RULES
Call opening: 10 May 2024
Call closure: 15 September 2024
Announcement of results: 20 September 2024
BADW: 16 - 20 October 2024
Bratislava Design Week is a space for presentations of contemporary Slovak and international design. The aim of the open call is to provide a space for both established and emerging designers, design producers and distributors, design students, individuals or groups. You can apply with an existing work, but new projects that will be created directly for the Bratislava Design Week 2024 festival or will be presented for the first time are also welcome. Submitted works may (or may not) reflect this year's theme, which is RELATIONSHIPS.
RELATIONS
The Bratislava Design Week festival always chooses a theme based on the current feeling of the time. This year we defined it as RELATIONSHIPS. In a broad sense. We are not without relationships. We perceive them on different levels and they significantly influence our life and the world. Relationships are sometimes obvious and sometimes hidden. They can define us, move us forward and destroy us. They open doors and educate us, they change us. We need to nurture, strengthen, fortify, establish, terminate, and nurture them. Of course, we also think of relationships outwards, to the environment, to society, to the past, to the future. And the relations outside ourselves - between materials, technologies, the organic and inorganic world. Relations are the universe and we want to enter it through the filter of design.
TERMS
Please register your project via the form by 2 September 2024. To be successful, your application must contain information about the artist, the work and the required attachments (documentation, portfolio). The entry fee is linked to the exhibition space and the category in which you are entering your project.
Solid Area
- professionals, manufacturers, dealers and established designers and design studios
- price: m²/40 € (minimum fee 50 €)
- after ordering the space, the entity becomes part of the program, will be included in all promotional materials + entrances to the opening reception and free entrances for partners of the entities to the festival area (6 pcs)
Design Lab
- intended for beginning design studios and recent graduates of art schools
- price: m²/30 € (minimum fee 40 €)
- after booking the space, the subject becomes part of the program, will be included in all promotional materials + entrances to the opening reception and free entrances to the festival grounds (4 pcs)
Pararell Area
- organisers of exhibitions and events in venues other than BADW headquarters
- Price: 150 EUR
- participation fee for co-participation (events and exhibitions in own premises) includes inclusion in the campaign, programme, promotion in the festival newspaper, visible signage of the showroom/gallery (sticker, rollup) + entries to the opening reception (4 pcs) and free entries to the festival (10 pcs)
School Area
- design school students
- maximum exhibition space - 20 m²
- price: m²/30 € (minimum fee 40 €)
- price includes entry to the opening reception and free entry to the festival (4 pcs)
The fee for the exhibition space is payable in one lump sum and is valid for the entire duration of the festival.
We will specify the exhibition space for OPEN CALL.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at: opencall@badw.sk
OPEN CALL 2024 - APPLICATION FORM
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