Organ Vida, as a FUTURES member organization, is launching an open call for artists to join the platform in 2026. The call is open to emerging and mid-career artists working in photography and video, as well as hybrid practices that explore the relationship between images and sound, sculpture, or spatial expansion, such as installations or performances.
FUTURES is a European Photography Platform that brings together the global photography community to support and nurture the professional development of emerging and mid-career artists worldwide. Operating as an ever-growing international network of influential photography organizations, FUTURES unites a wealth of resources, expertise, and talent programs. Each year, these organizations nominate a group of artists to join the platform and co-host a series of events designed to enhance the artists' capacity, mobility, and visibility.
The open call is open to citizens of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Slovenia, and Albania.
Through this open call, five artists will be selected.
Selected participants will have the opportunity to engage in diverse online educational activities and apply to internal open calls for exhibitions and mentorship programs hosted by member organizations. In 2026, all selected artists will attend one live event (the Annual Event), where they will have the chance to connect with the FUTURES community in person. Additionally, all selected artists will be promoted through the FUTURES website, social media channels, and the printed annual publication.
Each selected artist is required to participate in all mandatory online activities and attend the final live event (Annual Event) in November 2026 (exact location and dates to be confirmed). Organ Vida will cover travel, accommodation, and daily allowances for participation in the final event, along with a gross honorarium of 500 euros for full participation in the project.
The artists will be selected by a professional jury comprising the Organ Vida curatorial team (Barbara Gregov, Lovro Japundžić, and Lea Vene), Tia Čiček (curator and artistic director at Škuc gallery), Natalija Paunić (curator and director at Autkomanda).
Application Process
Applications are submitted via an online form and must include basic information about the applicant and their previous work.
The following materials should be prepared for submission:
Artistic Work: Select one project you wish to submit for the FUTURES platform, organized into a folder named after the project's title, which includes:
15 high-resolution photographs: 300 dpi, TIFF format, 4500 px
15 low-resolution photographs: 72 dpi, JPG format, 1200 px
Photos must be named using the following format: firstname_lastname_projecttitle.jpg
Portfolio: A PDF or folder containing photographs of previous works.
CV
All Documentation: Compile the above materials into a single .zip or .rar file named with your first and last name. The zipped folder must be sent via WeTransfer to the email address info@organvida.com, and the WeTransfer link should be pasted in the designated field in the online form.
The deadline for submissions is January 10, 2026.
All inquiries can be sent to info@organvida.com.
Jurors:
Barbara Gregov, Lovro Japundžić, and Lea Vene form a curatorial team that has been running the Organ Vida Festival since 2020. They focus on showcasing and researching image-based practices, particularly at the intersections of visual art and contemporary digital and popular culture.
Tia Čiček are a curator, writer and researcher. They are programming Škuc Gallery and co-leading the World of Art School for Curatorial Practices and Critical Writing in Ljubljana. Focusing on collaborative exhibition-making, they assume care, feminist and queer methodologies as the basis of cooperation and discussions. Their curatorial research – entangled curating – introduces connectedness in care for all more-than-human species involved in contemporary art representation and discussion.
Natalija Paunić is a curator, mediator, and writer based in Belgrade. She is the founder of Autokomanda, an art space dedicated to dialogues in contemporary practices, and has framed the theme and collection for LUKOWA Art Initiative in Lucerne (CH). She has collaborated with or worked for institutions such as British Council/LUX Moving Image (London), documenta 14 (Kassel), Kunsthaus Dresden, Confluence Institute (Paris), Belgrade Biennale with Feminist Duration Reading Group from London (Belgrade), etc. Her projects, reviews and interviews were published in Spike, Mousse, Les Nouveaux Riches, Emergent Mag, Loophole and other international publications. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a master degree in Architecture from the University of Belgrade.
About FUTURES:
Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, FUTURES Photography Platform is a platform focused on amplifying emerging talents in photography in Europe. Since 2017, the aim of FUTURES Photography Platform is to pool the resources and talent programmes of leading photography institutions across Europe in order to increase the capacity, mobility and visibility of its selected artists. The FUTURES Photography Platform has grown since 2017 into a collaborative network of art institutions across Europe including: CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (IT), Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie (FR), Copenhagen Photo Festival (DK), Triennial of Photography Hamburg (DE), FOMU (BE), FOTODOK (NL), Fotofestiwal Lodz (PL), Fotogalleriet (NO), Fotograf Zone (CZ), Organ Vida (HR), ISSP (LV), PhotoIreland (IE), Photo Romania Festival (RO), Bienal Fotografia do Porto (PT), Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (HU), Void (GR), Photoforum Pasquart (CH), Photo Elysée (CH), and Centre de la photographie Genève (CH), Odesa Photo Days (UA).
Organ Vida has so far presented the works of Igor Schiller, Laureta Hajrullahu, Marija Mandić, Sara Perović, Sara Rman, Matej Jurčević, Ivan Buvinić, Lucija Bogunović, Lara Varat, Dea Botica, Sanja Bistričić, Filip Bojović, David Bakarić Mihaljević, Petra Slobodnjak, Lucija Rosc, Eva Bevec, Pavle Banović and Fred Mungo.