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What a theater!

  • show 2023-12-15 > 2026-07-31
  • ongoing exhibition > 633 day(s) left
  • show address druckmafia.blogspot.com
  • description

    Why this Mail Art-call?

    Quite simply because we love and appreciate theater. We encounter theater every day e.g., in everyday situations or in idioms that refer to it like “All the world’s a stage”, “to get the show on the road”, “to wait in the wings”, “to steal the show”, “What a drama!” etc. So we encounter “theater” in our everyday lives, and often it makes us smile.

    The city of Schweinfurt is one of the lucky operators of a theater building. It is a guest theater and thus offers many different ensembles the opportunity to present themselves to a theater-loving audience through a wide variety of plays.

    There are no limits to the joy of experimentation, which can also be borderline for individual spectators.

    Schweinfurt has a long theater tradition, first documented in 1572 with the performance of “Comedy of the Last Judgment”.

    The venues have changed frequently over the years.

    In 1966, a new theater building opened on Roßbrunnstrasse. It was designed by the architect of Prof. Erich Schellig, with a polygonal ground plan and cubistic superstructures. A large staircase connects the theater building with the Châteaudun Park.

    All in all, the building looks different in all sides.

    Inside we find a piece of art of Gustl G. Kirchner with a turquoise wall in spatula technique; in the staircase Günther Zirkelbach created a relief with cut plasterboards; Prof. Karl Dahmen dedicated himself to the large 130 square meter wall with a dispersion spatula technique. He was an important representative of Tachism. His work is considered a major work of German Informel. The stage designer Trude Karrer designed the hanging light sculpture in the auditorium.

    The indirect lighting in this room is also impressive. Its wal, cover with pyramid bodies shining out of themselves, some of which are gilded, creates a wonderful atmosphere. And so it could go on for a long time to describe our beautiful theater.

    Since 1973 there have been puppet play day, in regularly recurring intervals. Uwe Brockmüller regularly exhibited parts of his puppet collection in glass showcases.

    Thus, one could get an impression of the variety of different puppet theaters — especially in the Asian region.

    Our theater will be completely renovated. For this reason, we started this Mail Art-call. We are curious how and what is perceived as theater and what individuals associate with it.

  • curator Anna Karina Fries
  • info klein.dittelbrunn@freenet.de
  • info druckmafia.blogspot.com
  • kid friendly

  • Mailart: Book of Dead

  • show 2024-01-03 > 2025-02-02
  • ongoing exhibition > 89 day(s) left
  • description

    I'm an admirer of the book of the dead, so I think a book of the same style is needed for MAILART.

    The idea came from recycling a lot of paper that was around the house and this project came about.

    Creating mail art inspired by the “Book of the DeaD” can be a fascinating and creative endeavor.

    The “Book of the DeaD” is an ancient Egyptian funerary text that contains spells and instructions for the deceased's journey through the afterlife.

  • curator Paulo Teles (BroTTas)
  • info brottas@gmail.com
  • info mailartbookofdead.wixsite.com/deadbook
  • kid friendly

  • (R)EVOLUTION

  • show 2024-04-26 > 2024-12-31
  • ongoing exhibition > 56 day(s) left
  • show address Markgräfler Museum Müllheim
  • description

    For their 50th anniversary in 2024, the Markgräfler Museum and the Markgräfler Museumsverein Müllheim with its art working group are calling on artists to send one or more self-made postcards (so-called mail art) on the topic “(R)Evolution” by post.

  • curator Wolfgang Faller, Frédéric Letellier, Sylvia T. Verwick
  • info akku3@t-online.de
  • info markgraefler-museum.de

  • POETRY IS RESISTANCE

  • show 2024-10-18 > 2024-12-20
  • ongoing exhibition > 45 day(s) left
  • description

    In the scenario of the dystopian landscapes of our contemporary society, thinking of poetry no longer as a simple aesthetic exercise, but as a critical and political tool implies approaching the experimental in a situated and contextual dimension. In this sense, the POSVERSO Biennial is conceived as an appeal to those artists who show a desire to distance themselves from pure formal variations, to venture, on the contrary, to achieve a poetics that enhances critical signs, and that enables reading conditions that dialogue with reality.

    Mail art has a long tradition of political positioning and resistance.

    What can mail art and experimental poetry contribute today to the path of resistance? What are the media and discourses that are deployed to influence the convulsed world we inhabit? To what aspects of our reality is this resistance directed? For Deleuze to think is to resist, and thought is a set of forces that resists death. In our contemporary world, death has multiple faces: forced migrations, wars, poverty, hunger, climate change, inequality of the capitalist system, propagation and rise of far-right political forces. What can poetry do in the face of all this?

  • curator Ruggero Maggi
  • info maggiruggero@gmail.com

  • Electioneering

  • show 2024-11-05 > 2025-01-20
  • ongoing exhibition > 76 day(s) left
  • show address unrequitedleisure.com
  • description

    The visual language developed over years of insipid political advertising now permeates the majority of our technology leading up to every election in the United States. Those idiosyncrasies that emerge within each cycle are quickly usurped by a prevailing, overarching, and perhaps even comforting-if-only-by-way-of-familiarity, tone of cynical electoral politics. The subsequent sigh from the voting body arrives for us in couplets, once as the ads are terminated from our devices and a second time as the election results are counted.

    This thematic exhibition requests mailed responses on the visual language of electoral politics that further complicate, problematize, and reflect on the ways in which our political system is now interwoven with the human experience. The curation of the exhibition mirrors the frenetic pace of the cross-platform media buy, expanding and intensifying its presence exponentially as election day approaches, culminating in a frenzied and cacophonous online exhibition in the days leading up to the US election. The website featuring all received works will be on view through inauguration day, 2025.

