For the third consecutive year, the Pour Vous gallery is participating in the Design Parade Festival's OFF program. For the first time, the gallery is presenting an exhibition conceived and organized around a curatorial theme. Keen to enhance the visitor experience and further showcase emerging talent, the gallery has created an immersive exhibition this year, structured around a scenography and a world developed specifically for the occasion: Archaeology of the Everyday. Within this framework, the gallery is issuing an invitation to exhibit, creating a group show that brings together artists whose work engages with this theme.

Presentation of the call for participation

ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE EVERYDAY explores the idea that the objects of our present are already the vestiges of the future.
The Pour Vous gallery invites designers, craftspeople, artists, and material researchers to create a piece conceived as a contemporary relic, an emotional fragment, or an intimate artifact inspired by a gesture, a scent, a memory, or a domestic ritual.

Through this exhibition, the gallery wishes to highlight a new generation of talents who think of the object not only as a form, but also as a sensitive archive, a narrative support, a material memory in transformation.

Calendar

• Call for participation opens: immediate
• Application deadline: 15/02/2026 at midnight
• Announcement of selection: 24/02/2026
All participants will be contacted by email, whether they are among those selected or not.

If selected:
• Deadline for submitting artwork to the gallery: 01/06/2026
• Exhibition: from 25/06/2026 to 26/07/2026
• Project submissions expected: Between 27/07/2026 and 05/08/2026

Conditions of participation

Group applications (studios, duos, etc.) are accepted.

The call to exhibit is open to:
• Emerging or established designers
• Craftspeople
• Artists working with objects or materials
• Interior designers / scenographers
• Students and recent graduates over 18 years of age from the disciplines of design and art.

Types of projects accepted:
• Unique piece
• Small series piece
• Prototype or material experiment
• Installation-object
• Existing piece if it fits within the theme (justification required)

The project must be:
• physically feasible before the submission date
• transportable
• stable/secure
• ready to be installed

Practical details

This is not a competition; no prizes will be awarded at the end of this exhibition.

If selected, your project will be presented in a group exhibition, in the Pour Vous gallery during the Design Parade, an unmissable event in the decorative arts, design and interior architecture sectors.

If the artist wishes and an agreement is reached, the gallery may offer the pieces presented during the exhibition for sale.
The selection may also pave the way for future collaboration between the artist and the gallery, beyond the exhibition.

Costs covered by participants:
• Production of the piece
• Round-trip transportation
• Any specific technical support

Costs covered by the gallery:
• Exhibition design
• Communication
• Opening reception
• Public engagement during the exhibition period
• Insurance of artworks within the gallery during the exhibition period

Application process

To apply, send an email to:
→ contact@pourvous-design.com

Subject: OPEN CALL – Archaeology of Everyday Life
The application must include:
Last Name / First Name / Contact Information / Website and/or Instagram
Short bio (max. 800 characters)
Project Intent (max. 1 page)
Link to the theme
Technical Description (materials, dimensions, technical aspects)
Optional: Visuals / 3D models / drawings / photos of models…

File format:
• 1 single PDF (25 MB maximum)
• Name the file: LASTNAME_Firstname_Archaeology2026.pdf

Selection criteria

Projects will be selected based on:
• Relevance to the theme
• Conceptual or narrative strength
• Coherence between material, gesture, and intention
• Originality/uniqueness of the proposal
• Technical feasibility
• Project finish

Selection

If selected, creators will be required to commit by contract to:
• provide a piece conforming to the submitted application
• respect the submission and return deadlines
• provide the requested technical information
• Grant the Gallery a limited license to use their work, including the promotion, presentation, and marketing of their pieces, public performance, communication to the public, and minor technical adaptations.
• Be the sole and original author of the submitted works