Mailart & ArtByMail // open_calls & exhibitions repository

Mailart & ArtByMail // open_calls & exhibitions repository

last updated on 2024-08-27 11:19:58 / 37 days ago

19 open_calls


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FLUX

  • due date 2024-10-16 // 13 day(s) left for submission
  • submission address Lux of the Agony | 720077 Biskek | Altyn Kazyk 31A | KYRGYZSTAN
  • open call file FLUX

  • Mute Sound ETERNAL NETWORK

  • due date 2024-11-01 // 29 day(s) left for submission
  • submission address Sol Barbini Lithocirkuit 1796 | ETERNAL NETWORK | Ntra. Sra. del Agua nº9 local | 50007 Zaragoza España
  • info mutesoundrecords@gmail.com
  • info mutesound.org

  • Rediscovering kindness

  • due date 2024-11-01 // 29 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2024-11-13 > 2024-11-13
  • show address Martellago library | Maerne | Venezia | Italy
  • submission address Comunità La Villetta | Via Villetta, 52 | 30030 Salzano Venezia | Italia
  • open call file Rediscovering kindness
  • description

    Kindness is contagious (Mestre Gentileza), the joy of humanity (Marco Aurelio) and there are multiple benefits to psychosocial well-being. Everyone is invited to celebrate kindness and acceptance of difference, remembering beautiful human attitudes such as empathy and tolerance. Join us in World Kindness Day celebration, after all: What is kindness to you?

  • curator Elisa Rioda, Cristina Piloto
  • info comunita.lavilletta@aclicoop.com
  • info crispiloto.art/gentilezza

  • Electioneering

  • due date 2024-11-05 // 33 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2024-11-05 > 2025-01-20
  • show address unrequitedleisure.com
  • submission address PO Box 587 | Tallahassee, FL, 32302 | United States
  • description

    The visual language developed over years of insipid political advertising now permeates the majority of our technology leading up to every election in the United States. Those idiosyncrasies that emerge within each cycle are quickly usurped by a prevailing, overarching, and perhaps even comforting-if-only-by-way-of-familiarity, tone of cynical electoral politics. The subsequent sigh from the voting body arrives for us in couplets, once as the ads are terminated from our devices and a second time as the election results are counted.

    This thematic exhibition requests mailed responses on the visual language of electoral politics that further complicate, problematize, and reflect on the ways in which our political system is now interwoven with the human experience. The curation of the exhibition mirrors the frenetic pace of the cross-platform media buy, expanding and intensifying its presence exponentially as election day approaches, culminating in a frenzied and cacophonous online exhibition in the days leading up to the US election. The website featuring all received works will be on view through inauguration day, 2025.

    We are particularly interested in global responses to the election cycle in the United States, though we intend to show all works received.

  • curator Unrequited Leisure
  • info unrequitedleisure@gmail.com
  • info unrequitedleisure.com

  • SHAME | FETISH

  • due date 2024-11-17 // 45 day(s) left for submission
  • submission address Kevin Geronimo Brandtner | Füchselhofgasse 4, 5-5a | 1120 Vienna | Austria
  • open call file SHAME | FETISH
  • info geronimo_2211@hotmail.com

  • A Tribute to Doriano Rota Mail Artist

  • due date 2024-11-24 // 52 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2024-12-01 > 2024-12-31
  • submission address Circolo "Al Bafo" | Piazza Bolognini, 8 | 24068 Seriate BG, Italy
  • open call file A Tribute to Doriano Rota Mail Artist
  • description

    A tribute to a dear friend and comrade, who after a lifelong militancy has left us, present in a thousand struggles, social, cultural and political initiatives, because he believed that society could be changed in a libertarian sense with personal commitment and mutual aid.

