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title: "Visual Arts Work Grant"
organization: "Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Berlin"
category: grant
deadline: 2026-09-02
valid_through: 2026-09-02
countries: ["DE"]
disciplines: ["painting", "drawing", "sculpture", "video"]
location: "Berlin, Germany"
entry_fee: "Free"
award: "€16,000 for 8 months or €24,000 for 12 months, paid in monthly rates of €2,000. The grant also enables a presentation at a Berlin Kunstverein, subject to budget availability in 2028. Grants can be combined with other Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion grants up to a cumulative amount of €24,000/year."
eligibility: "Open to professionally working visual artists and artist groups based in Berlin. Applicants must have completed artistic training and/or demonstrate several years of artistic activity in visual arts. Applicants must not be enrolled at a university or employed as a professor during the application and funding period. Designers, directors, screenwriters, and cinematographers in documentary or feature film are not eligible, unless their media art or artistic film/video work has a clear connection to visual arts (predominant presentation in exhibition contexts). For interdisciplinary artists, the focus of their work must be in visual arts. Applicants who applied for the 2026 work grant cannot reapply until the 2028 fellowship year, with an exception for those whose 2026 application did not meet formal requirements."
source_url: "https://service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/351411"
canonical: "https://opencallradar.com/open-calls/visual-arts-work-grant-senate-department-for-culture-and-social-cohesion-26f28edc"
status: open
last_updated: 2026-07-06T08:02:02.380736
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# Visual Arts Work Grant

**Organization**: Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Berlin
**Category**: grant
**Deadline**: 2026-09-02
**Location**: Berlin, Germany
**Country code(s)**: DE
**Discipline(s)**: painting, drawing, sculpture, video
**Entry fee**: Free
**Award**: €16,000 for 8 months or €24,000 for 12 months, paid in monthly rates of €2,000. The grant also enables a presentation at a Berlin Kunstverein, subject to budget availability in 2028. Grants can be combined with other Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion grants up to a cumulative amount of €24,000/year.
**Eligibility**: Open to professionally working visual artists and artist groups based in Berlin. Applicants must have completed artistic training and/or demonstrate several years of artistic activity in visual arts. Applicants must not be enrolled at a university or employed as a professor during the application and funding period. Designers, directors, screenwriters, and cinematographers in documentary or feature film are not eligible, unless their media art or artistic film/video work has a clear connection to visual arts (predominant presentation in exhibition contexts). For interdisciplinary artists, the focus of their work must be in visual arts. Applicants who applied for the 2026 work grant cannot reapply until the 2028 fellowship year, with an exception for those whose 2026 application did not meet formal requirements.

## Description

The Visual Arts Work Grant, offered by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion in Berlin, supports the artistic development of professional visual artists and groups. The funding aims to help artists develop their skills or work on specific projects, themes, or new techniques. Grants are awarded based on artistic quality, creativity, and continuity of previous work.

Recipients receive either €16,000 for an 8-month period or €24,000 for a 12-month period, disbursed in monthly installments of €2,000. The grant also includes the opportunity for a presentation at a Berlin Kunstverein in 2028, subject to budget availability. These grants can be combined with other funding from the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, up to a total of €24,000 per year.

Eligible applicants are visual artists and groups residing and working in Berlin, who have completed artistic training or have several years of professional experience. Applicants must not be university students or professors during the funding period. The grant supports specific sub-disciplines within visual arts, including painting, drawing, sculpture, artistic film/video, installation, sound art, urban art, photography, digital/media arts, and performance. Applications must be submitted online in German, with attachments allowed in English.

## Apply / Verify

- Official source: https://service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/351411
- OpenCall Radar listing: https://opencallradar.com/open-calls/visual-arts-work-grant-senate-department-for-culture-and-social-cohesion-26f28edc