Kvartira S Gallery announces an Open Call for participation in the group exhibition
“THIRD PLACE,”
to be held in the exhibition halls of the ARTPLAY Design Center
(10 Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya Street, Kurskaya metro station, Moscow) from February 2 to 28, 2025.
Applications should be submitted by January 24, 2025, to opencall@kvartiras.com.
The number of participants is limited.
Works addressing politics or the epidemiological situation, as well as nudes, will not be accepted for the exhibition.
Exhibition art manager: Alexandra Kachalina.
What is a “Third Place” for us? The space between home and work, a favorite avenue in the local park, one’s native village a hundred kilometers from the city, or perhaps a quiet library filled with the scent of old books. When we want to rest, to escape our thoughts and problems, we think not of a particular place, but of the feelings we experience there—the place where we regain our strength, dream, breathe deeply, and share precious moments with those we love.
Can paintings convey this state of mind? What places now exist only in our memory, where do we long to return, and what lies on the boundary between the personal and the collective? In Kvartira S’s new group project, we invite artists to reflect on “alternative” spaces and their role in people’s lives.
Applications sent to opencall@kvartiras.com must include:
- a CV (the artist’s portfolio in any format and a brief biography in Word, submitted as separate files);
- high-quality photographs of 1–3 completed works, indicating their dimensions, materials, year of creation, and price;
- a photograph of the artist in JPEG format;
- a description of the proposed works (please explain how each work reflects the exhibition’s stated theme).
We accept painting, graphic art (framed in a thin light-colored or black frame), photography, installations, collages, large-scale sculpture, and mixed media—between 1 and 3 works per artist. The selection will be made by the curator and the gallery team. All works in the exhibition will be available for purchase.
Please note! Participation requires a membership fee:
RUB 6,000 for gallery residents and RUB 10,000 for new participants.
The membership fee covers exhibition installation, the printing of promotional materials, PR, announcements in the media and on social networks, the opening event, and a digital catalogue of the works. The fee is payable after the works have been selected and the exhibition participation agreement has been signed. The fee is fixed and does not depend on the number of works included.
An agreement will be concluded with each participant.
For further details, please email info@kvartiras.com
