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2024

Miss Read 2024

applications are now open  Applications for this year's Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival are now open! You can apply here . We are looking for exhibitors with an ongoing publishing practice (around five publications). As we continue…read more

BPKF welcomes its 2024/25 fellows

Berliner Programm Künstlerische Forschung announced its 2024/25 fellows Bini Adamczak, Murat Adash, Jessica Ekomane, Daniel Falb, Holly Herndon, Anton Kats, Dan Lie, Henrike Naumann, İz Öztat, Marta Popivoda, Anta Helena Recke, Konstanze…read more

2023

Image © Andrej Dúbravský, Courtesy DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin, Photo, Dorota Jedinakova

Gallery Weekend Berlin

Let's make some noise! List your pop-ups, open studios, group, and solo shows now.  We now accept project spaces, galleries, institutions, and individual artist listings. Here are a few tips. Plan and list your event at least…read more

2022

Crip Magazin #5, 2022. Cover design (drawing: Yevhen Holubientsev/atelienormalno. Design: Lana Grahek. Concept: Eva Egermann. Publishers issue #5: Eva Egermann in cooperation with 17th Istanbul Biennale 2022)

"Non-compliance is a social skill" Mel Baggs (1980–2020)

It is normal and completely human to think and communicate in unconventional ways. Being human is a spectrum. Mel Baggs, autistic blogger, and activist. It is an honor to feature some pieces from the latest issue Crip magazine by Eva…read more
Monica Bonvicini, SCALE OF THINGS (to come), Detail, 2010, Courtesy the artist © Monica Bonvicini und VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Anders Sune Berg

Dear Monica Bonvicini, Better Excruciatingly Late Than Never:

Soup du Jour public letter To Monica Bonvicini Over the years, we’ve come to know you – (by following your work as an artist) – as somebody who operates from a feminist worldview and according to feminist principles. Your work…read more

Why boycott the ‘Kunsthalle Berlin’? - an open letter

If you’ve been sitting on the fence when it comes to whether to boycott the new ‘Kunsthalle Berlin’ or not (I personally prefer to call it the ‘Kunsthalle Smerling’), you may find Niklas Maak’s article in yesterday’s FAZ…read more

2021

THINK! - an auditive online series

One thing we have been enjoying during this uncertain period is alternative cultural formats. Case in point: THINK! - an auditive online series. What impact do news and headlines have – especially if one needs to follow their directives. How do...read more

GALLERY CLIMATE COALITION

Green is the new Black! We have had a lot of time this last year to think how we can make the art market a more sustainable place and we are happy to see some initiatives growing towards that direction, even if they are ultimately powered by...read more

FICTIONS: Open Call

FICTIONS: An anthology centering queer voices in/from/across South Asia a language where yesterday and tomorrow are the same word. kal Call for Submissions: Until 15 April 2021 For District's Berlin upcoming fiction anthology, they are looking for...read more

Public Jury Session for the Urban-Practitioner-in-Residence

ON FEB 18th 2021, 6-9 PM, Floating e.V will hold a public jury session, as part of their open call for urban practitioners. During the session, five finalists will present their project proposals for the site of the Floating University Berlin,...read more

2020

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OPEN CALL FOR the FIELD KITCHEN ACADEMY Educational Residency at WÜSTEN BUCHHOLZ,

Open call for an educational residency with: BILL FONTANA (composer and video artist), HANS PETER KUHN (sound and visual artist), SEBASTIAN MULLAERT a.k.a MINILOGUE (producer and DJ), OVE HOLMQVIST (sound artist), HANS ROSENSTRÖM (sound artist),...read more

Artist Support Pledge

project initiated by Matthew Burrows Here is another idea taking form currently on Intagram ARTIST SUPPORT PLEDGE Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many artists have found themselves without work, teaching, technical support and gallery work...read more
picture by André Schlechtriem of Dittrich & Schlechtriem

Die Balkone. Life, art, pandemic, proximity in windows & balconies

"If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy." (Jean Genet, The Balcony) So here we are. We can be we, but not…read more

Berlin Masters Open Call

BERLIN MASTERS is a promotion platform and a curated exhibition for artists under the age of 30, living and working in Berlin. Initiated by the art expert, Matthias Arndt in 2013, the BERLIN MASTERS exhibition is held annually in various prominent...read more

ZK/U OPEN CALL 2020

GLOBAL MEETS LOCAL. ZK/U is a residency and platform for creative and urban experimentation. Through its glocal program, ZK/U explores and critiques existing knowledge and practices in urban agglomerations as a springboard to individual and...read more

OPEN CALL: Futureless - QueerFeminist Group Exhibition

For the upcoming Futureless group exhibition, taking place between April 1 and 9 at SomoS Berlin, the SomoS curatorial team is calling for ephemeral installations, durational art pieces, performative lectures/projects as well as discourse-based...read more

2019

SEEDS

FOOD ART WEEK 2020 is now ready to announce its next topic SEEDS! OPEN CALL FOR ARTWORKS IN BERLIN, MEXICO CITY, OAXACA, SAO PAULO, and AUSTRALIA \\ We are looking for works to be featured in Food Art Week 2020, about the topic of seeds— any type...read more

FIELD KITCHEN ACADEMY Educational Residency: OPEN CALL

Educational Residency at WÜSTEN BUCHHOLZ , near BERLIN, GERMANY 16 August - 11 September 2019 APPLICATION DEADLINE: 23 June 2019, 23:59 CET The FIELD KITCHEN ACADEMY is an interdisciplinary educational residency programme that gathers artists/...read more
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Introducing Foundwork - an artists and curators platform

Like Online Dating...but for artists! We’re excited to invite you to Foundwork , a new platform designed to help connect artists and collaborators across the global contemporary art community. Foundwork is a focused venue where artists can...read more

2015

OPEN CALL: writers wanted!

Bright, funny, opinionated, preferably an artist with a penchant for writing and fondness for deadlines – is it you who we’re looking for? Plus points if you were already familiar with the Bpigs voice; if not, here you can find out what we are all...read more

2012

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