The inauguration of the new edition of EXPOSED, an annual international photography festival held in Turin, has just taken place.
The festival features temporary exhibitions, a specialized fair, educational activities, meetings, artistic commissions, and events, all centered around a specific theme. This year’s chosen theme is “New Landscapes.”
The festival program is diverse and inclusive, encompassing various approaches to photography: from classical to contemporary, cross-media, installative, and performative.
More info: EXPOSED
Dates: from May 2 to June 2, 2024
03/05/24
Artistes en résidence, a non-profit organization aimed at supporting and promoting contemporary art through the organization of artist residencies, has opened applications for its “100-day residency 2025” program.
The residency lasts for a total of 100 days, which can be scheduled according to the needs of individual participants. During this period, time will be entirely dedicated to research and experimentation, with no obligation to produce a project. The goal is to allow artists to focus exclusively on deepening their research, immersed in a stimulating and multidisciplinary context.
More info: Artistes en résidence
Deadline: May 15, 2024
30/04/24
Today, Friday, April 26, marks the opening of the nineteenth edition of Fotografia Europea, an annual festival organizing exhibitions and events at various venues throughout the city of Reggio Emilia until June 9.
This year’s theme is “La natura ama nascondersi,” focusing on the relationship between human beings and Nature, exploring what surrounds them, examining reality and its perception.
The program includes solo exhibitions by both Italian and international artists, as well as collective exhibitions showcasing young talents.
More info: Fotografia Europea
Dates: from April 26 to June 9, 2024
Cover image: Arko Datto ©
26/04/24
Athens Photo Festival (APhF) has opened the call for entries for its new Book Program, curated by Sylvia Sachini and launched for the 2024 edition of the festival.
The program is divided into three categories – APhF Dummy Award feat Witty Books, APhF Pick:24 Book Award, and Unfolded Chapters Exhibition – and is dedicated to photographic publishing, encompassing both published photobooks and unpublished works.
Among the participants, in addition to the winners, some projects will be selected and exhibited in Athens during the Photo Festival.
The deadline to submit applications is April 30, 2024. An entry fee is required.
More info: APhF Book Program
Deadline: April 30, 2024
23/04/24
Associazione Culturale Blob ART ETS has opened the call to participate in the new edition of the Combat Prize, which aims to promote and enhance contemporary art.
The Prize is open to all contemporary artists, without age or nationality limits, and is divided into five sections: Painting, Sculpture and Installation, Graphics, Photography, and Video-Performance.
Cash prizes are available, as well as special prizes offered by some Italian galleries. Furthermore, the selected finalist artworks will be exhibited in a show taking place from September 21st to October 5th, 2024, at the “Museo Civico G. Fattori ex Granai di Villa Mimbelli” in Livorno.
A participation fee is required.
More info: Premio Combat
Deadline: April 30, 2024
19/04/24
“Supernova” is the performing arts review that will inaugurate its second edition tomorrow, Wednesday, April 17th.
Shows, performances, and workshops will alternate within the framework of the Teatro Galli and different other locations in the city of Rimini.
The starting point is the relationship with the sea and the coast, but also with the historic center, and the diverse communities that inhabit the city.
The aim of “Supernova” is to be a space for thought, debate, and protest, moving between the inside and outside of the theater in the spirit of encounter, exchange, and reflection on contemporary boundaries, encouraging people to speak up and not remain silent.
The artistic direction is entrusted to the duo Motus (Daniela Nicolò and Enrico Casagrande), in collaboration with Paola Granato.
More info: press kit
Dates: from April 17 to 21, 2024
Cover image: Federico Magli ©
16/04/24
The thirteenth edition of MIA Photo Fair, the international art fair dedicated to photography in Italy, is currently taking place at ALLIANZ MiCo – Milano Congressi. MIA Photo Fair aims to highlight the transversal role that photography plays within the contemporary art scene.
Solo exhibitions, collective stands, meetings, and talks will enrich the diverse cultural program of the fair until Sunday, April 14th.
More info: MIA Photo Fair
Dates: from April 11 to 14, 2024
12/04/24
MuseumsQuartier Vienna, in cooperation with EIKON Magazine, has launched the call for applications for its new Artist-in-Residence-Program.
The call is aimed at artists working with photography and media art. During the residency, selected artists will have the opportunity to develop their own project – immersing themselves in Vienna’s artistic and cultural landscape – which they can then exhibit in EIKON’s spaces.
The residency will last for two months and will take place in September and October 2024.
More info: EIKON
Deadline: April 22, 2024
Photo: Stefan Oláh, © MuseumsQuartier Wien
09/04/24
On Saturday, April 6th, the fourteenth edition of the Circulation(s) Festival kicks off, organized by the Fetart collective and dedicated to emerging European photography.
The festival features 24 artists from 14 different countries.
This edition will be characterized by a particular focus on fluidity and experimentation, exploring the dialogue between stillness and dynamism, old techniques and artificial intelligence, archival material and digital art, in a heterogeneous and multidisciplinary event.
More info: Circulation(s) Festival
Dates: from April 6 to June 2, 2024
05/04/24
Atelier Tivoli 89, located in Ville de Beausoleil, has launched an open call to participate in its new residency program. The call is aimed at artists working in the field of visual arts.
Selected artists will have the opportunity to work on a new project or continue an ongoing research; however, the final artwork must be necessarily connected to the territory of Beausoleil and its inhabitants.
Artists and collectives with a contemporary and creative approach will be considered, without any distinction of gender, nationality, or age.
Two separate residencies will be organized, each lasting four months: one starting in October 2024 and the other in February 2025.
Knowledge of the French language is required.
More info: Ville de Beausoleil
Deadline: April 15, 2024
02/04/24
“Allegoria della felicità pubblica” (Allegory of Public Happiness) is a group exhibition curated by Giulia Colletti and Gabriele Lorenzoni that involves many internationally renowned artists.
The focus of the exhibition is the reflection on what happiness is and whether it is possible to differentiate it between individual and public. Site-specific projects engage in dialogue with artworks from various public and private collections, aiming to provide an answer to the question: “Can men and women artists offer cultural models capable of focusing on an expanded, collective and plural concept of happiness?”
The exhibition has been organized in collaboration with the City of Trento and various cultural associations, and will be enriched with installations and events in different spaces throughout the city.
More info: Mart
Dates: from March 28 to June 30, 2024
Skaņu Mežs, the festival for experimental music, has launched an open call to participate in the tekhnē sound art project, which explores the diverse nature of technology.
The festival will take place in Riga, Latvia, in September and October 2024, and selected artists will have the opportunity to participate with their works.
Participants will be asked to create sound-based artworks that creatively examine the role of technology and can be both performed live and installed as sound art pieces for public exhibitions. The residency will last for two weeks and will take place in September 2024.
More info: Skaņu Mežs
Deadline: April 8, 2024
Last weeks to visit “The Sounds of the World,” an exhibition curated by Marianna Vecellio hosted at Castello di Rivoli. A unique circuit has been designed for the spaces of the Museum and its gardens, creating a sensory experience with a focus on sound art.
The artists involved in the exhibition are: Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, Lina Lapelytė, Max Neuhaus, Susan Philipsz, Irene Dionisio, Hito Steyerl, Cooking Sections, Teresa Margolles, Cally Spooner, and Ramona Ponzini.
The show is an inclusive exhibition which aims to facilitate access to art for people with disabilities, such as the blind and visually impaired.
More info: Castello di Rivoli
Dates: from December 5, 2023, to April 1, 2024
Cover image: courtesy Castello di Rivoli ©
The open call to take part in the International Festival of Theater Art and New Technologies “The Wonders of the Possible” is now open. Organized by Kyber Theater, the festival is celebrating its eleventh edition this year, taking place from October to November 2024. The festival aims to promote the interconnection between Theater, Performing Arts, and New Technologies.
The open call addressed to companies and individual artists, both emerging and in advanced stages of their careers. Projects that combine new technologies with theater and/or artistic performances will be admitted.
More info: Kyber Theater
Deadline: April 2, 2024
“Streams of Spleen,” a solo exhibition of artist Shahryar Nashat, will open on Sunday, March 17th at the MASI in Lugano.
Nashat’s project consists of an immersive installation to be hosted in MASI’s underground hall, which will disrupt the balance of the museum space by intervening on every surface – including walls and floor – as well as the lighting.
Nashat explores themes related to intimacy, passion, and fragility, staging evocative materials that recall the physical and biological features of the human body.
More info: MASI Lugano
Dates: from March 17 to August 18, 2024
Cover image: Shahryar Nashat, Untitled, 2023. Frame from HD video: color / stereo audio. Courtesy of the artist, Rodeo, Piraeus/London; Gladstone Gallery, New York/Brussels; David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles/New York. © Shahryar Nashat.
Centrale Fies has launched the twelfth edition of LIVE WORKS, a platform dedicated to the practical and theoretical exploration of contemporary performing arts, curated by Barbara Boninsegna and Simone Frangi.
Artists and professionals from any geographic location, with no limits on age, can enter the announcement. They must present unpublished projects, or long-term projects that need to be concluded in the LIVE WORKS experience.
A total of 6 projects will be selected.
More info: LIVE WORKS, Centrale Fies
Deadline: March 29, 2024
The exhibition “Prospect,” a solo show of the artist Alexandra Leykauf curated by Anna Voswinckel, has recently opened at Camera Austria.
Alexandra Leykauf explores the multiple possibilities of reproducing what the gaze observes through technologies developed from the invention of photography to the present day.
On the occasion of the “Prospect” exhibition, for the first time, the artist combines five new picture panels with her video works, allowing the formation of thematic clusters that are mediated transmedially.
More info: Camera Austria
Dates: from March 2 to May 12, 2024
Cover image: Alexandra Leykauf, Aussicht/Vignette (Kuwasseg), 2023. © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2024.
The exhibition “MARIONETTE E AVANGUARDIA” (PUPPETS AND THE AVANTGARDE), curated by James Bradburne, is currently ongoing at Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia.
The exhibition revolves around the work of various artists – including Picasso, Depero, Klee, and Sarzi – who understood the artistic value of objects such as puppets and marionettes. The show explores the concept of the ‘fourth wall’, the ability of a performance to successfully engage the audience. When a puppet manages to ‘break the fourth wall’ and gain the trust of the audience, the show demonstrates the power to transcend the edge between stage and real world, between art and life.
More info: Palazzo Magnani
Dates: from November 17, 2023, to March 17, 2024
The exhibition “A Cadência de uma Chama,” the third solo show by artist Gonçalo Preto hosted by Galeria Madragoa in Lisbon, is currently ongoing.
The exhibited artworks depict a series of dreamlike and mental landscapes, imagined or dreamed. Preto presents a type of meditative painting, characterized by predominant blue and gray tones. This series opens up new emotional and visual worlds, familiar yet elusive.
The exhibition will be open until March 9, 2024.
