Commissions/Calls

Participants needed for a project about religious diversity in Johannesburg

Southbank Centre is looking for independent-minded young people, aged 18 – 26 years old, based in the UK or Africa who are interested in the arts, Africa and social change, to form a youth delegation during Africa Utopia in July 2012.

This is an open call to all artists who are interested in getting involved in an extended workshop and project on Public and Land Art.

Third Text and ASAI are pleased to announce the re-launch of Third Text Africa as a peer reviewed, open-source, online journal. The ‘new’ Third Text Africa complements the mother journal’s emphasis on publishing critical perspectives on contemporary culture, by encouraging new scholarship on and from Africa, with a particular emphasis on visual arts practice on the African continent.

StateoftheArt.co.za is inviting South African artists currently studying or graduated within the last five years from a recognised higher education art or design course to apply for online representation. Artists working in any visual media can submit works for consideration.

Commenting on the international "art business" franchise model (i.e., The Guggenheim Museum, The Louvre, Gagosian, James Cohan, et al.), apexart, NYC, annually holds a worldwide open call for proposals for curated group exhibitions to be presented anywhere in the world other than New York City.

The Parking Gallery site is not only for the documentation of Parking Gallery events but also an archive of contemporary art activities in Johannesburg (we’d like to branch out to other SAcan cities at a later date, but it’s not possible at this point). Also Submit Proposals for talks: If you would like to make a presentation at one of our Wednesday evening events at the VANSA premises.

Gitte Bohr. Club für Kunst und politisches Denken invites artists to send in a work to the exhibition series 1work/ 1room/ 1night/. Individualism and neoliberal agendas encourage artists to ignore the political and social dimension of being an artist in our society. Instead, the focus is on self-realisation and the artist's career.

The Forum For Redress (FFR), represented by Advocate Alice and Detective L. Prince, in partnership with guerilla gallery and artist/collaborator Elgin Helga Rust, invites Johannesburg-based practitioners from all disciplines (visual arts, theatre, dance, music, literature and law) to participate in the collaborative research and exhibition project APPEAL 2012.

The Ithuba Arts Fund provides a platform for emerging Jo’burg-based creative practitioners. The selected artists will be provided with financial support (proposal-based) covering either monthly stipends, material costs or all of the above. All selected artists will work towards an end-of-year exhibition in a downtown location. Exhibition costs and marketing will be covered by the Ithuba Arts Fund.

Up and coming and established artists can participate.

Calling artist to submit works.

INDIAFRICA: A Shared Future is an initiative that seeks to forge collaboration between Africa and India through a competition (categories: business plan, poster design, photography, essay writing) with cash prizes and a call for submissions for collaborative projects with individual annual grants of $10 000.

Assemblage is pleased to announce that it will be presenting an exhibition curated by Mika Conradie as part of the 5 day launch of its new Artist Run Centre and Studios in Newtown.

'Global Enviro-Changes' is a exciting call for works open to artists of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds interested in making contributions through visual artistic creations mainly by drawing, painting or digital art.

Funeral in Africa has never been a mere act of interment marked by rites of passage, but an important performance on the social stage conditioned by the incident and social perception of death. Like much art, a funeral aims to solve a social problem.

We would like to extend an invitation to all contemporary fine artists living in the Melville, Richmond, Auckland Park, Westdene and Westcliff areas to participate in an open studio artists' 'ramble'.

Athens Video Art Festival, always faithful in experimentation and constant self-criticism as contemporary art and life prerequisites, welcomes 2012 with its eighth official edition.

Appointment of an artist / photographer to produce a series of sacred landscape photographs for the permanent exhibition space at Freedom Park.

This is an opportunity for artists to show case their work in a vibrant, up market location, once the artists work is approved by Melrose Art panel.