Open Call 2025

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Oksasenkatu 11 Gallery opens an open call for artists, artist groups and curators for the year 2025.

Theme: Ceremonies
The application is open: 12.6.-12.7.2024

Oksasenkatu 11 Gallery’s open call theme for 2025 is ceremonies. We invite artists to think about the relationship between art and ceremonies.

Ceremonies serve as passages to renewing and transformation. A ceremony can open a space to the liminal or even utopian – it can connect to the spiritual, forces or tradition. 

You can consider the theme, e.g. in relation to the space, artist process, use of art, gestures, choreography, corporeality, tools, manuals or questions for whom and with whom. You can think about art's relationship with its audience and the audience's agency, or approach ceremonies broadly, from political ceremonies to community-creating rituals: what kind of ceremonies would we need?

In addition, we welcome suggestions of what kind of ceremony - e.g. family gathering, seduction, making a union - you would like to bring to the gallery, suggestions that activate the Mika Waltari park in front of the gallery are also welcome. 

Practical information

The space is free, but the selected artists must oversee the exhibition. The applicant can be an individual or a group. Multidisciplinary working groups and applications as well as event and event series proposals are also welcome. Artists and curators will be paid a fee for the exhibition, in addition to which a small amount is offered for hanging costs.

There are eight exhibition times available (January, February, March, April, July, August, September (upper floor free), and December). The exhibition period is 4 weeks, which includes the exhibition's hanging/installation and taking down the exhibition. Exhibition time is applied for with an exhibition plan or a description of the exhibition concept. 

Artists and groups of artists can apply for use of either the upper floor, the lower floor or the entire gallery space. We expect curators to come up with plans that cover the entire space. The curatorial team of Oksasenkatu 11 can, if they wish, request from the applicants in the selection process also an individual work as part of the group exhibition.

Ceremonies and series of events can be proposed flexibly for all dates during 2025.


The gallery provides/technical information

  • Three sculpture bases

  • Two video projectors

  • Two pairs of active speakers

  • Three media players

  • The carpets for floor and Molton curtains surround the walls for the downstairs space

  • Basic tools

  • The space can be modified: walls can be painted, walls and ceiling can be drilled

The open call is curated by Athanasia Aarniosuo, Jenna Jauhiainen, Lauri Antti Mattila, Ida Palojärvi and Julius Valve

Accessibility information

The entrance has a 3 cm high doorstep, followed by four steps without a ramp. The width of the outer door is 85 cm. The cellar floor space has to be accessed via a steep spiral staircase. There is no elevator in the premises and there is a small toilet at the first floor.


APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

We only accept applications by email. Applications are sent as one PDF attachment (max. 10MB) to the address: galleria.oksasenkatu11@gmail.com

Artist: Subject email and attachment “OC_2025_’own/group name’”.

Curator: Subject email and attachment “OC_2025_kuratointi_’own/group name’”.

The deadline for the applications is Friday 12 July 2024 at 23:59.


The application must include:

  • The text part of the exhibition plan max. one A4 (font 11pt), in addition to which you can attach images.

  • A brief description of how the proposal relates to the 2025 theme of ceremonies.

  • Time request (January, February, March, April, July, August, September (upper floor free), December, or all) and space request from artists and artist groups (upper floor / lower floor / entire space / or flexible). The curators have the entire space at their disposal. Events and series of events can be proposed flexibly for all dates during the year 2025.

  • Previous work samples: link to online portfolio / website / photo attachments / link to video or audio samples

  • CV of individuals or groups

We will inform the applicants about the selections during August.


Note The daily schedules of the Facebook event are not correct, the search is open 24/7 until 23:59 on July 12, 2024.