apexart Announces International Open Call Winners

Following a month-long submission process in February and a one-month voting period of March, apexart is excited to announce the winning exhibition proposals from the International Open Call. The following 4 exhibitions will be presented internationally as part of the organization’s 2023-24 Exhibition Season.

apexart Open Call exhibitions are selected through a crowd-sourced voting process, in which hundreds of anonymous proposals are rated by an international jury of more than 700 people each call. Without politics or “helping friends”, jurors review the anonymous written proposal idea, communicated in 500 words or less. This process ensures that the ideas reflect the interests of the hundreds of people who want to see them transformed from a proposal into an exhibition.

Four proposals were selected from 379 submissions, rated by over 700 jurors who cast over 21000 votes, with submissions and jurors representing more than 80 countries.

The Winning International Open Call Proposals for 2023-24

Death Rights
Submitted by Marian Casey – San Antonio, Texas, United States
Presents artists engaging with loss, remembrance, and the afterlife by radically reclaiming death as political tool.

The Valley of Walls

Submitted by Farida Youssef – Cairo, Egypt

Engages with the archive as an artistic and ecological intervention through site-specific installations in the abandoned apartment of Egypt’s former Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation.

As we move away from the sun

Submitted by Fatma Hendawy – Toronto, Canada

Invites audiences to engage with topics of migration, displacement, and adaptation with a focus on the inextricable connections between human and plant migration.

ASHAWO : Who says you’re a hoe??

Submitted by Amaechina David SNIPES – Lagos, Nigeria

Challenges prejudice against the Nigerian women through fashion, performance, spiritualism, visual art, and activism.

Interested in submitting a proposal to our upcoming NYC or International Open Call or finding out more about our programming in general? Learn more here.