More info: Galeria Madragoa
Dates: from January 17 to March 9, 2024
Cover image: “A Cadência de uma Chama”, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, 17 January – 9 March 2024. ©
The DiDstudio in Milan has launched the DiDstudio_NAO24 open call for participation in the 2024 season of the NAO Performing Festival, which will take place from March to December.
The call, open to all the interdisciplinary artists over the age of 18 and under 35 operating in the world of performing arts, aims to promote language innovation and stimulate exploration of creative spaces.
More info: DiDstudio
Deadline: March 4, 2024
Onassis AiR is an organization dedicated to fostering artistic process by providing all the necessary support to develop an artistic research project through residency programs and various collaborations.
The programming for the 2024/2025 season is divided into three different strands: The Onassis AiR Extended Research Residencies, The Onassis AiR Dramaturgy Fellowships, and The Onassis AiR/ONX Fellowships. A total of thirty participants will be selected.
The call is open to professionals from various disciplines, and the program will take place in Athens, starting from September 2024 until July 2025.
More info: Onassis AiR
Deadline: March 4, 2024
The exhibition “ETHER” is currently taking place at The Residence Gallery in London, featuring the artists Marc-Aurèle Debut, Gusty Ferro, Natalia Janula, and Léa Porré.
The four artists have been invited to present works that reflect on the meaning of ‘ether’, a word that can be understood as the fifth element or as a translation of the Latin word ‘aether’, referring to the highest, purest, and brightest part of space.
The exhibition will be open until March 3, 2024.
More info: The Residence Gallery
Dates: from January 26 to March 3, 2024
Cover image: Installation view of “ETHER”, at The Residence Gallery, London, 2024. Works by Léa Porré (left) and Natalia Janula (right). Courtesy The Residence Gallery ©
The call for applications for EXECAL residencies, organized by ECAL/Ecole in collaboration with La Becque, is now open.
The two selected artists will have the opportunity to benefit from a month’s residency at La Becque spaces, with the aim of developing a project related to their practice.
The call is open to ECAL students and allows any type of artistic practices. The organization will offer accommodation, travel expenses and a grant for four weeks.
More info: ECAL
Deadline: March 3, 2024
MIA Photo Fair has announced the third edition of the IRINOX SAVE THE FOOD Award, curated by Claudio Composti. The aim of this award is to promote artists who, through the use of image in all of its forms, including video, have dealt with the theme of food in all its variations.
The Award is open to artists without limits of age or nationality, who are conducting research with a particular focus on the food waste.
Fifteen artists will be selected to exhibit their works at the thirteenth edition of MIA Photo Fair, scheduled in April.
More info: MIA Photo Fair
Deadline: February 25, 2024
“Bertozzi & Casoni. Tranche de vie” is an exhibition project, curated by Diego Galizzi, that involves the three public museums in Imola: Palazzo Tozzoni, Museo San Domenico, and Rocca Sforzesca.
Giampaolo Bertozzi and Stefano Dal Monte Casoni are the artistic duo that has revolutionized the role of ceramics in the contemporary art scene, creating sculptures on the verge of realism.
At Palazzo Tozzoni, the works engage with the surroundings, creating a surprising path that evokes the daily life of the Tozzoni family. The portico of Museo San Domenico, on the other hand, hosts an arrangement of works that narrate the artistic journey of Bertozzi & Casoni, starting from their origins, before the duo defined the artistic language that characterizes them. Lastly, in the southeast tower of Rocca Sforzesca, the installation “La morte dell’eros” is on display.
More info: Imola Musei
Dates: until February 18, 2024
Cover image: © Bertozzi & Casoni, Paulista, 2023, polychrome ceramic. Photo Nazario Spadoni. Tranche de vie, 2023, Imola.
Applications to participate in the RE-IMAGINE Green Art Practices artist residency program are now open. This program is organized in collaboration by Green Art Incubator, Arte Urbana Collectif, Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiative in Arts and Culture, and Pro Progressione.
The residency will span over a year and will be divided into four distinct periods, each lasting five days, taking place in the project’s partner countries.
RE-IMAGINE aims to encourage the exploration of new ways to incorporate environmentally sustainable practices in the performing arts and present them as project proposals to develop during the residency.
The call is open to organizations, collectives, or groups of artists who have a passion for environmental sustainability and wish to promote this commitment in the performing arts.
More info: Pro Progressione
Deadline: February 10, 2024
The twelfth edition of ART CITY Bologna is about to begin, taking place from February 1 to 4, featuring an intense program of exhibitions, performances, special initiatives, and collateral events.
In addition to the five special projects scheduled – which will pay tribute to the artist Giorgio Morandi on the 60th anniversary of his death – numerous institutional entities, art galleries, and independent spaces will enrich the program and animate the entire city with exhibitions and cultural events.
To promote the accessibility and encourage a greater engagement from the public, the events will be free of charge or at a reduced cost.
More info: Cultura Bologna
Dates: from February 1 to 4, 2024
On the occasion of the Rome VideoGameLab 24 Festival, taking place from January 25 to 28, 2024, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Kamilia Kard presents a performance connected to her project “Toxic Garden,” a Roblox map designed by the artist herself.
“Dance Dance Dance” is an online interactive performance scheduled for Saturday, January 27, at 7:00 PM. In this garden inhabited by poisonous plants, representing the transposition of toxic relationships that proliferate in virtual and real social environments, participants’ avatars, adorned with custom skins designed by the artist, dance together, automatically synchronizing with the movements of the artist’s avatar.
Collaborating with professional dancers, Kamilia Kard envisions a choreography capable of expressing, warning, and somehow reacting to manipulative behaviors.
More info: Rome VideoGame Lab
Date: January 27, 2024, 7.00 PM
“The Painting Race” is the exhibition and performative project conceived by the artist trio CANEMORTO and organized as part of ART CITY Bologna 2024.
The protagonists of this intervention are six paintings mounted on wheeled supports. The paintings, placed within a closed circuit, can be remotely controlled by visitors in a true ‘painting on wheels’ competition.
Thanks to this playful setting arranged in the spaces of Alchemilla, “The Painting Race” aims to overturn the classical perception of canvas artworks by engaging the audience.
More info: Alchemilla
Dates: from January 26 to March 16, 2024
On the occasion of Cremona Art Fair 2024, the “That’s Contemporary! A call for VIDEO ARTS” contest was launched in collaboration with the Combat Prize. The project, entirely dedicated to video art, aims to offer an opportunity for growth and visibility to the younger generations, of all nationalities.
The call is open to all forms of contemporary video art, including video performances, experimental animations, video search, video portraits, or abstract videos.
More info: Cremona Art Fair
Deadline: January 31, 2024
MIRE is an organization dedicated to experimental cinema and moving images.
The open call launched by MIRE, in the context of the European project SPECTRAL, is aimed at all artists interested in cinematic performance.
The purpose of the residency is to explore the urban landscape through the use of experimental cinema as medium, and will take place from June 10 to July 7, 2024, in Nantes, France.
Both new projects and works in progress can be submitted.
More info: MIRE
Deadline: January 28, 2024
“Siân Davey: The Garden” is the current exhibition displayed on the exterior walls of the Soho Photography Quarter, headquarter of The Photographers’ Gallery in London.
The artist, together with her son Luke, transforms her garden into a space where every visitor, with no distinction, is embraced and welcomed, creating a photographic project that conveys yearning, serenity, and inclusiveness at the same time.
More info: The Photographers’ Gallery
Dates: from November 29, 2023, to November 29, 2024
Cover image: Siân Davey, The Garden (2020-2023) © Siân Davey
“Visibile/Invisibile. Tecniche della Meraviglia” is the exhibition curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti currently taking place at Casa degli Artisti in Milan.
The exhibition shows the artworks of the artists and tutors who participated in the residency held in September.
Florentin Aisslinger, Lan Gao, Olmo Gasperini, Marco Paganini, Dario Pruonto, and Alessia Rosato are the six young artists who, under the guidance of tutors Cesare Fullone, Giuliana Cuneaz, and Antonio Marras, developed projects on social themes related to invisibility, with a focus on the wonder of simple things, such as the sea or the starry sky.
More info: Casa degli Artisti
Dates: from December 15, 2023, to January 21, 2024
At Palazzo Esposizioni, the exhibition “Don McCullin in Rome” curated by Simon Baker, in collaboration with Don McCullin and Tim Jefferies, is currently ongoing.
The exhibition traces the most significant moments of McCullin’s work, featuring war and documentary images, as well as a series dedicated to the Roman Empire, all strictly in black and white.
In conjunction with the exhibition, a new book titled “Don McCullin: Life, Death and Everything in Between” has also been published by GOST Books.
More info: Palazzo Esposizioni
Dates: from October 10, 2023, to January 28, 2024
“Ulrike Rosenbach. today is tomorrow” is the solo exhibition currently taking place at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, in Karlsruhe.
On display is a collection of works realized by the artist since 1969. Ulrike Rosenbach was one of the first artists in Germany to use video as an artistic medium, exploring, as forerunner, themes related to female identity and gender role attributions.
More info: ZKM
Dates: from June 24, 2023, to February 4, 2024
Image: © Ulrike Rosenbach, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
“Nancy Holt / Inside Outside” is the solo exhibition currently taking place at MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
On display is a selection of artworks made by the artist between 1966 and 1992.
Nancy Holt was a key figure in the art world as an innovator of site-specific installations and American Land Art. The artist reflects on how to identify one’s place in the world by exploring places and the perception one has of them.
More info: MACBA
Dates: from July 13, 2023, to January 7, 2024
Image: © “Nancy Holt / Inside Outside” exhibition views, 2023. Photo: Miquel Coll
“Ocean Odyssey” is the immersive exhibition currently taking place at the Atelier des Lumières in Paris.
On display is a series of images captured by Brian Skerry to celebrate the beauty of marine life and encourage its preservation.
More info: Atelier des Lumières
Dates: from October 20, 2023, to January 7, 2024
Image: photo by Brian Skerry ©
The V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography is an annual initiative dedicated to identifying, supporting, and promoting women artists working in the field of contemporary photography.
The theme for the 2024 edition is “Histories,” an invitation to submit projects that explore the relationship between history and photography, with a focus on a feminine perspective. Both archival works and those with a more contemporary approach will be considered.
The four selected artists will have the opportunity to participate in a group exhibition at Peckham24 photography festival, along with a bursary and an expenses-paid study trip to London scheduled in May 2024.
More info: V&A Parasol Prize
Deadline: January 4, 2024
Applications are open for “Residency 26 – Bricking It,” the second residency organized by PRAKSIS at Samong Haven (Bali), scheduled for April 2024.
The aim of the residency is to bring together various professionals — architects, artisans, artists, designers — building a diverse and collaborative community for research, design, and production. The research will focus on the production and use of bricks as a sustainable building material for that region.
