Visual Arts & Design

The Centre for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) offers leadership training for art museum curators from all art historical specialties. CCL’s core Fellowship programme provides experienced curators with instruction from Columbia Business School faculty and exposure to real-world challenges faced by cultural institutions today.

Gëestu / Giss is an artist/craft residency located within a spiritual community on the edge of the desert in Senegal. It is aimed at artists wishing to ground their practice in a local context, engaging with traditional skills such as dyeing, embroidery, basketry, and working with cotton, leather, and metal.

MUUS Collection is launching the first MUUS Collection Research Fellowship to invite a curator or academic to spend time in the archives over the course of a year and develop an exhibition or publication concept offering a new perspective.

Low-Tech Projection Lab is a collaborative residency exploring analogue projection and low-tech visual creation from 14 September to 4 October 2026.

Rural Labs is a pilot project by Cáceres 2031 that connects rural Extremadura with European and international artists through artistic residencies rooted in the territory, which will take place between July and November 2026.

CrafTopia Creative Hub is calling for five visual artists to apply to the 30-day artist residency hosted in Thessaloniki, Greece.

The first research grant will be launched in spring 2026 and from 2027 onward, the Foundation will award two grants per year. Through this initiative, the Foundation seeks to support a new generation of researchers by promoting mobility, facilitating access to resources and offering dedicated scholarly guidance.

Gasworks is calling for applications from early-career artists based in the Caribbean. The eleven-week, fully funded residency will take place at Gasworks in London from 6 January – 24 March 2027.

Serpentine Arts Technologies launches the inaugural Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) R&D Fellowship: Art x Convergence. The inaugural Fellowship is a six-month, low-residency programme (September 2026–March 2027) supporting individual practitioners and broader ecosystem development in art and advanced technologies.

MedSEA – Socially Engaged Arts in the Mediterranean Area, a European cooperation project, launches an open call addressed to emerging artists and cultural professionals working — or wishing to work — with participatory and socially engaged artistic practices.

For its sixth edition, the Art Here exhibition at Louvre Abu Dhabi invites contemporary artists from the GCC countries (both nationals and residents) and from India (nationals only) to submit proposals for large scale sculptures and installations designed for the museum’s outdoor spaces.