Currently 50 active paid visual and media arts grants, fellowships and residencies. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Every entry is funded, no exposure-only calls. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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New bursary from House of Hackney and William Morris Gallery, in partnership with IntoUniversity, supporting the next generation of artists in the London Boroughs of Hackney and Waltham Forest. Provides up to £10,000 to 16 to 25 year olds with creative potential who face barriers to accessing education, training, materials or mentorship. Inspired by William Morris's values of art for all and the transformative power of creativity. Deadline 11 May 2026, 23:59.
Annual paid virtual residency for one emerging visual artist with skills in digital illustration and light animation, supporting Third Wave Fund's gender-justice and liberation visibility, fundraising and donor mobilisation. Deliverables in 2026: two digital illustrations and one short-form animated reel for storytelling and fundraising. Five-month residency with a $10,000 stipend, mentorship and guidance from long-time movement artists, feedback sessions, experience and portfolio building, and social-media spotlight opportunities. Eligibility: 18+; valid SSN or EIN; currently residing in the US or US Territories; emerging visual artist (early career, generally up to 10 years of practice; no degree-granting art-school enrolment); skilled in digital illustration and light animation; available for the full schedule. Schedule: orientation 14 July 2026; project meetings 21 July, 16 September, 4 November; mentoring session 14 October; debrief 10 December 2026. TWF is a fully remote organisation operating a 4-day work week (Monday to Thursday); all communications and meetings happen Mon-Thu via Zoom and email. Deadline 13 May 2026 at 17:00 CST. Notifications go out in the first week of June 2026. Questions: comms@thirdwavefund.org (response within ~3 Mon-Thu business days).
Kick-start grant for architecture practitioners to develop early-stage projects. The grant period opens 6 May 2026 15:00 CEST and closes 13 May 2026 16:00 CEST. A maximum of 35 applications are considered per period; once the window closes all applications are ranked in random order via a draw system before processing begins. Round budget €167,000; maximum grant request €10,000.
Open call for 3 cultural facilitators ("Social Dreamers") to work directly with diverse stakeholders, lead workshops, build spaces for dialogue, and contribute concrete tools for the cultural sector. The role combines facilitation, artistic thinking, mentoring and interdisciplinary collaboration; outputs include stakeholder manifestos, a Shared Future Vision Manifesto, and the development/testing of an AI-based tool for future scenarios. Eligible: individual professionals in the cultural and creative sector with experience in (a) group facilitation through artistic practices, (b) future visioning and scenario building, and (c) stakeholder engagement and management. Must reside in a Creative Europe country and be proficient in English plus the local language of the selected profile. Timeline: Open House online 28 April 2026; application deadline 13 May 2026 23:59 CET; selection by 10 June 2026; orientation late June 2026; 7-day Social Dreaming Camp 27 July to 2 August 2026 in Hungary; workshop phase July 2026 to January 2027; Future Vision phase February to April 2027 (final workshop in Portugal). Two-step selection: written application then online interview for shortlisted candidates. Apply in English via https://forms.gle/PSH9qVvDwUNR4x8q6.
Biennial international prize for individual artists or collectives worldwide aged 18-35. No application fee. Open to all visual-arts media, including video, installation, performance, photography. Excluded: applicants with Russian or Belarusian citizenship/residency, and former winners. Shortlist announced late November 2026; shortlisted artists are exhibited at PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv and at a collateral event at the Venice Biennale 2027 (exhibition opens August 2027). Of the $40,000 production investment for the main winner, the funds are tied to producing new work. Strong fit for an artist working at the intersection of installation, video and critical AI/surveillance themes (an AI/drones installation would qualify as a video/installation submission). Tight age window (must be 35 or under at deadline); the prize is positioned as career-launching for younger practitioners.
Three-month residency at Vila 31 in Tirana with 8 studio-apartments. Open to artists, collectives, researchers, curators and writers of all nationalities with at least 5 years of professional activity and national/international exhibition record. SOLO and COLLECTIVE tracks across visual arts, performance, digital, curatorial, writing, plus research in humanities, social sciences, cultural studies, history, technology and ecology. Up to 30 residents selected per year. No output required, but Open Studios participation is mandatory. Selection committee includes Alicia Knock (Centre Pompidou), Adela Demetja, Adam Szymczyk, Nora Razian (Art Jameel), Lucia Pietroiusti (Hartwig Art Foundation), Raphael Fonseca (Denver Art Museum). Notifications July 2026.
