Calls

ISOLATION. LIVING ONESELF

Call for Exhibition - Accepted media: Photography, Digital Graphic, Digital Visual Design

Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. March 2020

FREE ENTRY Photographers and Visual Designers are invited to submit 1 to 3 works addressing the theme

Deadline  7th December 2019 │SUBMIT HERE

MIRRORS AND REFLECTIONS

Call for Exhibition - Accepted media: Photography, Digital Graphic, Digital Visual Design

Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. April 2020

FREE ENTRY Photographers and Visual Designers are invited to submit 1 to 3 works addressing the theme

 As the title of this call says, the works collected on the occasion of the next LoosenArt collective will expose a theme that has always been subject to interpretations: the mirror, a means of symbolic and conceptual connotations through which the artists of the past have conveyed analytical and metaphorical meanings. 

From the reflection of Caravaggio's "Narcissus" to Pistoletto's shattered mirrors, these are just some of the examples that testify of a continuum in the history of art in reflecting on the very concept of "reflection", a further confirmation of the intrinsic nature of the creative act, that of the exposition of the self and of our perception of the world, interior and exterior, through the execution of the artwork that becomes the mirror of the self.

Deadline 7th January 2020 │SUBMIT HERE

TRANSITIONS AND DISPLACEMENTS

Call for Exhibition 

International Group Exhibition. May 2020

FREE ENTRY Artists are invited to submit 1 to 3 artworks addressing the theme

Accepted media: Photography, Digital Graphic, Digital Visual Design

Transitions and displacements are the objects of reflection for our call. The concept of the two terms is a recall to the "liquid" vision of contemporary philosophy. Transitions, displacements, mutations of condition are the prerogatives of a fluid approach to reality, prerogatives of a free change in the state of things that allows full organic adherence to the environment and to the context in which each subject / object is immersed .
The works that will take part in the exhibition will represent an excursus on the subject, addressed both from a physical, chemical and biological poin of view and from a social, cultural and political one.

- A. Muratore

Deadline 7th February 2020 │SUBMIT HERE

ABSTRACTIONS

Call for Exhibition 

International Group Exhibition. June 2020

FREE ENTRY Artists are invited to submit 1 to 3 artworks addressing the theme

Accepted media: Photography, Digital Graphic, Digital Visual Design

"Abstraction", from the Latin "abstractio", is the process of thought for which an element is isolated from all the others to which it was connected and is considered as a particular object of research, the same procedure that tends to separate the essential qualities of an object to obtain the universal concept about that. We find a procedural peculiarity in the expressive language adopted in the twentieth century with the artists who interpret abstract art, where the separation operation is carried out with the intention of exalting that still too unknown side of the human being: emotionality and perceptions subjective of reality. It is thus that form becomes the result of the encounter between man and the world, in an alternation of empathy, of getting closer to reality and escaping from it.

Deadline 7th March 2020 │SUBMIT HERE

HOME

Call for Exhibition - Accepted media: Photography, Digital Graphic, Digital Visual Design

Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. July 2020

FREE ENTRY Photographers and Visual Designers are invited to submit 1 to 3 works addressing the theme

 This call intends to collect works that address the theme of "home", from its symbolic and conceptual conception to the exposition of an experience. "Home" as a concept linked to a safe and familiar environment, a refuge for our person, a social clothing that contains the warmth and energy of those who live there (q. M. McLuhan), or again, an environment that reflects our being in the world and the fluid changes of life, but also a place where we often find traces of the past, where emotional involvement is implicit in the experience we have in it.

.Deadline  7th April 2020 │SUBMIT HERE

ISOLATION. LIVING APART

Call for Exhibition - Accepted media: Photography, Digital Graphic, Digital Visual Design

Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. February 2020

FREE ENTRY Photographers and Visual Designers are invited to submit 1 to 3 works addressing the theme

Besides we are living in an overcrowded world, there are still sparsely populated areas, hidden somewhere, where life (and its pace) is really different. Try to capture and depict the essence of those places, framing small cities and villages, but also landscapes (and their contradictions, where and when existing) and their inhabitants.