    We are particularly interested in global responses to the election cycle in the United States, though we intend to show all works received.

  • curator Unrequited Leisure
  • info unrequitedleisure@gmail.com
  • info unrequitedleisure.com

  • Rediscovering kindness

  • show 2024-11-13 > 2024-11-13
  • 8 day(s) left for premier
  • show address Martellago library | Maerne | Venezia | Italy
  • description

    Kindness is contagious (Mestre Gentileza), the joy of humanity (Marco Aurelio) and there are multiple benefits to psychosocial well-being. Everyone is invited to celebrate kindness and acceptance of difference, remembering beautiful human attitudes such as empathy and tolerance. Join us in World Kindness Day celebration, after all: What is kindness to you?

  • curator Elisa Rioda, Cristina Piloto
  • info comunita.lavilletta@aclicoop.com
  • info crispiloto.art/gentilezza

  • A Tribute to Doriano Rota Mail Artist

  • show 2024-12-01 > 2024-12-31
  • 26 day(s) left for premier
  • description

    A tribute to a dear friend and comrade, who after a lifelong militancy has left us, present in a thousand struggles, social, cultural and political initiatives, because he believed that society could be changed in a libertarian sense with personal commitment and mutual aid.


  • Free Space to Imagiantion

  • show 2024-12-01 > 2024-12-31
  • 26 day(s) left for premier
  • show address Casa Museo Bendandi | Via Manara, 17 | 48018 Faenza (RA) | Italy
  • curator Dr. Paola Pescerelli Lagorio, Roberta Savolini

  • Green Letters: Tree from Root to Branch

  • show 2024-12-02 > 2024-12-06
  • 27 day(s) left for premier
  • show address Prof. Dr. M. Mete Cengiz Cultural Center | Bursa Uludağ University | Bursa | Turkey
  • info uludagtsergi@gmail.com
  • info instagram.com/greenletters_mailart
  • kid friendly
  • theme Tree (from root to branch)

  • Online Offline Balance: Art to Reconnect

  • show 2024-12-02 > 2024-12-17
  • 27 day(s) left for premier
  • show address Centro Estadual de Capacitação em Artes Guido Viaro | Curitiba | Brasil

  • African Portraits

  • show 2024-12-19 > 2024-12-28
  • 44 day(s) left for premier
  • show address Z'Arts 2024 Festival | Kuyam Baa Art Residency | Ziguinchor Sénégal
  • curator Herve Alexandre, Daouda Dia
  • info hervesfriends@gmail.com

  • Miniprint International 2024 - Plantas Nativas

  • show 2025-02-01 > 2025-02-28
  • 88 day(s) left for premier
  • show address Mar del Plata | Argentina
  • curator Lucia Caro, Nélida Torres Baltazar
  • info luciacaro57@hotmail.com

  • 5 ARGUMENTS

  • show 2025-06-16 > 2025-06-16
  • 223 day(s) left for premier
  • description

    In 2025, Ákos Székely, avant-garde artist, visual poet, a leading figure in Hungarian assemblage, mail art and fluxus, would have turned 80. The aim of this mail art call is to pay tribute to Ákos Székely's life's work and personality.

    We are looking for works that reflect on the following theme: 5 arguments.

    Ákos Székely considered it important to develop the debating skills and critical thinking of his students. Open debates took place in his classes on all literary and artistic questions. A fundamental rule was that participants had to support their points with 5 arguments.

  • info abajkovics@gmail.com
  • info instagram.com/5arguments

  • kreiseln

  • show 2025-11-08 > 2025-12-07
  • 368 day(s) left for premier
  • show address Galerie Alte Post | Kunstverein Eislingen | Germany
  • info kunstverein-eislingen@gmx.de
  • info kunstverein-eislingen.de

  • kreiseln

  • show 2025-11-08 > 2025-12-07
  • 368 day(s) left for premier
  • show address Galerie Alte Post | Kunstverein Eislingen | Germany
  • curator Boris Kerenski
  • info kunstverein-eislingen@gmx.de
  • theme kreiseln
  • medium 2D

  • [e]mailart

  • show 2030-01-01 > 2035-12-31
  • 1883 day(s) left for premier
  • show address e.mailart.pt
  • description

    do consider what [e]mailart is and could be. consider what's the difference between merely sending a simple attachment or image as an email body or otherwise sending a real piece of art that uses all the capacity of what embodies the digital world and the ancient email technology and protocols.

    can a mere attachment be considered a work of art? or should we explore something that resides in the body of the email and is changeable and unique and unable to subsist in any other medium than that?

    alternatively, you may also submit some words, your point of view on the matter, or even an essay regarding the "digital world vs mailart vs [e]mailart vs art".

    any questions regarding the open call should not be sent to us by email as they won't be replied to.

  • curator MAILART.pt
  • info e.mailart.pt
  • medium static or dynamic digital artwork that "live" in the environment native to e-mail

  • LEONIART PROJECT MMLVII - "Jump to the future"

  • show 2057-05-07 > 2057-05-07
  • 11871 day(s) left for premier
  • show address Abbazia di S.Bernardino | Genova | Italy
  • description

    The artists have to represent a landscape of their city, country, or any place of the world such as they imagine it will be in 2057. It can be something dystopic, fantastic, a wonderful peaceful landscape full of colors, or simply the same as seen today. It could be prophetic or not.

  • info corra.leoni@gmail.com
  • info leoniartproject.org/leoniartproject.htm
  • medium minimum size of 2000 x 2600 pixels rectangular and horizontal (landscape) proportions will be preferred

  • "E" Ambassadeur d'Utopia

  • show 2067-02-17 > 2067-02-17
  • 15444 day(s) left for premier
  • show address Guivry | France
  • info insomniesetartpostal.blogspot.com

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