Expired Art Contests:

• Enel Group • Deadline: August 30th, 2025 • Theme: Wind Energy • Prize: €250,000 + Exhibition • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE The Enel Group is excited to present a bold new challenge to creative minds around the world: help us transform the way wind turbines look and feel. We are searching for innovative concepts that break away from conventional designs and bring a fresh, artistic perspective to wind power. Our goal is to discover wind turbine solutions that

• Area Paris

• Schweizer Strohmuseum • Deadline: August 31st, 2025 • Theme: Design • Prize: CHF 12,000 + Exhibition • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE The Schweizer Strohmuseum is pleased to announce the reopening of its collection to artists, designers, and creative professionals—ten years after its last successful initiative. This is an exciting opportunity for participants to engage with historical materials and reinterpret traditional techniques in fresh, contemporary ways

• Kunstwerkt • Deadline: August 30th, 2025 • Theme: Food • Prize: Group Exhibition • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE “Eat This” is an open-call group exhibition organized by Kunstwerkt together with CC De Schakel in Waregem. For this show, every visual artist —regardless of background or experience—can participate without a selection process. Our shared theme is food , but in all its permutations: the neon glow of fast-food signage, the refined choreography of a

• ADICC • Deadline: September 15th, 2025 • Category: Contemporary Music • Prize: AED 130,000 + Recording • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Imagine a place where your musical ideas can take flight, your compositions can reach global audiences, and your creative vision can be fully realized. That place is the Abu Dhabi International Competition for Composition (ADICC)—a distinguished global stage created to champion the art of contemporary music, elevate the voices

• Boomer Gallery London • Deadline: September 4th, 2025 • Theme: Dreams and Nightmares • Prize: Exhibition in London + Exposure • Entry Fees: Free Submission (Pay if Selected) • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Are dreams and nightmares not merely the flickers of a sleeping mind, but rather the hidden engines propelling our deepest creative expressions—the secret fuel behind every brushstroke, every verse, every haunting melody? Might these nocturnal visions, fleeting and ephemeral a

• Apila Ediciones • Deadline: February 15th, 2026 • Theme: Printing • Prize: €4,000 + Publication • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Apila’s First Printing Award 2026 proudly continues its mission of recognizing and nurturing new voices in children’s book illustration. Now a well-respected name on the global literary stage, this prestigious competition serves as a launchpad for illustrators who have yet to publish a picture book with an ISBN. Organized by Apila Edi

• Artist Grant • Deadline: November 15th, 2025 • Category: Painting, Drawing, Photography, etc. • Prize: $1,200 Grant + Exhibition + Exposure • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Ready to take your art to the next stage? The Artist Grant offers an unrestricted $1,200 USD award to one visual artist, awarded three times each year. This grant is designed to help you push your project forward—whether that means finishing a major work, experimenting with new materials, o

• PleinAir Magazine • Deadline: August 31st, 2025 • Category: Paintings • Prize: $50,000 in Total Cash Prizes + Publication • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE The Annual PleinAir Salon Art Competition is a unique and rewarding opportunity for artists to showcase their work. Spread out over 12 months, the competition is held online each month, giving artists multiple chances to enter and win. If your work is selected as a monthly winner, you’ll be automatically enter

• The Untitled-Space • Deadline: August 15th, 2025 • Category: Art and Photography • Prize: Solo Exhibition in Tribeca (NYC) • Entry...

• BDA

• BOit!

• Boomer Gallery London • Deadline: September 4th, 2025 • Theme: Dreams and Nightmares • Prize: Exhibition in London + Exposure • Entry...

• Faust/Vizual • Deadline: September 15th, 2025 • Theme: Graphic • Prize: 10,000 PLN + Exhibition • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE What happens when one of Europe’s most iconic literary works meets the creativity of a new visual generation? “Faust/Vizual” is an international graphic competition that challenges young artists to reimagine Goethe’s Faust —not through words, but through images, motion, and bold graphic experimentation. Organized by the Wanda Siemasz

• Fondation FARB

• Enel Group

• Schweizer Strohmuseum

• Area Paris

• Monét-Michel • Deadline: October 31st, 2025 • Theme: Open • Prize: Exhibition + Publication • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE A Modern Curator of Fine Art Legacy At Monét-Michel, we bridge the gap between the classic and the cutting-edge—where the masterpieces of art history converge with the daring impulses of today’s visionaries. Our platform empowers art enthusiasts to not only acquire but also to champion and sell carefully vetted works by renowned artists.

• PleinAir Magazine • Deadline: August 31st, 2025 • Category: Paintings • Prize: $50,000 in Total Cash Prizes + Publication • Entry Fees:...

• Kunstwerkt

• SISS

• Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

• ADICC