Competitions and Announcements

WIP LAB Project based Call

For Designers, Artist, Architects, Makers, Engineers, Creatives and Cross-Disciplinary Thinkers

Due date: 05. September 2025

To mark its 20th anniversary in Cyprus, the Austrian Embassy in Nicosia launches an open call for a project-based artist residency. In collaboration with CYENS WIP Lab and the Cypriot Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the residency invites proposals for a public installation in central Nicosia. Selected artists will realize their work in the lively setting of Town Hall Square.

Open Call for Wet Sounds

Sedimente is looking for sounds that appear wet—or that are wet in their sonic phenomenology.

Due date: 14. September 2025

Is it your mouth? A puddle? Mud? Skin? Your computer? Is it your echo, fully wet? A mollusc? A slippery floor? Wet hands and/or a slimy business handshake?

Hans Hollein Projektstipendium 2025 – Ausschreibung für Architekt:innen

Due date: 15. September 2025

To promote innovative, conceptual, and research-based projects, the BMKÖS will once again award the Hans Hollein Project Grant in the field of architecture in 2025. We are looking for experimental approaches that stand out for their originality and artistic depth – ideally in the spirit of Hans Hollein or in dialogue with his work. International collaborations, research phases, and references to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are expressly welcome.

Call for Applications: MAK Winter Atelier

Due date: 15. September 2025

The MAK invites students and emerging artists living and working in Serbia, Romania, and Austria to apply for participation in an international Winter Atelier on artists’ books with designer Sven Völker. The Atelier will be held as part of the EU project AbeX – Anthologies of Cooperation: Encounters in/through Artists’ Books and Experimental Poetry and will take place within the framework of the exhibition TURNING PAGES: Artists’ Books of the Present.

Creatives for Vienna - Making Spaces

10 x €15,000 in prize money for concepts that revitalize open spaces in Vienna!

Due date: 22. September 2025

Are you a creative professional looking to revitalize public spaces in Vienna or turn them into places of exchange? The Vienna Business Agency and its partners from Creatives for Vienna are supporting the realization of the award-winning concepts.

Call for Artists: Mental Load and Invisible Work

Contributions from all disciplines welcome

Due date: 15. October 2025

An exhibition entitled Mental Load and Invisible Work will take place in the Trinkhalle Bad Ischl and in the Sudhaus of Salinen Austria. This is the call for entries for contributions from all sectors of the arts. The jury will decide what will be exhibited and how.

Critically Yours - Design Challenge on AI and Critical Thinking

Create an original interactive media project or video to enhance the appeal and engagement of theAI-powered Socratic chatbot

Due date: 20. October 2025

This design challenge aims to recognize and reward outstanding projects across various interactive media fields, including Digital Product Interaction Design, Motion Graphics, Data Visualization, Digital Publishing, and Digital Experience. Should your submission be selected for use as indicated in these Terms and Conditions, youwill receive a payment of 2,000 EUR.

ort Award for Figurative Painting and Drawing 2026 – Call for entries from the Lake Constance district (DE)

Due date: 16. November 2025

In 2026, the Lake Constance district will award its prize for figurative painting and drawing for the ninth time.

Open Call: Schiele Award 2026

Rotary Club Tulln & Rotary Club Wien-Albertina

Due date: 30. November 2025

Der SCHIELE AWARD ist ein Kunstpreis, der seit 2022 alle zwei Jahre vergeben wird und Künstler*innen eine Plattform bietet, ihre Arbeiten einem breiteren Publikum vorzustellen. Am Geburtsort Egon Schieles hat sich der Rotary Club Tulln das Ziel gesetzt, zeitgenössische künstlerische Praxen im Diskurs mit Gegenwartsfragen zu fördern und gleichzeitig seinen sozialen Grundsätzen entsprechend humanitäre Hilfe zu leisten. Seit 2025 wird der Preis gemeinsam mit dem ROTARY CLUB WIEN-ALBERTINA ausgerichtet.

6th Call for Africa-UniNet Research Cooperation Projects

Due date: 30. November 2025

Africa-UniNet promotes excellent research based on mutual knowledge exchange. While the thematic scope of the cooperative research projects is not restricted, they set out to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the same time, they enhance the scientific foundation of the involved institutions and reinforce the formation of the network itself by promoting new partnerships between Austrian and African universities and research institutions and by strengthening existing ties.