Participants will be provided with meals, accommodation, and a stipend to cover expenses.
More info: PRAKSIS
Deadline: January 4, 2024
The Synthetic Biology and Biosystems Control Lab (sb2cLab) at the Polytechnic University of Valencia has launched an open call for an artistic residency project.
The aim of the residency is to create an artistic work related to the research developed at sb2cLab, thereby finding new forms of alternative communication that can help society better understand the importance of the research.
The organizers are committed to providing the selected artist with a training and experimentation platform to explore the creative potential of Synthetic Biology in the artistic field. Additionally, a workspace at sb2cLab and the support of specialized researchers will be provided throughout the entire residency period.
More info: UPV Universitat Politècnica de València
Deadline: December 30, 2023
“Flower-Life” is Nobuyoshi Araki’s solo exhibition currently taking place at Mucho Mas! in Turin.
The title of the exhibition recalls that of the homonymous book published in 2018.
On display are some works, including portraits of his wife Yoko and photographs of flowers from the Flower Rondeau series (1999-in progress), a selection that comprehensively represents Araki’s artistic research.
More info: MUCHO MAS!
Dates: from October 19, 2023, to January 28, 2024
“Batteries not included” is Vadim Fishkin’s solo exhibition hosted by LOOM and inaugurated during the Milan Drawing Week.
Fishkin, always intrigued by technological advancements and scientific developments, selects consumer goods, primarily household appliances, as subjects for his works. These items are reinterpreted and represented in a post-conceptual, light, and ironic key.
More info: LOOM
Dates: from November 25, 2023, to January 13, 2024
Cover image: Batteries not included, Vadim Fishkin, exhibition view at LOOM gallery, photo by Lorenzo Palmer, © LOOM and the artist
“Athari” is the name of the biennial open call launched by Art 54, an organization dedicated to promoting contemporary art, dedicated to young emerging visual artists. This second edition will take place in Africa, and only artists born and currently residing in one of the African countries will be eligible for selection.
The call will be open until December 12, and selected artists will receive support for their research and the organization of a solo exhibition. The call is open to all types of visual media.
More info: Art 54
Deadline: December 12, 2023
On the occasion of “Ad occhi aperti” event, organized and promoted by cultural association Hamelin, the cartoonist Eliana Albertini and the photographer Valentina D’Accardi collaborate to create the exhibition titled “Senza essere visti.”
The exhibition has been designed to foster a dialogue between the works of the two artists, despite being created using different media and languages.
The subject of the exhibition revolves around those familiar yet uninhabitable places, depicted by the two artists through drawings and photographs.
More info: Ad occhi aperti
Dates: from November 18 to December 8, 2023
Cover image by Eliana Albertini and Valentina D’Accardi ©
The Schaufler Foundation, in collaboration with the Dresden University of Technology (TUD), has announced a call for applications for an artist in residence starting in 2024 and continuing for six months.
The residency, open to both individual artists and collectives, will take place at the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, focusing on the theme of “Data-Worlds.”
Artists have until December 1st to submit their applications, including a project proposal that will be fully realized, or just completed if already started, during the residency period. All artistic disciplines are welcome.
More info: Technische Universität Dresden
Deadline: December 1, 2023
Last days to visit the “Jus d’Orange” exhibition curated by Chiara Nuzzi at the Fondazione ICA in Milan. The exhibition features the works of the artist Camille Henrot with the texts of the writer and art critic Estelle Hoy.
This unconventional installation shows a mutual contamination between the two artists: different languages interact, amplifying each other and telling, through words and images, themes related to melancholy, failure, injustice, and hope.
More info: ICA Milano
Dates: from September 29 to November 25, 2023
Cover image: Camille Henrot & Estelle Hoy. Jus d’Orange, curated by Chiara Nuzzi, Installation view, Fondazione ICA Milano, Milan. Ph. by Andrea Rossetti
© Fondazione ICA Milano
Maestrale. Festival di Arte, Scienza e Cura sociale is an event organized by Casa degli Artisti, in collaboration with the Comitato Maria Letizia Verga, which explores contemporary art dedicated to cutting-edge medical-scientific research, assistance processes, and social inclusion.
The festival aims to strengthen the relationship between art and science.
On display are some new artworks created by artists Oli Bonzanigo, Elena Mazzi, and Mara Palena during an artist residency in the Maremma countryside.
More info: Casa degli Artisti
Dates: from November 23 to 26, 2023
Uncanny Atlas: Image in the Age of A.I. is one of the exhibitions organized at BASE, in Milan, as part of the PhotoVogue Festival 2023.
Curated by Chiara Bardelli-Nonino, this group exhibition represents an exploration into how Artificial Intelligence, applied to the image production, is not only changing the concept of photography but also the very nature of reality.
The exhibition is conceived as a kind of initial mapping of a new world, still entirely unexplored, an invitation to reflection starting from this idea: what would happen if an abstraction can replace the reality it was only meant to describe?
Cover image: © Filippo Venturi, Broken Mirror
More info: PhotoVogue
Dates: from November 16 to 19, 2023
Beginnings, the group exhibition curated by Marcella Manni which involves the artists Elena Aya Bundurakis, Mark Dorf, Daniele Marzorati, and Marit Wolters, will open today, Tuesday, November 14th, 6.30 pm, at NonostanteMarras spaces in Milan.
The artists, with different backgrounds, uniquely interpret a rigorous investigation utilizing tools of production, interaction, sharing, and communication, both digital and analog, as the foundation of their practice.
the exhibition will be open until January 7, 2024.
More info: Metronom
Dates: from November 15, 2023, to January 7, 2024
Today, Friday, November 10th, starts the new edition of Wonderland Festival in Brescia, promoted by the IDRA Teatro organization.
The festival will feature a series of shows, dances, and performances which will take place in various locations throughout the city, during the month of November. During this edition the artists, through their artworks and performances, will reflect on what it means to live in a fairer and more just society.
More info: Wonderland Festival
Dates: from November 10 to December 2, 2023
The applications for the artist residency, promoted by Art Hub Copenhagen, are now open. The residency will take place from February to June 2024. During the five-month residency, the three selected artists will have access to a studio at the Container Academy in Copenhagen and will have the opportunity to participate in workshops organized by the academy.
Part of the residency program involves participating in meetings with selected curators and mentors, as well as visiting the main artistic institutions in Denmark. The purpose of the residency is to create networks and expand one’s personal and artistic boundaries. Artists are free to use any form of expression they deem most suitable.
More info: Art Hub Copenhagen
Deadline: November 22, 2023
The solo exhibition “Lorenzo Mattotti. Storie, ritmi, movimenti” dedicated to the artist and illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti and curated by Melania Gazzotti, is currently open at the Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia.
On display is a selection of artworks that explore the artist’s relationship with music, dance, and cinema, three worlds that have deeply marked and influenced Mattotti’s artistic practice.
The exhibition is open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.
More info: Fondazione Brescia Musei
Dates: from September 14, 2023 to January 28, 2024
PROSPER, an international project involving five European artistic research organizations, has opened a residency call for individual artists or duos.
The residency will take place in April 2024 at Lake Ohrid in North Macedonia, a location that has suffered ecological damage due to tourist overcrowding. Participants are required to generate projects that connect their artistic practice to these themes: peripheries as spaces of possibility, sustainability’s environmental challenges, and the storytelling of local communities.
The residency will culminate in a festival organized by the participants.
More info: LOOP
Deadline: November 6, 2023
The exhibition project “Diego Marcon. Glassa”, curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol and Elena Magini, is currently on display at Centro Pecci in Prato.
It is an immersive experience, composed of brand new artworks and others previously presented by Marcon but reconsidered specifically for this exhibition, with the aim of investigating the relationship between reality and moving image.
More info: Centro Pecci
Dates: from September 30, 2023 to February 4, 2024
The Feminist Gaze, percorsi di donne nell’arte contemporanea is the event, promoted by the Blu Bramante Association, which will take place on Wednesday, October 25th, at the Palazzo dei Musei in Modena.
The women participating in the discussions – Liz Prince, Kamilia Kard, Giulia Iacolutti, and Ilaria Baldini – will be interviewed by Marcella Manni and Chiara Bardelli Nonino, with the aim of recounting their respective paths of artistic research that, albeit different, are all united by the premise that “contemporary art is not neutral.” Through this dialogue, the goal is to give value to the culture expressed from a feminine perspective, in a society still fundamentally structured from a male standpoint.
Image: graphic project by Masi Ilaria
More info: Associazione Blu Bramante
Date: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023, 3.30 PM, free entry
Fabbrica del Vapore, cultural hub located in Milan, will host “Milano Scultura” from October 20th to 22nd, a fair dedicated to sculptural art, now in its seventh edition.
“The time line” is the title and theme of this edition dedicated to contemporaneity, to the challenge of being ‘aligned’ with the temporality of our time, which is increasingly complex and difficult to read.
During the three days, there will be also the opportunity to participate in meetings and performances.
More info: Milano Scultura
Dates: from October 20th to 22nd, 2023
Between Bridges has launched the open call for the next two biannual residencies for visual artists. The first will take place from January to June 2024, the second from July to December 2024. They will each be divided into a five month working phase and a one month exhibition or public presentation.
The residency will take place in Berlin and the call is open to professional individual visual artists, artist duos or small groups.
More info: Between Bridges
Deadline: October 21, 2023
On the occasion of the “Archivi aperti” (open archives) initiative, promoted by Rete Fotografia, Fototeca Gilardi opens the doors of its archives. The theme of the event, now in its ninth edition, is the discovery, preservation, and valorization of photographers’ archives.
At the Fototeca Gilardi, there will be two guided tours: the first on Monday, October 16th, and the second on Wednesday, October 18th, both at 6:00 PM. During the tours, it will showcase documentary photos, experimental ones, and family photos too. Additionally, there will be an overview of the artist’s research, known for his technical experiments, starting from the mixed-media photopaintings and then moving on to digital artworks.
More info: Fototeca Gilardi
Dates: October 16th and 18th, 2023
The Spreepark Art Space in Berlin has launched an open call for groups and collectives to join their new upcoming residencies, that will take place in 2024.
The duration of each residency will be 3 months and will be held at Eierhäuschen, a former historic restaurant that has been renovated and repurposed as a space for artistic production and social interactions, including accommodation for the artists, common areas, and exhibition spaces.
The participating artists will be invited to explore the relationship between art, architecture, nature, and public spaces.
The call is open to those who do not yet live and work in Berlin.
More info: Spreepark Art Space
Deadline: October 16th, 2023
From October 6th an infestation organized by CHEAP collective, titled SABOTATE con grazia, will be open at MAMbo. To celebrate their 10 years of activity, a selection from the photographic archive documenting their past urban art projects will be showed in various, also unconventional, museum spaces.
CHEAP is a collective that presents public art projects on street posters, intervening in the urban landscape with a contemporary language that seeks a balance between artistic practice and activism.
