KAOS 2024 OPEN CALL

This year’s 5th edition of KAOS International Festival of Contemporary Collage will take place in Kranj between May 31 and August 10 with a central exhibition, art residencies, murals, workshops, artist talks and evening concerts. The exhibition program will offer current artistic production in the field of collage of invited artists and of those, selected in an open call.

The central theme BENEATH THE SURFACE focuses on the manifestation of human emotions in today’s complex world, where true emotions often remain beneath the surface due to societal expectations, stereotypical connotations, saturation, or a lost connection with oneself. The central theme collaborates with collage as a medium that is multi-layered and consequently full of depth, turning to the viewer with a narrative, allowing juxtaposition, subtlety, expressionism, and ambiguity. It invites the viewer to recognize various feelings during a gallery visit, not just positive ones. KAOS 2024 places a special focus on works that are experimental, antagonistic, and nihilistic in nature. 

KAOS 2024 is opening an open call for ART IN A BOX: Liminal places.  

An open call is inviting all collage artists to create art in boxes exploring the concept of 3Dimensional collage, in the form of assemblage referring to the theme Beneath the Surface: Liminal places

About Assemblage and Collage:

The shadow box, the assemblage in a box is a hybrid, liminal place where things begin to behave like images, and images have the power of the real. Collage and Assemblage share the magic moment in which two images collide and create something new in a perpetual state of occurrence. Our perception and memories are set in motion. The box contains the fragments, and our minds work outwards from there, remembering, making sense, imagining.

Project specification
– to be displayed in the gallery, the assemblage size should be between 15×15×15 cm (minimum) and 25×25×25 cm (maximum), while the shape of the piece is not neccesarily the cube, examples of measurements: 10x25x25 cm, 15x20x25 cm. The maximum weight is 10kg. Pieces will be displayed in the gallery hanged on the wall or placed on the base

– the artwork should refer to the theme Beneath the Surface: Liminal places

– the art work must contain elements of collage as well as objects

– application form HERE

– open call is open for all EU residents 

Jury:

María Elisa Quiaro is a Venezuelan visual artist based in Germany. With a multidisciplinary approach that includes collage, photography, assemblage and painting, Quiaro conceptualises the image of a constructed reality through abstraction and deconstruction. Also important to her is the concept of memory as the trace that exposes the fragility of our constructed reality. Quiaro graduated in Art in the UK and studied Mass Communication and Graphic Design in Venezuela. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions around the world. Quiaro has also been curator, juror and organiser of various exhibitions in Germany, UK, Spain and Venezuela. Her work has been published in various books, fanzines and digital media. Her work belongs to several public and private collections.