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Grant · Multidisciplinary ● VSTA VERIFIED
British Council · Nigeria + United Kingdom
For creative partnerships that need room to become an exchange, a shared experiment or a project made across borders.
Residency · Design ● VSTA VERIFIED
Textile and Design Alliance · Arbon, Switzerland
Three months inside Eastern Switzerland’s textile world, with industry access for an experimental new project.
Residency · Dance ● VSTA VERIFIED
K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg · Hamburg, Germany
A paid eight-month residency to research, make a full-length work and step outside the usual rush of production.
Residency · Writing ● VSTA VERIFIED
Hong Kong Baptist University · Hong Kong
Four weeks of writing and exchange, ending in a literary festival built around the theme ‘Inheritance.’
Prize · Visual Arts ● VSTA VERIFIED
Fondation François Schneider · Pontigny, France
A permanent work for the gardens of a Cistercian abbey, where art meets land, memory and the weather.
Residency · Curating ● VSTA VERIFIED
AICA International × Cité internationale des arts · Paris, France
Research time in Paris for art critics building new work from archives, encounters and a different critical landscape.
Residency · Writing ● VSTA VERIFIED
Fondation Jan Michalski · Montricher, Switzerland
Two weeks to three months in a cabin above Lake Geneva, with the simple luxury of time to write.
Residency · Music ● VSTA VERIFIED
Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics · Frankfurt, Germany
Four months where artistic practice and scientific research are invited to disturb—and sharpen—each other.
Residency · Visual Arts ● VSTA VERIFIED
Hayama Artist Residency · Hayama, Japan
A month for rest, research and reflection near the sea—making new work is welcome, but not required.
Residency · Visual Arts ● VSTA VERIFIED
Singapore Art Museum · Singapore
A supported stay for artists who need time, a studio and a new city in which to test the edges of their practice.
Residency · Curating ● VSTA VERIFIED
Singapore Art Museum · Singapore
For curatorial ideas that could use distance, conversation and a museum context before they become public form.
Residency · Multidisciplinary ● VSTA VERIFIED
Singapore Art Museum · Singapore
A residency for practices built with people—where learning, participation and art are part of the same work.
Residency · Visual Arts ● VSTA VERIFIED
RARO · Buenos Aires, Argentina
A route through several Buenos Aires studios, with one fully granted place and an important cost check for everyone else.
Grant · Film ● VSTA VERIFIED
Fondazione Prada · International
Development or post-production support for ambitious independent features, without limits on geography, language or genre.
Festival / open call · Film ● VSTA VERIFIED
FIFCL · Liège, Belgium
An international comedy screen for recent films, with travel support for selected feature talent and lighter support for shorts.
Competition · Photography ● VSTA VERIFIED
European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization · Remote / international
Three photographs can turn plant health, biodiversity or field science into an image with a life beyond the screen.
Competition · Photography ● VSTA VERIFIED
Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant × GOST Books · Remote / international
For a documentary body of work ready to become a book—not merely a folder of photographs waiting to be seen.
Competition · Photography ● VSTA VERIFIED
WGPPA · Remote / international
A broad international image competition, useful when the category fits—and worth reading the licence before paying the fee.
Competition · Photography ● VSTA VERIFIED
WFOLIO · Remote / international
A free, wide-ranging photo competition whose grand prize goes all the way to Antarctica—starting in Chile.
Residency · Writing ● VSTA VERIFIED
Granada UNESCO City of Literature × University of Granada · Granada, Spain
A month in Granada for two writers with books behind them and another piece of work asking for a different landscape.
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