Outdoor Arts

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

The City of Lublin is inviting applications to a four-week artistic residency in Lublin, Poland, through CreArt 3.0. Two artists will be selected: one local (from Lublin) and one from the broader CreArt network. Residency dates are from 5 November to 6 December 2025.

Outdoor Art Lab is a residency programme focused on the development of performances in public spaces in the city centre of Split, between January and June 2026.

The Napa Lighted Art Festival is a free, open-air festival with the nighttime backdrop of downtown Napa. Currently in its 8th edition, the festival supports innovative techniques using light and light technologies as a growing art medium.

OFFCITY invites artists, architects, theorists, or creative and interdisciplinary collectives to explore the theme of interspaces from various angles and perspectives during a one- to three-week residency in Pardubice, Czech Republic, anytime between March – October 2026.

Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting interdisciplinary artists to a two-month artistic residency in the Kabeliai village in Lithuania, from 1 June to 31 July or from 1 August to 30 September 2026.

The city of Lublin invites two artists to work creatively as part of the Open Form festival organised, among others, in the innovative artistic space The Academy of Modern Art in Lublin, Poland. The artistic residency, which will last from 22 to 31 August 2025, is carried out as part of the Annual Festival.

CreArt Valladolid and Cultura Valladolid are calling for applications of ephemeral interventions of contemporary art in the public space for the Ephemera Phestival, 15 September – 5 October 2025.

The aim of the Werner Fenz Fellowship is to promote an art form that provides decisive impetus for the development of public space and for social change. This means an art form that ‘claims social responsibility’ (Werner Fenz) and seeks dialogue with citizens.

‘Hit the Wall’ is a public art programme centred on mural art, which invites renowned graffiti and mural artists from Taiwan and abroad to co-create, transforming Taipei’s city walls into dynamic stages for expression and starting points for intergenerational dialogue.

Genius Loci Weimar is looking for innovative ideas for the projection festival from 5 to 7 September 2025. This year’s theme will be Goethe’s literary masterpiece FAUST.