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Current—Art and Urban Space
Stuttgart
Germany
CURRENT – ART AND URBAN SPACE: Call for Works
CURRENT – ART AND URBAN SPACE is a transdisciplinary festival for art in urban space. The third edition will take place from June 26 to July 27, 2025, and will focus on "Air" in all its social, political, ecological, and material forms.
CURRENT – ART IN PUBLIC SPACE is a transdisciplinary festival held in Stuttgart every two years. By developing exemplary formats, CURRENT experimentally explores artistic forms, strategies and practices contextualized in the city. The third edition of CURRENT – ART AND URBAN SPACE will take place from June 26 to July 27, 2025, inviting artists and artist groups to propose new works for the urban space that explore the theme of "Air" in all its social, political, ecological, and material dimensions.
Air – although invisible, it is ubiquitous. Fleeting, intangible and always in motion. Only can it be experienced indirectly. Air carries sounds, smells and vibrations, moves in winds, reveals itself in the flapping of sails, and allows birds to soar and clouds to drift. Air transmits sound waves, temperature, odors and particles; revealing itself through its impact on the environment and the senses. A mixture of oxygen, nitrogen and other gases, air is essential for life on Earth. While the earth’s atmosphere is composed of the complete layer of gaseous matter that surrounds and protects the planet, air merely makes up one component of this. Air is a circuit that connects everything and everyone. For a long time, the air was not given much attention, but in the wake of air pollution, wildfires and severe storms caused by the climate crisis and as a source of breathing in (Covid) pandemics, it has become the focus of social and political discourse.
CURRENT follows the streams and traces of air through the city. Air currents determine the course of the festival, serving as both guiding principle and narrative, aesthetic and artistic element for the interplay of movement and stagnation. Two artistic positions are invited via an OPEN CALL to examine the significance of air in its urban, historical and social dimensions. To be submitted are new works that use and investigate air as a material form, and explore its unique features.
Formats and media: one media board at Stuttgart's Pragsattel intersection and a total of eight flags mounted on flagpoles in Stuttgart's city center and in Degerloch are made available. In addition, the artworks can be accompanied by other artistic formats such as performances, walks, readings or talks. Production costs of EUR 4,000 gross are provided for each submission. This excludes fixed costs, which will be covered directly by the organizer (see budget estimate). With the completion of the artwork, the artists or artist groups will receive a fee of EUR 4,000 gross.
INFO, Dates & Deadlines
- Theme: AIR
- Festival period: 26.06.-27.07.2025
- Application deadline: 06.01.2025, 11:59 PM (CET)
- Q+A / Consultation: 05.12.2024, 2:00-3:00 PM (CET), with prior registration by 03.12.2024 to program@artpublicspace.de (please include your questions!)
- Jury meeting: Beginning of January
- Announcement: Mid-End of January
- Jury: Laura Bernhardt, Marenka Krasomil, Nora Unger
- Media: Mediaboard, flags
- Eligible to participate: Professional artists/groups
- Only new, site-specific project ideas allowed
Download the call for proposals as a PDF
Required Documents
Submission deadline: until January 6, 2025, 11.59 PM (CET)
- short project description (1,000 characters)
- detailed project description (5,500 characters)
- site selection
- visual design (max. 5 image files, png, jpg or gif, max. 1 MB/image)
- artist statement (400 characters, PDF)
- cost breakdown (Excel/PDF, template)
- curriculum vitae (1 DIN A4 page, PDF)
- portfolio (max. 3 projects, 4 pages, PDF)
- Only one draft without variants per artist
- Submission via application portal
- Download cost estimate template
- English Translation (The German Version is legally binding) -
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. GENERAL
The Open Call is meant for all artists and artist groups residing in the EU and Switzerland (if you reside in another country, please contact us to check if participation is possible). All artistic disciplines are permitted. Upon finalizing the artwork, the artists or artist group receives an honorary fee of 4,000 EURO (incl. VAT). A maximum budget of 4,000 euros (incl. VAT) is available for the production. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered and agreed upon individually with each artist or artist group.
Organizer of the competition is the non-profit Art Public Space – Culture Matters UG (limited liability) Reitzensteinstraße 31 | 10190 Stuttgart Germany (hereafter „APS-CM“ or „we“)
2. RIGHTS
The submitting party is responsible for clearing the necessary rights of works used within the scope of the project. He/she/they declare that he/she/they is authorized to grant the organizer of the CURRENT – ART UND URBAN SPACE festival, namely Art Public Space – Culture Matters non-profit (limited liability), permission of use and that he/she/they do not infringe the rights of third parties (e.g. copyright, personal rights, trademark rights) and in particular that the rights of any third-party materials (music, film, photos, texts, etc.) have been cleared for use. The submitting party hereby releases the organizer (Art Public Space – Culture Matters non-profit (limited liability)) from all third-party claims arising from use within the project period and documentation. This also includes the necessary and reasonable costs of legal defense. There is no insurance coverage for the exhibited artworks. However, a public liability insurance policy is in effect for the exhibition in public space, for the official duration of the event.
3. DATA PROTECTION
The protection and security of personal data are of high priority for us. Therefore, we strictly adhere to the rules of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable data protection regulations in their current version.
Any data collected is exclusively used in the context of the open call, the festival and its documentation. In addition, our data protection information applies to
- This Open Call
- Our general data protection information for the use of our website, see the imprint on our website
