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15 Feb 2026 'Archives of Trauma' - Open call - Photography exhibition - Women’s Photo Festival

NB: Submission fee of 20 EUR applies. Please read carefully and apply at your own discretion.

We invite artists and photographers to submit projects for Archives of Trauma, an exhibition exploring the many forms, layers, and interpretations of trauma—personal, historical, social, environmental, or otherwise.

10 Mar 2026 Incubator (Gallery, London-based): Call for exhibition proposals, early career artists

Eligible artists are those based in the UK who have had no more than three solo shows.

Form: https://airtable.com/appu7aLSLdkWYAPQF/shrE8L2ckdu4tampb

18 Mar 2026 Community Author role - Museum of the Home, Hoxton, London

Paid opportunity

Project: to co-create a framework with the Museum for object disposals from areas of the Museum’s collection and apply this framework in community group sessions. Why: The Museum wants to be more collaborative in how we approach the management and care of the collection. Who are the Community Authors: People with knowledge, passion and interest in East London with different skills and experiences from Museum staff.

  • Money: we will offer £75 for every session you attend
  • How often: The meetings will take place during the day on weekdays (meeting approximately 14 times over one year).
  • Opportunities: to work with the Museum’s collections, to change how we approach disposals, and to collaborate with community groups Outcome: To co-create a blueprint for disposals and action the blueprint in community rationalisation sessions. This framework will become part of the Museum’s policies.

24 Mar 2026 North Kensington Social Justice Archive - Drop-in events

Help us design the North Kensington Social Justice Archive at North Kensington Library.

The archive will document over 150 years of local campaigns and community organising, and we’re now gathering feedback on early designs for the space.

Come through to see proposals developed by @jankatteinarch and share your thoughts with us.

North Kensington Library (ground floor) Session 1: 21 March, 12:00–3:00pm Session 2: 24 March, 5:30–7:30pm

No need to book - just drop in.

26 Mar 2026 Open call for photography (exhibition) - Entanglement, B-Part Exhibition, Berlin, July/August 2026

Selected artists will take part in a group exhibition at B-Part Exhibition, the gallery curated by loop in the heart of Berlin in July / August 2026.

“Entanglement” invites artists to explore the intricate webs of connections that define contemporary experience. From the most intimate human relationships to the vast systems shaping our planet, existence unfolds through networks of dependency, influence, and mutual transformation.

30 Mar 2026 Call for submissions: Vector Festival 2026 - Who Cares for the Cyborg?

9–19 July 2026, Toronto, ON, Canada

Vector Festival is an experimental media arts festival dedicated to showcasing digital games and creative media practices. Presenting works across a dynamic range of exhibitions, screenings, performances, organized and workshops, Vector acts as a critical bridge between emergent digital platforms and new media art practice. The festival is proud to be a participatory and community-oriented initiative organized by InterAccess in Toronto, Ontario.

31 Mar 2026 Underground Art and Design - Open call for Attention/Distraction showcase/publication/panel

Area of interests:

  • Network culture and the media environments that occupy our attention
  • Critique on contemporary spectatorship
  • Artistic interventions that disrupt and redirect attention
  • New modes of seeing and noticing

All mediums are welcome, including but not limited to:

  • (New) media art
  • Animation
  • Narrative fiction
  • Essay
  • Photography and film
  • Interactive web pieces
  • Sound art
  • Game design / virtual environments / world-building
  • Mixed / hybrid forms

Artists, writers, designers, technologists, and researchers from all backgrounds are welcome to apply.

Selected work will be invited to participate in:

  • An online publication
  • An in-person exhibition in New York
  • In-person Artist talks and panel discussions

08 Apr 2026 Der Greif - Earthly Fabulations - Call for photographers

“Earthly Fabulations” launches in celebration of Earth Day 2026. We invite lens-based artists to reflect on ecology, environmental critique, and the entangled relationships between humans and the more-than-human world.

This open call encourages artists to rethink the colonial legacy of landscape photography and to consider plants, animals, and geological formations as active protagonists rather than passive subjects.

Centered on dialogue rather than competition, the initiative brings selected artists into a one-month online exhibition on Der Greif’s homepage (April 22–May 22) and small-group critique sessions through Der Greif’s educational Face-to-Face program.

Open internationally to emerging and mid-career artists. Submissions close April 8, 2026.

https://dergreif.org

20 Apr 2026 ERA journal - call for artists (UCL student-run magazine)

Deadline: 20 April 2026

Era returns to the Crypt Gallery, below St Pancras New Church, NW1 2BA

Opening 16 May

20 Apr 2026 Assemble - North East fellowship open call

Open to North East of England-based practitioners, 12 months, June 2026–June 2027 £7,740 fee; £5,280 production budget

D6 is looking to host a Fellowship open to Artists, Curators and cultural practitioners with lived experience of enforced migration, displacement or exile. This is open to practitioners based in the North East of England, seeking to (re)build their international curatorial practice and networks.

