CICA Museum invites artists worldwide to participate in the Contemporary Art Solo Show Series and the publication. Each selected artist will have a solo exhibition for a week (Wednesday – Sunday) in the gallery space (around 44m2). The artists will be also featured in the the e-book, “CICA Art Now 2026,” which will be available via Amazon Kindle. The printed version will be available by order.

  
\*The categories include:

– Painting

– Photography

– Sculpture and Installation Art

– Performance

– Video & New Media Art

  
\*Timeline:

**January 24, 2025: Close submissions**

January 27 – February 10, 2025: Approvals: Selected artists will be notified by email.

Between July and December 2025: Contemporary Art Solo Show Series

August 1, 2026: Expected publication date of “CICA Art Now 2026”

  
\*How to submit your work: Please visit our website for more information.

**https://cicamuseum.com/call-for-artists-contemporary-art-solo-show-series/**

CICA Contemporary Art Solo Show Series Fall 2025

**Are you a photographer or artist working on a project deserving of an international platform?** Do you have work you want to develop into an exhibition, photobook? Or in other ways take to the next creative level? Will you benefit from the expertise of an international photography network? If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply for Talent Embassy.

  
What to expect:

  
**Ten photographers are selected to travel with FOTODOK to an international photography festival.** You receive mentorship and guidance to develop your work. FOTODOK creates opportunities for you to connect with experts from around the world. Five photographers have the opportunity to visit Fotofestiwal Łódź (Poland) from the 11th until the 16th of June. Another five have the opportunity to go to Rencontres d’Arles (France) from the 5th until the 12th of July.

  
**You will be part of an intensive 3-day preparation program to ensure you’re ready for the festivals.** The program equips you with an updated portfolio, a strong pitch, and the confidence to showcase your work. You are supported by an international team of experts. You are helped to refine your selection and presentation.This provides you with tailored guidance to strengthen your artistic vision.

  
**During the festivals our group often becomes a warm, supportive homebase.** A place where you can share your journey with the group, exchange experiences, and offer each other encouragement. Together, we create a nurturing space that allows you to grow, connect deeply with others, and confidently navigate the opportunities ahead.

  
**The jury selects 10 participants from the submissions for this open call.** Yusser al Obaidi, Lisanne van Happen and a curator from Fotofestiwal Łódź are part of the jury. We contact all applicants between February 7 and February 17\. You will be contacted whether you have been selected or not.

  
**Meet-ups:** March 5 – April 9 – May 14, 2025

**Fotofestiwal Łódź:** June 11-16, 2025

**Rencontres d’Arles:** July 5-12, 2025

TRAVEL COSTS & PERSONAL BUDGET

* Your travel and accommodation for the festival are funded and partially arranged by FOTODOK.
* You receive a personal budget of 150 euros to support the development of your project.
* You receive a personal budget of 250 euro to collaborate with a mentor of your choice.

  
THE FESTIVALS

  
* **Fotofestiwal Łódź presents photography in all its various ways and talks about important social issues.** The festival introduces the unobvious beauty and unique history of the city Łódź to their audience.

  
* **Rencontres d’Arles showcases contemporary, experimental, and traditional photography by emerging and established photographers.** The festival is one of the world’s leading photography festivals founded in 1970, held annually in the historic city of Arles, France.

Talent Embassy 2025

Residencies are for those seeking a less structured yet inspiring and productive environment in which to work. You work at your own pace on your own projects while sharing common social space and time in the kitchen, salon, studio, and gardens with other residents. Residents cook for themselves and most residencies are a minimum of 2 weeks. There is a maximum of 4 residents.

**The Relais de Camont Writers and Artists Residency,** a restored 300-year-old French farmhouse, is an intimate year-round residence for all disciplines. Camont, located near Agen, is just three hours from Paris by fast train and is a haven of quiet productivity in the rural French landscape. Self-funded and independent work is encouraged in a charming creative ambiance along a slow-moving French canal. The Relais de Camont is your quiet workplace in Southwest France. 

  
Each private bedroom features a private ensuite bathroom, shared kitchen, living spaces, and studio.

Winter/Spring Residency New studio

Application Fee until Nov 2024 (goes up to 29€)

Belfast Photo Festival hosts an annual, world-leading, popular cultural event at locations citywide. We catalyse local debate, creative development and financial opportunities with a combination of commissions, exhibitions and global arts leadership. "One of the best photography festivals in the world" (Capture Magazine).

