Calls for artists
CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium accepts artists submissions to participate in the next exhibition season 2024-2025.
Artists can apply right away to the following group exhibitions "Conceptual Matters" and "Primal Noesis", as well as solo or double-solo exhibitions:
"Conceptual Matters" - Thematic group exhibition
Location: CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium - Lavagna, Italy
Accepted artworks: bidimensional, wall installed, including video art; tridimensional with limitations
Period: three weeks, 2024
Submission deadline: ongoing, t.b.a.
Theme: The exhibition aims to offer a panorama on the actual developments and the evolution of Conceptual Art, how it is being interpreted by contemporary artists, analysing how the concept is crucial for an artwork in a society dominated by information.
Somebody may comment that all art has always been conceptual, since an artwork is born in any case from the artist's will of creating it and how; but this consideration can be easily objected if we consider Surrealist Automatism, abstraction, Pittura Analitica, asemic writing and other genres of unconscious art that involve the estrangement from conceptualism and reasoning. Therefore, the artworks of this exhibition focus on the primacy of human conscience: the idea, expressed in a direct way or conveyed by the form.
Tags: idea, concept, representation, expression, principle, aphorism, writing, inscription, illustration, sarcasm, seriousness, exhortation, absolute, pictogram, cartoon, poetry, satire, symbolism, semiotics, thought, logic, lewitt, kosuth, duchamp, arte povera, minimalism, pop, dada, meme, content, objectivity, evidence, reality, model, example, critique, society, scheme, instruction, communication, plan, decision, will, word, activism, analysis, documentation, interdisciplinary, performance, demonstration, obviousness, assumption, theory, form, explanation, description, captions, title, narration, experience, comprehension, question, summary, centrality, importance, value, authority, altruism
Send your application or ask for more information to with subject "Conceptual Matters" including details on your expression (web links or attach statement, cv, portfolio, etc.) and the proposed artworks, possibly with a sentence about thematic relevance.
All applications will be carefully examined and the artists compatible with the curatorial intents will be contacted.
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"Primal Noesis" - Thematic group exhibition
Location: CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium - Lavagna, Italy
Accepted artworks: bidimensional, wall installed, including video art; tridimensional with limitations
Period: three weeks, 2024
Submission deadline: ongoing, t.b.a.
Theme: An exhibition to figure the possibility of a return to harmony with nature, its cycles and its primal demands, yet keeping knowledge, ethics and virtue. History gave us examples of peaceful primitive civilisations that developed a cognition of cosmos and a morality much more than the current Homo technologicus who too often abuses of enormous potentialities in obtuse, flawed, pauperising or aggressive ways.
Dispelling the stereotype whereby a wild modus vivendi would be symptom of abjection or backwardness, the exhibition highlights how intelligence belongs to an inner noble soul and not to the appearance, and that knowledge is searching for the essence of things, so they are often expressed in an unsophisticated but archetypal way.
Tags: conceptual, tribal, sign, symbol, graffiti, primitivism, peace, intelligence, archetype, totem, petroglyph, gnosis, philosophy, respect, naturalism, environment, adjustment, life, wildness, essence, minimalism, frugality, cosmos, knowledge, inspiration, virtue, nobility, civilisation, wisdom, justice, archaeology, antiquity, rurality, rustic, bucolic, country, retro, survival, erudition, raw, naked, simplicity, ingenuity, infantilism, naive, normality, humbleness, synthesis, foundations, spirituality, physicality, dexterity, drawing, expression, needs, imagination, dimension, ecology, economy, polis, conscience, meaning, form, representation
Send your application or ask for more information to with subject "Primal Noesis" including details on your expression (web links or attach statement, cv, portfolio, etc.) and the proposed artworks, possibly with a sentence about thematic relevance.
All applications will be carefully examined and the artists compatible with the curatorial intents will be contacted.
Exhibition season 2024-2025
CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium accepts artists submissions to participate in the next exhibition season 2024-2025.
Artists can apply right away to the following group exhibitions "Conceptual Matters" and "Primal Noesis", as well as solo or double-solo exhibitions:
"Conceptual Matters" - Thematic group exhibitionLocation: CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium - Lavagna, Italy
Accepted artworks: bidimensional, wall installed, including video art; tridimensional with limitations
Period: three weeks, 2024
Submission deadline: ongoing, t.b.a.
Theme: The exhibition aims to offer a panorama on the actual developments and the evolution of Conceptual Art, how it is being interpreted by contemporary artists, analysing how the concept is crucial for an artwork in a society dominated by information.
Somebody may comment that all art has always been conceptual, since an artwork is born in any case from the artist's will of creating it and how; but this consideration can be easily objected if we consider Surrealist Automatism, abstraction, Pittura Analitica, asemic writing and other genres of unconscious art that involve the estrangement from conceptualism and reasoning. Therefore, the artworks of this exhibition focus on the primacy of human conscience: the idea, expressed in a direct way or conveyed by the form.
Tags: idea, concept, representation, expression, principle, aphorism, writing, inscription, illustration, sarcasm, seriousness, exhortation, absolute, pictogram, cartoon, poetry, satire, symbolism, semiotics, thought, logic, lewitt, kosuth, duchamp, arte povera, minimalism, pop, dada, meme, content, objectivity, evidence, reality, model, example, critique, society, scheme, instruction, communication, plan, decision, will, word, activism, analysis, documentation, interdisciplinary, performance, demonstration, obviousness, assumption, theory, form, explanation, description, captions, title, narration, experience, comprehension, question, summary, centrality, importance, value, authority, altruism
Send your application or ask for more information to with subject "Conceptual Matters" including details on your expression (web links or attach statement, cv, portfolio, etc.) and the proposed artworks, possibly with a sentence about thematic relevance.
All applications will be carefully examined and the artists compatible with the curatorial intents will be contacted.
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"Primal Noesis" - Thematic group exhibitionLocation: CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium - Lavagna, Italy
Accepted artworks: bidimensional, wall installed, including video art; tridimensional with limitations
Period: three weeks, 2024
Submission deadline: ongoing, t.b.a.
Theme: An exhibition to figure the possibility of a return to harmony with nature, its cycles and its primal demands, yet keeping knowledge, ethics and virtue. History gave us examples of peaceful primitive civilisations that developed a cognition of cosmos and a morality much more than the current Homo technologicus who too often abuses of enormous potentialities in obtuse, flawed, pauperising or aggressive ways.
Dispelling the stereotype whereby a wild modus vivendi would be symptom of abjection or backwardness, the exhibition highlights how intelligence belongs to an inner noble soul and not to the appearance, and that knowledge is searching for the essence of things, so they are often expressed in an unsophisticated but archetypal way.
Tags: conceptual, tribal, sign, symbol, graffiti, primitivism, peace, intelligence, archetype, totem, petroglyph, gnosis, philosophy, respect, naturalism, environment, adjustment, life, wildness, essence, minimalism, frugality, cosmos, knowledge, inspiration, virtue, nobility, civilisation, wisdom, justice, archaeology, antiquity, rurality, rustic, bucolic, country, retro, survival, erudition, raw, naked, simplicity, ingenuity, infantilism, naive, normality, humbleness, synthesis, foundations, spirituality, physicality, dexterity, drawing, expression, needs, imagination, dimension, ecology, economy, polis, conscience, meaning, form, representation
Send your application or ask for more information to with subject "Primal Noesis" including details on your expression (web links or attach statement, cv, portfolio, etc.) and the proposed artworks, possibly with a sentence about thematic relevance.
All applications will be carefully examined and the artists compatible with the curatorial intents will be contacted.