Mailart & ArtByMail // open_calls & exhibitions repository

Mailart & ArtByMail // open_calls & exhibitions repository

last updated on 2025-01-30 23:58:13 / 9 days ago

34 open_calls


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My Own Utopia

  • due date 2025-02-14 // 6 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2025-03-06 > 2025-03-27
  • show address Northern Kentucky University | Art Gallery
  • submission address Paige Wideman | Gallery Director | NKU, School of the Arts | 1 Louie B. Nunn Drive, FA 327 | Highland Heights, KY 40199 | USA
  • open call file My Own Utopia
  • maximum dimensions 254 x 254 mm | 10 x 10 in

  • Convocatória Arte Postal Camilo 200

  • due date 2025-02-18 // 10 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2025-03-10 > 2025-03-28
  • show address Escola Secundária Camilo Castelo Branco | Rua Padre Benjamim Salgado | 4760-412 Vila Nova de Famalicão
  • submission address Coordenador do Plano Cultural de Escola | Escola Secundária Camilo Castelo Branco | Rua Padre Benjamim Salgado | 4760-412 Vila Nova de Famalicão
  • open call file Convocatória Arte Postal Camilo 200
  • description

    Represent a personal look on the writer Camilo Castelo Branco, who made a mark on Portuguese literature.

  • curator Plano Cultural da Escola - “A Tua (P)Arte”
  • info 452@aeccb.pt
  • maximum dimensions 210 x 105 mm | 8.3 x 4.1 in

  • Mad HATTER / Alice

  • due date 2025-02-25 // 17 day(s) left for submission
  • submission address Mad HATTER/ Alice | P.O Box 46 | Lake Worth Beach Fl. | 33460 | USA
  • open call file Mad HATTER / Alice
  • description

    All you need to do is decorate your envelope. Put nothing inside, seal it, put a stamp on it and post it.


  • The Art of Education

  • due date 2025-02-28 // 20 day(s) left for submission
  • submission address Associazione Metas APS | via Casnida 19b-24047 | Treviglio (BG) | Italia
  • info info@associazionemetas.it
  • info associazionemetas.it/wp

  • Courage

  • due date 2025-03-01 // 21 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2025-04-01 > 2025-04-30
  • submission address Sisyphos-Gesellschaft | Franz-Mehring-Platz 1 | 10243 Berlin | Germany
  • maximum submissions 2
  • required dimensions 148 x 210 mm | 5.8 x 8.3 in

  • Strong Women

  • ⚠ Mailart will be auctioned, all income will be donated to a local organization, which is helping women in need.
  • due date 2025-03-01 // 21 day(s) left for submission
  • theme SHE - women´s pictures
  • show 2025-03-02 > 2025-03-31
  • show address Galerie Kunstvoll
  • submission address Galerie Kunstvoll | Astruper Straße 3 | 26209 Hatten | Germany
  • info galerie-kunstvoll@web.de
  • info galerie-kunstvoll.blogspot.com
  • will be sold
  • kid friendly
  • required dimensions 100 x 150 mm | 3.9 x 5.9 in

  • 150 years of impressionism

  • due date 2025-03-05 // 25 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2025-03-05 > 2025-03-31
  • submission address Option Art | Lycée Comte de Foix | Parada Motxilla 25 | AD 500 andorra-la-vella
  • open call file 150 years of impressionism
  • info impressionisme150postcard@gmail.com
  • kid friendly

  • 5 ARGUMENTS

  • due date 2025-03-15 // 35 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2025-06-16 > 2025-06-16
  • submission address Péter Abajkovics | 1042 Budapest | Árpád út 153. V/15 | Hungary
  • open call file 5 ARGUMENTS
  • description

    In 2025, Ákos Székely, avant-garde artist, visual poet, a leading figure in Hungarian assemblage, mail art and fluxus, would have turned 80. The aim of this mail art call is to pay tribute to Ákos Székely's life's work and personality.

    We are looking for works that reflect on the following theme: 5 arguments.

    Ákos Székely considered it important to develop the debating skills and critical thinking of his students. Open debates took place in his classes on all literary and artistic questions. A fundamental rule was that participants had to support their points with 5 arguments.