  
We invite photographers of all nations and backgrounds to apply to the Open Submission, to have their work viewed by an international panel of highly influential photography industry experts, with career enhancing opportunities on offer.

  
Opportunities include exhibition at the largest annual festival of photography in the UK and Ireland, before going on a European tour with significant media exposure and a range of awards including a £2,000 (Approx $2,700 / €2,300) cash prize.

  
Individuals and/or collectives are welcome to apply to the Photographs Category by entering between 1 and 15 photographs from a particular group series, completed project or body of work in development. To enter the Photo-Book category, add at least one image of your photo book project. This can be the cover, a product shot of the book dummy or some images of the book.

**ALL SUBMITTING PHOTOGRAPHERS RECEIVE:**

  
* Submission review by a diverse jury of industry professionals
* Opportunities for project exposure across festival materials, social media channels, website and press campaign
* 2025 Portfolio Review discount

  
**20 TO 40 FINALIST PHOTOGRAPHERS RECEIVE:**

  
* Large format print exhibition (Produced by Belfast Photo Festival) in June 2025 at city centre locations receiving over 100,000+ visitors
* Publication in the printed festival programme, website and marketing materials
* Partner exhibition and exposure at the 2026 Photo Schwiez Festival in Switzerland
* Festival representation and promotion in our award winning media and PR campaign. In 2024 we had a combined reach of 115 million including multiple features in the Guardian, Creative Review, Irish Times and more.
* Participation in our Instagram residency scheme
* Dedicated feature on the festival website with full online gallery
* Inclusion in the festival issue of Abridged Magazine

  
Applicants will have their work viewed by an international panel of highly influential experts in the field of photography, plus have the opportunity to win awards and a significant cash prize.

  
**ADDITIONAL AWARDS AND CASH PRIZES:**

  
* **Spotlight Award** \- £2,000 (Approx $2,700 / €2,400) Cash Prize
* Spotlight Interview - with representatives from world leading photographic institutions (e.g. TATE, MoMA, TIME, Pompidou, Aperture)
* 1 Year Royal Photographic Society Membership
* Abridged Editorial Award - with full project feature
* Aesthetica Editorial Award - with editorial presentation in the digital issue of Aesthetica international art and culture magazine.

Belfast Photo Festival 2025 OPEN SUBMISSION

The Kipp and Annex galleries are accepting exhibition proposals for the 2025–26 exhibition calendar. 

  
All submissions will be reviewed by the Gallery Committee. The Gallery Committee will determine in which gallery each selected artist will exhibit. 

  

* Exhibition at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
* Exhibitors in the Kipp Gallery receive an honorarium of $750 and are expected to give a talk on their work. The floor plan is below.
* Exhibitors in the Annex Gallery receive an honorarium of $350\. The floor plan is below.

  
All gallery shows will have an artist reception with refreshments. Printed posters and postcards will be provided. 

Pedestals will be provided by the gallery for the display of three-dimensional work. TV monitors and projectors are available for digital displays. 

The Kipp and Annex Galleries: Call for Entries

Do you dream of your own publication or do you need an extra push to realize your artistic idea? This is your chance to bring your artwork, ideas and designs to life in the museum shop of the Jakob Smits Museum! 

  
**What can you submit?**

Youth House Tydeeh and the Jakob Smits Museum invite you to a unique contest. Whether you are good at images, words, or textiles - all creative ideas are welcome! Only it must have a link to Mol or Jakob Smits but you may go very broad here. Whether you are inspired by the landscape, the history of the region, or the work of Smits himself - anything goes, as long as it reflects your creative view of Mol!

  
**Why participate?**

In addition to the chance to see your work shine in a museum shop, all entries will receive a spot on a special mini-expo with reception at the Jakob Smits Museum. It is the opportunity to show your creativity to the general public and meet new people!

From the entries, three winners will be chosen, of which we will have a limited edition produced that will be for sale in the museum shop. You yourself will also get a small edition to take home for family and friends! 

Your design in the museumshop of the Jakob Smitsmuseum?

Call for Artists: Become part of our project!

  
Every two years, PARNASS takes stock of the status quo of the young scenes in its own issue. Our special "UP&COMING" presents up-and-coming newcomers, new art venues and current scene discourses.