Annual fellowship for one artist to develop new work-in-progress through engagement with physicists at the Cavendish Laboratory and researchers in adjacent fields. Open internationally; not confined to any single aesthetic, theme, or medium. Artists with no previous experience working with scientists or in scientific environments are explicitly encouraged to apply. The brief favours adventurous artists exploring alternative ways of knowing the world and working with communities not privileged in mainstream science. Past Fellows include Logan Dandridge, Ain Bailey, Robert Ssempijja, Akeelah Bertram, and Thulani Rachia, with practices spanning experimental film, sound, dance, and immersive technology. Strong fit for critical-AI / data / surveillance / sensory-translation practices framed as artistic-scientific dialogue. Application by online form only. Deadline 16 May 2026 at 11am BST. Free to apply.
Open call for individual musicians, collectives, and curators to pitch a project to be streamed on Boiler Room. The fund looks to platform overlooked scenes and spaces, innovative programming concepts that prioritise underrepresented artists, marginalised communities, and forward-thinking collaborations. While Boiler Room's archive is heavily DJ-focused, applicants are encouraged to explore live performance, instrumentation, and non-club genres. Winning application receives up to GBP 10,000 to bring the project to life, plus additional in-kind support and a full release on Boiler Room's channels. Deadline: Sunday 17 May at 23:59 BST. This is the 14th edition of Broadcast Lab.
Two-track residency program for artists experimenting with emerging technologies (telepresence, VR/AR, AI, robotics, creative coding, live web, game design, etc.) in search of new artistic forms. One application form; pick one track. LA TRACK: 3 residents get 1 to 2 weeks at the LA studio (5.1 Kalio audio surround, modular configuration, flexible exhibition space). LA proposals favoured: immersive audio environments, installations, experimental spatial design, tech-infused textiles/sculpture, sensory/physical exploration. Themes of particular interest: ecological responsibility, tech ethics, integration of old and new tech, localised networks, human connection, sustainability. Applicants must be based in LA. NY TRACK: 3 residents (one per international partner) get 1 week at the NYC studio + 1 week at the international partner with a thematic focus: Space + Algorithms at DOCKdigital (Berlin); Hybridization of Spaces & Telematic Installation at Société des arts technologiques (Montréal); Data, Narrative, and Performance at La MaMa Umbria (Spoleto). Applicants must be based in NY. Both tracks: $2,000 stipend, public offering during residency (work-in-progress showing, talk, workshop, etc.), marketing and documentation support, access to the residency cohort and network of past residents. Application closes 20 May 2026, 11:59 PM PT.
Production grants for newly commissioned works of visual art exhibited beyond museum walls, in the public realm, or in non-traditional exhibition environments. Grants are awarded to projects that best exemplify VIA's three core values of Artistic Production, Thought Leadership, and Public Engagement. Two-stage application process: Letter of Inquiry due 21 May 2026; invitations to submit a full application sent 24 June 2026 (by invitation only); full application deadline for invited applicants 23 July 2026; grant award notification November 2026. Projects must start after 15 December 2026. VIA runs Fall and Spring cycles each year; Fall 2026 is the current open call.
International art prize across three categories, each with a $5,000 award: Legacy Futures (works engaging past, present and future, examining our relationship to technology, culture and time); Systems & Structures (works examining or critically engaging with cultural, ecological, technological and social systems via code, data, networks, biological or environmental processes, institutional frameworks etc., e.g. misinformation, machine vision, human-machine relations); and Experiential Innovation (works prioritising experience via participation, presence, sensation or environment, including live coding, performance, interactive installations, experiential VR/AR and cross-modal practices). The Jury also selects one Gold Award Winner across all categories, awarded $15,000 in 2026. Two-stage judging: an International Selectors Committee curates a longlist of finalists, then a Jury Panel selects the winners. Standard entry fee $45.00; submissions close 23 May 2026 at 19:00. If the entry fee is a barrier, contact info@lumenprize.org.
