Featured | Open Call

All project organisers of the Berlin contemporary art scene are invited to submit an entry. Independent project groups, project spaces and initiatives, small and large art institutions and other actors in contemporary art are eligible to participate. Individual artists with exhibition spaces are not eligible to participate. Berlin Art Week does not have its own exhibition spaces and cannot provide spaces for potential participants.

Conditions of Participation - 

The prerequisite for participation is a contemporary art programme contribution. There are no thematic requirements and no limitation to specific media of contemporary art production. The programme contributions should begin during Berlin Art Week (10—14 SEP 2025) or represent a free special programme within the festival week. Openings within the festival week should be free of charge. Programmes with durations that start before the festival week as well as purely commercial formats are excluded from participation.

Independent project groups, project spaces and initiatives, small and large art institutions and other actors in contemporary art are eligible to participate. Individual artists are only eligible to apply provided that they have a suitable exhibition space. There is no entitlement to participation.

Berlin Art Week does not fund projects. There are no participation fees.

Repeat applications are possible after previous participation in Berlin Art Week.

The open call for participation in Featured 2025 is expected to start on 4 March 2025 and ends on 31 May 2025 at midnight.

Application Documents - 

The following information is required for submission:

• Name and short text about the institution / exhibition venue

• Information on the exhibition / special programme: title, opening, duration, brief concept

• Contact person (name, e-mail, telephone number)

• Authorised signatory (name, position)

• Images: The online form must be submitted together with 5-8 images, which also serve as information for the jury. Please take care to select meaningful images that comprehensively convey your project to the jury. This should also include images of the premises in which the project takes place (format: JPG. Minimum image size: landscape format 1,000 px wide / portrait format 700 px wide). The images are not uploaded in the form, but sent separately as a WeTransfer-link to kontakt@berlinartweek.de.

Selection Process and Jury - 

An annually appointed jury decides on inclusion in the festival programme.

The jury for the open call of Featured 2024 were: Emma Enderby (Director, KW Institute for Contemporary Art), Nele Heinevetter (Founder, Tropez), Christian Kaspar Schwarm (Board Member Curatories at Freunde der Nationalgalerie, Freunde der Nationalgalerie), Mona Stehle (Artistic Director, Berlin Art Week).

The jury 2023 consisted of: Krist Gruijthuijsen (Director, KW Institute for Contemporary Art), Catherine Nichols (Curator, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart), Mona Stehle (Artistic Director, Berlin Art Week), María Inés Plaza Lazo (Founder, Arts of the Working Class).

Applicants will be notified by email of their decision to be included in the festival programme without individual justification.