Open-call is now closed
Open-call is now closed
The Chuvash Biennale of Contemporary Art II announces an open competition for projects related to the main theme of the Biennale. The main theme of the Biennale 2025 «Seven-winged home» addresses the fundamental aspects of the concept of home in the Chuvash culture. In every nation, home is a basic concept that symbolizes a human being, his self-identity, privacy and family ties. An old Chuvash proverb says: «Çын шутнекĕрес тесен этемĕн кил-çурт çавăрмалла» (You should build a house to be considered a human being), emphasizing the importance of home in determining the identity.
What is our common home and what is personal? How is it transforming with time, what is it absorbing and excluding, how is it creating the identity and shifting it from one to another direction? Chuvash Biennale speaks of “home” not only as a material value, but also as an ephemeral, easily transferable, “light-winged” one, touching on issues of belonging, homeland, migration, coexistence and consciousness of different communities, peoples and ethnicities in one region.
Artists from any region of Russia and the world are able to apply with the work of any medium that fits one of the following categories in the context of the local Chuvash environment and the area of neighbouring regions:
HOME AS A COBELONGING
Artists work with the concept of “Home as a cobelonging” – something that brings together, consolidates, welcomes, invites and lures.
HOME AS A PRIVACY
Represents the works that reveals the concept of home as a deeply personal enclosed space: “Home as a privacy”
WANDERING HOME
Dedicated to the topic of searching for one’s home and shifting the concept of it: “Wandering home”
HOME AS A REMEMBRANCE
“Home as a remembrance” is dedicated to memories of home long gone and places that no longer exist.
HOME IN RAVINE
“Home in a ravine” reveals gaps, “lacunas” in intergenerational, territorial and linguistic landscapes.
HOME IN THE GROVE OF THE WORLD
“Home in the grove of the world” is focused on the literary, oral and written diversity of the Chuvash cultural field.
THROUGH WALLS
The last part is represented by performative and concert additional program of the Biennale that is called “Through walls”.
What is our common home and what is personal? How is it transforming with time, what is it absorbing and excluding, how is it creating the identity and shifting it from one to another direction? Chuvash Biennale speaks of “home” not only as a material value, but also as an ephemeral, easily transferable, “light-winged” one, touching on issues of belonging, homeland, migration, coexistence and consciousness of different communities, peoples and ethnicities in one region.
Artists from any region of Russia and the world are able to apply with the work of any medium that fits one of the following categories in the context of the local Chuvash environment and the area of neighbouring regions:
HOME AS A COBELONGING
Artists work with the concept of “Home as a cobelonging” – something that brings together, consolidates, welcomes, invites and lures.
HOME AS A PRIVACY
Represents the works that reveals the concept of home as a deeply personal enclosed space: “Home as a privacy”
WANDERING HOME
Dedicated to the topic of searching for one’s home and shifting the concept of it: “Wandering home”
HOME AS A REMEMBRANCE
“Home as a remembrance” is dedicated to memories of home long gone and places that no longer exist.
HOME IN RAVINE
“Home in a ravine” reveals gaps, “lacunas” in intergenerational, territorial and linguistic landscapes.
HOME IN THE GROVE OF THE WORLD
“Home in the grove of the world” is focused on the literary, oral and written diversity of the Chuvash cultural field.
THROUGH WALLS
The last part is represented by performative and concert additional program of the Biennale that is called “Through walls”.
The application requirements
The application requirements
- The projects presented in the applications can be either in progress (sketch) or already in finished form.
- Both individual artists and groups of artists can apply for the project (the budget for the project does not change).
- Be over 18 years old at the time of application.
- Be officially registered as a self-employed or sole proprietor.
- ·One single artist can apply with up to three projects for the implementation.
The application must include:
1. CV
2. Portfolio (with links to finished or presented works, photo and video materials)
3. Justified correspondence to one of the given concepts
4. Project description or plan (up to 1000 characters)
Between 20 and 35 projects will be selected for the Biennial by results of competition.
What is provided
What is provided
By the results of the competition selected projects will be provided with the budget for the implementation (up to 100 000 rubles), fee (up to 30 000 rubles), participation in the exhibition, mention on the website and press release, coordination and support in installation.
Transportation of the work and materials for its creation to the exhibition site is paid by the organizer.
Transportation of the work and materials for its creation to the exhibition site is paid by the organizer.
We kindly ask you to refrain from applying if your works appeal to ethnic hatred, any kind of ethnic and religious intolerance, animal abuse, sexism and the denial of human rights.
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