✨ SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED ✨

From here on, we leave it to the jury.
We’ll go a little quiet for a while…
but behind the scenes, something is already taking shape.
Stay close.
CLOSED.

💎 Submission highlight
Sara Scribner
I Searched For You Through the Dark
Oil on aluminum, 27 x 21"
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#FiKVAAward

⚡️ LAST 24 HOURS⚡️

You don’t need more time. You need a tiny bit of courage.

Still doubting? Send it.
Still choosing? Don’t. Send a few.

Apply via link in bio or directly: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

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Gayle Madeira
Siri and the Sea, Oil on linen panel
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#FiKVAAward #OpenCall

⚡️ LAST 3 DAYS TO SUBMIT⚡️
Use them.

Hesitating? Send it.
Can’t choose? Send a few.

No shipping. No goodbyes.

Apply via: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

💎 Submission highlight
Mereuta Alexia-Giorgia
Romani Healer, Oil on board, 40 x 40 cm, 2026
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#FiKVA2026 #FiKVAAward #OpenCall #PaintingAward

🏆 4 days left.
After that, this door quietly closes.

If you’ve been hesitating - send it.
If you can’t choose - send a few.

Apply via: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

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@roosvandermeijden
Retrospect, Acrylic on canvas, 50 × 60 cm
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#FiKVA2026 #FiKVAAward #OpenCall #PaintingAward

🏆 Just 5 days left.

Can’t decide on one?

Don’t.

Send a few.

No shipping. No goodbyes.
Just you, your work - and a decision that moves.

Apply here: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

💎 Submission highlight
Lisa Keay
Valkyries, Oil on linen panel, 22 x 36", 2026
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#FiKVAAward #OpenCall #PaintingAward

🏆 6 days. That’s all that’s left.

These days have a certain kind of quiet to them… use it.

Apply via the link: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

💎 Submission highlight
Teresa Brutcher
Grandfather and Granddaughter II
Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm, 2026
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#FiKVA2026 #FiKVAAward #OpenCall #PaintingAward

🏆 ONE WEEK LEFT.

You already know which piece it is. Take the hour.
Send it.

No shipping. No goodbyes.

Apply via the link: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

💎 Submission spotlight
Yann Kébé
Hypatia (The making of history), Oil on Wood, 65 × 52 cm
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#FiKVA2026 #FiKVAAward #OpenCall #PaintingAward

🏆 8 days - and then this door quietly closes.

Submit for the International FiKVA Award for Peinters 2026 here: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

💎 Submission spotlight
@Kolbjørn Håseth
Let the Light Show the Way, Acrylic on canvas, 70 × 100 cm, 2025
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#FiKVA2026 #FiKVAAward #OpenCall #PaintingAward

🏆 10 days left..

This weekend - take a breath, open your files, and choose the work you keep coming back to. Not the perfect one. The honest one.

Send it.

Apply via the link: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

💎 Submission highlight
Sandra Kuck
True Love, Oil on canvas, 16 x 20'
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#FiKVAAward #OpenCall

🏆 11 days left. That’s it.

Sometimes the only thing between you and an opportunity… is one click.

Apply directly via: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

💎 Submission highlight
Benji Alexander Palus
Where Is My Mind
Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in, 2025
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#FiKVA2026 #FiKVAAward #OpenCall #PaintingAward

🏆 12 days left to enter the 4th INTERNATIONAL FiKVA AWARD FOR PAINTERS. Submit now.

Still lifes, interiors, pets, landscapes… or something more imagined - all welcome at: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

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Ubaldo Vazquez
Moment with Dinosaurs
Acrylic on canvas
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#FiKVAAward #OpenCall

🏆 Final days to enter the 4th International FiKVA Award for Painters.

If you paint - don’t overthink it...

Apply directly via: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

💎 Submission highlight
Ksenia Filimonova
Rose glasses
Oil on board, 40 x 50 cm, 2026
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#FiKVA2026 #FiKVAAward #OpenCall #PaintingAward

SUBMIT THIS WEEK before the rush.

Apply via link in bio or directly: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

💎 Submission highlight
@Xinyi Lv,
Kamba Series · Long Journey, Oil on linen, 80 x 120 cm, 2026
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#FiKVA2026 #FiKVAAward #OpenCall #PaintingAward

Oil, acrylic… and yes, watercolour too.
Light, fluid, unforgiving - in the best way. We love it.

🏆 THE 4th INTERNATIONAL FiKVA AWARD FOR PAINTERS
Only 15 DAYS LEFT.

Apply directly via: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

💎 Submission highlight
Nobue Takahashi
Purple Haze
Watercolour & gouache
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#OpenCall

🏆 Final 20 days to enter the 4th International FiKVA Award for Painters.