  • required dimensions 148 x 105 mm | 5.8 x 4.1 in

  • African Portraits

  • due date 2024-11-30 // 58 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2024-12-19 > 2024-12-28
  • show address Z'Arts 2024 Festival | Kuyam Baa Art Residency | Ziguinchor Sénégal
  • submission address Daouda Dia | Mail Art Call Z’ARTS 2024 BP 7507 | Dakar, Médina | SENEGAL
  • open call file African Portraits
  • curator Herve Alexandre, Daouda Dia
  • info hervesfriends@gmail.com
  • required dimensions 200 x 200 mm | 7.9 x 7.9 in

  • Free Space to Imagiantion

  • due date 2024-11-30 // 58 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2024-12-01 > 2024-12-31
  • show address Casa Museo Bendandi | Via Manara, 17 | 48018 Faenza (RA) | Italy
  • submission address Paola Pescerelli | Casa Museo Bendandi | Via Manara, 17 | 48018 Faenza (RA) | Italia
  • curator Dr. Paola Pescerelli Lagorio, Roberta Savolini
  • required dimensions 150 x 100 mm | 5.9 x 3.9 in

  • Free Palestine

  • due date 2024-12-30 // 88 day(s) left for submission
  • show address Zogia Exhibition Gallery | Volos | Greece
  • submission address Volos Art Association | Anthimou Gazi 263 | Volos Greece 38222
  • info ericagutenschwager@gmail.com
  • required dimensions 100 x 150 mm | 3.9 x 5.9 in

  • “LET'S PLAY” VI International Mailart Open Call

  • due date 2024-12-31 // 89 day(s) left for submission
  • theme LET'S PLAY
  • show address Quinta da Cruz – Centro de Arte Contemporânea | Estrada de São Salvador | 3510-784 São Salvador | Viseu, PORTUGAL
  • submission address Quinta da Cruz – Centro de Arte Contemporânea | #vamosajogo | Estrada de São Salvador | 3510-784 São Salvador | Viseu, PORTUGAL
  • open call file “LET'S PLAY” VI International Mailart Open Call
  • description

    Quinta da Cruz - Centro de Arte Contemporânea de Viseu (Portugal) was created as a dynamic hub for art, culture and identity. It is a cultural space geared towards exhibiting contemporary art and developing artistic practices, and is seen as an engine for local artistic promotion. Intended for public enjoyment, culture and leisure, it is set in a large green area of remarkable biodiversity.

    The mail art project promotes the democratic participation of artistic practices, starting with the reactivation of an expression that had its heyday, alternatively to the conventional means of art exhibitions, in the 60s/70s. Every year, an international call for entries is issued and an exhibition is held of the works received.

    It also legitimizes that artistic production is a preponderant expression for the creation of spaces for dialogue, places of "breaking", reinvention and daring. This call assumes the transformative, inclusive and participatory role of art. The route of these works is interpreted and intervened upon throughout this postal journey. More than just an annual call, this project calls for a model of collaborative work with the aim of building and giving visibility to collections of this nature.

    In 2024, VISEU values healthier and more active habits and routines, promoting a happier and more balanced lifestyle. With this mission in mind, the city is committed to encouraging the community to adopt practices that improve physical and mental well-being. The VI CALL, with the theme VAMOS A JOGO (LET’S PLAY), invites everyone to take part in this artistic initiative that aims to inspire and motivate the population to integrate sporting and recreational activities into their daily lives.

    We invite artists and anyone interested in mail art [mailart] to send in their works to take part in the 6th edition of this call. Only works received via traditional mail will be exhibited. We look forward to receiving drawings, collages, stamps, visual poetry and other creative formats at Quinta da Cruz - Centro de Arte Contemporânea de Viseu.

  • extra

    Although specific standards are set for artwork, artists are encouraged to explore beyond these guidelines and challenge the curator, thus encouraging creativity and free artistic expression.