Funded by the Arts Council England, this opportunity enables a UK artist to join a Europe-wide cohort of artists and partners.

The ASSEMBLE Fellowship in the UK is one of four taking place across the programme. Other ASSEMBLE Fellows will be based in Cyprus, Spain and Ukraine.

Over 12 months, each Fellow will produce a new curatorial project responding to climate emergency with the option to consider how it intersects with conflict, displacement and ecological decline.

The Fellows will also engage in an international programme of activities offering immersive experiences for new knowledge and best practice to be shared, including:

– three curatorial labs taking place in Cyprus, Spain and a hybrid lab from Ukraine; – one group residency in the UK; – an international conference in Morocco; – a digital exhibition promoting the three curatorial projects.

22 Apr 2026 Exhibition: Stories of Migration and Everyday Life in London

We are inviting three kinds of submissions:

  1. Artists - Works related to mobility, migration, identity, and movement (lightweight / small-scale works preferred)
  2. Public submissions - Photos and short stories about living in the UK — moving house, commuting, working, staying temporarily, or hesitating between staying and leaving
  3. Scholars / researchers -Recommendations of migration-related papers, archives, books, zines, and theoretical texts

08 May 2026 STUDIO 404: ‘Touch Grass’ - Call for workshop facilitators

4 June 2026, 6pm–9pm, Hackney, London

STUDIO 404 (www.studio404.world) is a non-profit social enterprise founded by the teams behind Creative Debuts and Other Box. We create community-led cultural spaces and immersive programmes, exhibitions, and events that prioritise real-world connection.

We’re inviting artists, facilitators, and creative practitioners to host drop-in workshops as part of our next show: TOUCH GRASS.

TOUCH GRASS explores the creative energy of being outside. Shaped by public space, street culture, nature, and our “OFFLINE BY DESIGN” ethos, the event centres presence over performance, connection over consumption, and what becomes possible when we step away from the screen.

This is a large-scale, in-person cultural gathering bringing together artists, designers, brands, and communities to create, connect, and experience work in a shared physical space.

08 May 2026 Library Mothership call for emerging bookmakers - to exhibit at art book fairs

NB: Submission fee applies (£8)

This year, Library Mothership is opening a section of our table to highlight emerging bookmakers across four international book fairs in 2026. One submission, four book fairs.

Your book will be considered for:

  • Offprint London — 15–17 May, 180 Studios, 180 Strand, London
  • A Bigger Book Fair (Peckham 24) — 15-17 May, Copeland Gallery, London
  • Biblioteka Art Book Fair — 12–13 June, The Warburg Institute, London
  • I Never Read: Art Book Fair Basel — 14–20 June, Viaduktstrasse 33, Basel

Selected publications will appear at 2–4 of these fairs based on curatorial fit.

31 May 2026 Exhibition: GALLERY44 - The House Has a Body

Gallery44 is inviting submissions for an intimate autumn exhibition in London.

The House Has a Body considers domestic space not as a backdrop, but as something charged: a place where bodies, objects, surfaces and histories leave traces.

We are interested in practices exploring the body, memory, domestic space, objects, architecture, interiors, thresholds, textiles and material traces.

Artists working across painting, sculpture, installation, object-making, textile, photography and moving image are invited to send material.

Submission email in the Instagram post linked.

07 Jun 2026 Residency: Goethe Institut - FILE NOT FOUND

Archives, as repositories of cultural memory and knowledge, are increasingly under pressure in many countries due to populist and extremist policies. Content that challenges the narratives of these policies has been censored, reinterpreted, or deleted in some regions.

FILE NOT FOUND fosters a dialogue between various international archives, some already affected by this pressure, others operating in a grey area, and some that still feel safe.

As Germany’s international cultural institute, the Goethe‑Institut is committed to protecting cultural expression and enabling open, democratic discourse. FILE NOT FOUND reflects this mission by bringing together archives from different contexts to share experiences, raise awareness of threats to cultural memory, and jointly strengthen their resilience.

07 Jun 2026 Unknown Person/Kafedra Gallery - call for work for city noise

ZiMMT, Leipzig, Germany. Exhibition in July 2026

The contemporary city is no longer a stable architectural structure. It functions as a media interface where propaganda, advertising, wars, algorithms, control systems, and protest interventions are intertwined with screens, sound signals, and personal media environments. ​ In this open call, we are expecting works that not only reflect the overload of the contemporary city, but also make it tangible on an aesthetic and emotional level, and transform it through artistic means. ​ We are looking for your urban findings in the form of text, sound, and photo stories, as well as art video and documentary short video.