More info: CHEAP
Dates: from October 6th to December 17th, 2023
On Saturday, September 30th, at the Comandini Theater and San Biagio Arena in Cesena, the first edition of the Catalysi Festival will take place, a “multidisciplinary and novice festival marked by the impetus that drives one to start things”.
The festival’s aim is to explore what lies beneath the surface of the contemporary art system, through performances, live sets, and audiovisual shows that embrace ephemeral art in all its forms.
More info: Societas
Date: September 30th, 2023
From September 1st to November 1st, the eighth edition of PhEST, the international festival dedicated to photography, art, cinema, and music that embraces influences from the Mediterranean, takes place in Monopoli.
Born out of the need to gather and shape the diverse artistic identities in this geographical area, the festival aims to create a space for dialogue through events spread throughout the city.
More info: PhEST
Dates: from September 1st to November 1st, 2023
“What kind of love endures?”
Centrale Fies, a research center for contemporary performative practices, starts from this question to organize the event “Enduring Love”, which aims to explore delicate and complex themes such as love, care, and trust.
From Thursday, September 21st to Saturday, September 23rd, various shows and performances will take place, bringing together the diverse creative directions of the artists and collectives involved.
More information: Centrale Fies
Dates: September 21st to 23rd, 2023
The international festival of art, dance, music, and theater organized by MAXXI L’Aquila is reaching its third edition this year, taking place from Thursday, September 14th to Saturday, September 16th.
Three days filled with events scattered throughout the city, with the aim of create an urban laboratory, trigger new relationships and activate experimentation processes in the social fabric of the city.
More information: MAXXI L’Aquila
Dates: September 14th to 16th, 2023
The Faenza Prize, now in its 62nd edition, is one of the most renowned competitions in the field of contemporary ceramic art. The competition is divided by age into two categories: under and over 35.
From July 1st to October 29th, the 70 selected artworks will be exhibited at the MIC Faenza.
More info: MIC Faenza
Dates: July 1st – October 29th, 2023
The 2023 edition of Blooming Festival, dedicated to the digital culture and the new media exploration, kicks off on Friday, September 8th.
The festival will host international artists and creative studios with installations, video projections, and performances which will take place in unique locations within the historic center of Pergola (PU).
More info: Blooming
Dates: September 8-9, 2023
“Eurydice, a descent into infinity” is the title of the immersive artwork created by Studio Nergens, currently showed at MEET Digital Culture Center. This artwork, inspired by the myth of Orpheus, offers an interactive and multi-sensory journey through this virtual installation. By wearing a visor and starting from the MEET’s Immersive Room, visitors can explore a reserved and protected area, thus embarking on a captivating solitary journey into Hades in search of Eurydice.
More information: MEET Center
Dates: from September 1st to September 10th, 2023
Officine CAOS, a cultural space located in Turin, has launched an open call for emerging artists working with performing and multimedia arts.
The selected talents will have the opportunity to present their projects during the next international performing art season, titled “Differenti sensazioni”, which will take place from November 2023 to April 2024. The deadline for submitting applications is August 31.
More information: officine CAOS
Deadline: August 31, 2023
“Artisti in guerra” is the exhibition of over 140 artworks created by different artists who have experienced, or are experiencing, war over the past centuries. The exhibition delves into the meaning of war and violence through the sensitive and empathetic gaze of the artists, highlighting its horrors as well as its hidden and mysterious aspects.
The exhibition includes artworks on loan from important public and private institutions, both Italian and international, along with two new commissions, unpublished artworks created specifically for this occasion, by two artists whose countries of origin are currently experiencing conflicts: Rahraw Omarzad (Kabul, 1964) and Nikita Kadan (Kiev, 1982).
© Nikita Kadan, Gostomel. From artist’s visual diary, 2023, courtesy the artist
More information: Castello di Rivoli
Dates: March 15 – November 19, 2023
The exhibition “Wild City – Storie di natura urbana”, showed at MUSE in Trento, addresses fundamental themes to understand the new urban ecosystem that has emerged as a consequence of the man-made environment: the threats, difficulties, as well as the opportunities that the city offers to animals, and the both positive and negative interactions they have with humans.
The exhibition features a setup of photographs, installations, and scale reproductions of animals, highlighting the relationship, as well as the delicate balance, that has developed between humans and nature in cities.
© Nicola Destefano, Geco, Wild City – Storie di natura urbana
More information: MUSE
Dates: April 1 – November 5, 2023
The exhibition “Cina – La nuova frontiera dell’arte” is currently shown at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan. The exhibition explores the contemporary Chinese art story, through the most important and interesting artistic phenomena that have occurred between the 20th and 21st centuries.
Established and sought-after masters like Yin Kun, Ma Han, and Xu De Qi – who will present unpublished artworks specifically created for this occasion – will be exhibited alongside emerging female personalities such as Xiao Lu and Zhang Hongmei.
© Xu De Qi, Beauty and the Beast, 2018, oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm, courtesy Art Book Web
More information: Fabbrica del Vapore
Dates: June 24 – October 8, 2023
“Tutti al mare (1843-2023). 180 anni in vacanza a Rimini” is the photographic exhibition displayed along the Rimini promenade. More than 200 images, including photographs and posters, are exhibited in over 2.5 km of beach, recounting 180 years of the Riviera lifestyle, from the first bathhouse foundation to the present day.
The uniqueness of this setup does not allow a sequential and chronological narrative. Therefore, 8 sections have been designed, each exploring a specific theme, such as the fashion and costumes evolution, the beach with its architecture and objects, games and hobby, and the different beach types.
© Isola delle Rose, Rimini, courtesy Archivio fotografico della Biblioteca Gambalunga
More information: Biblioteca Gambalunga
Dates: July 1 – August 31, 2023
“Volevo vedermi negli occhi” is the solo exhibition by Lina Pallotta, currently showed at Centro Pecci, in Prato. The exhibition presents a selection of photographs from the project “Porpora”, which subject is the transgender activist Porpora Marcasciano. The photographs taken by Pallotta, who attributes a significant social responsibility to this medium, portray personal moments and scenes from everyday life, with a focused perspective on the narrative of social and political movements in the transgender activism landscape.
Blurry, black-and-white, and strongly contrasted images tell the story of their deep relationship.
© Lina Pallotta, “Volevo vedermi negli occhi”, installation view at Centro Pecci, Prato, 2023
More information: Centro Pecci
Dates: May 6 – October 15, 2023
“Questi miei fantasmi” is the site-specific installation conceived by the artist and fashion designer Antonio Marras. Created in collaboration with students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, the installation is composed by hundreds of lanterns, hand-cut and hand-sewn using scraps of high-fashion fabrics donated by Marras.
The artwork is exhibited in Vico di San Pietro a Majella and in Rampe del Salvatore, creating an evocative atmosphere. It is an intervention in the urban landscape aimed at highlighting diversities, represented by the various fabrics used, through light, a symbol of life and rebirth from darkness. It is an ode to the richness of differences and the beauty that emerges when they come together.
The artwork is part of “Napoli Contemporanea 2023” project, which aims to make the city a European reference point for contemporary art.
© “Questi miei fantasmi”, Antonio Marras, installation view at Napoli Contemporanea 2023, courtesy Comune di Napoli
More information: Comune di Napoli
On May 6th, the exhibition “Buddha10 Reloaded” was inaugurated at the MAO – Museum of Oriental Art in Turin. The exhibition features a renewed setup with new sound installations, videos, performances, woodcuts, and site-specific artworks.
Starting from the MAO’s collection of Buddhist art, the exhibition aims to start a dialogue on issues related to Asian collections within the Italian and European context. “Buddha10 Reloaded” brings the public’s attention to themes concerning Eastern ritual and religious objects, showcasing Buddhist sculptures never presented before from the MAO’s collection, as well as innovative artworks created for this occasion using new technologies and contemporary art practices.
© Wu Chi-Tsung, Drawing Studies – MAO Bodhissatva Guanyin, Ming – Ging Dynasty, 2022, realized for the exhibition Buddha10, 2022-2023, MAO – Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin
Single Channel Video Installation, 26’ 8’’ loop
More information: Museo d’Arte Orientale
Dates: May 6 – September 3, 2023
The exhibition “L’Italia è un desiderio” presents a wide selection of images, with over 600 works displayed in the Scuderie del Quirinale spaces in Rome, taken from the archives and collections of Alinari Foundation and Mufoco – Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Covering an extremely long time period – from the beginnings of landscape photography to the present – through a chronological succession of techniques, languages, and visions, the exhibition allows one to retrace the evolution of the ways through which Italy has been represented, appreciating its beauty and measuring its contradictions at the same time.
Through this exhibition, the landscape becomes a metaphor for social, artistic, and cultural changes that have occurred in Italy from the mid-19th century to the present day.
© Fratelli Alinari, I faraglioni (The Faraglioni), Capri ante 1915, negativo alla gelatina sali d’argento su vetro, courtesy Archivi Alinari
More information: Scuderie del Quirinale
Dates: June 1 – September 3, 2023
The Royal Academy of Arts in London is pleased to host the exhibition “Herzog & de Meuron” at the Burlington Gardens, looking behind the scenes into one of the most renowned entities in the architecture’s world.
The exhibition, featuring 400 objects from the Herzog & de Meuron design process, offers an opportunity to discover how the projects of this Swiss studio, which has reimagined the architecture of famous buildings like Tate Modern and Elbphilharmonie, come to life.
© Herzog & de Meuron, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, 2001-16, photo by Iwan Baan
More information: Royal Academy
Dates: July 14 – October 15, 2023
The ambitious project of Culterim Gallery aiming to convert a former industrial warehouse, slated for demolition in summer 2024, into a space for arts and culture is now ongoing. Culterim Gallery has launched an ongoing open call, with no specific deadline (except for the building’s expected lifespan), inviting people to present exhibitions, performances, cultural events, and short-term studio projects. All forms of art are welcome.
The former industrial warehouse is located near Berlin-Spandau train station. The factory hall of about 600 square meters, has about 10 meters high ceilings, and is composed by a large open space and various former office rooms. Underneath the main hall there is an imposing high cellar of the same size.
More information: Culterim Gallery
The neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) presents the results of the international art competition “Art in the Underground”, this year titled “New Urban Publics”. The selected artworks will be exhibited until August 10 and will connect Berlin’s underground system with specific urban spaces above ground.
Thinking about the concept of public squares as places for meeting and dialogue, three locations in Berlin – Kottbusser Tor, Strausberger Platz, and Rotes Rathaus – along with their respective subway stations, have been chosen for artistic interventions made by the selected artists. All three locations are characterized by striking architecture, intersected by streets, bridges, elevated railways, or featuring a fountain in the middle.
The project is accompanied by an extensive event program.
