Germany

Re:Create Europe invites emerging artists and cultural practitioners to engage with questions of resistance, resilience, and the transformation of cultural policies through international residency programmes, an accompanying webinar series and digital mapping.

transmediale 2027 invites applications for the Lattice Labs, a series of experimental working groups dedicated to rethinking and testing alternatives to technological monocultures of extraction and surveillance, from July 2026 to January 2027.

This open call invites three contemporary circus artists or collectives based in Europe who are in the early to mid-stage of a new creation. Selected projects will participate in a transnational residency programme consisting of three 10-day residencies in Croatia, Germany, and the Netherlands between November 2026 and July 2027.

The Polygona Kunstverein e.V. invites applications for two artist-in-residence positions as part of the KOBRA Cultural Network’s Passage Art-Residency-Programme in the Wittenberg region, Germany. This four-week residency (October 2026) brings together artists working in photography and film to engage with two distinct research contexts:

Ex Aequa – Empowering Equality in Electronic Music returns for its second edition. The programme is a free training and professional development initiative aimed at artists under 35, with a specific focus on women, FLINTA and underrepresented gender minorities in the music industry.

The Festival of Animation Berlin (FAB) is calling for submissions of animated films and animation projects from for the 8th festival edition, which will take place from 8 – 11 October 2026 at silent green Kulturquartier and City Kino Wedding, Berlin, Germany.

The duration of the residency is three months (1 October – 18 December 2026), plus a final rehearsal week with a public showcase (7–15 January 2027), in Karlsruhe, Germany.

The Künstlerhaus Marktoberdorf is launching its first open call for submissions to enliven the museum’s spaces with an eight-week experimental exhibition and an accompanying programme for visitors in the summer of 2026. This open call seeks to have an external team of artists and/or curators design an exhibition space within the museum to realise a contemporary and experimental art project.

The Summer Sessions are short-term international art and technology residencies for emerging artists and designers.

Together with the History of the Ruhr Foundation (Stiftung Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets), Urbane Künste Ruhr is awarding three three-month research residencies at the House for the History of the Ruhr (Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets) in Bochum for the year 2026.