Currently 20 active visual and media arts grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in the Netherlands. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Almost every entry is funded; a few notable unpaid open calls and festival submissions are included as clearly flagged exceptions. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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Two-year activity-programme funding from the Creative Industries Fund NL for organisations active in design, digital culture or architecture. Supports a coherent multi-year programme of activities running across 2027 and 2028 (rather than single projects). The funding underwrites a portion of the organisation's annual programme budget, giving recipients planning stability over the two-year period. Application window 13 May - 15 June 2026. EUR 50,000 to EUR 125,000 per year per organisation, depending on the scale and ambition of the proposed programme. ELIGIBILITY: cultural and creative-industries organisations established in the Netherlands working in design, digital culture or architecture; a distinct scheme from the Fund's annual project grants, festival rounds and voucher schemes.
Two material-research fellowships at the Jan van Eyck Academie under the Future Materials programme: one Fashion & Textile Material Fellowship and one Future Materials Fellowship, each lasting 11 months. The programme supports environmentally conscious art and design practices researching sustainable, non-toxic, biobased alternatives to fossil-based or toxic materials. ELIGIBILITY: applicants with an existing research project on sustainable/biobased materials (the Fashion & Textile stream focuses on fashion/textile systems; the Future Materials stream on biobased materials or processes for broad creative use). Projects should take a systemic perspective on the just transition. Jan van Eyck alumni, and full-time alumni of the Rijksakademie or De Ateliers, are not eligible. Fellows develop their project with the Jan van Eyck Labs and Maastricht partners (Textile Innovation Maastricht; CHILL at Brightlands Chemelot Campus). Apply via the respective Jan van Eyck application form.
Treehouse NDSM invites artists to apply for its next exhibition, 'Come Back to Your ___ (Nature/Culture)', running 17 September to 11 October 2026. In the context of current ecological crises, the exhibition takes the constant interaction between culture and nature as its starting point, noting how societies shape the land (from Japanese gardens to post-Soviet geometric parks, Dutch dikes and polders, and Indigenous Australian cultural burning) and how environments shape societies in turn. Artists are invited to reflect on questions such as: how do nature and culture share the same ground? How has your community shaped the land, and how has the land shaped your community? The exhibition is part of Art Park, a series launched at Treehouse in 2023 that reflects on urban nature, particularly in Amsterdam-Noord. The organisers welcome projects that do not offer answers but dig into questions and leave room for uncertainty, across media including performance, painting, making, installation and video. SELECTION: the committee (artist Alina Bielun and artistic coordinator Mulan Go) will select up to ten artworks for the 100 m2 mezzanine of Treehouse NDSM's Pavilion, considering both relevance to the theme and the chosen medium, with particular interest in the voices of artists from Amsterdam Noord (temporary or performative works that meaningfully complement the exhibition are also welcome). An artist fee is provided to all participants. Treehouse NDSM is not a traditional gallery but a multidisciplinary incubator offering 100 affordable studios, exhibition spaces and a collaborative artistic community. Submission deadline: 28 June 2026. Apply via the online form.
