In response to the final phase of the Decade of Centenaries the Arts Council is planning a national programme, Art 2023, a call to artists and arts organisations, to surprise and renew the state. 

In partnership with and support from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, the call will take place in 2022, with a final programme announced and commencing in 2023; it is a unique opportunity for artists to reinvigorate the Irish imagination and to look at the Decade of Centenaries from new perspectives through the creation of ambitious projects for the public.

This programme will build upon the Art 2016 programme previously presented by the Arts Council with support from Government.

An Open Call to the artists and arts organisations of Ireland to create national collaborative ground-breaking public-facing projects of ambition, impact and scale that encourage discourse, provocation or response to place and identity as part of contemporary Ireland.

Open Call is a programme for artists and arts organisations to develop and shift their practice and profile work for the public on a national scale, creating high-profile arts central to people’s lives.

Within the context of this award, collaboration refers to working with other artists or organisations, or may refer to collaboration with communities of place or interest. Projects of ‘scale and ambition’ is understood to mean work that is impossible to achieve in your current practice, significant in vision, irrespective of physical, temporal or quantitative scale.

Projects proposed in response to the Open Call may be in any artform(s), cross-disciplinary or interdisciplinary.

Open Call 2023 is for projects commencing in 2023 and completing in 2023, or the first quarter of 2024 in alignment with the decade of centenaries.

Deadlines

The application window for Open Call 2023 (Phase1) will open on 01 February 2022. The deadline for this Scheme is 5.30pm on Thursday, 03 March, 2022. Applications will be accepted through the Arts Council’s Online Services Website.

Further details here.