Concept NULL Newsletter #57
👋 Welcome
Hayyyyooo! We hope you’ve had a super summer. Here’s another set of happenings and opportunities to sink your teeth into.
For anyone that has yet to fill out the Basic Income for the Arts Survey we would greatly appreciate you take a few minutes to do this. This is something that could help sustain the quality of arts produced within Ireland.
The Digital Art Ireland monthly meetup will go ahead online at the later time of 8pm GMT+1 (Irish Time) here on Tuesday 2nd September .
If you want to support this project, please share this newsletter! And if you want to submit something, email us at conceptnullofficial@gmail.com
🎪 Events
Where Light Lingers
Organiser/s: Culture Night (Produced by Culture Works)
Location: Kylemore Abbey, Galway
Date: 20-09-2025
An event as part of Culture Night, Where Light Lingers explores multidisciplinary artistic practices with a focus on light-based and digital works. It offers a public engagement opportunity and showcases experimental practices in new and traditional media at Kylemore Abbey. This piece was created by Jane Cassidy, Linda Schirmer and Alannah Robins.
Berlin New Media Week
Organiser/s: Berlin New Media Week
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date: 03-09-2025 → 07-09-2025
For one week, Berlin’s galleries, clubs, and cultural spaces transform into immersive hubs showcasing cutting-edge digital art—ranging from live audiovisual performances, electronic music acts, interactive installations to AI-generated works.
Un-Silencing Symposium: Sonic Practice Research
Organiser/s: Radical Humanities Laboratory
Location: UCC, Cork
Date: 05-09-2025
A symposium dedicated to sonic research and experimental sound practices, highlighting cross-disciplinary approaches including digital and electronic media.
Visual Artists’ Get Together 2025
Organiser/s: Visual Artists Ireland
Location: Trinity University, Dublin, Ireland
Date: 08-09-2025
Annual national networking and professional development event for artists in Ireland, covering digital arts, visual practices, and interdisciplinary approaches.
Articles 📖
Basic Income for Artists survey
The Basic Income for Artists has been helping over 2000 artists make, create and survive in these difficult times. Now their is an open survey for the public to weigh in on the matter. If you feel like this scheme should be supported more, make sure you have your voice heard by filling out the survey. You could also go the extra mile and email your local TD through this lovable campaign.
📯 Open Calls
Palmer Gallery
Deadline: 12-09-2025
Organiser/s: Palmer Gallery
Location: PG Studios - Online Exhibitions
Palmer Gallery is delighted to announce another open call for self-taught artists. The winner will present a solo show as part of our online exhibition programme - PG Studios - which principally aims to support self-trained artists who did not attend traditional art school. Applications will be independently judged by a panel of art world professionals.
Artist-Initiated Projects 2026
Deadline: 11-09-2025
Organiser/s: Pallas Projects/Studios
Location: Dublin
Pallas Projects/Studios marks its thirty-year programme with Artist-Initiated Projects (2026), a series of three-week solo, duo or group exhibitions. Eligibility focuses on early- to mid-career visual artists based in Ireland. Exhibitions receive gallery support, documentation, and direct funding (approx. €1,000 solo; €2,000 group) plus modest outreach funding and collaborative experimentation.
Duplex Residency for Artist and Curators
Deadline: 14-09-2025
Organiser/s: Duplex,
Location: Duplex, Lisbon, Portugal
Residency and curatorial open call, welcoming applications from digital and interdisciplinary artists.
spazioSERRA Site Specific Open Call
Deadline: 01-09-2025
Organiser/s: spazioSerra
Location: Milan, Italy
spazioSERRA invites artists and collectives to conceive an original, site-specific project for the upcoming exhibition season.
This open call is a chance for artists to propose site-specific works with no thematic restrictions, considering spazioSERRA as a space to inhabit through their artistic research, engaging with the specificity of a constantly shifting exhibition space.
NEMO – Northern European Mobility Opportunity
Deadline: 15-09-2025
Organiser/s: Nordic Culture Fund
Location: Ireland
The call focuses on individual artists and arts practitioners in the early stages of their careers, reflecting a shared recognition among the partners that this group has a particular need for additional support and opportunities in the current climate.
🏠 Residencies
Walter Haymann Stiftung — Studio 2025
Deadline: 14-09-2025
Organiser/s: Walter Haymann Stiftung
Location: Switzerland
The Walter Haymann Studio Grant offers artists the opportunity to work free of charge for 12 months in the studio of the Walter Haymann Foundation in Zurich. The studio is located on the ground floor of the newly renovated foundation‘s house at Haldeneggsteig 7, 8006 Zurich. The grant is aimed at professional artists at the beginning of their career. It should support them on their path and foster their further development. The grant is awarded by the jury based on the submitted applications
Medialab Matadero — Situated Research Residency 25/26
Deadline: 17-09-2025
Organiser/s: Matadero Medialab
Location: Madrid, Spain
The Situated Research residency program is looking for proposals that explore emergent territories, combining conceptual development with creative practice while aligning with the most significant trends in research in art, design, science, technology and society. Medialab Matadero is committed to cultural innovation and critical thought and welcomes projects that are too exceptional to fit into the tight contours of academic research.
💰 Funding
Digital Arts Mentorship Scheme
Deadline: 08-09-2025
Organiser/s: Arts Council
Location: Ireland
The Digital Arts Mentorship Scheme aims to support individual digital artists to develop and extend their practice. It focuses on a process of mentoring with an experienced digital artist or other professional with expertise in digital arts.
Visual Arts Work Grant (Berlin)
Deadline: 03-09-2025
Organiser/s: Department of Culture Berlin
Location: Berlin, Germany
The grants are aimed for the artistic development of professionally working artists and groups of artists in the visual arts, based in Berlin. Funding is provided for artists who are striving to develop their artistic skills or for specific work projects, such as working on a particular theme, exploring new/other working techniques, etc.
Visual Artists Workspace Scheme
Deadline: 08-09-2025
Organiser/s: Arts Council
Location: Ireland
The Visual Artists Workspace Scheme supports artists’ workspaces throughout Ireland to provide the best possible working environment for visual artists. It focuses on developing workspaces that accommodate at least four professional visual artists working on site.
That’s it for now! The newsletter gets sent out 1st and 15th of every month and we post open calls and events as they come in on our Instagram so be sure to follow us there.
Again, thank you for all of your support as we continue to grow our project with the help of a great community and, as we always say, we would love to hear your thoughts, projects, events or other open opportunities so drop us an email.
Chat soon, Concept NULL
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