OPEN CALL! OPEN CALL! OPEN CALL!

Fringe Gallery is an exhibition space run by Filmverkstaden, whose exhibitions are selected through an annual open call. The gallery will open its doors for the first time in March 2025. The exhibitions will focus on contemporary art with the keywords analogue, experimental, expanded, alternative, cinema, moving image, installation, photography.

Fringe Gallery is situated in a separate exhibition space next to Filmverkstadens workshop spaces, measuring about 70 square metres. The gallery is run by Filmverkstaden, an artist-run knowledge and resource centre and lab for analogue film and photography, located in the cultural house Funkkis in Vaasa.

The gallery’s exhibitions are selected through a call for applications once a year. Exhibitions are selected by members of the board of Filmverkstaden, the gallery staff and one specially invited guest member of the jury. Invited for the exhibitions for 2025 is Julian Ross, curator, researcher, writer and head of Film Programming & Distribution of EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.

The exhibition period is 4 weeks plus days for hanging and dismantling. Hanging of the exhibition will take place from Tuesday to Thursday, with the opening on the Friday of the hanging week at 6 pm. Dismantling will happen on Monday after the last week of opening.

No rent is charged for the exhibition space at Fringe Gallery.

The artist is responsible for the content and production costs of the exhibition. The artist is primarily responsible for hanging and dismantling the exhibition. The artist will be assisted by a staff member for one day. We offer technical support and advice. The artist will have a number of tools and AV equipment, both digital and analogue, at their disposal. The space can be used as a white box or a (completely darkened) black box.

The artist will take care of the transport of the works and all the necessary insurances. The gallery will be responsible for daily cleaning, opening and supervision of the exhibition space.

The artist will prepare written material for the exhibition (e.g. details of the exhibited works and CV). A press release will be produced in collaboration with the gallery. The gallery will send out an electronic exhibition invitation and announcement through its own communication channels and through social media. The gallery will produce an in-depth video with the artist on their works and working methods, to be published online.

In the event of a sale, the gallery will direct contacts directly to the artist or the artist’s representative and will not charge a commission on sales. The artist is asked to accompany the exhibition with an exclusive limited edition of small scale works, art products or artist books that will be on sale in the gallery too.

For the year 2025, seven exhibition slots are available at Fringe Gallery:

15.3-13.4
19.4-18.5
24.5-22.6
2.8-31.8
6.9-4.10
10.10-9.11
15.11-14.12

Application

Exhibition proposal (max. 1 A4)
Visual material (3-5 images)
CV + portfolio or link to online portfolio
Contact information and preferred time slot
Bundle all documents into one pdf (max. 10 MB), with your firstname_lastname as title.
Send in your application on January 15th 2025 or before to mail@filmverkstaden.fi

We look forward to receiving your applications!

Each application will be acknowledged as received.

More information:
mail@filmverkstaden.fi

Generously supported by:

Uudet Klassikot, Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet

analogue film & photography.