  • curator inominável homem [ MAILART.pt ]
  • info mailart@mailart.pt
  • info quintadacruz.mailart.pt
  • kid friendly
  • maximum dimensions 200 x 280 mm | 7.9 x 11 in

  • 2024 International Mail Art Show

  • due date 2024-12-31 // 89 day(s) left for submission
  • show address instagram.com/dadastation21
  • submission address dadastation21 | P.O. Box 9594 | Austin, Texas 78766 | USA
  • open call file 2024 International Mail Art Show
  • info instagram.com/dadastation21

  • Mailart: Book of Dead

  • due date 2024-12-31 // 89 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2024-01-03 > 2025-02-02
  • submission address Mailart:Book Of Dead | Rua Engº Mário Costa nº22 2º esq | 2330-153 Entroncamento | Portugal
  • description

    I'm an admirer of the book of the dead, so I think a book of the same style is needed for MAILART.

    The idea came from recycling a lot of paper that was around the house and this project came about.

    Creating mail art inspired by the “Book of the DeaD” can be a fascinating and creative endeavor.

    The “Book of the DeaD” is an ancient Egyptian funerary text that contains spells and instructions for the deceased's journey through the afterlife.

  • curator Paulo Teles (BroTTas)
  • info brottas@gmail.com
  • info mailartbookofdead.wixsite.com/deadbook
  • kid friendly

  • Sharing Beauty

  • due date 2024-12-31 // 89 day(s) left for submission
  • submission address lysdorart@gmail.com
  • description

    Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

    (Anne Herbert)

  • curator Katya Sanna
  • info lysdorart@gmail.com
  • info lysdorart.blogspot.com
  • maximum submissions 3

  • Fairytales

  • due date 2025-05-31 // 240 day(s) left for submission
  • submission address Marise Piloto | CP 18 | CAP:30173 CAMPALTO | VENEZIA, ITALIA
  • open call file Fairytales
  • description

    “The short story offers a model for life, a life-giving and encouraging model that remains in the unconscious containing all the positive possibilities of life.”

    - Marie-Louise von Franz

     

    Fairy tales were and are part of the childhood of many of us and are still found today in oral traditions as well as in literary works. I'm an art therapist and I'm passionate about these narratives! For years, I've been using fairy tales as an important and powerful tool in my work as an art therapist.

    Creating Art Mail with the theme of Fairy Tales will be a return to the memories of the past and an opportunity to reread a familiar story with a new narrative, after all, stories vary according to the historical and geographical context.

    I invite anyone and everyone interested to take part in this call, collaborating in putting together a collection of Fairy Tale-themed mail art for use in studies and research.

  • curator Marise Piloto
  • info crispiloto@gmail.com
  • info crispiloto.art/mail-art-call-marise

  • kreiseln

  • due date 2025-06-20 // 260 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2025-11-08 > 2025-12-07
  • show address Galerie Alte Post | Kunstverein Eislingen | Germany
  • submission address Kunstverein Eislingen | Galerie in der Alten Post | Boris Kerenski | Bahnhofstraße 12 | D-73054 Eislingen | Germany
  • info kunstverein-eislingen@gmx.de
  • info kunstverein-eislingen.de
  • maximum submissions 1
  • maximum dimensions 210 x 297 mm | 8.3 x 11.7 in
  • minimum dimensions 26 x 37 mm | 1 x 1.5 in

  • kreiseln

  • due date 2025-06-20 // 260 day(s) left for submission
  • theme kreiseln
  • show 2025-11-08 > 2025-12-07
  • show address Galerie Alte Post | Kunstverein Eislingen | Germany
  • submission address Kunstverein Eislingen | Galerie in der Alten Post | Boris Kerenski | Bahnhofstraße 12 | D-73054 Eislingen
  • open call file kreiseln
  • curator Boris Kerenski
  • info kunstverein-eislingen@gmx.de
  • medium 2D
  • maximum submissions 1
  • maximum dimensions 210 x 297 mm | 8.3 x 11.7 in
  • minimum dimensions 26 x 37 mm | 1 x 1.5 in

  • Coffee

  • due date 2025-06-30 // 270 day(s) left for submission
  • show address Dorfhus Bistro | Spiez | Switzerland
  • submission address Kaffee | Rittiner & Gomez | Pfrundweg 5 | CH-3646 Einigen | Switzerland
  • description

    Everything about coffee and its culture.