Kasteel Wijlre estate invites international artists to apply for The Resonant Garden, a three-month residency set within the gardens and grounds of the estate in the hills of South Limburg. The garden is considered a place of cultivation and care, memory and imagination, rooted histories and possible futures; artists are invited to engage with it as a site for artistic research, hands-in-the-ground material experimentation and poetic speculation. Residents have access to the gardens and a small (16 sqm) in-house studio, with basic gardening and technical tools provided; the site itself, its green exterior, its historical views on 'the garden' and its embeddedness in the South Limburg landscape, becomes both companion and collaborator. Feedback sessions with garden and art professionals from the estate's network run throughout, concluding with an open studio event or presentation, and the residency sits within the Borderlands Residency network (networking and field trips). FOR WHOM: artists living in the EU with both research- and studio-based practices who wish to engage with the garden as a metaphor, method and/or material environment, and who embrace the rural location and the quiet and relative isolation of a country estate. ACCOMMODATION: private living and studio space (kitchen, bathroom, bedroom) in the castle courtyard; a bicycle is provided and the estate is reachable by public transport (Heerlen 12 km, Aachen 17 km, Maastricht 19 km). PRESENCE: the resident is expected to spend most of the period on site and to take part in at least two (semi-)public moments (an introductory presentation and a concluding open studio), and to be available for exchanges with the estate's professional network. BUDGET: EUR 800/month for three months plus production and research compensation up to EUR 2,000; all other costs (insurance, food, transport) are the resident's. SELECTION: a panel of two artist-advisors and the director-curator review applications on artistic vision, strength of proposal, and resonance with the estate context. APPLY: send a single PDF with a motivation statement and project proposal (max 500 words) and a CV (max 2 pages) to residency coordinator Anne Vangronsveld, a.vangronsveld@kasteelwijlre.nl. Deadline: 28 June 2026; decisions communicated the week of 6 July 2026.
Stichting Stokroos offers 15 Seed Grants of €5,000 per round for emerging designers, makers and craftspeople. Eligible disciplines include (landscape) architects, graphic designers, illustrators, fashion, jewellery and textile designers, product designers, animators, printers, mould makers, ceramicists and goldsmiths. Requirements: 3 to 8 years of professional practice; application includes portfolio, CV, a short plan and budget; the proposal must focus on development (research, experimentation or production, e.g. a prototype). Not for exhibitions, publications or residencies. Selection is based on quality and originality of portfolio, urgency of the plan, and geographic distribution. No fixed deadline, but apply early: once the round's budget is nearly exhausted the application form closes until the next round. Questions: mail@stokroos.nl.
The fourth edition of IMPAKT's Full Spectrum Curatorship Programme invites emerging and aspiring curators interested in media art, digital culture, and the intersection of technology and society to develop their own curatorial project proposal under expert guidance. Taking place in Utrecht from September to December 2026, it combines collective sessions, personal mentorship, guest contributions, and peer exchange, drawing on IMPAKT's archive and critical programming. Participants are paired with curator mentors to develop and position a curatorial proposal. The training covers the history, theory, contextualisation, organisation and execution of media-art programmes, including curatorial concept development, critical and societal contextualisation, artwork selection, budgets and funding, audience reception, and presentation formats, with a focus on time-based media and multi-channel/interactive formats. Confirmed mentors include Annet Dekker, Ine Gevers, Paulien Dresscher, Doreen A. Rios (online) and Eva Fischer (online). ELIGIBILITY: recent graduates and early- and mid-career curators; participants must attend all sessions and commit a minimum of 8 hours per week (preparation, research, independent work). All sessions are in English. COST AND SUPPORT: there is a EUR 400 participation fee, and participants receive an EUR 800 stipend in the final phase toward their project proposal. By the end, participants have a solid curatorial proposal to support future exhibitions and funding applications. Apply via the online form by 23:59 CET, 1 July 2026.
