Creative Professionals
Create your profile, find opportunities and connect beyond your local circle.
For Creative Professionals
Europe · Creative Sector
The professional home for Europe's creative sector.
Creative professionals, partners, organizations and opportunities — connected across disciplines and borders.
Avantgarde
Built for every part of the creative sector.
Partners & Institutions
Discover talent, build shortlists, publish calls and manage creative outreach.
For Partners
Organizations & Initiatives
Present your work, share activities and be found by the wider creative field.
Create your organisation profileAbout Avantgarde
Europe is full of creative talent, but the professional creative world is still scattered.
Artists, performers and musicians are often spread across Instagram, personal websites, emails and word of mouth. Organizations search through personal contacts, old lists, open calls and manual outreach.
Avantgarde brings this into one place.
A professional space where creative professionals can create a profile, find opportunities and connect — and where organizations can discover talent, publish calls and build shortlists.
Not an agency. Not a management program. Not another social media platform.
Founder
Built with a clear purpose.
Europe has exceptional creative talent — but too much of it remains underpaid, unseen or disconnected across borders.
Avantgarde started from one question: why are powerful creative moments still left to chance?
I once watched a dancer create a painting through movement, with paint on his feet. The canvas was later sold in Paris for thousands. It was a perfect example of what happens when disciplines meet: something unexpected, meaningful and valuable.
I come from the business world, so I think in systems. I wanted to build something that makes more of these connections possible — not as a one-time visibility moment, but as a structure that lasts.
Avantgarde is that place: a professional home for creative talent, organizations and opportunities across Europe.
Quality first. Always.
Lea Hermesdorf
Lea Hermesdorf
Founder, Avantgarde
