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  • City of Vienna | Cathrin Pichler Prize 2025

    This prize will be awarded this year for the eighth time to a student or alumni_alumnae of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, who - in the sense of Cathrin Pichler - deals with specific artistic methods and practices as contribution and intervention to a scientific discourse. The prize is awarded for an existing artistic-scientific work/project.

    Deadline 14.4.2025, 11 h

  • St. Virgil Salzburg | Artists in Residence

    This summer, St. Virgil Salzburg, one of Austria's major educational centers, is offering two artists in the visual arts a residency for the twentieth time as part of the “Artists in Residence” funding project.

    Deadline 14.4.2025

  • Vilnius Academy of Arts | umede.lt symposium

    Third edition of umede.lt festival will happen on October 16-18th at SODAS 2123 (Vilnius, LT) site and invites you to contribute to the symposium related to one of the four festival stages (strands): sodas (garden), krūsnis (heap of stones), laboratory and ether.

    Call for Contributions 14.4.2025

  • Fashion Theory | "Fashion – The Far-Right’s Weaponization of Style"

    We would like to draw your attention to a Call for Abstracts for an upcoming special issue of Fashion Theory on the topic "Fashion – The Far-Right’s Weaponization of Style." 

    Call for Contributions 15.4.2025

  • Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein | Ö1 Talentestipendium für bildende Kunst 2025

    This call is available in German only.

    Deadline 25.4.2025, 11 h

  • Education Centre Haus der Frau | Artist in Residence in Linz

    For the tenth time, the Haus der Frau education centre at Volksgartenstraße 18 in Linz is making a flat on the third floor available to female students of fine arts or young graduates in the form of an artist in residence for the period from 1 October 2025 to 28 February 2026.

    Deadline 28.4.2025

  • University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna | CFP "Sound, Politics, and the Urban Laboratory"

    As part of isa – International Summer Academy of mdw, the isaResearch Summer School 2025 seeks to explore the dynamic relationship between sound, urban space, and politics.

    Call for Contributions 28.4.2025

  • CERV | Citizens’ engagement and participation

    The objective of this call is to promote citizens' and representative associations’ participation in and contribution to the democratic and civic life of the Union by making known and publicly exchanging their views in all areas of Union action.

    Deadline 29.4.2025, 17 h

  • Vienna Business Agency | Understanding Science Funding

    With its Understanding Science funding, the Vienna Business Agency supports communication measures to make the results of research and science understandable and easily accessible.

    Deadline 30.4.2025

  • Research Institute in Art, Design and Society | HUB Open Call #5

    The idea behind this year´s theme “Duration? Dur(action)” is an action that prevails in time. Action also has an open meaning, but it is always linked to time and space. It is from these presuppositions that they understand the notion of performance.

    Call for Contributions 30.4.2025

  • University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna | Cfp: Dance Resonance - Artistic Attunement in Motion

    In cooperation with the Department of Music and Movement Education/Rhythmics and the Artistic Research Center at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw),  as well as the Institute for Theatre, Media, and Popular Culture at the University of Hildesheim.

    Deadline 30.4.2025

  • ARTEACTA | OPEN CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS. Beyond Human Communality: Enounters and Limits

    ArteActa is a peer-reviewed, online, open-access journal for performative arts and artistic research, offering publication in multimedia formats (text, hypertext, photo, video, audio), mostly presented in Research Catalogue expositions or as film essays.

    Deadline 30.4.2025

  • Open Call of the Academy | Ernst A. Plischke Study Prize

    The Ernst A. Plischke Study Prize was launched on the initiative of the Ernst A. Plischke Society (www.plischke-society.com) with the support of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. It is awarded every two years and financed from the membership fees of ordinary and supporting members of the Ernst A. Plischke Society.

    Deadline 6.5.2025, 11 h

  • FWF | Science Communication

    This program supports scientists in communicating their FWF-funded research work to various discourse groups through new, creative communication measures. The aim is to make research and its results visible and to strengthen the public’s trust in science.

    Deadline 13.5.2025, 14 h

  • Creative Europe | European Cooperation Projects

    The Creative Europe programme supports transnational cooperation projects involving organisations in the cultural and creative sectors from different countries taking part in the programme. It covers the EU and beyond.

    Deadline 13.5.2025, 17 h

  • ÖAW | Post-DocTrack

    The OeAW awards fellowships to holders of a doctorate or PhD in the humanities and social and cultural sciences who are pursuing an academic career in order to assist in the transition to the post-doc phase.

    Deadline 15.5.2025

  • Nordic Journal for Artistic Research | OPEN CALL VIS #15

    The call for participation in VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research Issue 15 is open! Theme:  LANGUAGE/LANGUAGED/LANGUAGING.

    Deadline 29.5.2025

  • Eureka Network | Canada - Austria 2025

    As part of the Eureka Network, an open call for research and development projects with Canada is planned from November 21, 2024 to May 30, 2025. Project proposals in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are particularly welcome.

    Deadline 30.5.2025, 12 h

  • Norwegian Academy for Music | Music & Practice: New Issue and Call for Paper

    In the present volume of M&P, their authors present new and original perspectives while exploring the relation between body and instrument, self-notation and improvisation, the concert format and its new medial possibilities.

    Call for Contributions 15.6.2025

  • Das Kunstbuch | Vienna Art Book Fair

    Das Kunstbuch is thrilled to announce the Vienna Art Book Fair #3. The third edition of the VABF will take place from 17-19 October 2025, at die Angewandte - University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

    Call for Contributions 22.6.2025