OPEN CALL - Fäden der Erinnerungen: Chemiefaser, Frauenarbeit und DDR-Alltag in Mitteldeutschland
Threads of Memories: Synthetic Fibers, Women's Work, and East German Everyday Life in Central Germany
Submit a concept or project idea, portfolio of 3–5 works, finished works or drafts, and CV for consideration in an exhibition exploring the cultural history of synthetic fibers, women's labor, and daily life in East Germany.
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- Entry fee
- Not listed - check the source
- Award
- 750 EUR honorarium (including production costs) and travel expense allowance
- Location
- Willi-Sitte-Galerie, Merseburg
- Exhibition window
- Dec 15, 2026 → Feb 15, 2027
About
Overview
For an exhibition on the cultural history of synthetic fibers in central Germany at Willi-Sitte-Galerie, master's students in applied media and cultural studies at Hochschule Merseburg seek artistic submissions. The call explicitly welcomes artists, photographers, designers, filmmakers, authors, scientists, and researchers engaging with the social, political, and emotional dimensions of synthetic fiber and textile production.
Theme
The exhibition shifts narratives away from male-centered industrial progress stories to center women's work experiences, migrant perspectives, and marginalized voices. It focuses on women's lives and labor in textile and synthetic fiber production and traces these histories to the present. Submissions may address women's factory work, contract workers, equality in East Germany, transition experiences, embodiment and materiality, environmental damage from chemical fiber production, continuities of exploitation today, or synthetic fibers as everyday materials, memory carriers, or political materials.
Submission format
- Project concept or idea (max. 3,000 characters)
- Portfolio: 3–5 works on max. 12 pages
- Finished works and/or drafts
- CV: brief self-description (max. 2,000 characters)
Key dates
- Submission deadline: 09.08.2026
- Exhibition dates: 15.12.2026 – 15.02.2027
Awards
Selected artists receive a 750 EUR honorarium (including production costs) and a travel expense allowance.
Contact
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: www.hs-merseburg.de/mischgewebe
- Award
- 750 EUR honorarium (including production costs) and travel expense allowance
- Theme
- The exhibition explores the cultural history of synthetic fiber production in East Germany, centering women's lived and working experiences, migrant perspectives, and marginalized voices often erased from male-dominated industrial narratives. It examines care, exhaustion, solidarity, ambivalence, resistance, environmental harm, and production's continuities into the present.
- Eligibility
- Open to all; no geographic restrictions.
- Audience
- Artists, photographers, designers, filmmakers, authors, scientists, and researchers
- Contact
- [email protected]
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