Call for Artists | UNIVERSITY OF ST.GALLEN SWITZERLAND

Twice a year, independent artists have the opportunity to submit projects for a recently acquired building of the University at Tellstrasse 2 in St.Gallen. A curator will choose 5 projects from the applications received that will then be exhibited for six months in the school building. Applications can be made for one of the 5 space options specifically (please see separate documents on our website for options available) or without any particular space in mind. The final decision on the space allotted to the selected projects is made by the curator. The opening of the second edition of Art@Tell will be curated by Ms. Deborah Keller and will be opened in mid-August 2014.

Conditions for Applicants

 The applicant has concluded his/her studies at an acclaimed art academy.

 The applicant is not supported by a gallery, art consultant, or any other kind of commercial professional.

Required Application Documents

 Short written description of the project in English (one page maximum) and sketches, visualizations or, if already available, photographs of it.

 Portfolio of the artist’s work in general.

 Short CV in tabular form and full exhibition history.

 Copy of the diploma certificate from the art academy where the applicant has graduated.

 Optional: two to four catalog or newspaper articles, reviews, texts (online editions are welcome too) on works or exhibitions of the artist.

Please note: All documents must be provided in a PDF format or, for images, in JPEG (with no more than 5 MB per image) and sent to art-tellstrasse@unisg.ch
We suggest to use wetransfer.com, yousendit.com, or dropbox.com for transferring the documents.
Selection Procedure
 Application deadline is March 30, 2014. Applications received after this deadline cannot be considered.
 Please note: incomplete applications that do not contain all the above listed documents will not be considered.

More information: http://interartive.org/2014/03/call-for-artists-university-of-st-gallen/