More information: nGbK
Dates: from June 8 to August 10, 2023
Blooming You is the open call launched by Blooming Festival, aimed at artists and collectives who can participate in a multimedia project at the location of Pergola (PU), presenting projects, works, or creative processes that explore the intersection of nature and technology. Different artistic expressions will be accepted, including performances, installations, videos, soundscapes.
The theme of the call is the expression of the word “blooming,” meant as evolution/transformation/change, investigating suggestions or natural phenomena through technologies.
To the selected artist or collective, Blooming Festival offers refund of travel expenses, accommodation (room and board), technical support, technical support and publication of the selected project on their main channels of communication.
More information: Blooming You
Deadline: July 25, 2023
After a long period of closure due to renovation works, the E. Chiossone Oriental Art Museum reopens in Genoa.
On this occasion, the museum inaugurates a new exhibition titled “The Great Wave: The Importance of Water in Japanese Culture”, which explores the relationship between the Japanese people and water through the artworks of renowned Japanese artists, like Hokusai.
More information: Musei di Genova
Dates: June 24th – September 24th, 2023
Circulation(s) Festival has launched the open call to participate in its 14th edition, which will take place from April 6th to June 2nd, 2024.
The festival, curated by the Fetart collective and hosted at CENTQUATRE-PARIS, aims to explore the boundary between contemporary art and photography.
The call for entries is open to emerging photographers, with no age limit, resident in Europe.
More information: Circulation(s)
Deadline: July 23rd, 2023
Starting today, Friday, July 7th, the 53rd edition of Santarcangelo Festival: ten days of initiatives, shows, and performances that will transform Santarcangelo di Romagna into a “festival city”.
This edition, titled “enough not enough,” invites to imagine new perspectives of social coexistence through the gaze of established personalities from Italian and international performing arts scene, as well as young emerging artists.
More info: Santarcangelo Festival
Dates: 7-16 July, 2023
Kaaffilm Festival launches the open call for the second edition of the “Kaaffilm International Short Film Festival”, which will take place in September.
The call is open to all artists, of any genre and nationality. Participants are asked to submit their own short film (maximum duration of 20 minutes), completed within the last three years.
More info: Kaaffilm
Deadline: July 15th, 2023
The exhibition “Morgan Bassichis: More Little Ditties” opens today, Friday 30 June, at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Massachusetts. The exhibition brings together a series of performances, installations, videos and text artworks produced by the artist during the COVID pandemic period.
Performing solo as well as working collaboratively in duets and groups, Bassichis’ practice offers intimate deepenings about collectivity and lineage of queer and Jewish radicalism.
On Saturday 8 July there will also be the book presentation of “Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah”, which brings together 36 artists, activists, writers, and rabbis to reflect on questions about Jewish traditions.
More info: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Dates: June 30 – September 3, 2023
Image: Don’t Rain On My Bat Mitzvah, Morgan Bassichis, co-created with Ira Khonen Temple, featuring Emma Alabaster, Zoë Aqua, April Centrone, and Pam Fleming. Commissioned by Creative Time for Red Stage by Rashid Johnson, June 5-July 4, 2021. Performed live in Astor Place, July 4, 2021. Photo by Matteo Prandoni/BFA.com ©
ZIDART has launched the open call to participate in the 2023 edition of ZIDART – Street ART Festival, with the theme “Less is More”. Artists are invited to reflect on the theme of essential and on the concept of minimalism, then present the project of a mural painting that would be created during the festival. Among the proposals received 8 projects will be selected.
ZIDART is a project whose main target is urban and social regeneration through street art, education and creative interactions. ZIDART wants to open a social dialogue that inspires people to be present in the community and participate in the cultural city life.
More info: ZIDART
Deadline: July 1st, 2023
steirischer herbst launches the open call to participate in the new edition of Research Residency Fellowship program.
It is possible to concentrate the research project on topics ranging from art in public spaces, to the history of curating in contemporary art, to the cultural policies implemented in Austria and in central Europe after the second war. The final work, which will also be showed during the festival, can take different forms: text, image, video, audio.
The open call is aimed at international artists from any country and the residency, which will last one month, will take place in September 2023 at the steirischer herbst archives, in Graz.
More info: steirischer herbst
Deadline: July 1st, 2023
“Science is a traveling partner of the unexpected archaic sounds marvel of pumice stones, the charming ray of light which, like lighthouse from the sea, connect the islands, of the mystery of cosmism and of the insular ancestry linked to sexuality and to the culture of ancient and present.”
The new edition of Volcanic Attitude, Festival of contemporary culture, will start on Monday 26 June.
The festival welcomes and promotes dialogue between science and art, combining scientific insights with artistic performances organized in different places around Naples: the Vesuvius and Vulcano volcanoes craters, the Vesuvius Observatory, the Kaolin quarries, the Gelso lighthouse.
More info: Volcanic Attitude
Dates: 26 June – 2 July
The aim of the Festival dei Popoli – International Documentary Film Festival – is to promote and help circulate creative documentary and cutting-edge films, encourage the dialogue between different experiences, presenting itself as a meeting point and space for in-depth study between cinema and other disciplines.
Submissions to participate with your own project in the 64th edition of the Festival, which will be from 4 to 12 November, are open.
There are three different deadlines for submitting your application: deadlines for online registration are based on the film production date.
More info: Festival dei Popoli
transmediale/, in collaboration with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, launches its open call for a Digital Art Residency which will take place between July and September 2023. It will be a two-months hybrid residency: the first month will be online, the second one will take place at transmediale studio in Berlin. Also it is included an exchange with the Pro Helvetia x V2_ Lab for Unstable Media in Rotterdam.
The call is open to multiple formats: texts, films, performances, artificial intelligence, etc. Among the proposals received, two artists with Swiss nationality or a permanent residence in Switzerland, and two from any nationality will be selected.
Submission deadline is June 25th.
transmediale studio is a transversal and dynamic co-working space, that facilitates small scaled works and promotes presentations and events, with the aim of creating a space for critical reflection on cultural transformation from a post-digital perspective.
More information: transmediale
Deadline: June 25th
“QUORUM”, the contemporary art festival organized by Foundation Quadrienniale di Roma in collaboration with Museo Nazionale Romano, starts today, Friday 9 June. Three days of workshops, talks, performances, exhibitions, screenings and music in the suggestive setting of Terme di Diocleziano.
What are the connections that build the relationship between cultural arts and society? QUORUM aims to become a starting point of reflection on the role of contemporary culture and art within the society, in order to reach a consciousness of our country’s intellectual health state and of our generation.
More info: Quadrienniale di Roma
Dates: 9 – 11 June, 2023
INTERMEZZO exhibition, part of the third edition of Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA) program, curated by René Block, opens on June 17th. The exhibition, whose opening was initially scheduled for 2022 and then postponed due to the conflict in Ukraine, will be host in the new spaces of 44Møen, in Denmark, and will show artworks, projects, thoughts and stories of 13 international artists.
INTERMEZZO is a space for reflection and dialogue about a changing Europe, a celebration of respect and coexistence through the art language. The exhibition will be accompanied throughout the summer by musical programmes, performances and conferences.
More info: 44Møen
Dates: 17 June – 10 September 2023
The Driving Energy Award, organized by Terna with the aim of promote art and bring out new talents, is arrived to its second edition. This year’s theme is “In praise of balance” and the open call is aimed at all photographers working in Italy. To participate it is necessary to send an unpublished photographic project by 30 June 2023.
The Award is divided into two categories, Senior and Youth. A winner, who will receive a cash prize, will be proclaimed for each category and this year there will be three further special Awards: Terna’s Highest Voted Work, Amateur Award and Art Academy Special Commendation. Finalist artworks will be shown in an exhibition open from 26 September to 15 October.
More info: Driving Energy Award
Deadline: June 30, 2023
The permanent exhibition “Quintessence” by artist and former scientific researcher Enrico Magnani opened last October at Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS). The five-walled installation aims to connect the worlds of art and science, proposing an innovative vision of the Universe. Dark Matter, Supernovas and the other protagonists of Space are explored and represented through physics-based procedures, such as fluid dynamics, which allowed the artist to create the work without ever really touching it.
More info: LNGS
LA ESCUELA___, a Spanish artist-run platform whose purpose is to promote free and open access art education, is launching an open call aimed at artists, architects, scholars, educators and collectives from all over the world. The theme advanced by the platform is the relation between art and education in the Latin American landscape. The accepted practices are various and interdisciplinary: it is possible to propose artistic projects of different kinds, which can be identified as visual arts, performances, social practices or architectures.
The open call includes different programs: Library, Laboratories, Residency, Classroom, Auditorium and El Journal. Each program will select one or more projects among those received, which will compose the review of future events organized by the platform.
The deadline for sending applications is Thursday 15 June.
More info: LA ESCUELA___
Deadline: June 15th, 2023
The new edition of Interplay, the International Festival of Contemporary Dance organized by Mosaico Danza Cultural Association, starts today.
Many performative dance shows will take place in different areas of Turin city, involving young performers and well-known talents often excluded from mainstream circuits, belonging to Italian and international companies.
The festival supports and encourages young talents, also presents itself as an agent for social investigation, aiming to represent the complexities, weaknesses and contradictions of our present.
© Photo by Miriam Alé
More info: Mosaico Danza
Dates: May 23rd – June 10th
“Video games are to the 21st century what movies were to the 20th century and novels to the 19th century”, this is the incipit of the new exhibition organized by Centre Pompidou-Metz, and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, which will open on Saturday 10 June. Worldbuilding: video games and art in the digital age is a transgenerational exhibition that examines the increasingly common trend of contemporary artists to use the aesthetics of video games in their expressive form.
The exhibition will include 3D animated videos, virtual reality experiences, interactive video games based installations, and videos by artists from around the world.
© Theo Triantafyllidis, Pastoral (2019)
More info: Centre Pompidou-Metz
Dates: June 10th, 2023 – January 15th, 2024
The group exhibition “Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream” is now open at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. The focus is on the transformations that occur the human context, both inside the soul and outside the body, generated by the constant changes that happening throughout life. Every shade of the metamorphosis concept is explored by some sixty international artists, and over two hundred artworks, through different forms of expression: installations, photographs, sculptures, performances, video projections and much more.
The exhibition will be open until June 11th.
© Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, exhibition view at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, 2023, photo: Mathilda Olmi
More info: Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Dates: January 25 – June 11, 2023
The open call for the fourth edition of the DucatoPrize was launched on April 7. The Prize, this year directed by the curator Giacomo Pigliapoco, aims to support and promote the research and production of national and international artists. It is divided into two categories: Contemporary and Academy. The first is open to artists (and artists’ collectives) without age limits. The second is open to students from Academies, or Institutes, if regularly enrolled at the closing date of the call.
Among the participants, 10 finalists will be selected, 5 for each category, who will be part of the final exhibition.
The focus of this year’s theme is the relationship between the individual and the cosmos. Applicants may participate presenting any form of visual expression.
