Emerging Artists Award (EAA+) | Applications open!

The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, in collaboration with the Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation invites applications for the Emerging Artists Award (EAA+), a collective forum that will support 10 art practitioners through a financial grant of Rs 100,000 each, a mentorship programme and an exhibitory component. 

Deadline for applications: 20 May 2024

Applications are invited from young artists interested in exploring the potential of their practices within the dynamics of a cohort, working closely with peer-led networks and their synergies.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The applicant must be under 35 years of age.

  • The applicant needs to be an Indian citizen. Overseas Citizens of India and Non-Indian Residents are not eligible.

  • Applications are invited from artists who have completed their educational degrees. Artists currently pursuing an educational degree are not eligible to apply.

  • Self-taught artists who are within the age limit, and have at least two years of sustained artistic practice are eligible to apply.

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SARA Pro-seed Artist Residency – June 2024

In Memory of Artist Teacher, the Late Sri Krishna Chhatpar (1936-2022)

Introduction:

The Pro-seed Artist Residency, a pilot initiative hosted at the SARA Centre, aims to inspire a new generation of artists to engage with visual and ecological awareness adequately. We strive to foster creative dialogue to reconnect young artists with the natural world as we face environmental challenges through the rapid depletion of natural resources. The residency provides an opportunity for young artists to innovate and explore ways to promote creative sustainability through stewardship of natural surroundings. We aim to encourage a platform for aspiring artists to engage with inspiring perspectives that provoke critical inquiry and mindful engagement. Through this pilot initiative, we seek to lay the foundation for a vibrant community of artists committed to addressing the pressing environmental issues of our time.

Objectives:

  • Nurture Emerging Talent

  • Cultivate Eco-consciousness

  • Foster community Collaboration

  • Promote Innovation

  • Engage with Local Context

Program Structure:

The four-week residency will provide selected artists with studio space, accommodation, and a stipend. Through mentorship, artist talks, site visits, and open studios, participants will have skill-building, dialogue, and reflection opportunities. Collaboration with local environmental initiatives will further enrich the experience, fostering creativity with a purpose.

Application Process:

Open to Indian artists under 30, intensely interested in exploring ecological themes. Applicants should submit portfolios, a statement of intent, and a project proposal. A committee, along with a representative from SARA, will choose two outstanding artists. 

Location: SARA Centre, Dombekoppa, Karnataka-577412

Duration: June 1st – June 30th, 2024

Grant: Rs 40,000/-

Deadline for application: 10th May 2024

For inquiries and applications, contact email: info.saracentre@gmail.com

13th edition Experimenter Curators’ Hub

Register now for the 13th edition Experimenter Curators’ Hub, from 24 – 25 November, 2023, at Experimenter – Hindustan Road, Kolkata, which will bring together curators from across the globe who, through their distinctive curatorial practices, respond to momentous shifts in contemporary practice.

Register via link below. Limited seats available.

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o6. Número Seis. Punto - Art Television.

Art Television is the official open pavilion of TheWrong Biennale 2o23/24.
A live streaming video exhibition managed as an open virtual art salon, where new content is added everyday.

Open call to all tiktokers, influencers, reel & stories freaks, A.I. extremists, video directors, programmers, experimentalists, audiovisual wizards and artists.

Submit your video links and join Art Television, the official open pavilion for The Wrong Biennale, launching November 1st. 2o23 to March 1st, 2o24.

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How green was my valley? A retrospective showcase of paintings by Kishori Kaul.

How green was my valley?, a retrospective showcase of paintings by Kishori Kaul. Presented by Anant Art
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The exhibition spans the length of Kishori Kaul’s artistic practice, featuring paintings that represent her transition and transformation at every point of her artistic career. Through the works on view, one journeys with the artist as a student of painting in Baroda, influenced by her teachers’ styles, to finding her own expressionist wings in the years to follow, to harking back to her roots by referencing the environs of her homeland.

Kishori Kaul (1939 - 2018) was born to a Kashmiri Pandit family in Srinagar. She was trained in painting by stalwarts like K. G. Subramanyan and N. S. Bendre at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda from where she graduated with a Master’s Degree in painting in 1966. Kishori Kaul’s artistic oeuvre is deeply rooted in and inspired by the verdant vistas of Kashmir. Her works have been exhibited widely in India and abroad in venues such as Gallery Art Heritage, the Lalit Kala Akademi, the Tokyo Biennale, and India House London to name a few. Kishori Kaul received the National Award from Lalit Kala Akademi in 1981, and her works feature in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, and the Patiala Museum, Punjab.

MUSE - Digital Art Award

For the award’s first edition, visuals artists are invited to reflect on one of today’s biggest ecological challenges – the energy for tomorrow.