Residency call for artists, researchers and curators to develop artistic or research projects around archival photographic and audiovisual media at the Centre d'Imatges de Tarragona. Selected applicants receive €900 in project support, free accommodation for up to 5 days, and access to a 1.5 million-strong archive. Resulting work must be publicly presented in November 2026 in a format of the artist's choosing.
Open call for an international artist-in-residence at the Science and Art Lab at TU Braunschweig, in cooperation with the BrightBrain research consortium, as part of the Ecoversity initiative. The residency aims to connect artistic and scientific perspectives. Artists are invited to propose their own research-based projects related to microphotonics, biomedicine, technology, neurodegenerative diseases, neurobiology, neuromorphic computing, and microelectronics (the current resident is collaborating with the Nitride Technology Center on light transmission in digital applications including micro-LEDs and neuromorphic computing). Strong fit for art-science, sensory translation, critical-data, and neuroscience-informed practices. Eligibility: international artists; should show interest in biomedicine, technology and innovation in their artistic work; be comfortable working in interdisciplinary environments; be motivated to collaborate with experts from science, culture and education; be willing to participate in two public events during the residency; and be able to communicate in English. Application by PDF to artist-residency@tu-braunschweig.de with subject 'BrightBrain residency' (if files exceed 25 MB, upload via the TU Braunschweig Nextcloud link in the call). Application deadline 25 May 2026. Jury decision expected end of June 2026; residency starts from September 2026 (exact date flexible). Free to apply.
Open call for digital and new-media artists to submit existing works for consideration on transit-center screens (video, film, animation, augmented reality, net art, game engines, generative art). Multi-channel installation experience encouraged. Finalists develop site-specific proposals with a $1,000 honorarium; selected artists oversee production and installation with project management from MTA Arts & Design. Sites have no audio. Valid U.S. Taxpayer ID required. Submit up to 5 works (.mov/.mp4) and 10 stills (.jpg/.png) plus bio, CV and artist statement. Deadline 23:59 EST Thursday 28 May 2026.
Annual residency programme at WIELS (Brussels-based centre for contemporary art). This call is open EXCLUSIVELY to Belgian artists or artists who have been living and working in Belgium for at least three years, and who have contributed to the Brussels contemporary art scene during that period. An independent jury selects four artists, each awarded a €3,000 artistic recognition grant. The grant is a distinction supporting the quality of the artistic practice; there is no production requirement or contractual service obligation attached. Residency period is six months in 2027 (January-June or July-December block, applicant choice). Application deadline 31 May 2026. Application materials via online form: personal information; artistic approach (max 250 words); statement of intent describing projects, ideas and expectations for the residency (max 250 words); three professional references (name, email, phone, profession); and portfolio + CV via Option 1 (Dropbox/Google Drive link with up to 10 images/videos plus a numbered descriptive list with title, date, technique, dimensions and ~50-word description per item, plus CV) or Option 2 (PDF with up to 10 captioned images plus CV). Videos may also be hosted on YouTube/Vimeo (with password if needed); videos of still works are not accepted. All share links must be set to 'anyone with the link can view'; links requiring access requests will not be considered. Questions: residency@wiels.org (do not email about results, notifications will be sent). Free to apply. Note: this is a Belgium-restricted call and is not open to artists without a Belgian / 3+ years-in-Belgium connection.