More info: DucatoPrize
Deadline: June 4, 2023
Circulation(s), the festival dedicated to young European photography promoted and curated by the Fetart collective, inaugurated its 13th edition on 25 March. The artworks of the 27 selected artists will be exposed until May 21, at the spaces of CENTQUATRE-PARIS (Paris).
Resilience is the focus identified for this 2023 edition, deriving from the historical period we are living in.
The high number of nationalities of the artists participating (fourteen), offers a broad and rich vision of the contrasts and trends present in each country. Through the eyes of the artists, the social and political problems of the various territories are investigated.
More info: Festival Circulation(s)
Dates: March 25 – May 21, 2023
Kunsthal Extra City in Antwerp hosts Ring of Animal, the first solo exhibition of South-Korean artist Young In Hong (Seoul,1972) in Belgium that will be on view until the 21th of May 2023. The exhibition has its focus on the installation made by the artists composed bye ix sets of straw-woven shoes for different species of animals placed in a circle. Using a traditional Korean technique, Hong creates a mystical ring of animals featuring creatures that normally do not share a common habitat.
The artists with this exhibition, re-establishes the chapel as a place for protection, but also for reflection on the ineffable and inseparable bond between man and animal. A space allowing for associations between what we see and what we imagine, between the forgotten and our current time. The new works of In Hong are deeply in dialog with the spaces of Kunsthal Extra City and offer the chance to dig inside the site specific approach to art.
More information: extracitykunsthal.be
02/05/2023
MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona presents the solo show of Bouchra Khalili: Between Circles and Constellations is on view in the Spanish institution until the 21th of May 2023.
The exhibition is conceived to bring together projects from the last ten years of Khalili’s oeuvre, including film, video-installations, photography and documentary material. We are all witnesses of our own history, but whose history is consolidated as collective memory? Exploring modes of historiography and drawing on conversations and archival material, the artistic practice of Bouchra Khalili (Casablanca, 1975, lives and works in Berlin) is an exploration of anti-colonial struggles, post-colonial histories of liberation and solidarity. Interweaving historical accounts and real-life stories, her works reinforce the political agency of subjects rendered invisible by the nation-state model of citizen membership.
More information: mamba.cat
28/04/2023
C/O Berlin started its open call for the Talent Award 2023, in the category Theorist. This prize recognizes outstanding work in both photographic practice and theory. It is awarded annually in the disciplines of artistic photography (Artist) and photo-theoretical writing (Theorist). C/O Berlin produces a solo exhibition with the award-winning artist and a publication with Spector Books to accompany it.
This year theme is New Documentary Strategies: the aim is to support and encourage a critical approach to traditional documentary narratives and a more diverse use of different media in museums and galleries.
More info: C/O Berlin
Deadline: April 28th, 2023
On 6 April 2023, the solo show of the Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens was inaugurated at the Pirelli Hangar Bicocca in Milan. The exhibition will be on view until 20 July 2023.
Pirelli Hangar Bicocca presents an itinerary curated by Roberta Tenconi where the Belgian artist’s constant questions regarding the sensory perception we have of reality are found in the space. Using intangible and ephemeral elements, such as light, sound and water, the artist creates works and situations that disorient the viewer, dissolving their conventional perceptive mechanisms – both physical and psychic – and questioning concepts such as emptiness and materiality. The exhibition conceived for the spaces of Pirelli Hangar Bicocca features various works by the artist, including videos, environmental and sound installations, alternating historical works and new interventions that will be in close relationship with the architecture of the Milanese institution.
More information: pirellihangarbicocca.org
04/21/2023
Fondazione Il Lazzaretto of Milan promotes the new edition of the Lydia Award for Contemporary Art. The open call is aimed at artists under 35 residing in Italy who can propose ideas for original artistic research – without limits of themes, techniques, formats or languages – to be developed over the course of twelve months with a return of the results at the end of March 2024 and a public presentation by the end of 2024.
From this year the Lydia Award becomes a research award. The prize is therefore no longer a proposal for an unpublished work but an ongoing artistic research, which may have had previous phases, possibly also supported by other collaborations, starting from specific themes and questions proposed by the artist – not suggested or requested a priori by the jury.
More info: Lydia Award
Deadline: April 20th, 2023
The Chiesi Group started an urban/architectural redevelopment project of the historical industrial site in Parma.
For this occasion, the company has decided to launch Restore to Impact, an international Call for Ideas open to two categories – Professionals and Under 30 – aimed at gathering innovative and transversal ideas that will be the basis for the guidelines of the future architectural building project. Participants can be individuals or interdisciplinary design teams.
It is required to indicate in the project possibilities, solutions and ways of reflecting on the architectural future of via Palermo site in relation to buildings, outdoor and indoor spaces – understood as an ecosystem of natural, functional, technological and sustainable elements – capable of creating an environment that is suitable for fostering interaction between people, planning and training linked to shared skills.
More info: Restore to Impact
Deadline: April 30th, 2023
À bruit secret. Hearing in Art is the fourth appointment that the Tinguely museum in Basel proposes where art enters into a relationship with one of the five senses of perception. A bruit secret. Hearing in Art is a collective exhibition of artists working on hearing and it can be visited until 14 May 2023.
Focusing on listening, the exhibition offers immersive and interactive installations and works: the viewer finds himself in dialogue with more or less recognizable soundscapes and therefore tests his own perception. Combining artists of different generations, À bruit secret. Hearing in Art manages to build a varied and fascinating exhibition itinerary, in which to get lost and rediscover one’s own use of the ears.
More information: tinguely.ch
04/11/2023
UNIDEE Residency Programs and Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto have announced the open call to participate the residency in the programme Neither on Land not at Sea, curated by Chiara Cartuccia.
The residency will take place at Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, and will be divided into three modules, which will take place in two different seasons: the first in spring (May 13-19), the second and third in summer (June 05-11 and 10-16).
The artist will be invited to explore the ways in which geography is historically, socially and politically expressed. In addition, to participants will be offered the opportunity to expand their ongoing research and practice, delving into Mediterranean intricacies and geographical thinking in the arts and beyond, within a group of peers and external guests.
More info: cittadellarte.it/unidee
Deadline: 12/04/2023
04/04/2023
Ridiculously Yours!, collective exhibition on going at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn is a very serious but also decidedly ridicules collection of contemporary art which doesn’t shy away from embarrassing the viewer. The exhibition includes 100 artists from all over the work, spanning from the earlier centuries to the immediate present and it is on view until the 10th of April.
Ridiculously Yours! flirts with the humour of catastrophe, bad taste, the camp approach, B-movie culture, science fiction and horror, but also with immaturity, idiocy, intuition and, of course, passion – not to mention enthusiasm.
An inspiring amusement park of enthusiastic awkwardness with works by numerous important artists: from Pieter Bruegel the Elder to Alfred Jarry and James Ensor, Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, George Grosz and René Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico and Sturtevant, Sigmar Polke and Martin Kippenberger, to numerous contemporary positions of contemporary art such as Paul McCarthy, Nicole Eisenman, Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Pauline Curnier-Jardin, Kiluanji Kia Henda or Ming Wong.
More information: bundeskunsthalle.de
31/03/2023
Camera Austria and Kulturvermittlung Steiermark announced the second round of scholarship: Graz Residency for International Photographers 2023. The scholarship intends to create an opportunity for photographers to focus on their artistic work and research in the city of Graz between September and October 2023.
During the residency the selected artist will have the time to work on an already ongoing project or to develop a new one: Graz Residency program offers an apartment in the city, a fund for the residency and the production of the artworks and the reimbursement of travel expenses. Also the residency will conclude with a presentation on the selected artists’s work in the exhibition and library space of Camera Austria.
More info: camera-austria.at
Deadline: 31/03/2023
28/03/2023
The ALA Group presents the third edition of the ALA Art Prize, a prize dedicated to contemporary art and open to artists under 40. The open call is free and aimed at Italian and foreign artists active in Italy, the theme of this open is Habitat and the artists will have to present a new and site-specific project for the ALA headquarters in Naples. In addition to becoming part of the ALA collection, the winning artist will also receive a cash prize for the winning work.
The theme of the ALA Art Prize 2023 edition is Habitat to be understood as a stratified concept open to multiple interpretations, as a physical and ideal environment, natural and artificial. How is a complex concept like that of Habitat declined on the basis of the different sensitivities of the artists and the multiple languages of art?.
Learn more: alacorporation.com
Deadline: 03/30/2023
03/24/2023
Exposed is a collective exhibition running at Palais de Tokyo in Paris from the 17th of February to the 14th of May 2023. The exhibition aims to put together artists with HIV/AIDS and how they are dealing with these illnesses.
Exposé·es: people did not choose to be exposed to a virus, an illness, an epidemic.
Exposé·es: people did choose to be exposed in order to make visible this virus, this illness, this epidemic.
Amongst these people were artists. Amongst these viruses, these illnesses, was HIV/AIDS, which caused the deadliest epidemic of the past century and of the present one.
The exhibition investigate what the AIDS epidemic does to artists, and what it does to an exhibition today. how it changes consciousness, society, creation.
More information: palaisdetokyo.com
17/03/2023
It is now online the Open call for Alternati Education Programme at Rupert, independent centre of art in Vilnius. Rupert’s mission is to establish close cooperation between artists, thinkers, researchers and other cultural actors through transdisciplinary programmes and residencies. Rupert is committed to integrating with the social and cultural life of Vilnius and Lithuania, while also maintaining a strong international focus. With its Alternative Education Programme, Rupert proposes a para-academic and interdisciplinary educational platform.
Each year, a small group of people is selected to take part in the programme, giving them an opportunity to implement their projects and receive the practical and theoretical assistance. During the course of the programme, participants are involved in an activity-based learning process, and they are given the opportunity to present publicly their projects. Rupert is pleased to announce the open call for the 11th edition of the Alternative Education Programme, which will take place between 12 June and 30 November, 2023. The 11th edition of the Alternative Education Programme will develop a dialogue between traversability, transgressions and artistic practices while continuously exploring the creative potential of interdependency and care.
More information: rupert.lt
Deadline: 19/03/2023
14/03/2023
The call for artist in residencies 2023/2024 promoted by Onassis AiR at its headquarters in Athens is now online. After completing a three-year programming cycle, Onassis AiR embarked on a new chapter collaborating with all creative professionals within the Onassis Foundation’s arts ecosystem, both through individual research residencies and through the annual Onassis AiR Open Call. The aim is to support artistic research through grants commissioned by Onassis Culture or awards in collaboration with international institutions. The goal is to create a common ground in which different perspectives and practices can coexist.
The residency program, each with a maximum duration of three months, arises from the participants’ needs to have a space and a period to devote to their research. This program is for anyone in need of support who wants the space, time and inspiring conversations that can help kick-start, further develop or finalize a project within the context of Athens. All participants are invited to use the space and resources of Οnassis AiR to develop their thinking and practices without the use of presenting a final work.
