Network of Berlin Independent Project Spaces and Initiatives e.V.

The Network of Berlin Independent Project Spaces and Initiatives e.V. is this year organizing in the frame of Berlin Art Week 2018 the seventh award ceremony for art project spaces and initiatives given out by the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs and Europe.

Open Call for Comic artists

on occasion of the "Survive" event
in line with the award ceremony for 
project spaces and initiatives in 2018

Wanted are artistic contributions around the theme of survive.
Survive related to the situation of artists and project spaces at Berlin.

Topics may be:
•	Rent increase, shortage of space for artists und project spaces
•	Double, triple und quadruple burdon
(art, project space, job, family)
•	Market-orientated, Yes or No
•	Project spaces as indication of gentrification
...

In a first step we are looking for interested artists, sending us existing sample works/portfolios.

In the second step elected artists (6-8 positions) will be invited to generate an black/white comic with about 3-5 pages (A5). (selected works will be compensated with a one time fee of 300 euros.)

Allowed are all forms of comic strips and comics in the broadest sense.
We cordially invite you to submit current portfolios and we hope to receive a high number of entries.

Deadline first step to portfolios: 23rd of July 2018, 11:59 p.m.

The submitted applications will be viewed and juried by the team organizing the award ceremony and two external experts.

The publication with the selected comics will be shown during the award ceremony on the 28th of September 2018 as part of Berlin Art Week at Bar Babette, Karl-Marx-Allee 36, 10178 Berlin. 

Contact:
Niina Lehtonen Braun, Oliver Möst, Thomas Maximilian Stuck, Bettina Weiß

e-mail: comic@projektraeume-berlin.net

Application requirements:

Example works for the preselection as digital portfolios 

Marked with name, title, year of production, format, length, credits.

We ask to sent in as an attached file or as a download link.
(maximum 20 MB)

Deadlines:

The application form as well as the documentation/portfolios must be received 
at latest on the 23rd of July 2018
Notification will take place by the 31st of July 2018 via e-mail.

Selected and invited artists have time until 31.8.2018 to create their works.

Language:
German or English (for works & documentation)

Naming of Digital Files:
Please mark your file with “name_firstname”.
(Title is included in the documentation.)

Criteria of Application and Acceptance:
The submitted applications will be viewed and juried by the team organizing the award ceremony and two external experts. No legal obligation of acceptance for the exhibition is granted. The jury decisions will be announced and contributors will be contacted by e-mail.

Application of a presentation automatically means the acceptance of these terms and conditions.

Date:

Name:

Contact:
Niina Lehtonen Braun, Oliver Möst, Thomas Maximilian Stuck, Bettina Weiß
video@projektraeume-berlin.net

Network of Berlin Independent Project Spaces and Initiatives e.V.

Application Form for Comic Artists
(Personal data is kept confidential and will not be forwarded to third parties)

Title:
Author:		
Year of production:		
Technique:		
Involved persons:		
Short description:
(max. 500 characters)		
Submitted by:
Name:		
Address:
Telephone/Mobile:
E-mail:
Website:		

Network of Berlin Independent Project Spaces and Initiatives e.V.

Accompanying Texts for Comic Artists
Please fill in correctly – your text will be used (as extracts or entire text) in publications.

Other:		
Short CV: