Rezlogue’s periodical opportunities for Nigerian artists, curators, and researchers is a curated list of residency, fellowship, and funding opportunities that creators can access to support their work. Here is a list of 13 opportunities with upcoming deadlines! This list has been sorted by deadline.
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Deadline: February 23
The residency is conceived as a space for developing or refining ideas rather than producing final works. It builds on research conducted by Ciastoń in Hollabrunn, Austria. Artists are invited to engage with Hollabrunn by connecting it to other geographic or conceptual territories. The aim is to examine how different sites, histories, and material traces intersect and inform artistic practice.
2. Helsinki Intl Curatorial Program (HICP)
Deadline: February 23.
The Helsinki Int’l Curators Program offers a one-month residency to contemporary curators. This residency is on Suomenlinna Island, Helsinki. Selected curators get an accommodation and workspace, a 1200 € working grant, and a travel allowance from and to the curator’s place of residence.
3. Kuonyesha Art Fund Grant
Deadline: Feb 28
The Kuonyesha Art Fund provides up to US$5,000 to support, nurture and develop art in Uganda and the rest of Africa. It supports new and emerging artists that critically address or reflect sociopolitical issues.
4. Apex Art Intl Open Call
Deadline: March 1.
Apex Art is accepting proposals for exhibitions taking place anywhere in the world. It supports the exhibition with a US$10,000 budget, is jury-judged and based only on the strength of your ideas submitted as a 500 word proposal.
This opportunity is open to artists, curators, researchers and other practitioners.
5. NXTHVN Fellowship
Deadline: March 2
Annually, 7 artists and 2 curators are accepted into the NXTHVN Fellowship. Each fellow gets a studio/office space, a stipend and subsidized housing. Historically (based on 2023 fellows information), curatorial Fellows receive a $45,000 stipend and Studio Fellows receive a $35,000 stipend.
NB: Current visa suspensions may affect Nigerian creators but are encouraged to apply in anticipation of coming reviews. In general, Under 2025/2026 U.S. presidential proclamations,, expanded, multi-country travel bans and visa restrictions are reviewed every 180 days to determine if they should be continued, modified, terminated, or supplemented.
6. Onnasis AiR
Deadline: March 3
Supporting cross-disciplinary exchange among local and international cultural practitioners and researchers. The Onnasis AiR will award 30 residencies for a 10 week week period in Athens, Greece between September 2025 and July 2027.
Eligible fields include Visual Arts, Filmmaking, Curation, Theater, Dance, Sound, Art & Advanced Technologies, Applied Arts, and hybrid iterations.
7. The Image Center Research Fellowships
Deadline: March 15
The Image Center, Canada will offer 5 fellowships for photography related research. These fellowships include the The 3-month Nadir Mohamed Postdoctoral Fellowship ( $10,000 (CAD)), the 6 weeks Penny Rubinoff Fellowship ($5,000 (CAD)), the 4 week Elaine Ling Fellowship ($4,000 (CAD)), the 4 week Howard Tanenbaum Fellowship for Artistic Research ($4,000 (CAD)) and the 4 week Wendy Snyder MacNeil Research Fellowship ($2,500 (CAD)).
8. Goethe-institut Mobility Grant for Artists and Cultural Professionals in Sub Sahara Africa and Europe
Deadline: (Rolling) 15 March 2026 / 15 June 2026 / 15 September 2026 / 15 December 2026 / 15 March 2027 / 15 June 2027
The Africa-Europe partnerships for culture sub saharan African mobility grant scheme supports short term projects that allows mobility for creators looking to undertake projects within Africa transcontinentally (Africa-Africa) or between Africa and Europe. It requires you to have an existing partnership with a receiving institution or organisation.
You can apply if you are an emerging or establish individual artist, cultural worker, curator, and researcher from any creative discipline. Maximum grant amount is 4,000 EUR per mobility.
9. 10×10 Photobooks
Deadline: March 23
10×10 photobooks is seeking proposal for photobooks engaging research on black identity, Africa and African diaspora. This US$2,500 grant is for producing the research and not the book itself. The photobook proposed may be a portfolio, an artist monograph, zine, digital photobook, scrapbook, posters, personal album, classic bound book, etc.
You may apply if you’re a writer, researcher, artist, curator, etc., regardless of stage of practice, affiliated institution or organization, or academic status.
10. Arak Curatorial Fellowship
Deadline: April 15.
Arak Curatorial fellowship supports young, mid-career curators based in Africa. The selected curators will research Arak’s collection in Doha, Qatar for a 10 month period to produce an exhibition and write a catalog at the end. The fellowship provides up to US$20,000 including a US$5,000 research budget and a US$15,000 production and publishing budget.
The fellowship is held in partnership with the University of Johannesburg’s Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture (FADA) Gallery. The final exhibition for the 2025 cohort took place in FADA gallery, South Africa.
