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Art Jobs in Italy: Open Calls from Inactual Magazine, Cotonificio Zambaiti, UVA, and PhEST

other · 2026-04-27

Artribune's weekly job roundup features five open calls in Italy. Inactual Magazine's #READINGS open call accepts articles and texts on technology's relation to contemporary art and electronic music, with a deadline of July 30, 2022. Cotonificio Zambaiti's second edition of 'Letto ad arte' competition, extended to Brescia, invites students from Accademia di Belle Arti di Bergamo Giacomo Carrara and Accademia di Belle Arti di Brescia SantaGiulia to create works on the theme 'Baci Rubati' for Bergamo-Brescia Capitale della Cultura 2023. Three winners receive internships and a March 2023 exhibition. UVA residency in Nizza Monferrato selects eight artists for a July 4–31 program curated by Alessia Baranello, Arianna Tremolanti, and Bea Roggero Fossati, with weekly guest talks. PhEST POP-UP Open Call, in partnership with LensCulture and Leica Akademie Italy, seeks visual projects on the theme 'Futuro' in two categories (Series and Singles), judged by Maurizio Beucci, Laura Sackett, Giuseppe Oliveiro, Arianna Rinaldo, and Giovanni Troilo. The educational project 'Le avventure della SMAgliante Ada' launches a comic contest for primary and middle school students on bullying and friendship, with the winning story published in Volume 3 in September 2022.

Key facts

  • Inactual Magazine open call #READINGS deadline July 30, 2022.
  • Cotonificio Zambaiti competition 'Letto ad arte' second edition extended to Brescia.
  • Theme for Zambaiti competition is 'Baci Rubati' for Bergamo-Brescia 2023.
  • Three winners of Zambaiti competition receive internships and exhibition in March 2023.
  • UVA residency in Nizza Monferrato runs July 4–31, 2022, selecting 8 artists.
  • UVA curators: Alessia Baranello, Arianna Tremolanti, Bea Roggero Fossati.
  • PhEST POP-UP Open Call theme is 'Futuro', deadline May 30, 2022.
  • PhEST jury includes Maurizio Beucci, Laura Sackett, Giuseppe Oliveiro, Arianna Rinaldo, Giovanni Troilo.
  • Le avventure della SMAgliante Ada comic contest for students, deadline May 27, 2022.
  • Winning story of SMAgliante Ada contest to be published in Volume 3, September 2022.

Entities

Artists

  • Claudia Giraud
  • Lara Zambaiti
  • Maurizio Beucci
  • Laura Sackett
  • Giuseppe Oliveiro
  • Arianna Rinaldo
  • Giovanni Troilo
  • Alessia Baranello
  • Arianna Tremolanti
  • Bea Roggero Fossati
  • Frank Cancian
  • Paolo Casicci
  • Angelo Ruta
  • Giorgia Bartolini
  • Vincenzo Castellana
  • Domitilla Dardi
  • Emilia Petruccelli

Institutions

  • Artribune
  • Inactual Magazine
  • Cotonificio Zambaiti
  • Accademia di Belle Arti di Bergamo Giacomo Carrara
  • Accademia di Belle Arti di Brescia SantaGiulia
  • UVA
  • PhEST
  • LensCulture
  • Leica Akademie Italy
  • PHmuseum
  • Roche Italia
  • Associazione Famiglie SMA
  • Centri Clinici Nemo
  • Scuola Don Milani di Cesena
  • Orografie
  • EDIT Napoli
  • Children's Museum Verona
  • Teatro Ditirammu
  • MAVI Museo Antropologico Visivo Irpino
  • LaPilart
  • Pro Loco 'Gino Chicone'
  • Comune di Lacedonia
  • BASE Milano
  • Fondazione ISEC
  • musil – Museo dell'industria e del Lavoro
  • Coclea
  • Comune di Cedegolo
  • Matrice Lavoro

Locations

  • Italy
  • Bergamo
  • Brescia
  • Nizza Monferrato
  • Monopoli
  • Cesena
  • Verona
  • Palermo
  • Sicily
  • Lacedonia
  • Alta Irpinia
  • Milano
  • Cedegolo

Sources