  • info abajkovics@gmail.com
  • info instagram.com/5arguments
  • required dimensions 148 x 210 mm | 5.8 x 8.3 in

  • Yellow is Beautiful

  • due date 2025-03-31 // 51 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2025-04-26 > 2025-04-26
  • show address House of associations of Valenciennes | France
  • submission address 29 Avenue Faidherbe | 59300 Valenciennes | France
  • open call file Yellow is Beautiful
  • required dimensions 150 x 200 mm | 5.9 x 7.9 in

  • Migrations

  • due date 2025-04-28 // 79 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2025-05-13 > 2025-05-27
  • show address Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) | Lancaster University | Lancaster. LA1 4YW | England | United Kingdom
  • submission address Sait Toprak & Gerry Davies | Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) | Lancaster University | Lancaster. LA1 4YW | England | United Kingdom
  • description

    Movement and mobility are features of developed organisms, they are also means by which creatures, including we, orientate ourselves in and across the world. Today people and populations shift and change location for opportunity or leave under pressure. Archaeology tells us that pre-history saw radiating flows from Africa toward new lives East and West. And our futures will be rich with new Migrations.

    While there remain few migratory peoples today, the migratory movement of critters, of birds, land animals and sea creatures continue. Migrations mysterious and essential, large and small: wildebeest move for pasture, zooplankton up for food and down for safety, but sand dunes migrating, who knew?

    Artists are migrants. We live, move, work, communicate and trade within flows of migrating information. Geographically and digitally our ideas and work travel. In the street, on the kitchen table or a screen, in the studio or workshop, we encounter each other. You are coming the other way with something new; I take it up, pass it on. Whether actual or virtual, migrants exchange, collaborate and offer aid, ideas and support through shared mobility and movement.

    We offer the idea of Migrations freely and in the plural. Interpret it as human, animal, mineral, biological, geographic, gendered, geologic, spiritual or cultural. The effect might be close or far, the scale, visibility and impact global, local or microscopic. Over to you now!

  • curator Sait Toprak, Gerry Davies
  • info saittoprak01@gmail.com
  • info instagram.com/migrations_mail_art_project
  • maximum dimensions 210 x 297 mm | 8.3 x 11.7 in

  • In the eyes of my mother I see … / In the voice of my father I hear …

  • due date 2025-05-01 // 82 day(s) left for submission
  • theme Poetry Multilingual + Crossing Borders + Universal Values + Personal Feelings
  • show 2025-05-27 > 2025-06-01
  • show address Nederlandse Vereniging | Leuvensesteenweg 4a | 3080 Tervuren | Belgium
  • submission address Wim Scheere | Rue de Bronne 40 | BE 1370 St-Jean-Geest | Belgium
  • description

    Send us a sentence of maximum 10 words in a visually attractive way on a Postcard.

    Your sentence should complement (or fit on the dots) of one of the two following phrases, “In the eyes of my mother I see … “ or “In the voice of my father I hear …”.

  • extra

    Your submission is preferably in English, French, German or Dutch but other languages are permitted. It may be non-readable due to the graphic representation.

    But please provide also a readable version in one of the four languages for instance at the bottom of the card..

    All submissions will be put into a collective poem which will be assembled by the organisation.

    The poem will be exhibited, performed and a video will be made and put on the site of Artists in Motion (AiM)

  • curator Wim Scheere
  • info wim.scheere@gmail.com
  • info artistsinmotion.eu/AiM/index.php/en/the-projects/2025/2025-mail-art-project-e
  • maximum dimensions 235 x 125 mm | 9.3 x 4.9 in
  • minimum dimensions 90 x 140 mm | 3.5 x 5.5 in

  • Mail Art about the Legs

  • due date 2025-05-15 // 96 day(s) left for submission
  • show address galeriecerami.be
  • submission address Thierry Tillier | Vukovarska , 37 | Vis 21480 | Croatie

  • The Sowing of Hope - Demeter and Persephone

  • due date 2025-05-16 // 97 day(s) left for submission
  • show address GREECE
  • submission address Evia Arts Centre | Boleri 1, N. Artaki | Evia 34600, GREECE
  • open call file The Sowing of Hope - Demeter and Persephone
  • description

    This exhibition draws inspiration from the ancient myth of Demeter and Persephone, a story of loss, sorrow, and the hope of renewal. When Demeter lost her daughter, the earth ceased to grow. This symbolic narrative resonates with modern challenges: climate change, depletion of natural resources, agricultural struggles, and inequality in food distribution.