Call for proposals: PARNASS Up&Coming 2025

Once again, Internationale Photoszene Köln issues an Open Call which will culminate in a group exhibition for the Photoszene Festival in May 2025 in Cologne. The search is on for works of art that engage with the theme of “**Feelings & Photography**”. 

  
The Open Call focuses on contemporary phenomena in photography, and simultaneously takes a look at what stirs our feelings in the world. Equally, it poses the question of what, under what circumstances, prompts our compassion. Feelings are one of the last specifics of human – or natural – life and appear to be a significant marker of differentiation against the supremacy of machines. At the same time, feelings are quite deliberately incorporated into media-based and visual communications, and algorithms get daily emotional reactions out of us as consumers of images. They are something internal, but shaped by society at the same time; feelings are profoundly personal and yet not private; feelings are political dynamite and are simultaneously often negated; feelings influence life paths and create new visibilities; feelings form connectedness and transform social structures at the same time. In short: Feelings mould our existence and our togetherness in the world.

  
Questions we pose for guidance:

  
* What role can photography play during engagement with feelings and what role do feelings play in contemporary photographic concepts?
* How do feelings find their way into the picture and in what way do they reach beholders?
* And all other open questions that can be additionally raised and answered!

  
Although feelings, by definition, are immaterial and subjective, photography can make them visible, experienceable and comprehensible – and stir and amplify them, too. Every day, through being disseminated in the media, the potentials of photographic images influence our entire life sphere; they convey to us emotions, states of mind, attitudes and equally, perspectives onto what prompts our feelings.

With the Open Call, Photoszene offers a platform to current photographic positions and looks forward to a diverse array of entries from artists and image designers who work with the medium of photography and its extended tools. The submitted works will be viewed by a diverse jury and selected for a group exhibition as part of the Photoszene Festival in May 2025\. Each juried position will receive a €500 exhibition fee.

  

Internationale Photoszene Köln 2025: Feelings & Photography

The calls are officially open! European Cooperation Projects support projects involving organisations in the cultural and creative sectors of all sizes, including micro-organisations and small-sized organisations, and from different countries to undertake sectoral or cross-sectoral activities.

  
Small, medium and large-scale projects should focus on one of the following objectives:

  
* **Objective 1** – Transnational creation and circulation: to strengthen the transnational creation and circulation of European works and artists.

  
* **Objective 2** – Innovation: to enhance the capacity of European cultural and creative sectors to nurture talents, to innovate, to prosper and to generate jobs and growth. Projects responding to this objective should be of capacity-building nature.

European Cooperation Projects (Small, Medium + Large)

**Are you the fearless artist ready to create an immersive art experience?** 

The Ah Haa School for the Arts annual summer fundraiser, the Ah Haa HAHA is a participatory and interactive community event that is a massive, building-wide immersive art installation where each space within the Ah Haa Silverjack building is taken over by a different artist.

The HAHA encourages all featured artists and visitors to lose themselves in the creative process (and product). A building-wide exhibition where art is an experience shared by everyone and creativity and excitement collide, HAHA celebrates each artist’s vision, and encourages all visitors to actively engage with the art. Designed to be accessible to participants of all ages, this immersive experience takes place annually over 3 days in July. 2024 event dates are the evenings of Friday, July 19 (for adults), Saturday, July 20 (for adults), and the morning of Sunday, July 21 for kids. Over 2,000 participants visit the HAHA each year.

Ah Haa School for the Arts is seeking artists, musicians, performers, designers, and creative thinkers of all backgrounds and abilities to propose work for our annual fundraiser event in 2025! We are committed to creating opportunities for a diverse group of makers to participate. HAHA is committed to supporting the creative freedom of local, national, and international artists. Ah Haa celebrates equity and inclusion and encourages all marginalized folkx to apply. 

Whether a single art piece, a full room installation, video and new media content, or a riveting story — we want to see it all. Show us your work and submit your brilliant ideas. We want to collaborate with you!

* Exhibition at The Ah Haa School for the Arts.
* Travel Expenses: Ah Haa will cover all artist travel expenses to and from Telluride for the week of July 14 – 21, 2025.
* Accommodation: Ah Haa will provide artist accommodations for the week of July 14 – 21, 2025.
* Production Budget: An all-inclusive budget for materials, shipping, and production of your installation, ranging from $1,000 - $8,000 depending on experience, room size, and scope of the installation.
* Installation Support: Experienced volunteer installation support will be provided to assist with the setup.

HAHA 2025: Immersive Installation Opportunity

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