Open call from Ohme (Brussels-based research and curatorial platform at the intersection of art and science) for a digital visual artist or collective to develop an artistic project in residence with EXPERIENCE, an ERC-funded research programme led by Prof. Axel Cleeremans at the Centre for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences (CRCN), Université libre de Bruxelles. EXPERIENCE investigates the nature of subjective experience (phenomenology) and builds 3D maps of 'phenomenal space' from large datasets of similarity and preference judgments. The selected artist works directly with these empirical datasets (similarity judgments, subjective preference data describing how people perceive, compare and value conscious experience) as primary creative material, not as illustration. Possible directions include information design that critically engages with visualising consciousness data; generative or algorithmic works using subjective valuation datasets as compositional grammar; data visualisation as artistic practice; creative coding exploring neural/latent space and perception/emotion/subjectivity; and critical or poetic approaches to measuring/mapping inner experience. Eligibility: visual artist or collective connected to the contemporary art field of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (live, work, or have a professional practice within the French-speaking art community of Belgium); established practice in digital art, new media, computational art, data visualisation or information design used as artistic practice; experience working with data as creative material (e.g. Processing, p5.js, openFrameworks, TouchDesigner, Max/MSP, or equivalent); critical engagement with the tools/systems behind information production and dissemination; interest in mind/perception/cognition/neuroscience; available in person in Brussels September-November 2026 and for the December restitution; English proficiency (working language); French and/or Dutch appreciated. Ohme is NOT looking for artists who already work on consciousness or neuroscience, but practitioners whose existing methods could be mobilised in this scientific context. Sample EXPERIENCE datasets: https://osf.io/suqkp/overview?view_only=fdc73f1485664a2c9c7571e0c62abe6a (paper: 'Exploring the role of micro-valence in the phenomenal space', https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niag005). Selection by interdisciplinary jury of EXPERIENCE and Ohme representatives; interviews with top three candidates by phone/video/in-person in late June 2026; selected artist announced late June 2026. Application: single PDF in English to opencall@ohme.be (subject: 'Application Experience Lab') by 31 May 2026, 23:59 CET, including up-to-date CV (English), portfolio (English), 1-page motivation text (English) on interest in the residency and consciousness theme plus technical competences, and the completed contact form (downloadable from Ohme's site). Free to apply.
Summer artist residency in the mountain village of Lozio for individuals and collectives to create site-specific artworks, with preference for Land Art, Street Art and participatory art. Residents receive a weekly stipend, shared accommodation, workspace, cultural activities and co-production support; selected artworks become donations to the Municipality.
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. Drawing on the Zapatista concept of the pluriverse ("a world where many worlds fit") and buen vivir, the project foregrounds communal interdependence and human/more-than-human relationships. Selected residents engage with one specific context for one year and develop new forms of creative intervention/cultural mediation. Four host contexts available for 2027: Baltan Laboratories with Wondermash (Meuse Delta, NL), Lungomare on Bolzano riverscapes (IT), Idensitat on sacrifice zones near the Besos river mouth (ES), ZEMOS98 on local sustainable energy-transition models in Galicia (ES). Two-phase application: Phase 1 deadline 31 May 2026 23:59 CET (motivation letter, CV, portfolio of up to 5 projects, draft proposal targeting one host) — results by mid-July; three shortlisted practitioners per host then develop a more specific proposal in dialogue with the host institution (Phase 2 deadline 14 August 2026, results end of September). Each host runs an online Q&A between 11 and 15 May 2026. Enquiries: sitplu.project@luca-arts.be.
Open call for the 2027 cohort of the Headlands Artist in Residence (AIR) program, one of the longer-running fully-sponsored residencies on the US West Coast. Approximately 50 local, national and international artists are selected each year for a residency of 4 to 10 weeks at the Headlands' Marin Headlands campus (former military buildings inside the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, just north of San Francisco). Residents receive a private studio, chef-prepared meals, on-site housing, travel costs, and a living-expense stipend, fully sponsored by the program. Open to artists at all career stages working in any medium: drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, dance, music, interdisciplinary practice, social practice, and architecture. Strong fit for new-media / interdisciplinary / research-driven practices. Application opens 1 April 2026 and closes 1 June 2026 via SlideRoom; applicants are notified of decisions by 11 December 2026. Free to apply.
Residency honouring V2_ co-founder Alex Adriaansens, aimed at upcoming curators, festival/programme initiators, community organisers and cultural practitioners in media art, digital cultures and related fields who are starting their professional careers. Duos or teams may apply (sharing the grant). No thematic requirement; applicants choose their own research focus and have access to V2_'s extensive archive. Apply with a letter of motivation (max 2 pages), short CV (max 1 page) and a specific research question (max 1 page) via the linked Google form, or email v2@v2.nl if you do not have a Google account. A jury of V2_ team members decides. Results will be presented in Rotterdam at a jointly organised event (e.g. expert meeting), or via an essay, or another format proposed by the resident.
Residency welcoming local, national and international artists at all career stages and disciplines (visual arts, writing, music, dance, interdisciplinary). Approximately 50 artists selected annually. Applications open 1 April 2026.
