e)facts Knowledge Biennial promotes a call for two projects created by artists, architects and designers, to be produced in collaboration and in residencies held at workshops of artisans from the municipalities of Fundão, Guarda and Manteigas in Portugal.

Endowed with 12,000 euros and a monographic publication, artists up to 40 years of age and any nationality can participate

A jury will select seven proposals to intervene in a common space: The Melbourne Clark Historic Dock in Antofagasta.

The FMJJ Artistic Education Scholarship will allow artists born in Galicia to get a Master in Fine Arts at the Art Institute FHNW in Basel (Switzerland). The Foundation’s aim is to contribute to their international training and to encourage artistic production.

In the context of a partnership with the Centre Pompidou, KANAL is pursuing an artistic purpose whose main objective is to create a multidisciplinary arts and culture hub open to all in order to highlight the contemporary Brussels arts scene and bolster the cultural appeal of the capital. It is the very concept of the museum that KANAL is seeking to reinvent.

Inviting designers, cultural agents and social innovators to present projects as exhibitions, installations, interventions, workshops, discussions and publishing. Submissions deadline January 17, 2021.

Call for entries: Sixth Triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Submissions may be sent until January 29, 2021.

apexart is accepting exhibition proposals for its NYC Open Call from October 1-31, 2020. The four winning proposals will become apexart exhibitions presented at apexart’s NYC space as part of its 2021-22 exhibition season. Curators, artists, writers, and creative individuals, regardless of experience level or location, are invited to submit a proposal online.

The Proyecto Especial Bicentenario (Special Bicentennial Project) announces the launch of the curatorial contest for the National Exhibition / Peru Bicentennial, which will be inaugurated in July 2021 in the temporary rooms of the Museo de Arte de Lima and the Museo Metropolitano de Lima. The exhibition will become the central event of a program that will include physical, virtual and traveling projects throughout the national territory, to commemorate the 200 years of the republic.

Curated by Clarissa Aidar to defy conservative fantasies of destruction during this dystopian turn of events, the exhibition brings together six new installations created by transgender women artists living in São Paulo who imagine what must we transform (ourselves into) in order to resist. Invoking metamorphosis as a collective strategy of survival, they nurture utopic, rebellious, and unbounded futures rising up from the present wreckage. Together with an extensive series of public programs, it intends to become a space of encounter, exchange and preparation for the here and now.

What can we do from this place? What future can we build together? UNIDEE and Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto invite applications for p this year’s Unidee Residency. Curated by Andy Abbott the theme is "Embedded Arts Practice in a Post-pandemic Future". Application deadline: August 24, 2020.

For Colombian artists, under 35 and with an interest in pursuing a career in contemporary art. Open call until September 8.

Open call for 30 grants of $50,000 until July 20.

Design and ideas competition to reimagine museums as a radical form of climate action Application deadline: September 15, 2020

Argentina Performance Art is the first and only digital platform dedicated exclusively to theoretical research on Performance Art in Argentina.

In its 2nd edition, individual and collective artists from all over the country will be able to participate in the contest, which will select an artwork to be located in DONNA Acqua, the new residential building developed by Azcuy. The winner will be awarded an amount of $ 800,000, in addition to the production of the work. Deadline August 2, 2020.

Deadline June 29, 2020

All artists from 18 to 35 from anywhere in the world, working in any medium are invited to apply until June 3, 2020. Entries can be submitted online at www.futuregenerationartprize.org

Application deadline: May 24, 2020, 11:59pm (Brasilia time).

From April 15 to May 20, 11:59pm EST

Curators and artists of any nationality can register individually or in groups until April 30th, 2020.

This year, YES Contemporary partners with the renowned online arts magazine Hyperallergic to award a writer, based anywhere in the world, a YES Art Writers Grant. The deadline is May 15, 2020 

The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) and Independent Curators International (ICI) are pleased to announce an open call for curators: The 2014 Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean.

Application deadline: April 1, 2014