    Artists are encouraged to create works expressing the anguish, anticipation, and call to action in the face of these global issues. Their pieces may explore themes of loss, the quest for solutions, or hope for sustainable agriculture and equitable food distribution.

    The exhibition aims to be a platform for reflection and expression, encouraging artists to address the theme through contemporary art and highlighting the importance of caring for our planet.

  • curator Evmorfia Ghika Rachouti, Fedra Rachouti
  • maximum submissions 2
  • maximum dimensions 210 x 297 mm | 8.3 x 11.7 in

  • fluxus for 2025

  • due date 2025-05-25 // 106 day(s) left for submission
  • submission address Lars Schumacher | Mittelstrasse 37 | D-31303 Burgdorf | Hannover | Germany
  • open call file fluxus for 2025
  • description

    Fluxus is an art movement founded by George Maciunas (1931-1978) in wich it is not the work of art that matters, but the creative idea.

  • curator Lars Schumacher
  • info larsschumacher@okok.de
  • medium portrait orientation
  • maximum submissions 3
  • required dimensions 210 x 297 mm | 8.3 x 11.7 in

  • COLLECTIVELY

  • due date 2025-05-31 // 112 day(s) left for submission
  • submission address CP 18 | CAP: 30173 – CAMPALTO | VENEZIA | ITALIA
  • open call file COLLECTIVELY
  • description

    In Japan, the popular saying 人は人によって成立する (“People are supported by others”) reflects the importance of cooperation and interpersonal relationships in society. In English, “pay it forward” encourages the act of doing something for someone without expecting anything in return, creating a chain of kindness.

  • curator Cris Piloto
  • info crispiloto@gmail.com
  • info inspirartepostal.site/collectively
  • required dimensions 210 x 148 mm | 8.3 x 5.8 in

  • Collectively

  • due date 2025-05-31 // 112 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2025-06-01 > 2025-06-30
  • submission address Cris Piloto | CP 18 - CAMPALTO | 30173 VENEZIA | ITALIA
  • open call file Collectively
  • curator Cris Piloto
  • required dimensions 148 x 210 mm | 5.8 x 8.3 in

  • Fairytales

  • due date 2025-05-31 // 112 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 inspirartepostal.site/fadas

  • Mandalas and their Universes

  • due date 2025-05-31 // 112 day(s) left for submission
  • submission address Jussara Maria Villasbôas de Andrade | Rua São Clemente 249 apt 602 | Rio de Janeiro | Brasil | CEP: 22260-007
  • open call file Mandalas and their Universes
  • description

    Mandalas, with their rich history, symbolism and diverse cultural applications, represent an invitation to introspection, self-discovery and connection with the universe around us.

    By exploring the world of mandalas, we embark on a journey of personal and collective transformation, seeking meaning, peace and the full realization of our human potential.

    I am an art therapist and interested in mandalas. Working with mandalas is a powerful tool in therapeutic, clinical and educational contexts.


  • ABRACADABRA

  • due date 2025-06-01 // 113 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2025-06-01 > 2025-06-30
  • show address Gradignan | France
  • submission address LETTRES & IMAGES | 5 rue de Mandavit | 33170 GRADIGNAN | France
  • open call file ABRACADABRA
  • info artpostal-abracadabra.blogspot.com

  • Future Earth

  • due date 2025-06-11 // 123 day(s) left for submission
  • theme Our new Mail-Art project proposes a theme of the present, because now the future of our Planet is being decided. We propose that artists from all over the world send us works that reflect their vision of our Planet in the future.
  • show 2025-08-11 > 2025-08-31
  • show address Inter-Art Foundation | Romania
  • submission address INTER-ART Foundation | Stefan Balog | 515200 – Aiud | C.P. 40 | Judeţul Alba | Romania
  • form Future Earth
  • extra

    Participants must complete the entry form that can be either downloaded from www.inter-art.ro, or requested by email at info@inter-art.ro

  • curator Inter-Art” Foundation Aiud
  • info info@inter-art.ro
  • kid friendly
  • maximum dimensions 210 x 297 mm | 8.3 x 11.7 in

  • Fire of bonfires in the culture of peoples, Jaanipaev 2025 Estonia

  • due date 2025-06-15 // 127 day(s) left for submission
  • submission address Roman Golub, Ulo Pruul | Reinadu, Mui kula | Saaremaa, 94543 | Estonia

