Western Europe

Decoratelier and workspacebrussels are jointly launching an open call aimed at artists and collectives with a scenographic practice who wish to experiment and deepen their practice within the context of Decoratelier.

A coalition of Amsterdam based Archives, Museums and Historical institutes (Allard Pierson Museum/UB, Amsterdam Museum, Black Archives, IISG, Nationaal Slavernijmuseum, NINSEE, Rijksmuseum, Stadsarchief Amsterdam, UvA, Wereldmuseum) with the support of the Insinger Foundation, offers three three-month long fellowships per year for curators, archivists and historians in the field of slavery history.

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

.ART Award 2026 is a new global art prize celebrating how art is made, open to artists worldwide, working in any medium or art form.

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.

MudTronics is a collaborative competition that brings together bio, tech, and art/design to explore what we can do with microbial fuel cells. Participants experiment with turning mud, wastewater and microbes into power, creating prototypes that are playful, critical, and ecologically grounded. The programme runs from June to September 2026.

The Absa L’Atelier competition, through its prizes, supports visual artists in growing their brand and in equipping them with the relevant skills needed to build their careers.

Situated Creative Practices for the Pluriverse (SIT-PLU) is a Creative Europe Cooperation project tackling socio-ecological challenges through cross-disciplinary research and context-specific artistic interventions.

The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme offers 10 months fellowships at the seven Institutes of Aix-Marseille, Cergy, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Paris. It welcomes applications from high-level international scholars and scientists to develop their innovative research projects in France.

This scholarship enables cultural practitioners from countries on the DAC list to stay with host institutions. The purpose is to enable scholarship holders to deepen their professional knowledge transnationally, to introduce new perspectives and to build long-term cooperation through exchange. The focal areas are:

State of the ART(ist) is a collaborative initiative by the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs and Ars Electronica, dedicated to supporting artists working under existential threat. Whether shaped by political repression, war, digital surveillance, social inequality, or environmental disaster, the initiative responds to the increasingly precarious conditions under which artistic practice takes place in many parts of the world.