What is art? EVERYTHING you make! 

  
Every three months at KunstKubus we show new artworks made by young people between 15 and 25 years old (maybe even yours!). This can be anything from paintings, to poetry, to photography and even music is possible at the open mic during the opening! 

  
We work around a theme each time. If you find your work doesn't fit the theme, don't worry, you can still register. We will let you know more by email max. one week after the deadline so keep an eye on your mailbox!

**WHERE?** Youth library Permeke in de kubus - De Coninckplein 26, 2060 Antwerp

**VERNISSAGE:** There is an opening party at the start of each new theme. Date: 31/01/2025

Your art in KunstKubus?

On Saturday 10 May 2025, Par Hasard will be in Brasschaat! Together with Cultuurcentrum Brasschaat, we invite the public to come and have a look in the cooking pots of artists.

  
Through this open call, we would like to invite makers, performers, musicians, poets, dancers… to apply to participate in this edition of Par Hasard. The idea is that you will have the opportunity to show your work-in-progress in a simple, clear and appropriate context. You can present your work-in-progress to a wide audience in order to take the next step in the creative process.

  
Important:

  
\- Travel expenses from countries outside Belgium cannot be reimbursed.

\- Focus on performing arts

Show your work-in-progress with Par Hasard!

The Artist Project is a collaboration between an experienced artist, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and twelve after-school community organizations in the Boston area. 

The program is designed to engage children in the art-making process under the guidance of an experienced artist. Drawing inspiration from the MFA’s collection the selected artist plans and leads an art project with children between the ages of six and twelve. The final product is a collaborative work of art, reflecting the voices and ideas of participating children, and is exhibited in the Edward H. Linde Gallery (168) in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art for up to six calendar months.

  
**Lead Artist Involvement**

The Artist should be available for planning starting in July 2025 and art sessions with children starting in October 2025\. All sessions must conclude by April 2026 as the exhibition grand opening is planned for May 2026\. The Artist works with MFA staff to schedule four to six visits, lasting approximately 2.5 hours, with each of the twelve organizations. Visits typically take place between the hours of 3:00 pm and 8:00 pm at the MFA and community centers during after-school hours. The Artist must be available all of the weekdays (M-F) that the MFA is open until 10:00 pm in order to accommodate group visits to the Museum. A minimum of two sessions per organization must be held in person. The role of the Lead Artist is to guide the children and choreograph the collaborative work of art into its final exhibited shape. 

The completed project is exhibited in the Edward H. Linde Gallery (168) in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art at the MFA.

  
The MFA provides the selected artist with a stipend of $50,000 and a budget of $5,000 for materials. The Lead Artist works with MFA staff and collections and is recognized across all exhibition materials including postcards and the MFA website.

  

Community Arts Initiative: The Artist Project

For artists, creators, makers, entrepreneurs, revolutionaries, and idea-havers like you. 

At FORGE, co-founded by Chie Morita + Greg Taubman, we believe that how you work matters just as much as why you create and what you want to make. And when we say “make” we believe the sky's the limit. Whether it’s a fresh product line, a much-needed service, an innovative design concept, an immersive restaurant pitch, a push for justice, a new script, a board game idea, or a sandwich for lunch, FORGE believes in the power of process, and in building the skills, systems, plans, and practices that will carry you through your life’s work as a creator. 

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This opportunity is focused on you as a maker, _not_ on a specific project. We’re much more interested in _how_ you make anything than _what_ you’re currently creating. You do not need a project to apply; you and your process are the creations we are most interested in!

Learn to articulate your work with gusto, concoct creative solutions to today’s conundrums, and retrofit your process with guidance from FORGE and leaders in your field. We welcome individual makers and small teams (of no more than three) at any point in your journey to spend six months (May through October) defining, pursuing, and achieving your vision of success. We prioritize process over project deadlines, and people over productivity. We invite folks from all backgrounds, lived experiences, and cultures of expression to join in functional friction to re-envision the givens, guidelines, and glee of creative work. 

Together, we will nurture a new culture where confident creators actively challenge expectations, insist on what they need, rise up as each others’ generous champions, and ultimately, change the understanding of what we can do in the world. 

You bring the spark. We light the FORGE.