Maggiori informazioni: onassis.org
Deadline: 20/03/2023
10/03/2023
Fantasmagoria is a film production company founded by Virgilio Villoresi and Alessandro Del Vigna with the aim of producing, distributing and promoting films of an international cultural nature. Fantasmagoria therefore intends to bring recognition to film writing in all its genres.
It is possible to participate in the competition in two categories: STORY, as best original story and SCRIPT, as best screenplay. The award aims to encourage the search for talented authors: participants will have to present their own work which must be an original subject for a feature film.
More information: www.fantasmagoria.com
Deadline: April 31, 2023
07/03/2023
Discorivoluzione. You Got to Get In to Net Out is a curatorial research project by the Politecnico di Milano, Le Cannibale and PAC. The exhibition-event will take place at the Milanese institution of the PAC – Padiglione D’Arte Contemporanea from 3 to 5 March 2023. The museum will be transformed for 72 hours into a disco where various musical and perforative interventions will reflect on the current meaning of clubbing .
Electronic music, dance, dress code, affirmation of one’s identity and the fight for civil rights have represented an overcoming of the pure material scale of these discomusical interiors, transforming them into places of elaboration and experimentation of a new ecosystem of change. Discorivoluzione is an exhibition-event that recounts the research results through three exploratory sections – Discodiorama, Discoarcheologia and Discoarchivio – critically re-reading the clubbing scenario from 1960 to today.
More information: pacmilano.it/exhibition
03/03/2023
Center for Study of the Networked Image (CSNI) at London South Bank University has opened its open call, in collaboration with The Photographers’ Gallery, both based in London, for a fully-funded PhD scholarship to commence September 2023.
The topic of the project is Image and text: Semiosis of the photographic image in networked culture. The aim is to extend the work and research on computer vision within the photographic practice and theory. How is the visual culture influenced by the developing of these? And subsequently, how can we describe and study the visual literacy concerning the developments in AI vision-language?
Alongside the developments in vision language models, the CSNI wants to focus on proposal that put in dialogue images and text: therefore the image can be investigated as coded data. The application is now open on the CSNI website.
Further information: centerforthestudyof.net
Deadline:10/03/2023
28/02/2023
De Ateliers has opened its application for the 2024 residency program.
De Ateliers, based in Amsterdam, annually promotes an open call for artists at the beginning of their career by offering them a studio and a tutor program for the duration of a year. In this way they are given the possibility of being able to develop their own projects in a stimulating environment and in relation with professional figures of the art: during the year there will be studio visits as well as the organization of workshops.
More information: de-ateliers.nl/application
Deadline: March 1, 2023
24/02/2023
Re:Humanism Art Prize is an award that since 2018 has been exploring the relationship between art and artificial intelligence through the support of young artists. The theme Sparks and Frictions was chosen for the 2023 edition: the program expands by dedicating greater attention to the relationship with all forms of technological media and scientific themes that bring into play important reflections on identity, relationships and possible futures.
To participate it is necessary to submit a personal project that can relate to one of the following themes: new ecologies, quantum thinking, new narrative, playing with non-human, exploring metamerics, hacking the body, machine visions and dreams. The jury will then select the three winning projects.
More information: re-humanism.com/opencall
Deadline: 28 February 2023
21/02/2023
“Landscapes can be deceiving. Sometimes it would seem that a landscape is not so much the scenario of the life of its inhabitants as a curtain behind which their struggles, their conquests and their misfortunes take place.”
The new edition of FOG – Performing Arts Festival at La Triennale in Milan opens with these words by John Berger and Jean Mohr. From 11 February to 11 May 2023, the spaces of the Milanese institution will be populated with concerts, performances and theatrical performances. With artists from all over the world, FOG identifies itself as one of the most important performing arts festivals on national and international soil.
More information: triennale.org/FOG
17/02/2023
Gibellina Photoroad Festival opens registrations to participate to the open call dedicated to an Open Air installation. For its fourth edition, the festival is proposing a call for artists: to participate it is necessary to adhere to the theme of the 2023 festival (July 28/September 30, 2023), Alterations, and pay the registration fee.
The artists will have to propose a site specific installation which will be presented in the program of the fourth edition of the festival which will subsequently be included in the permanent collection of the Orestiadi Foundation.
More information: Gibellinaphotoroadfestival.com
14/02/2023
Luma Westbau is pleased to announce a new presentation of the exhibition Orpheus was musing upon braised words, under the light rain of a blazing fog, snakes are deaf and dumb anyway, oblivion buried in the depths of insomnia, by Julien Creuzet opening on 10 February 2023 at Luma Westbau in Zurich.
The title of the exhibition is an extract from a poem Creuzet himself wrote, reflecting on the relationship between peripheries and centers, questioning the idea of time and geographical location as fundamental concepts in understanding cultural production.
More information: westbau.com
The exhibition Sul vestito lei ha un corpo. Note on Sonia Delaunay is on view at XNL Piacenza, the Center for contemporary art, cinema, theater and music. The exhibition project curated by Paola Nicolin sees the contribution of the artists Meris Angioletti and Ulla von Brandeburg to reflect on the figure of the Russian-French artist Sonia Delaunay. The two artists, focusing on the adventure of the Atelier Simultané, build their artistic project that lives inside the halls of XNL Piacenza.
The title therefore intends to focus on the themes of the project: the fabric and the body, poetry and the voice, words and gestures, time and space. The artists therefore, using their own languages respectively, question themselves on the relationships between fabric, poetry, dance, cinema and theatre.
More information: www.xnlpiacenza.it
07/02/2023
On the occasion of the eleventh edition of ART CITY Bologna, which will take place from 27 January to 5 February 2023 with a program of exhibitions, events and special initiatives, Teatri di Vita, in collaboration with MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, will host the performance The Teacher by Agnes Scherer.
The Teacher is an operetta staged through the reconstruction of a puppet theater in which the artist intervenes by painting and framing the scenography. The epicenter of the performance is a puppet of the teacher and around him a series of sounds and voices enliven the scene as well as twelve paintings conceived by Agnes Scherer as support diagrams for the protagonist’s speeches.
The performance will take place at Teatri di Vita (via del Pratello 90/a) on Friday 3 February at 18.30 and Saturday 4 February at 15.00 and 19.00.
More information: culturabologna.it
Cover image: Agnes Scherer, The Teacher, performance with Soya Arakawa, Claudia Barth and Tobias Textor, Zurich, Cabaret Voltaire, 2022 © Photo: Gunnar Meier
02/02/2023
On Friday 3 and Saturday 4 February 2023 it will occur Set Up, the site specific event that invades the halls of Punta della Dogana, in Venice, with performances, dance and music. Thanks to the festival, the museum finds a new dynamism and connection with young and contemporary artistic experiences. arrived to its fifth edition, Set Up presents a program with international artists and for the first time a collaboration with the Terraforma festival.
More information: palazzograssi.it
31/01/2023
The exhibition spaces of Fondazione MAST in Bologna host the exhibition of the seventh edition of the Photography Grant on Industry and Work until May 1st. The exhibition curated by Ursero Stahel presents the works of the five finalists: Farah Al Qasimi, Hicham Gardaf, Lebohang Kganye, Maria Mavropoulou and Salvatore Vitale. The selected artists have developed a new and original project whose theme addresses the changes within the work in the contemporary context.
Among the artists, Hicham Gardaf was selected as the winner, while Lebohang Kganye received a special mention from the jury.
More information: www.mastphotogrant.com
01/29/2023
The call for entries to the artist residency organized by Petrohradská kolektiv in Prague is now open. The residency program is aimed at artists, curators and researchers who demonstrate a deep interest in pursuing their artistic research by adapting it to the context of the city. At the end of the residency Petrohradská kolektiv will organize a collective exhibition at the Jedna Dva Tři Gallery.
Petrohradská kolektiv, through the residency, carries on the mission of creating an active community around the Prague artistic environment: the collective offers to the winning artists a place where they can work on their project and it also organizes a series of meetings and workshops to foster dialogue and exchange that can enrich the contemporary scenario.
More information: petrohradskakolektiv.com/opencall
Deadline: 15th of February 2023
27/01/2023
PLEASE MISTAKE ME FOR NOBODY is the first solo exhibition in Germany of the Net Art pioneers Young-Has Chang Heavy Industries. The exhibition is on going at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and it will be open until the 5th of February.
The exhibition project brings together works from 2000 to 2020 and its focus is the theme of paranoia. The YHCHI’s work is a combination of different field within the artistic practice: net art, video art and literature are the terms used to crate multiple narratives and messages for the viewer. On the occasion of the solo show at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein the artistic duo reflect on the influence of the digitalization on the cultural identity, the confluence of fact and fiction and new geopolitical realities.
More information: nbc.org
24/01/2023
It’s now online the open call to partecipate to the XXVII CSAV at Fondazione Ratti in Como. CSAV is an artistic research laboratory that will take place from 3 to 28 July 2023. È ora di alzarsi is the title for the 2023 edition of the open call promoted by Fondazione Ratti in collaboration with the artist Hilary Lloyd: the intentional ambiguity suggests different interpretations of the theme on which the research project will be built. While on the one hand it calls for political action, the title also leads us to think of the blurred gaze of the early morning hours. Together with Hilary Lloyd, the artists who will be selected by this open call will spend their time in Como experimenting and exploring new ideas and gathering methods through workshops and seminars.
More information: www.fondazioneratti.org
Deadline: February 10th
20/01/2023
The field of artistic production is changing within the rapid transformation and advancement of technologies. If before this was the area of interest of science fiction narrative is now the daily reality. Seen by, at its 18th editions, brings together ten artistic expression that explore this field of innovation and technical creativity with the aim to trave the new possibilities within the artistic perspective. The exhibition is hosted by the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin and it will be on view until the 29th of January 2023.
Seen by #18 – Lets See What We Find is a collective exhibition where the students from different classes from Berlin’s University of the Arts used a wide range of technique and digital machine to reflect on this theme, most of the time confronting with some AI technology. The works explore the intermediate real of genres and media ponder landscape, search for new sounds, reflect on the learning process of artificial intelligences.
More information: museumfurfotografie.de/Seenby18
Cover Image: Matthias Planter, His Master’s Voice, Detail, 2022, video still
17/01/2023
The exhibition Christopher Kulendran Thomas: Another World is on view at ICA London until the 22th of January 2023. The exhibition explores an alternative approach to technology inside the political and artistic field starting from the defeated revolution for the indipendente of Tamil.
The exhibition is developed in a film installation where pop culture and political science technologies are dialoging together, Kulendran uses artificial intelligence tp examine some of the lost legacies of the liberation movement in its homeland. Christopher Kulendran Thomas: Another World is a way to experience a field of research where the boundaries between historical thought, political commitment and art practices are melted away.