Apply via the link: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

💎 Submission highlight
Paulina Kwietniewska
Last day of summer, Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm, 2026
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#FiKVA2026 #FiKVAAward #OpenCall #PaintingAward

🔥 Jury Member - Tanya Atanasova 🔥
We are proud to welcome Tanya Atanasova Visual Arts to the jury of the International FiKVA Award for Painters 2026.

If you want to know more about our judges or the FiKVA Award 2026, please follow the link: fikva.art/open-call/ 🎨✨
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#FiKVA2026 #FigurativeArt

Less than a month left.
🏆 Final weeks to enter the 4th International FiKVA Award for Painters.

Apply via the link: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

💎 Submission highlight:
Yun Ling
Lady with a Pearl Earring
oil on linen, 25 × 21 cm, 2024
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#FiKVA2026 #FiKVAAward #OpenCall

✨️ This year feels a bit different. In a good

But the part we keep coming back to is:
The Purchase Prize.
We will choose one painting to keep as a part of the FiKVA Collection.
Apply via:
www.fikva.art/open-call⁠

💎 Submission highlight:
Isabel Garmon
El Vuelo De Artemisa, Oil

#FiKVAAward

🔥 Jury Member - Zhang Hongbin 🔥

A bridge-builder. A global eye. A curator. Zhang Hongbin joins the jury of the International FiKVA Award for Painters 2026.

If you want to know more about the FiKVA Award 2026: fikva.art/open-call/%E...
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#FiKVA2026

🎨 PARTNER SPOTLIGHT - M. Graham & Co
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✨ We’re proud to have them as a partner
Apply via this link: fikva.art/open-call/

🏆 The 4th International FiKVA Award for Painters is open.
If you paint - really paint - this is for you.
No shipping.
You may submit more than one work.

Apply via: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

💎 Submission highlight
Sherri Wolfgang
A Pissed Off Princess
Oil on canvas, 20 × 24"
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#FiKVAAward #OpenCall

Oil, acrylic… and yes, watercolour too.

🏆 The 4th INTERNATIONAL FiKVA AWARD is open.

Apply via the link: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

💎 Submission highlight
Chin Lin Chang
The Comfort of the Heart in the Flowing Time
Watercolour, 110 × 100 cm, 2025
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#FiKVA2026 #FiKVAAward #OpenCall #PaintingAward

🔥 Jury Member - Samuel De Maré 🔥

If you want to know more about our judges or the FiKVA Award 2026, please follow the link in our bio or visit us at fikva.art/open-call/%E...
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#FiKVA2026 #BelgianArt

✨ FIKVA AWARD FOR PAINTERS 2026 - OPEN CALL

💎 Besides the other prizes - we will acquire one work for the FiKVA Collection.

Apply: www.fikva.art/open-call⁠
💎 @barbara__hack
Free to Be, Oil on canvas, 2025
#FiKVA2026 #FiKVAAward #OpenCall #PaintingAward

✨ ️THE INTERNATIONAL FIKVA AWARD FOR PAINTERS 2026 is open, and every submission is given real attention.

✨ Submission link: fikva.art/open-call/

💎 Alex Tomlinson
My Head is all Noses
Acrylic on canvas, 45 × 44 cm, 2025
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#FiKVA2026 #FiKVAAward #ContemporaryPainting #OpenCall

✨️ We're especially grateful, that our sponsors Rosemary & Co have prepared something special for the FiKVA community.
On Monday, our newsletter subscribers will receive a little gift from them.

If you’d like to receive it, make sure you’re subscribed before weekend ends: mailchi.mp/a815f2f0aae1...

🔥 Jury Member - Nadine Robbins 🔥
We are delighted to welcome Nadine Robbins to the jury of the International FiKVA Award for Painters 2026.

If you want to know more about our judges or the FiKVA Award 2026, please follow: fikva.art/open-call/%E... 🎨✨

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#FiKVA2026 #FiKVAJury #NadineRobbins

🏆 THE 4th INTERNATIONAL FiKVA AWARD FOR PAINTERS is open.

No shipping.
No parting with your work.

Apply via the link: fikva.art/open-call/ ✨

💎 Submission highlight
Cher Pruys
Grit Goddess, 9 × 6.75", 2025
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#FiKVAAward #OpenCall #PaintingAward

For the International FiKVA Award for Painters 2026, landscapes are welcomed 🌿

No theme. No trend chasing.
Just realism. Just paint.
Up to 5 works.
Open call is live: fikva.art/open-call/

💎 Submission highlight
LIHUA ZHANG
Between the Tender Light
Oil on Linen, 30 × 40 cm
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#FiKVAAward #OpenCall🎨

🔥 Jury Member - Lucas Bononi 🔥

If you want to know more about our judges or the FiKVA Award 2026, please follow the link in bio or: fikva.art/open-call/%E... 🎨✨
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#FiKVA2026 #FiKVAJury #LucasBononi #ContemporaryPainting