THEME

The energy for tomorrow

DEADLINE

20 October 2023

ACCEPTED MEDIA

Digital artworks

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Technical Guidelines

The Belgadia Palace X BEADS Residency

Craft has been ignored and under-appreciated. Because of the making process and the gender binaries inherently, several groups/intellectuals have eliminated it from consideration of the notion of Art practices, and it is now considered as a service. Crafts epitomise the pre-capitalist production of goods. A craft item’s worth was determined by its utility and necessity. The current form of mass manufacturing has dictated the use of labour and requisite skills in a brief amount of time. Because of the nature of the availability of inexpensive and dependable materials, craft items are being reduced to a curiosity or at best a peripheral requirement of our modern-day lives.

Repurposing the making processes in order to evolve forms, develop new creative paradigms , so that craft clusters can become an inspiration for creativity and create possibilities for collaborations- is a key agenda of this residency programme. Also at multiple levels, this travelling residency attempts to open spaces for accessibility to the idea of geographic, regional and historical differences at the intersection of Art, Craft, Design and Research. The aim is that, through working with different traditional art practices, different perspectives can be generated to think-through new modes of artistic thinking and broaden the collaborative possibilities.

Application Deadline: 5th June 2023

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India Foundation for the Arts- Request for Proposals: Explorations

Deadline: July 07, 2023

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) invites applications for

Explorations

Under its Arts Practice programme

The Arts Practice programme seeks to implement projects where artists expand their present range of practices in new directions. These could question accepted conventions, push new frontiers in content, form and medium, explore new modes of engagement with space, audience and communities, foregrounding a spirit of experimentation.

A pair of sound artists dissect, classify, splice and stitch the anatomy of a protest song

A storyteller treks high mountains to converse with mycelium

A choreographer collaborates with his community to create a ‘folk dance’ as a way of recovering folktales

A micro fiction-writer uses her voice to reach people in a language they understand but cannot read

As artists, we sometimes stumble upon an idea or feel an urge to venture into a direction that is new and exciting. However, given the context and location of our practice, the foray into these ideas may seem tentative and uncertain. We might at the time know nothing about where it will lead us. Even so, we realise the necessity of following through. A little support at these times may be of help.

Under the Arts Practice programme, we invite proposals for such Explorations that seek to probe, test and play around with ideas nascent, risky or unprecedented. These may not necessarily lead to an outcome. Such explorations could include researching, script-writing, location scouting, animatics, jamming, storyboarding, rehearsing, sampling, robotics, lab explorations and other forms of exploratory work that are used to examine ideas.

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Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation NEXT-STEP RESIDENCY - 2023.

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1 Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery and Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation invite applications for the 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery and Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation invite applications for the NEXT-STEP RESIDENCY - 2023.

Venue: 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, Bangalore

Deadline: JUNE 30 | 2023

Residency dates: 10th August 2023 to 10th September 2023

Submit applications to nextstepresidency@gmail.com

1Shanthiroad/SSAF-NEXT-STEP Residency Program

Inviting applications from all over India and 2023’s edition will be held during the month of August and September.

The NEXT-STEP residency program offers 5 participating artists the following:

Accommodation/Studio at 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery

Food (Lunch provided every day, groceries for other meals)

Round-trip transportation (proof required for reimbursement)

Production stipend and per diem for each artist to produce work during the one-month Residency

Criteria:

- Completion of BFA or MFA. If you are a self-taught artist, then 2 years of working experience as an art practitioner

- Indian National or of Indian origin having lived in India for the past 5 years

Requirements:

- A portfolio in pdf format that includes your recent works

- Resume/CV

An independent jury will deliberate and select the five artists.

Khoj - Beyond the Blueprint : Reimagining the City

Khoj invites applications for Beyond the Blueprint : Reimagining the City to rethink public spaces across India as infrastructures of care.

This call is for, but not limited to city planners, urban strategists, designers, artists and architects whose practice is embedded in their local contexts and are looking to recreate public spaces in their cities as expressions of inclusivity.

Creative practitioners have closely witnessed and taken cognisance of the process of urbanisation, the force it has exerted on public spaces, and the narratives it has excluded. Beyond the Blueprint : Reimagining the City is a collective renegotiation of urbanscapes through the lens of care for women and gender minorities.

Deadline: 20th June 2023

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Space118 Fine Arts Grant: 2023-24

Space118 is inviting applications from artists all across India, for a production grant towards the realisation of an ongoing or a newly conceived project.

Deadline: 10th April 2023

An Indian artist under the age of 40 (born after 10th April 1983)

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