After the curator has completed all evaluations, everyone who submitted a dossier will be informed of their participation status in the biennale via email. Due to the high volume of submissions, we cannot provide any updates on the status of your submission during the process, nor are we able to offer any explanations or feedback on dossiers that are not invited to participate in the biennale. Thank you for your understanding.
1. Where can I upload my dossier for the call for participation?
You can upload your dossier in the designated field of the online form.
Click here for the online form.
2. How can I submit my dossier?
Submission guidelines
The first leg of the Biennial will focus on themes of self-preservation and futurities.
In the face of precarity and recurring crises, how do material conditions and lack of safety affect our daily lives and shape our relationships with ourselves, our bodies, and our communities?
How do we create spaces of respite, foster unconventional solidarities, and devise counterstrategies of resistance?
What futures can we envision in a dual movement of repair and forward imagination? How can we inhabit our worlds as they unravel, making space for both nightmares and dreams, impermanence and endurance?
For the first leg in 2025, we invite interested artists to submit their dossiers via the online form by following the steps below.
Local and international artists from all disciplines are welcome to submit their dossiers.
- Online form
- Project proposal: Should directly address the curatorial themes (maximum 3,500 characters without spaces, up to 10 MB)
- Portfolio: Demonstrating past work and experience (up to 100 MB)
3. What is the deadline for submissions?
The deadline for submission is 17.00 (GMT+3) on 15 December 2024.
4. Can I submit my dossier and/or relevant documents via email?
Dossiers or documents submitted via email will not be accepted.
5. In which format should the file be?
The file format should be PDF.
6. Can we submit a dossier as a group or collective?
You can upload your dossier on a single participation form as a group or collective.
7. Can I upload more than one file?
You should upload a single file to each designated section.
- Project proposal: Should directly address the curatorial themes (maximum 3,500 characters without spaces, up to 10 MB)
- Portfolio: Demonstrating past work and experience (up to 100 MB)
8. Can I submit a project proposal that is based on an ongoing project for the call for participation?
Yes, you can submit a project proposal that is based on an ongoing project for the call for participation.
9. Can I submit a work/project that was previously submitted to and/or presented/exhibited in another exhibition or art event?
Yes, you can submit a work/project that was previously submitted to and/or presented/exhibited in another exhibition or art event.
10. What themes should the proposals submitted to the biennial be in line with?
The first leg of the Biennial will focus on themes of self-preservation and futurities.
In the face of precarity and recurring crises, how do material conditions and lack of safety affect our daily lives and shape our relationships with ourselves, our bodies, and our communities?
How do we create spaces of respite, foster unconventional solidarities, and devise counterstrategies of resistance?
What futures can we envision in a dual movement of repair and forward imagination? How can we inhabit our worlds as they unravel, making space for both nightmares and dreams, impermanence and endurance?
11. In what language must the dossier be prepared and submitted?
The dossier must be submitted in English or Turkish. Dossiers submitted in other languages will not be accepted.
12. Is the call for participation only for artists?
Local and international artists from all disciplines are welcome to submit their dossiers. For the call for participation, you must submit art-driven projects. If your profession covers artistic intersections and is based on artistic practices, you can submit your dossier which must include a project proposal in line with the themes, along with a portfolio.
