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The Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart awards between 50 and 60 residencies every two years to international artists, researchers, and cultural professionals from all disciplines.

The fellowship is aimed at artists, scholars, and cultural practitioners from around the world who have already developed an independent professional practice but are currently in an active phase of further growth – that is, they are no longer at the very beginning of their careers, but not yet firmly established.

Submission deadline: 14 November 2025

For more details, see here: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/fellowship/solitude-fellowship/

The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, in collaboration with Royal Enfield, is pleased to announce the third edition of The Himalayan Fellowship for Creative Practitioners (2025–26). The Fellowship invites applications from creative practitioners working across mediums at the intersection of ecology and cultural knowledge, based in the Western and Eastern Himalayan regions, including the eight Northeastern states.

The year-long Fellowship will support selected projects with an amount of up to 3 Lakh each.

Submission deadline: 15 December 2025

For more details, see here: https://ficart.org/thf-opencall-3

Area of Interest: High-Impact Research across all disciplines

Scope: Encourage and empower early-career researchers to pursue impactful research. Provide an enabling environment to conduct independent research with ease and flexibility.

Eligibility: Applicants must be early-career researchers as per ANRF guidelines. Likely within 5–7 years post-PhD.

Call Opens: 2 November 2025

Deadline: 2 December 2025

For details, please see here: https://www.anrfonline.in/

The Grant encourages artists to propose methods of art-making that incorporate research, collaboration, workshops, and formal experiments to explore the imaginations, architectures, sensoria, and interfaces of the archive.

Deadline: 30 November 2025 11:59pm IST

For details, please see here: https://inlaksfoundation.org/opportunities/grants/aaa-inlaks-art-grant/