Calls for Artists

Some images do not end where they seem to disappear. They continue to exist behind the eye, within perception and memory, remaining with us as reflections, vibrations, and subtle traces. This year’s LOOP theme, Afterimage, refers to this enduring visual experience. Marking the bicentenary of photography, it evokes a phenomenon that belongs simultaneously to light, time and the act of seeing: the moment when an image is no longer physically present, yet continues to exert its influence, returning and transforming itself.

The afterimage is one of photography’s most delicate legacies, but it also lies at the very core of the moving image. Here, the captured moment does not come to an end; instead, it begins to repeat itself, shifting, dissolving and reorganising. In this sense, the 20-second loop is not merely a formal constraint but an idea in itself: a space of return, where the image does not occur only once, but again and again, each time slightly differently.

Afterimage is an open-ended concept. It may encompass the trace of light, the workings of memory, the disappearance and regeneration of images, or the meditative or unsettling experience of repetition. It welcomes abstract, experimental, narrative, photographic, animated and digitally generated works alike. Rather than defining a single subject, it proposes a particular sensibility: an attentiveness to what remains after the image has faded, and to what within it continues to move.

In connection with photography’s bicentenary, Afterimage is not simply an invitation to look back, but a question directed towards the present: How does the image continue to exist today, when it is no longer merely recorded, but constantly circulating, repeating, being processed, distorted and recreating itself? What remains after the act of looking? What disappears—and what only then begins to reveal itself?

We invite submissions of original 20-second looping moving-image works, to be presented within a four-walled immersive projection environment. The space itself functions as a loop: it surrounds the viewer in 360 degrees while the projected content continuously returns to itself, creating the experience of a double loop.

The works selected by the professional jury will be presented in a 3-minute screening rotation at the House of Arts Veszprém – f|x|r gallery.

Awards

LOOP² is not only an exhibition opportunity but also a competition. The professional jury will award the following prizes:

• First Prize: HUF 300,000

• Second Prize: HUF 200,000

• Third Prize: HUF 100,000

• The selected works will be exhibited in our gallery for two months.

The awards will be presented at the exhibition opening.

Please submit your works via file sharing service (e.g., WeTransfer, Dropbox, Google Drive) to: fixirlab@gmail.com

For any questions, contact:

Gábor Áfrány – afranygabor@arthoseweb.hu

Open Call-ul organizat in cadrul Festivalul „Întâlniri în pantăˮ. Capitolul „Factory Resetˮ de către Asociația C4Company din Timisoara, va urmări proiecte compatibile cu specificul celor două spații aferente festivalului: Hala C4C și spațiul Forum Lab. Ambele sunt spații alternative, cu identitate industrială, potrivite pentru formate flexibile, mobile, adaptabile și pentru relații directe între performer și public. Din acest motiv, vor fi încurajate producțiile care nu depind de decoruri mari, de mecanisme scenice complexe, ci pot transforma constrângerile spațiului într-un limbaj artistic propriu.

Selecția va favoriza monodrame, spectacole și performance-uri cu o amprentă vizuală clară, cu cerințe tehnice rezonabile, ușor adaptabile la spații neconvenționale, precum și proiecte care lucrează cu teme apropiate conceptului „Factory Reset”: resetarea relației dintre artist, oraș, spațiu abandonat, memorie industrială și comunitate. 

Festivalul asigura cazarea, transportul, o masa pe zi si onorarii participanților.

Finanțat de Municipiul Timișoara prin Centrul de Proiecte.

For our upcoming issue, we are looking for drawings about the city in all its forms, as a place, a system, a social structure, an organism, a memory or an idea.

Cities change all the time. They grow, shrink, get rebuilt, neglected, repaired and transformed.

We welcome different ways of seeing and understanding the city through drawing.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please submit one PDF containing:

• 5 to 10 images from one project or body of your drawing work relating to our theme „city"

• Your name and where you are based

• A short biography

• A short text about the submitted work, project or practice.

• A link to your website, Instagram or similar, if applicable

• The PDF must not exceed 10 MB.

• Name the file:

Firstname_Surname_thecityissue.pdf

• Send your submission to: opencall@fukt.de

• Please do not send WeTransfer, Google Drive or other download links.

Slavonian Biennial is a juried group exhibition at which contemporary visual art is presented, chosen by the Jury composed of the following members:

Tevž Logar, curator, chair of this Jury,

Lea Vene, curator

Vikotor Popović, artist

Róna Kopeczky, curator

Valentina Radoš, exhibition curator.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 

1. All entries must include the following:

● personal information: first name, family name, date of birth, address, phone number, e-mail address;

● professional résumé;

● complete documentation on the submitted work, including the technical data about the display and making of the work (name, year, technique, dimensions, exhibitions to date);

● high-resolution photograph or draft, and in the case of performance art a detailed synopsis is also required;

● artist’s statement about the artwork;

● signed consent for personal data usage (please find at www.mlu.hr)

2. Artists may enter only one work. All submitted works must be exhibition-ready.

3. Only works created after 1 July 2024 may be entered. The call is open for entries from its announcement until 31 August 2026. The exhibition will be held in several exhibition spaces in Osijek (while the Museum of Fine Arts is closed for reconstruction) from December 2026 to February 2027.

4. Works must be entered digitally in one PDF document. The Jury may ask for additional information or to see the work. In addition to the selected works, works by artists invited to participate may also be included in the exhibition.