Deadline 7th November 2019 │Expired

STILL LIFE. ALTERNATIVE EXPOSURES

Call for Exhibition - Accepted media: Photography

Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. January 2020

FREE ENTRY Photographers are invited to submit 1 to 3 works addressing the theme

The authors of the next exhibition will be interpreters of a photographic genre that inherits an important pictorial tradition: the Still Life.
The Still Life, represents the ideal mode through which the exposed inanimate objects give an expression of themselves, through the endless technique of shooting, enhancing their physical and symbolic qualities .The Still life today is a genre often used to describe our lifestyle, our passions related to fashion, design, food culture. It's also used when promoting a commercial product, and above all in the artistic field, often recalling, albeit indirectly, the theme of vanitas when conveying concepts linked to our being in the world.

Deadline 7th October 2019 │Expired

ABOUT FUTURE

Call for Exhibition 

Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. December 2019

FREE ENTRY Artists are invited to submit 1 to 3 artworks addressing the theme

Accepted media: Photography, Digital Graphic, Visual Design

About Future is the title of this call. "Future" as a concept connected to the world of ideas, the ones which envisage the events, that invent new realities - fantastic or science fiction, or those that if adaptable to the real world, through the means and will to implement them, end up shaping the environment in which the living being is immersed.
It is particularly in this sense that artistic practices (or activities that give rise to sensory experiences through aesthetic products) have always played a fundamental role in the development and progress of civilization.
In the next exhibition entitled "About Future", we will collect works that are able to offer new visions on the future, through expressive methods that engage both the traditional use of the photographic media and that of digital manipulation, graphic and visual design.

Deadline 7th September 2019│Expired

MANNEQUINS AND PUPPETS

Call for Exhibition - Accepted media: Photography, Digital Visual Design

Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. November 2019

FREE ENTRY Artists are invited to submit 1 to 3 artworks addressing the theme

Accepted media: Photography, Digital Graphic

Aesthetic products that recall the human figure or fantastic figures, represented by dolls and puppets, up to the virtual productions of avatars, are products through which man since ancient times represents himself, his own world, his own stories, fears and fantasies. The act of control on these products its self becomes an object of reflection by artists starting from the first decades of the twentieth century, especially with reference to the protagonists of metaphysics and surrealism. Today the mannequin subject not only represents the individual who became an automaton and a production machine, but also an individual who became a compulsive consumer immersed in a world in which mass mediatic information and bombardments determine their own culture, lifestyles, customs and world view.

Deadline 7th July 2019│Expired

SUBURBS

Call for Exhibition - Accepted media: Photography, Digital Visual Design

Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. October 2019

FREE ENTRY Artists are invited to submit 1 to 3 artworks addressing the theme

Accepted media: Photography, Digital Graphic, Visual Design

Outskirts and marginal areas of urban contexts are the places within which the authors who will take part in the next exhibition have focused their work.
We will consider works that can offer a vision of modern urban peripheral realities, in which both environmental and social aspects will emerge.

Deadline 7th June 2019│Expired

THE GAME

Call for Exhibition - Accepted media: Photography, Digital Visual Design

Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. September 2019

FREE ENTRY Artists are invited to submit 1 to 3 artworks addressing the theme

Accepted media: Photography, Digital Graphic, Visual Data

Since ancient times the concept of "game" has been taken on by countless philosophers, artists and writers, pouring into it a philosophical and conceptual value, as demonstrated by the writings of Aristotle, as well as those of Schiller, Kant and Huizinga.
Kant takes up the founding element of freedom in the game and associates it with the aesthetics where the judgment of taste is based on the "free play of our cognitive faculties" of the imagination and the intellect. Or again, Johan Huizinga can be considered as one of the major theoreticians of the game, the theme at the center of his work is Homo Ludens, which assigns to the play activity of man the driving force of art and science.
No less are the authors of the art world who bear witness to the interest in the subject.
Artists, photographers and visual designers are invited to propose works that address the theme of the game in a new perspective, which reconsiders the theme through aspects that mark the contemporary: globalization, new interactive media, gambling addiction, etc.