  
**HERE'S WHAT TO EXPECT FROM A FORGE FELLOWSHIP:**

Our process offers accomplices for accountability, actionable tools to create a solid foundation for the work, expertise from our combined 25 years of experience, and plenty of wisdom from inspiring changemakers around the world. 

We pair bi-monthly touchpoints (like consultations and skill-building opportunities) with access to daily support systems (like a dedicated online hub and FORGE’s extensive suite of templates) to create a space for curiosity, commiseration, and celebration. Check out the working calendar below for more detail:

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May 2025 

\+ Orientation/Show-and-Tell/Mini Language Masterclass (3 hrs) 

\+ 1st Consultation with FORGE + your Buddy (closed, for just the two of you) (90 min) 

\+ Fast Fuel | May 4th + 29th (pick at least one to attend) | 11am - 6pm Eastern

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\+ Floating 60 min Consultation (Claim this anytime during your Fellowship) 

\+ $500 per Fellow to use on your creative process in any way you see fit 

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June 2025 

\+ Collab-a-thon (3 hrs)

\+ Fast Fuel | June 8th | 11am - 6pm Eastern

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July 2025

\+ 2nd Consultation with FORGE + your Buddy (open, for your cohort to attend and witness) (90 min) 

\+ Fast Fuel | July 13th + 24th (pick at least one to attend) | 11am - 6pm Eastern

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August 2025 

\+ Curated Conversations with Experts + Leaders (3 hrs)

\+ Fast Fuel | August 10th + 28th (pick at least one to attend) | 11am - 6pm Eastern 

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September 2025 

\+ 3rd Consultation with FORGE + your Buddy (Open, for your cohort to attend and witness) (90 min)

\+ Fast Fuel | September 14th + 25th (pick at least one to attend) | 11am - 6pm Eastern

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October 2025 

\+ Masterclass (3 hrs)

\+ Fast Fuel | October 5th + 23rd (pick at least one to attend) | 11am - 6pm Eastern 

\+ Closing Reflection (3 hrs) 

Participation in Fellowship Program, + $500 per Fellow to use on your creative process in any way you see fit 

  

Forge Fellowship

Dreams & Memories is an Online and Virtual Exhibition Free Open Call by Gallery Informal. It invites artists to showcase their unfinished sketches and scrapped or rejected artwork revolving around the theme of dreams and memories.

  

Your work will be showcased as an online and virtual exhibition on the Gallery Informal website. 

Dreams & Memories | Gallery Informal

State of Fashion is launching an Open Call for Curators for its 2026 Biennale, taking place in Arnhem, The Netherlands. We’re looking for visionary thinkers and makers with an outspoken view on the challenges the world faces at the moment, the necessity for fundamental change, and the role that fashion has in the ability to transform and reframe social and cultural contexts. Our leading question is: how can fashion & textile contribute to a better world?

  
**THE OPEN CALL**

For our fourth edition, State of Fashion asks prospective curators to build upon the main outcomes from our previous editions. Our goal is to focus on collaborative and collective action, where the global is connected to the local. We urge the curators to respond to the themes from an intersectional approach.

We invite the new curators to ….

  
→ unpack the politics of dress

→ forge community

→ honour unseen labour(s)

→ move beyond the binary

→ amplify voices from the global majority

  
The above mentioned thematic Calls to Action serve as food for thought, not as a fixed framework.

As a platform we continuously research the format of the Biennale and therefore entrust the new curators to challenge and reinterpret ways of presenting and programming their proposal, beyond the format of the exhibition. Examples could be a commission based approach where makers get the chance to create new work. Furthermore, the emphasis is often on the end result, we actively want to make space for the work in process.

The selected curator(s) will receive a fee in the range of €30,000–€40,000, depending on the scope and details of the proposal.

2026 State of Fashion Biennale

IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art has awarded an artist prize every three years since the institution’s beginnings. 2019 was the first time the award was given an explicitly feminist focus. With the 2025 edition of the Feminist Art Prize, we are proud to look back on the past two editions but would also be remiss not to note that the global situation regarding gender-based discrimination has only worsened.

  
We are facing a rampant wave of political revanchism and right-wing populism worldwide, forcing us to question the widespread assumption of linear and inevitable progress. A feminist art prize is therefore more important than ever. And there is no reason to hang our heads in defeat, because feminist art practices are resilient and future oriented. They offer alternatives and a safe haven for alternative way of living. We want to promote and strengthen these positions in contemporary art - especially those that confront us with the complexities of the body, identity and society and are not satisfied with simple answers. Utopia, eroticism, community, energy, resilience: together we want to embark on a journey in search of a better future.