Visual Arts Thematic Residency at Banff Centre led by artist-faculty Rajni Perera and Marigold Santos. Drawing on ideas of speculative futures, science fiction, myth-making, and world-building, artists are invited to research, imagine and create possible selves and possible worlds. The program considers futurity as an anti-oppressive and restorative force, exploring new possibilities of selfhood and agency by decolonising ideas of the body. Open to international applicants aged 18+ with post-secondary formal training or equivalent experience, working in visual arts disciplines: ceramics, digital media, painting, drawing, printmaking, papermaking, photography, sculpture, installation. Individual artists or duos (no more than two collaborators). Priority given to artists who have not attended a Banff visual arts residency in the past three years. Residency includes single bedroom on-campus accommodation, meal plan (~$68/day credit equivalent), individual studio space with shared production facility access, faculty mentorship and workshops, and access to Banff Centre facilities (fitness centre, library, performances). IMPORTANT: this is a paid program, not a stipend-paying residency. Total before scholarships is CAD $9,484.55; the Banff Centre Arts Scholarship (covering 100% tuition + 25% accommodation/meals) brings the out-of-pocket cost to CAD $4,384.73. A Canadian Indigenous Scholarship covers tuition, accommodation and meals in full. There is also a non-refundable application fee (CAD $65 standard, $35 Indigenous). Apply via the Banff Centre online portal with materials uploaded through SlideRoom.
Inaugural Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) R&D Fellowship from Serpentine Arts Technologies, supporting individual practitioners and ecosystem development in art and advanced technologies. Four fellows (individuals or collectives) selected. Open to artists, curators, technologists, organisers and producers working at the intersection of art and advanced technologies. International applicants welcome provided they can attend the three in-person London intensives. Inaugural theme: Art x Convergence, framed as a prompt to explore how AI is reshaping cultural and societal systems and to develop new frameworks for embodiment, robotics, legal constructs, markets and planetary organisation in light of AI's capacity to pursue goals, model environments and act in the world. Fellows pursue a defined research question connected to their practice or a project in development, supported through professional and specialist mentorship, network development, cohort exchange, and public-facing process sharing. FAE was initiated by Victoria Ivanova in 2019; programme led by Tommie Introna, Tsige Tafesse, and Kay Watson. Info sessions online on 15 May and 22 May 2026. Application deadline midnight BST 7 June 2026. Free to apply.
Pictoright's collective rights fund supports projects with a social, cultural or educational purpose serving a broad group of professional visual makers in design/illustration, photography, and fine art working/residing in the Netherlands. Six to seven rounds per year; remaining 2026 deadlines: 7 June, 23 August, 4 October, 8 November. Decisions communicated within ~6 weeks of each deadline. Maximum grant €35,000; for requests above €5,000 the project must be substantially co-financed by other sources. The remit is collective benefit (publications, infrastructure, sector-wide research, exhibitions, education, professional development for the field), not individual practice grants, so projects need to articulate how they serve other visual makers, not just the applicant. Worth tracking for any artist-organised research, publication, exhibition, training or open-source-toolkit project benefitting the Dutch visual-maker community.
Open call for the 5th edition of Peckham Digital, a festival celebrating creative computing. This call is for the PROGRAMME track: artists, creative technologists and creative coders to facilitate workshops, present talks, provide demos, or deliver performances (the separate Artwork Open Call covers exhibition pieces). Emerging applicants explicitly welcomed; over half of past Peckham Digital artists had this as their first paid professional exhibition. Selected facilitators/speakers paid at Artist Union England rates. Workshop facilitators are asked whether their software will be open-source. Application requires: type of contribution (demo/workshop/talk/performance/other), 200-word description (text or video), 250-word facilitator statement on experience, 200 words on professional development impact, sample images or video, technical requirements, and any access needs. Equal Opportunities form also requested. Important caveat: festival is contingent on Peckham Digital's own funding being confirmed; if their funding application is not successful the festival will not go ahead.