07 Jun 2026 Residency: The Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation for Literature & the Arts

NB: Submission fee applies ($20.50)

Our residencies are open to writers, translators, musicians, artists (working in all mediums), actors, directors, dancers, etc., from around the world—anyone who is looking for uninterrupted time to create new creative work.

All residencies are fully funded, which means we pay for airfare and full room and board at our 17th-century villa and cultural center in Sezze Romano, Italy. We are currently offering residencies for two weeks each in the spring and fall.

Applications for our Fall 2026 residency are open.

The Fall 2026 residency will take place from September 29 to October 13, 2026. The cohort will consist of 4 to 5 creative residents.

17 Jun 2026 Architecture at the Edge Festival 2026: Le Chéile – the Architectures of Belonging

Applications for allowances of up to €2,500 accepted for travel, venue rental, honorariums, and production cost for events

Together (Le Chéile) we will invite architects, designers and other creatives to develop and present speculative or research-based projects addressing democracy, spatial justice, and participation through film, exhibition, public workshops and/or lectures.

To suggest new ways of practicing democracy – and how the involvement of local communities in democratic processes of decision-making (through participatory processes) can contribute to further foster the sense of belonging to a democratic society, and further increase their participation in democratic life.

We encourage applicants to interpret the brief as openly as possible. We are seeking proposals which investigate the various facets of how to create inclusive spaces that encourage people to engage in dialogue and civic life and highlight the spaces of citizenship, belonging and Identity. We need to design for everyone, regardless of economic status, and provide tools and environments that enable citizens to shape their own communities.

Brief PDF: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/599afaeb03596e31f5e6f0bf/t/6a10aca29c2c6110ba4a6a9c/1779477666052/Open+Call+Projects+2026+-+Architecture+at+the+Edge+2026.pdf

30 Jun 2026 Rotlicht Festival for Analog Photography - Anthropocene: Hybrid Realities

NB: Submission fee applies (€20)

Our main exhibition in 2026 will again take place on the impressive premises of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. On over 1300 m2 we will open the festival with our 20 winners from the Open Call 2026.

The theme of this year’s festival is »Anthropocene: Hybrid Realities« and your submission should be at least marginally related to this theme.

Anthropocene: Hybrid Realities

The Anthropocene – often described as the age of humankind – names an epoch in which human activity decisively shapes the Earth’s ecological and geological systems. Yet this narrative of dominance may itself be a construct.Ideas of control, progress, and technological mastery stand in tension with a world increasingly defined by instability, complexity, and fragility.

Analog photography inherently challenges this paradigm of control. It is grounded in light, chemistry, time, and contingency. Imperfection, material presence, and process are not flaws but fundamental qualities of the medium. With the theme Anthropocene: Hybrid Realities, the festival invites artists to critically and poetically explore the relationship between human, nature, and image — between intervention and dissolution, influence and vulnerability, construction and decay.

Humanity consumes resources as if they were unlimited, reshapes landscapes, replaces ecosystems with artificial environments, and is increasingly described as a geological force in its own right. How can photography respond to this condition? What hybrid realities emerge between the natural and the constructed, the organic and the synthetic, the real and the staged?

We welcome submissions that engage with these tensions and expand the discourse through experimental, critical, and process-oriented approaches in analog photography.

01 Jul 2026 Call for work - 7th Small File Media Festival

The seventh Small File Media Festival is open for submissions! Artists, activists, media pirates, rogue technologists, and filmmakers: this is your call-out. An all-out intervention to save the world one pixel at a time.

We challenge media makers to intervene in the 4K dystopia of bandwidth imperialism by creating original small-file movies in any genre. This year we especially welcome narrative and documentary alongside our usual arthouse, glitch, punk, and sci-fi.

The frictionless ease of online video hides the environmental damage and surveillant objectives of networked digital media. Small Files are an alternative to these dopamine-poisoning channels; an indiscreet, tactical medium capable of circumventing the dystopic structures of bandwidth imperialism.

If you’ve made it, you can submit it, as long as it’s no more than 1.44MB per minute. If your work is only ten seconds long, that’s only 144KB!

31 Jul 2026 CRASSH Exhibition: Knowledge in a Fractured World

Artists and creatives are invited to submit works to CRASSH’s 25th anniversary exhibition, which takes place from 5 October – 11 December 2026 at the Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP.

The theme of the anniversary programme and exhibition is ‘Knowledge in a Fractured World’.

The programme will examine how knowledge is produced, contested, and translated into action amid political polarisation, technological disruption, environmental crisis, and shifting global power relations.

For the exhibition, the theme can be interpreted in the widest sense – from personal to global.