  • curator Rittiner, Gomez
  • info rittinergomez@gmail.com
  • info isla-volante.ch/mailart-kaffee
  • required dimensions 100 x 150 mm | 3.9 x 5.9 in

  • What a theater!

  • due date 2026-07-31 // 666 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2023-12-15 > 2026-07-31
  • show address druckmafia.blogspot.com
  • submission address Anna Karina Fries | Theuerbrünnleinsweg 71 | 97422 Schweinfurt | Germany
  • open call file What a theater!
  • description

    Why this Mail Art-call?

    Quite simply because we love and appreciate theater. We encounter theater every day e.g., in everyday situations or in idioms that refer to it like “All the world’s a stage”, “to get the show on the road”, “to wait in the wings”, “to steal the show”, “What a drama!” etc. So we encounter “theater” in our everyday lives, and often it makes us smile.

    The city of Schweinfurt is one of the lucky operators of a theater building. It is a guest theater and thus offers many different ensembles the opportunity to present themselves to a theater-loving audience through a wide variety of plays.

    There are no limits to the joy of experimentation, which can also be borderline for individual spectators.

    Schweinfurt has a long theater tradition, first documented in 1572 with the performance of “Comedy of the Last Judgment”.

    The venues have changed frequently over the years.

    In 1966, a new theater building opened on Roßbrunnstrasse. It was designed by the architect of Prof. Erich Schellig, with a polygonal ground plan and cubistic superstructures. A large staircase connects the theater building with the Châteaudun Park.

    All in all, the building looks different in all sides.

    Inside we find a piece of art of Gustl G. Kirchner with a turquoise wall in spatula technique; in the staircase Günther Zirkelbach created a relief with cut plasterboards; Prof. Karl Dahmen dedicated himself to the large 130 square meter wall with a dispersion spatula technique. He was an important representative of Tachism. His work is considered a major work of German Informel. The stage designer Trude Karrer designed the hanging light sculpture in the auditorium.

    The indirect lighting in this room is also impressive. Its wal, cover with pyramid bodies shining out of themselves, some of which are gilded, creates a wonderful atmosphere. And so it could go on for a long time to describe our beautiful theater.

    Since 1973 there have been puppet play day, in regularly recurring intervals. Uwe Brockmüller regularly exhibited parts of his puppet collection in glass showcases.

    Thus, one could get an impression of the variety of different puppet theaters — especially in the Asian region.

    Our theater will be completely renovated. For this reason, we started this Mail Art-call. We are curious how and what is perceived as theater and what individuals associate with it.

  • extra

    The submitted postcards will be exhibited as part of a mail art installation.

  • curator Anna Karina Fries
  • info klein.dittelbrunn@freenet.de
  • info druckmafia.blogspot.com
  • kid friendly
  • required dimensions 100 x 150 mm | 3.9 x 5.9 in

  • [e]mailart

  • due date 2028-02-25 // 1240 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2030-01-01 > 2035-12-31
  • show address e.mailart.pt
  • submission address emailart@mailart.pt
  • description

    do consider what [e]mailart is and could be. consider what's the difference between merely sending a simple attachment or image as an email body or otherwise sending a real piece of art that uses all the capacity of what embodies the digital world and the ancient email technology and protocols.

    can a mere attachment be considered a work of art? or should we explore something that resides in the body of the email and is changeable and unique and unable to subsist in any other medium than that?

    alternatively, you may also submit some words, your point of view on the matter, or even an essay regarding the "digital world vs mailart vs [e]mailart vs art".

    any questions regarding the open call should not be sent to us by email as they won't be replied to.

  • extra

    thanks for your contribution. all valid [e]mailart will be gathered and presented primarily on its digital form and support and eventually within a catalog.

    for more open calls, please head to www.mailart.pt and check all documentation available.

  • curator MAILART.pt
  • info e.mailart.pt
  • medium static or dynamic digital artwork that "live" in the environment native to e-mail

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