Visual Arts & Design

The Dresden Grant in Photography addresses photographers who work independently or full-time as photographers and/or have an artistic degree, can demonstrate at least one public solo exhibition or publication with her/his works of photography and who do not permanently reside in Dresden.

Between Bridges has announced the open call for the next residency for visual artists. The residency will take place from July to December 2026 and includes a working phase as well as a one-month exhibition or public presentation.

The Scholarship for Drawing and Paper Art of the City of Waiblingen will be awarded in 2026 for the second time. The artist residency will take place from 15 June to 26 July 2026 in Waiblingen near Stuttgart, Germany.

This is an open call for a two-phase residency hosted by Ses Dotze Naus and available to one visual artist or curator in based in the Balearic Islands and two visual artists or curators based in Spain or elsewhere in Europe.

Sharjah Art Foundation invites photographers from around the world to apply for the 13th edition of Vantage Point Sharjah (VPS), scheduled to take place in July 2026.

The Düsseldorf Art Commission invites applications for ‘stadt.raum.experimente’ (city.space.experiments), an annual open competition promoting contemporary art in public space.

Every year from April to June, the city of Pforzheim, in cooperation with Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences and the Design Center Baden-Württemberg, invites international young designers to Pforzheim as part of the ‘Designers in Residence’ scholarship programme.

Gasworks invites applications from emerging and mid-career Palestinian artists for an eleven-week residency in London from 7 July to 21 September 2026.

The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, a joint project of the TU Dresden University of Technology and the Schaufler Foundation, is offering its Artist-in-Residence position for the year 2026.

The Art Explora — Cité internationale des arts open call invites artists, researchers and curators of all nationalities to apply for the 2026 residency programme in Paris.

Halaqat launches its final Open Call for Projects, inviting artists, collectives, and cultural organisations based in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Belgium to submit proposals for projects that engage with the themes of care and gender.