  • Gyrate

  • due date 2025-06-20 // 132 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
  • 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 // 132 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
  • info kunstverein-eislingen.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

  • Change

  • due date 2025-06-30 // 142 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2025-09-01 > 2025-09-30
  • submission address Veränderung | Lutz Anders | Mareschstr. 16 | 12055 Berlin | Germany
  • open call file Change
  • maximum dimensions 148 x 210 mm | 5.8 x 8.3 in

  • Coffee

  • due date 2025-06-30 // 142 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

  • Stop Sex Colonialism in Ukraine

  • due date 2025-08-01 // 174 day(s) left for submission
  • show address Tymutopiyapres | Ukraine
  • submission address Museum of Mail Art | A/C 9875 | 79038 | Lviv, Ukraine
  • open call file Stop Sex Colonialism in Ukraine
  • minimum dimensions 210 x 297 mm | 8.3 x 11.7 in

  • Bread in the World

  • due date 2025-08-31 // 204 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2025-01-12 > 2025-08-31
  • submission address AE-Allevent | Piazzeta Porta Gabolo 5 | 48013 | Brisighella (RA) | MOB: 320 6067765
  • open call file Bread in the World
  • maximum dimensions 297 x 210 mm | 11.7 x 8.3 in
  • minimum dimensions 150 x 100 mm | 5.9 x 3.9 in

  • Clay and its role in the world

  • due date 2025-08-31 // 204 day(s) left for submission
  • submission address Jussara Maria Villasbôas de Andrade | Rua São Clemente 249 apt 602 Botafogo | Rio de Janeiro | CEP: 22260-007
  • description

    As well as having a strong presence in the context of aesthetics and health, clay also offers a verbal means of self-expression, an excellent way of stimulating creativity and developing concentration.

    The aim of participating in this call is to assemble a collection of Postcard Art on the theme of “Clay and its role in the world” for the purposes deemed appropriate as exhibitions and as contributions to studies, theses and articles without any economic rights on the part of the artists invited to participate.

    Poetry Multilingual + Crossing Borders + Universal Values + Personal Feelings

  • curator Jussara Maria Villasbôas de Andrade

  • Open Call for Kindness

  • due date 2025-09-04 // 208 day(s) left for submission
  • show 2025-10-01 > 2025-10-31
  • show address Dolphin Galley | Gualala | California | USA
  • submission address Kindness Mail Art | PO Box 384 | Gualala, CA 95445 | USA
  • open call file Open Call for Kindness
  • extra

    The curator team will select their favorite works to include in a book. If your work is selected in the book, you will be notified. Proceeds of the book will be donated to Gualala Arts Center.

  • curator Perry Hoffman
  • info magentaraven@gmail.com
  • kid friendly

  • MY HOME _ LIFE FLOWS

  • due date 2025-09-30 // 234 day(s) left for submission
  • submission address RSA NOI CON VOI | via Tommasini 12 | 31021 Mogliano Veneto (TV)
  • open call file MY HOME _ LIFE FLOWS
  • description

    The Healthcare Residence not only a place of care but also a place of life.

    Living is an expression of adulthood, empowerment, and inclusion.

  • curator Chiara Bertoncello
  • info rsanoiconvoi@cooperativaorchidea.net
  • info cooperativaorchidea.net/event-details/la-nostra-casa-vita-che-scorre-1

  • CLOUDS

  • due date 2025-11-20 // 285 day(s) left for submission
  • submission address CHIARA BERTONCELLO | PO BOX 68 MESTRE CENTRO | 30171 VENEZIA
  • open call file CLOUDS
  • curator Chiara Bertoncello
  • info traccelibere@gmail.com
  • required dimensions 150 x 210 mm | 5.9 x 8.3 in

  • Angels

  • due date 2026-03-31 // 416 day(s) left for submission
  • show address mailangels.blogspot.com
  • submission address Bandini Fabrizio | Via Viani, 15 | 50142 Firenze | ITALIA
  • open call file Angels
  • description

    ENIGMATIC CREATURES, MESSENGERS, GUARDIANS. CREATURES THAT LIVE BETWEEN THE VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, CLOSE TO US?

  • curator Bandini Fabrizio
  • info fbandini71@gmail.com
  • info mailangels.blogspot.com
  • kid friendly

  • What a theater!

  • due date 2026-07-31 // 538 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 // 1112 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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