ARS Pre-Christmas Pop-up Sale 2025 is back! Once again, we invite artists and designers to showcase and sell their works. Participation is also welcome through open studios, performances, and short workshops. Last year’s pop-up sale broke records – 101 authors and brands took part, and the event attracted a large crowd of art-lovers to the Art Factory.

The Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art together with Kaamos Group have founded the Kaamos Scholarship, worth 25,000€. It is currently the largest scholarship in the Estonian art field and it is intended to recognise and empower women artists. The first scholarship will be awarded in November 2025.

Narva Art Residency (NART) is announcing its open call for the main program residencies in 2026. 

 Open call for Estonian and Estonia-based artists, for an international exhibition in Tallinn, Tartu, and Berlin, opening this October. We invite artists working in the fields of performance, digital art, photography, sound, video, mixed media, painting, sculpture and more to join a group exhibition exploring creation in times of collapse. Please see the attachments below for further explanation and guidance on the theme of the open call and exhibition. 

From June 1 to July 31, the Ukrainian artist Apl315 stayed at the Muhu Art Residency as a
guest artist.

Narva Art Residency (NART) invites Estonian artists to apply for school-based residencies in Narva this autumn as part of the project “Artists are Present.” Six Estonian-speaking artists will be selected to come to Narva this autumn and spend a week with local youth in schools across the border city. Each participant will receive a creative grant of €500. The application deadline is the 28th of September.

Väinö Tanner Foundation´s artist residence scholarships for 2026 are again open for all Estonian and in Estonia working artists and artisans and designers.
 
Väinö Tanner Foundation is an independent private Finnish Foundation which has supported Finnish and Estonian art and literature by providing residences for Finnish and Estonian artists, artisans, writers and poets for over 30 years.
 

We welcome applications from all types of creative practitioners, including visual artists, architects, filmmakers, writers, curators, musicians, performing artists and those working across disciplines or in collaboration. KORDON offers 2 or 4 week residencies to change of pace and the space to create.

The Textile Arts Centre (Tekstiilikeskus) announces open call for residency programme primarily designed for fiber and textile artists. Applications are also welcome from artists and writers in other fields who wish to immerse themselves in textile practices.The 2026 season runs May through September and offers 2–3‑week residencies for one artist at a time, up to eight residents in total.

Send us your ambitious ideas that take advantage of the many possibilities of EKA Gallery! For the second time, in addition to project proposals we will also accept portfolios. Submit your portfolio if you do not want to apply with a specific project, but want to be considered for other projects.

Deadline 21.09.2025