Sandberg Instituut invites artists, designers, researchers, makers and educators to propose a Temporary Department, taking on the role of Head of Department for the period September 2027 to July 2029. THEME, THE ARCHIVE: for this edition the institute seeks proposals that engage with the archive as a contemporary artistic, social, political and pedagogical framework. Increasingly recognised as a site of power, selection, memory, erasure and imagination, the archive is approached here not as a static collection but as a living, contested and generative process to be activated, reinterpreted and transformed through contemporary practice, and as a material and methodological field to work with, against and through. Possible starting points include: archives as sites of resistance, repair and restitution; embodied, oral and performative archives; collective and community-based archives; digital, algorithmic and AI-driven processes; counter-archives and practices of refusal; speculative archives and future-oriented forms of memory; creative practices that activate, reinterpret or transform existing archives; and the politics of preservation, access and knowledge production. Proposals should articulate a compelling approach to the archive plus a clear, connected pedagogical vision for how collective research unfolds over two years while supporting individual trajectories; partnerships with external organisations (museums, social archives, artist-led initiatives, community organisations and research institutions) are encouraged. FORMAT: Temporary Departments are full-time two-year master's studies bringing a cohort of students and tutors together around a specific field of inquiry; successful completion leads to a Master in Fine Arts and Design accredited by the NVAO. POSITION: the freelance Head of Department role is equivalent to approx. two days per week over the two academic years plus curriculum-development hours (October 2026 to July 2027), at an approximate daily rate of EUR 553.60, supported by a budget for core tutors and guest contributors, a department coordinator with administrative support, and institutional infrastructure. WHO CAN APPLY: applicants should have teaching/education experience; be able to develop and coordinate a two-year MA curriculum rooted in their own research and practice; have strong communication and leadership skills; have cross-disciplinary collaborative experience; be committed to an inclusive, supportive learning environment responsive to diverse access needs; be based in the Netherlands or willing to relocate; hold an established independent professional practice registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KVK); and, if applying from outside the EU, hold a valid Dutch residence and work permit for the appointment. SELECTION (two rounds): first-round submissions to td@sandberg.nl by 17:00 on Sunday 5 July 2026 (a max. 500-word department proposal, a max. 200-word networks and collaborations statement, and a max. 2-page CV); first-round notification 15 July 2026; interviews with shortlisted candidates 16 September 2026. Questions: td@sandberg.nl.
Support for artistic plans addressing awareness of the history of slavery. Open to individuals and organisations.
Subsidy supporting in-depth activities or innovative impulses within the artistic practice of Rotterdam-based visual artists, with a clearly defined artistic question or objective. Applicants must be registered with Art Office (artoffice.info) with an up-to-date artist page. The 2026 Round 2 deadline is 21 September 2026, 11:00 (form opens 10 August 2026); results by 16 November 2026. Round 1 (deadline 2 March 2026) has already closed. Decisions made by the director of CBK Rotterdam on advice from an expert committee.
Mondriaan Fund grant for written and/or spoken-word publications about contemporary visual art: article series, long reads, podcasts, video essays, social-content series, and similar formats published across magazines, newspapers, online platforms, public media or social media. Aimed at strengthening reflection on, criticism of, and journalism around visual art practice in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. Eligible applicants: existing or new platforms (online magazines, public media, podcast outlets, etc.) AND individuals working as curators, critics, social-content creators or journalists. New initiatives and collaborations may apply. Two cycles per year; the next deadline is 15 October 2026, 16:00 Dutch time / 10:00 Caribbean time (an earlier 2 April 2026 round has already closed). Grant covers up to 70% of eligible expenses, with two pricing structures: fixed €2,480/month for short 1-6 month work periods, or a flexible grant of up to 12 months for larger project plans (amount determined by submitted plan and budget). Round budget €229,000. Good fit for science-communicator / critical-tech / art-and-AI long-form writing, podcast series, or video essay projects. Applications submitted via the Mondriaan Fund online portal after creating an account; documents cannot be uploaded after the deadline. Free to apply.
Commission artists to create new work in publicly accessible spaces such as hospitals or museums. Open to individuals and organisations. Continuous deadline.
Support for visual artists with 4+ years of experience to expand their portfolio, increase visibility or conduct research. Continuous deadline.
Funding for concrete artistic plans, research projects, or working periods in the Netherlands or abroad. Continuous deadline.
Support for visual artists at the beginning of their careers with plans for new work. Continuous deadline.
Funding for preliminary research into exhibitions, events, articles or presentations. For curators. Continuous deadline.
Support for owners and managers of objects registered as protected heritage. Continuous deadline.
Voucher to assist hiring artisans for artistic research or work production. Continuous deadline.
Voucher covering childcare costs for visual artists with dependents under compulsory school age. Continuous deadline.
Funding for developing and deepening artistic practice. Continuous deadline.
Quick-response funding for international programme participation outside the Netherlands. Continuous deadline.