United Kingdom

Artangel Open is an open call for new ideas.

Over the past two decades, Artangel has invited artists to share ambitious ideas through a number of open calls. The resulting commissions have been ground-breaking with works in performance, film, installation, audio and digital mediums being presented in unexpected places in the UK including under a mountain in Scotland and a quarried island off the Dorset coast, to name a few.

The Open returns in 2025 and invites artists based anywhere in the world to submit their most daring idea. Your idea could manifest in the UK, internationally or online.

Submissions close at midnight BST on 31 March 2025.

The traditional reliance on local materials for crafting is gradually diminishing under the influence of global migration. Artists now have the opportunity to explore the crafting technologies of other cultures through traveling, while also sourcing materials from the farthest corners of the globe via international trade. As a result, creativity is grounded in a much wider range of information, with the concept of "anchoring" becoming a thing of the past. Today, Compared to a fixed space-time, the context of crafting begins turning towards a random journey.