Open call for the 5th edition of Peckham Digital, a festival celebrating creative computing in all its shapes and forms. This call is for the ARTWORK EXHIBITION track only (the separate Programme Open Call covers talks, workshops, demos, performances and films). Looking for artists, creative technologists, creative coders and performers to exhibit artworks. Emerging applicants and early-career creative technologists explicitly welcomed; over half of past Peckham Digital artists had this as their first paid professional exhibition. Submission to the open call is free; selected artists receive a fee. Important caveat: festival is contingent on Peckham Digital's own funding being confirmed (decision expected early July 2026); if funding is not received the festival will not go ahead. Read the Application Guidelines before submitting.
Residency for working artists in choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video and visual arts. Applications open 1 June. Application fee $35 (waivers available). Two cycles per year (winter deadline ~20 December for May to March residencies; summer deadline ~1 July for November to June residencies).
Support for artistic plans addressing awareness of the history of slavery. Open to individuals and organisations.
Four-week residency in Kyoto for artists, curators and writers from anywhere in the world, working in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, interdisciplinary or social practice. Open to all career stages, 21 and over. Selected participants notified by 1 September 2026.
Residency for artists across seven disciplines (architecture, film/video, interdisciplinary, literature, music composition, theatre, visual arts). Sole selection criterion is artistic excellence. Applications open 15 August 2026. February deadline of the following year covers the Fall/Winter cycle.
$75,000 prize for women figurative realist painters, awarded by a five-member jury. The winner receives $37,500 each year for two years to create a solo exhibition that travels nationally; one finalist additionally receives $10,000. Open to emerging artists who have not yet achieved full professional recognition.
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.
Grant supporting the internationalisation of the Dutch design sector. Grant period open from 25 August 2026 15:00 CEST until 22 September 2026 16:00 CEST. A maximum of 40 applications are considered per grant period (with allocations for up to 10 follow-up and 10 revised applications). After the window closes all applications are ranked in random order via a draw system before processing begins. The grant is a contribution towards total project costs; at least 20% must be covered by co-financing.
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.
Six-week fellowship for cultural producers at any career stage working in the vanguard of their creative fields. Five cycles run March to December. Fellows commit to an Artist Talk and Open Studio bookending the residency. 2026 application window has closed (Sep 15 to Oct 15, 2025); 2027 round expected Sep 15 to Oct 15, 2026 via Slideroom. Selection notifications mid-January.
Grant for projects that contribute to the quality, development or deepening of the architecture field in its broadest sense, with design research, reflection and debate at the core. The grant contributes towards total project costs; a minimum of 20% must be covered by co-financing. Single-party projects can request €10,000 to €25,000 (phase II grant requirement also capped at €25,000); projects with one or more partners can request €10,000 to €50,000. Smaller-scale projects with a total budget up to €10,000 should use the Architecture Kick-start Grant Scheme instead. Currently closed; next round opens 13 August 2026 15:00 CEST. A maximum of 50 applications are considered per grant period (with allocations for up to 10 follow-up and 10 revised applications). After the window closes all applications are ranked in random order via a draw system before processing begins.
Grant for projects that contribute to the quality, development or deepening of the design field, with artistic research, product development, reflection and debate at the core. The grant contributes towards total project costs; a minimum of 20% must be covered by co-financing. Single-party projects can request €10,000 to €25,000 (phase II grant requirement also capped at €25,000); projects with one or more partners can request €10,000 to €50,000. Currently closed; next round opens 12 August 2026 15:00 CEST. A maximum of 70 applications are considered per grant period (with allocations for up to 15 follow-up and 15 revised applications). After the window closes all applications are ranked in random order via a draw system before processing begins.
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.
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.
Annual jury-selected call for media-art projects designed for outdoor spaces with high public visibility, addressing contemporary social issues with a sustainability focus. International exchange, collaboration and interdisciplinarity are key. Aimed at artists and cultural workers from Baden-Württemberg; open to artistic, cultural, scientific and creative-industry institutions from all over the world. Excludes school/university coursework and already-realised projects. The 2025 deadline (15 May) has passed; 2026 round dates TBC, check the page for updates.
Rolling general project funding for smaller media-art works, events and research. Covers interdisciplinary projects across music, theatre, dance, visual arts, literature, film, architecture, socioculture, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, and children's and youth culture. For artists, professionals, initiatives and institutions based in Karlsruhe (group applications must include at least one person/institution with first residence or registered office in Karlsruhe). Applied for via the City of Karlsruhe online application; selected by UCCoMA Office staff.