Deadline 12th May 2019 │Expired

GLITCHES AND DEFECTS

Call for Exhibition - Accepted media: Photography, Digital Visual Design

Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. July 2019

FREE ENTRY Artists are invited to submit 1 to 3 artworks addressing the theme

Accepted media: Photography, Digital Graphic, Visual Data

In the digital age we are surrounded by images, an overload of saturated media. We demand for high quality and expectations of technology to produce seamless perfection, we are used to seeing and expect a seamless flow of information on screens. A technical failure in digital technology can interfere our viewing experience, glitches and defects within any medium are accident that disturb our senses.
What happens when the technology fails? Photographers and digital visual designers are invited to submit works that offers a vision on the topic.

Deadline 7th April 2019 │Expired

URBAN LIGHTS

Call for Exhibition - Accepted media: Photography, Digital Visual Design

Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. June 2019

FREE ENTRY Artists are invited to submit 1 to 3 artworks addressing the theme

It is a need made known since the most remote past that of man to illuminate his streets, squares, contexts of social life and community: rom lanterns that indicated the way to go, to the ones that indicated an hospitable place in which stop. Every means created by man to illuminate is therefore not only useful for the orientation of one's own spaces, but also a means of bringing messages, it is at the same time synonymous with energy, testimony of life and the presence of man himself. Today are the neon, the illuminated signs, the lights of shopping centers, of the streets, squares, buildings, etc. to bear witness to this ancient means. This call will collect works that tell of the world of today urban contexts, in the relationship between man, his environment and the means he created to give light.

Deadline 7th March 2019 │Expired

STRANGER THAN FICTION

Call for Exhibition - Accepted media: Photography, Digital Graphic, Digital Visual

Take part in the Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. May 2019

FREE ENTRY Artists are invited to submit 1 to 3 artworks addressing the theme

The will of man in recreating worlds through which to plunge and surprise him self has always been witnessed through the means dedicated to art. Especially today, with photography and new digital media, not only the artists but any individual, has available means that allow us to recreate fictional reality more and more illusory and more easily.
The present call, on the contrary, proposes to collect works that are able to surprise us through aspects belonging to the real world. Often the reality we perceive of the world, of an environment, situation, person, etc., reveals an unusual dissimilarity from the normal, overcoming our fantasies and becoming motive not only for perplexity, even of singular interest, curiosity and surprise.

Deadline 7th February 2019 │Expired

ENVIRONMENT DOCUMENTA

Call for Exhibition - Accepted media: Photography

Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. April 2019

FREE ENTRY Photographers are invited to submit 1 to 3 shots addressing the theme

 Photographers from all over the world are invited to submit photographic works that tell and document situations and conditions inherent to the current natural world by touching the theme on environmental protection and pollution. Particular consideration will be given to those photos that will be able to valorize the natural environmental heritage.

 Deadline 7th January 2019 │Expired

PERCEPTIONS

Call for Exhibition - Accepted media: Photography, Digital Graphic, Digital Visual

Take part in the Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. March 2019

FREE ENTRY Artists are invited to submit 1 to 3 artworks addressing the theme

As it is present/real in every work of man, the perceptual expression of reality represents not only a subjective and at the same time analytical vision of its own world, but also a witness to the tools by which man relates to reality.
Through this call, photographers and digital graphic designers are invited to present works that highlight the aspects of the perceptual, physical and emotional sphere, which determine our experience and our understanding of the world, both interior and exterior.

Deadline 7th December 2018 │Expired

BODIES IN MOVEMENT

Call for Exhibition - Accepted media: Photography, Digital Graphic, Digital Visual ( Video not accepted )

Take part in the Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. February 2019

FREE ENTRY Artists are invited to submit 1 to 3 artworks addressing the theme

The works that will take part in this exhibition will represent a continuum of that dialogue between the visual arts and the arts of movement, dance and performing arts, made manifest since their first developments and in which the art history has found important links. From the plastic arts of Canova, to the pictorial ones of Matisse, Degas and Impressionists, to the performative experiences of the neo-avant-gardes documented through photographs and videos during the 60s / 70s, as no less are the testimonies expressed by the dance world starting from Martha Grahm and Merce Cunningham.
Even the gestural component in general finds in this call an important channel of expression, where the body language is subjected to new analyzes that investigate the behavior and lifestyles of man in the modern age.

Deadline 15 November 2018 │Expired