OPEN CALL

For the second time, Amarte presents the Dutch Talent Project Grants in collaboration with Rotterdam Photo. This initiative offers emerging photographers the opportunity to develop new work around the festival theme Echoes of Silence – War in the Artist’s Soul. Selected artists will receive financial support, artistic guidance, and a platform to present their projects during Rotterdam Photo 2026. Would you like to share your work with a large audience? Apply now!

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Bottled Up

Nullshima Studio
Bottled Up is an immersive audio-visual installation that brings a single plastic bottle to life. Through animation, music, and interactive performance, the work invites audiences to reflect on the presence of plastic in everyday life, its ecological impact, and its cultural entanglements. A surreal karaoke climax turns spectators into co-performers, blending humour, spectacle, and critical reflection. Bottled Up, premiering at Hošek Contemporary in Berlin, merges visual art, film, theatre, and music into a hybrid, participatory experience.Nullshima Studio is an interdisciplinary artist duo consisting of Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy. The duo operates at the intersection of visual art, sound, and storytelling. Their practice combines in-depth research with playful experimentation to explore urgent themes such as the climate crisis, cultural identity, and decolonial perspectives. With backgrounds in documentary film, sociology, and multimedia art, they create immersive works that connect local communities with global narratives through collaborative, socially engaged processes.
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The Amarte Foundation was founded by a number of individuals and their families who share a deep love for the arts. They wish to support the development of creatives and talent in arts and culture by providing financial means and where possible coaching, knowledge and experience. Artists who are active in the cultural sectors of the Netherlands or the ABCSSS islands (the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) can apply to Amarte for the support of projects in the field of theatre, film, music, visual arts and literature, as well as interdisciplinary projects.