Descubrimientos PHE Portfolio Review, Madrid. Deadline: February 13, 2011

Descubrimientos PHE is PHotoEspaña's portfolio review, offering photographers the opportunity to present their work to curators and editors specialized in the field with the objetive of generating professional outlets for their work.


From June 2 - 4, 2011 participants will present their portfolios in Madrid to 8 professionals during individual, 20-minute appointments.

Deadline: February 13, 2011

More more information about the PHotoEspaña Fair (June 1 - July 24, 2011) and registration forms for the Descubrimientos PHE Portfolio Reviews: http://www.phe.es/festival/?ed=2011

Montehermoso Cultural Center, Vitoria, Spain: Deadline: March 13, 2011

The Montehermoso Culturall Center, located in Vitoria, province of Alava, Spain, announces its Art and Research Awards aimed at facilitating the production, dissemination and exhibition of contemporary art projects. Awards are offered for:

- Production of contemporary art projects
- Curatorship
- Research (min. of one award is earmarked for projects related to the History of Feminist Art in Spain.)
- Development of a film scripts.

Deadline: March 13, 2011

More information: http://www.montehermoso.net/index.php?i=ing

ECAT, Toledo - 2011 Call for Projects. Deadline: December 10, 2010

The "Fundación de Cultura y Deporte" of the Regional Government of Castille-La Mancha will be selecting 5 projects to form part of it the exhibition programming of the "Espacio Contemporáneo Archivo de Toledo - ECAT".

Eligibility: Spanish and international artists. No age limitatation. Addressed to individual artists or collectives.

Financing: Maximum of 7.000 euros per project. Former church floor plans follow:














For additional information and application form: http://espacioecat.es

Krea Contemporary Expression Creation Program, deadline Nov. 30, 2010

KREA Contemporary Expression, located in Vitoria, Alava, is a centre that provides resources, a place for training and a meeting point where contemporary creation and culture from a multi-disciplinary and networking standpoint is encouraged.

The Creation Program is of strategic importance to KREA Contemporary Expression which fosters research, training, circulation and exhibition projects and pays special attention to young artists.

Visual arts, music, literary arts, dance and theatre are fields of creation that KREA Contemporary Expression has committed to, in addition to a concept of culture open to other spheres of social interest.

For more information about Krea, it's artist-in-residency program and it's new architectural project: http://www.kreared.com/en/krea

"New Life" Residency for Artists at Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain Deadline August 15, 2010

Wooloo.org invites artists to apply for a unique residency at Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art in Spain in the fields of Conceptual, Curating, Mixed Media, Performance, Sound Art.

NEW LIFE RESIDENCY is the world’s first non-visual residency program for artists. The residency is organized as part of Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, and will take place this fall in the Region of Murcia, Spain.

For one week each, five artists will be selected to live and work in a dark, visually distorted exhibition space. To support them in their life and work for the week, the artist will collaborate with a local Murcian assistant who is blind.

In cooperation with her/his assistant, the artist will use the one-week residency to create a guided tour of the non-visual space and experience in which s/he is living. The blind assistant will be the guide of this tour in darkness and the tour will be open to the biennial audience.

Deadline: August 15, 2010

All applicants must apply with their precise concept for this guided tour. A tour of a social sculpture, so to speak.

Apart from the guided tour, the five selected concept proposals will furthermore be exhibited in one of the main museum locations of Manifesta 8 and will be on view throughout the biennial from September 30th, 2010 (preview) to January 9th, 2011.

The five residency periods are:

September 27th to October 2nd, 2010

October 4th to October 9th, 2010

October 11th to October 16th, 2010

October 18th to October 23th, 2010

October 25th to October 30th, 2010

Financial Benefits: Travel, living and production costs will be covered for the selected artists.

Important Note: Due to the site-specific nature of the project and its local collaboration, applicants who speak Spanish will be preferred.

For more info.: http://www.wooloo.org/residency

Arteleku Studios, San Sebastian. Deadline: May 14, 2010

Located in the Loiola District in the outskirts of San Sebastian, about 2 kms. from the city center, Arteleku occupies an industrial building and has been an art center since 1987.

It also offers studios for rent. When applying for a studio, those interested must send their CV, a dossier about their work and a report on the project they wish to carry out, at the same time specifying the period during which they wish to rent it.

Deadline: May 14, 2010

The rental fee is 42 euros a month, which include the free use of the centre’s workshops (with the exception of lithography workshop) and facilities.

People who take up a place working at Arteleku have to look for their own lodging and be able to cover other maintenance costs. The center, however, offers help to find housing.

For further information: www.arteleku.net
Email: arteleku@gipuzkoa.net

Pilar Juncosa Grants for Training, Experimentation and Creation at the Miró Graphic Art Workshops in Palma de Mallorca. Deadline: Aug. 31, 2010

The Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró of Mallorca announces:

- 5 grants to take part in workshops and courses at the Fundación Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca. Each grant covers free enrollment in one of the courses workshops to be held in 2011 and up to 1,500 euros for travel expenses.

- 2 grants to train at other international graphic art workshops and/or art centers.

One center (The Slade School of Fine Arts, University Collage London) has been selected for its proven experience. Grant covers 3,000 euros, plus the use of a studio and access to the Slade Workshops. www.ucl.ac.uk/slade

The other, national or international, can be freely chosen by applicants. Grant totals 3,000 euros.

More information: http://miro.palmademallorca.es/