The IKOB team will invite a group of finalists to take part in the prize exhibition after evaluating the applications. Artists will have the opportunity to show existing work(s) and will be featured in an accompanying publication. IKOB will pay each participating artist a fee of 500€ excl. VAT.

  
The prize jury will meet at IKOB ahead of the exhibition opening on 13th April, 2025 and select three winners, awarding a first, second and third prize endowed with €3000, €2000 and €1500 respectively. The third prize is awarded to an artist in East Belgium. The jury consists of: Caitlin Hennen (independent art consultant and curator), Jemima Kulumba (curator and founder of the “Biennale of Women in Art”, Brussels), Noor Mertens (director, Bochum Art Museum), Stilbé Schroeder (curator, casino luxembourg and of the Luxembourg Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2026) and Marnie Slater (artist and winner of the IKOB – Feminist Art Prize 2022).

Feminist Art Prize 2025

**Mazra’ah Media Arts Residency** 

  
Running from February to April, 2025, the three-month Mazra’ah Media Arts Residency comprises two distinct streams for artists and scholars, established in the field of New Media and Digital Art. Designed to foster innovation and intellectual exchange across disciplines, the residency offers participants access to world-class studios and production labs, as well as a production budget.

Work developed during residencies will be showcased or incorporated into scholarly publications, facilitated by DAF and its network of regional and international partners. There will also be opportunities to secure further engagement, through exhibitions, publications, and artist monographs. 

The DAF hub will provide comfortable and inspiring living spaces, while creating opportunities for participants to connect with a diverse network of peers and professionals from across Saudi Arabia and the world.
  
  

Mazra’ah Media Art Residency

**Residency Unlimited (RU) is excited to announce an open call for the 2025 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program.**

This program is dedicated to supporting NYC-based artists traditionally underrepresented in the arts. RU encourages applications from artists who self-identify as part of underserved communities, including but not limited to BIPOC and LGBTQ+ individuals.

Artists working in all mediums are welcome, with a special emphasis on interdisciplinary practices such as social practice, conceptual art, institutional critique, and other discursive approaches.

The three-month residency will run from **April 1 – June 30, 2025**, in collaboration with **RU Guest Curator Jesse Bandler Firestone.**

  

**Residency Features**:

* **Stipend**: $3,500
* **Production Support**: $500
* **Curatorial Engagement**: Weekly one-on-one visits with guest curators and critics, tailored to align with artistic and curatorial interests. Sessions will include meetings with Jesse Bandler Firestone, the RU team, and invited art professionals.
* **Community Activities**: Participation in activities with RU’s international artist resident community, including artist presentations, monthly salons with Jesse Bandler Firestone, and field trips.
* **Project Support**: Assistance with production and project development.
* **Culminating Exhibition**: A group exhibition curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone (location and dates to be announced).
* **Hybrid Format**: Residency activities will include both in-person and virtual components.

  

2025 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program

Our 5th annual journey , is now started again.

  
The fifth "SPC Smartphone Photography Competition" 2024 invites you to share your opinions and your perspective of the world with the lens on your mobilephone. We do believe that the ultimate beauty of the world can be captured by you in every way.

  
Your recording of the world can always start in any place any time, just embrace your life with the art of photography and leave the world with some phenomena shots and impress the world with every single picture.

  
"Just eulogize the world by your snaps."

  
SPC is a long-term and professional annual competition platform, offering the opportunity for mobile photography enthusiasts around the world to compete for various rewards and to exhibit their works in various galleries. This contest is sponsored by EASYART©, the leading platform for contemporary art work retail and art digital copyright brokerage in China.

**The first, second and third place of the Photographer of the Year will be respectively awarded with:**

  
A. 5000 RMB, the SPC trophy

B. 3000 RMB, the SPC trophy

C. 1000 RMB, the SPC trophy

  
**The First, Second and Third Place, and Honorable Mentions of each category will be respectively awarded with:**

  
A. 500 RMB, the SPC trophy

  
Projects of the winners of the contest will be presented in exhibition in 2025.

Smartphone Photography Competition 2025

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