More info: ica.art
10/01/2023
Anticamera, cultural association dedicated to the research and dissemination of visual culture, is also a six-monthly online publication that develops around a single central theme to welcome research and critical thinking.
Until 15 January 2023 Ardesia opens a call to contribute to the new publication: Lived Bodies, affect and effect is the chosen theme. It is possible to participate as curators and artists whose research is confronted with the body as a lived and living organism, active and agent of our being-in-the-world. The focus of the call is to bring together a series of practices that focus on the body in their reflections and metamorphoses.
More information: ardesiaprojects.com
Deadline: January 15, 2023
06/01/2023
BREATHING is the interdisciplinary collective show on view at Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg. The world’s first large-scale exhibition on the theme of BREATHING presents more than 100 works engage in exciting dialogues in different epochs. This existential theme finds, inside the show, its social and political dimension inside the different artworks and practices.
The exhibition is organized in different chapter with more than 45 artists from 18 countries using different media: painting, sculpture, installation, photography and drawing, performance and video. BREATHING is on view until the 12th of February.
More information: Hamburger-kunsthalle.de
03/01/2023
On Monday 9 December 2022 it was made public the announcement of the Nuovo Forno del Pane Outdoor Edition. Il Settore Musei Civici Bologna in collaboration with the Metropolitan City of Bologna have issued the new open call for the assignment of a cultural district in the province of Bologna.
The public notice is aimed at artists and collectives domiciled in Italy who are offered the opportunity to stay from 13 February to 30 June 2023 in cultural districts equipped with accommodation and a work area. Furthermore, during the residency the artists will be followed by professionals from the art world in the realization of a new project.
More information: mambo.org
Deadline: 9 January 2021
30/12/2022
On Wednesday 7 December 2022 Centrale Fies has presented the program of Scuola di Diplomazie Interspecie e Studi Licantropici: a circle of seminars that the institution will host in its spaces in Dro, Trento (IT).
The school is designed in two meetings, on January 28 and February 25, 2023, in which a general introduction to some skills of the arts of interspecies diplomacy will be provided. On January 28, the seminar will focus on Rituals and how its concept has cancer in our contemporary time inside fields like art, law, food and music. On February 25th the seminar on Languages will be held: the day will be dedicated to the exploration of different ways of communication between men.
For more information: centralefies.it
12/27/2022
On the occasion of the programming of Open Space #10, at the Louis Vitton Foundation, the Algerian artist Lydia Ourahmane presents her video project Tassili (2022) made in Tassili n’Ajjer, a UNESCO World Heritage Site inside the Sahara Desert.
The Louis Vuitton Foundation, as main partner, hosts the screening of the project through an site specific installation on view from 7 October 2022 until 23 January 2023. Tassili is a journey in which Lydia Ourahmane takes the viewer to explore this magical place where motion graphics and 3D interventions alternate with video documentation.
More information: fondationlouisvitton.fr
Cover Image: Lydia Ourahmane. Tassili (extrait), 2022 © Lydia Ourahmane
23/12/2022
Haus der Kunst in Munich presented on 9 September 2022 the retrospective on Joan Jonas, American artist and performance pioneer. The German institution brings together in its spaces the personal exhibition of Joan Jonas in which performances, videos and installations have been put together from the first experiments to the most recent works.
The exhibition itinerary, which can be visited until February 26, 2023, reflects on the artist’s collaborative approach that has allowed her over the years to collaborate with the most varied American and international realities.
More information: hausderkunst.de
20/12/2022
Maja – Arte Contemporanea presents the new open call for artists in residency in Todi dedicated to female artists under 30 who are active in the field of photography. Maja Arte Contemporanea founded by Daina Maja Titonel, supports the artistic research of young artists and through the artist residency makes its spaces available for the entire month of May 2023 as well as covering the costs for realize the project.
To apply, you must send your application form and the project you intend to create during Maja – Arte Contemporanea residence.
More information: majartecontemporanea.com
Deadline: 31 December 2022
16/12/2022
Kingdom of the III, international collective exhibition and second chapter of TECHNO HUMANITIES, the long-term research program initiated by Bart van for Heide, opened at the Museion in Bolzano on 30 September 2022. Investigating the relationship between the individual and social systems , corporate and institutional, the works on display try to understand how our experience of well-being is constantly influenced, carrying forward the debate between health and disease, contamination and purity.
The numerous artists taking part in the Kingdom of the III stand out for their ability to re-imagine our present and our future, creating imaginaries in which the role of medicine and self-care take on more or less dystopian tendencies.
More information: museon.it
12/13/2022
The Faenza Prize International Competition is a competition in the field of contemporary ceramic art organized by the Fondazione Faenza Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza. The competition, open to individual artists or collectives, provides for participation without age or thematic limits: the Faenza prize pursues the desire to support the research of contemporary artists who stand out for their research.
To take part in the competition, it is necessary to apply with a work whose technical details and value must be indicated. The jury will then choose two winning works for artists Over 35 and artists under 35 who will receive a money prize and a residence in Faenza for the creation of works to be exhibited at the MIC in autumn 2023.
More information: premiofeanza.it
Deadline: December 12, 2022
09/12/2022
FMAV – Fondazione Modena Arti Visive presents Most to least Viewed, the first solo show in Italy of Eva & Franco Mattes. The exhibition is on view inside the spaces of Palazzo Santa Margherita, from the 16th September 2022 to 26th February 2022.
The order of the artworks inside the exhibition Most to least Viewed has been selected by an algorithm based on the views and likes obtained over the years. Experimenting with net art, the duo presents a practice as a place of exploration of the dynamics that underlie the digital world, bringing to light its darkest highs.
More info: fmav.org
06/12/2022
The collective exhibition Backwards Ahead is ongoing at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in which a body of works from the foundation’s collection are presented and brought together under the concept of plural temporality, repetition and multiple dimensions of the perception of time. The exhibition will be visible at the Fondazione Sandretto in Torino until the 26th of February 2023.
The artists on display have deepen this concept through different languages, from photography to installation and sculpture. The title of the exhibition, which takes up the work of the same name by the artist Kiran Subbaiah, kicks off this work on time in which the focus is the search for the short circuit of the reversal of space-time coordinates to arrive at the discovery of a new concept of time investigated through different practices.
Cover Image: Kiran Subbaiah, Backwards Ahead
02/12/2022
On display at MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna is the group show The Floating Collection which encompasses the artistic expressions of young contemporary artists united by the will and desire to discover and study the collections of Bologna’s museums.
Alex Ayed, Rä di Martino, Cevdet Erek, David Jablonowski, Miao Ying, Alexandra Pirici are the artists who took part in the initiative and who will be on show in the halls of the institution based in Bologna until 8 January 2023. In this project curated by Lorenzo Balbi and Caterina Molteni, the approach to the language of art played a fundamental role as a tool for re-reading the history of the city.
More information: mambo-bologna.org
29/11/2022
P/////AKT, a non-profit exhibition space for contemporary art based in Amsterdam, is presenting Boo 2, an artist-run project which is proposing artist to invite peers and organize a group show themselves. The aim is to give space for public presentations organized collaboratively and independently by the artist, in this way Boo2 is offering a new communication platform.
The first solo show, Orbit Allures, will take place from the 12th to he 27th of November including five artists working on the idea of circling around actions of fantasizing, repeating, craving and catching. The second show Janey’s Room, will take place from the 10th to 18th December and is organized by Niklas Buscher and Sara Milio.
Further information: pakt.nu
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25/11/2022
Recycling Beauty is the exhibition that opened on November 17 at Fondazione Prada. Curated by Salvatore Settis with Anna Anguissola and Denise La Monica, the exhibition, which is designed by Rem Koolhaas/OMA, presents a survey of ancient art with over fifty works of art from Italian and international public collections and museums.
Developing inside the Podium and the Cisterna of Fondazione Prada headquarters in Milan, the exhibition develops along a path of historical analysis, discovery and imagination by bringing a series of classic works back into play. The fragment, the reuse and the interpretation are the focus of Recycling Beauty, creating a new continuity to the past.
More information: www.fondazioneprada.org
Cover Image: Mano destra del Colosso di Costantino 312 d.C. dalla Basilica Nova a Roma, Roma, Musei Capitolini, Palazzo dei Conservatori © Roma, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali
18/11/2022
What would Susan Sontag say? is the title of the seventh edition of Photo Vogue Festival, which will be held in Milano at BASE from the 17th until the 20th of November 2022. Base will host exhibition and a program of conversations and presentation, further more the city of Milan will host different exhibitions in many institutions and gallery.
Alessia Glaviano, head of Global PhotoVogue and director of the festival, wanted to focus on a critical review of the theories by Susan Sontag in our present through the different position of contemporary artists working with photography.
More info: vogue.com
15/11/2022
Until 18 December 2022 GAM – Galleria D’Arte Moderna in Milan hosts the exhibition Moving in space without asking permission by Andrea Bowers and curated by Bruna Roccasalva. The artist’s first exhibition in an Italian institution offers an experience immersed in Bowers’ practice that focuses on issues such as the struggle for gender equality and the emancipation of women.
The project was also born in response to the specificities of the GAM context: the artist dialoguing with the space and the history identity of the Galleria D’Arte Moderna takes up the themes dear to her by inserting them in this context. Furthermore, the exhibition is part of the fourth edition of the Furla Series project which sees the GAM collaborating with the Furla Foundation for a program focused on contemporary female culture.
More info: gam-mirano.com
11/11/2022
Lorem Ipsum: a Collective Exhibition without a theme is a collective show curated by Irene Sofia Comi featuring Italian artists and hosted by Spazio In Situ in Rome from the 18th October to the 19th November 2022. On show there will be the artists: Sveva Angeletti, Alessandra Cecchini, Francesca Cornacchini, Marco De Rosa, Federica Di Pietrantonio, Chiara Fantaccione, Andrea Frosolini, Daniele Sciacca, Guendalina Urbani.
More information: Spazioinsitu.it
08/11/2022
The CHARTA AWARD is the open call designed for every artist who works with the photographic medium with a project whose purpose is an editorial outcome. To participate it is necessary to send a project consisting of at least 40 images complete with the name of the author and the description.
The Charta Award winning project will become a book, designed and co-edited by Yogurt Editions and Zone Magazine with a circulation of 500 copies.
More information: chartafestival.com
Deadline: November 9, 2022
04/11/2022
IMPAKT Festival 2022 will take place from 2nd to 6th November 2022 at the Center for Media Culture in Utrecht. The festival, focusing on the dialogue we daily have with technology, tries to highlight its expectations and weaknesses. The most unsatisfactory technology of all is the one that works is the proposition with which IMPAKT fits this year’s theme and around which the festival is developed.
Through installations, films and performances, IMPAKT Festival 2022 is committed to showing visitors the oxymoronic connotation of technology to be satisfactory
and disappointing at the same time.
For more information: impakt.nl
01/11/2022