International open call for curators

Call for applications is open from 01.04.2022 to 15.05.2022
Exhibition Dates: 27.08.2023.-18.09.2023

The Alt. +1000 festival will host its 7th edition in the Jura mountains (Switzerland) in 2023.

Every two years, the festival is held in a beautiful and pristine landscape. Its exhibitions are shown outdoor, on the banks of the bucolic Lac des Taillères.

For the next edition, the festival will bring together a group of curators. They will each propose photographic works to be shown on the banks of Lac des Taillères. We accept proposals from established or/and emerging curators, in all areas of contemporary photography practice and forms. The selection will take into account gender balance and overall diversity. Applications from groups of curators are also accepted; collective and individual applications are considered equal. The curators can either propose a group or a solo show. The proposals selected will be those judged the strongest by a jury of professionals.

Each year, the festival focuses on a specific theme through photographic exhibitions, talks, and educational activities. Set in the heart of a mountain landscape at an altitude of 1000 meters, the festival intends to continue its exploration of the landscape. Between ideal projection and reality, the notion of landscape is an extremely varied theme in photography. It will be an attempt to encounter the imaginary worlds that shape and weave them. Photography, among other disciplines, has always participated in the creation and reinforcement of individual and collective mythologies linked to it.

A committee of renowned curators and art historians will compose the jury. Nathalie Herschdorfer (recently appointed director of the Swiss photography museum Photo Élysée) will be the chair of the jury.

APPLICATION GUIDELINES

Deadline: May 15, 2022, 12pm (GMT +1)
Notification: June 30, 2022, 12am. (GMT +1).

For consideration, please send the following to info@plus1000.ch

Requirements :

– One-page curatorial proposal or statement: with consideration of the site-specificity of the Lac des Taillères, state the notions for your proposed exhibition

– Curatorial CV

– Tentative list of works (not final)

– 3 lines, DoB, and nationality of each artist

– Up to 10 images (showing the photographs and /or the installation)

If you are proposing more than one artist, then organize each artist’s set of images in a respective folder

Create zip file of the above contents, rename the file with your name and send as an attachment

Image Submission

– Submit each image as a low-resolution, 72dpi, .jpg

– Rename each image with the proposed artist’s name (ex. john_doe1.jpg, john_doe2.jpg, john_ doe3.jpg, etc.)

Please do not send high-resolution images (300dpi), CMYK or TIFF files.

Additional Details

Fee and travel costs:

Curator’s fee is paid 3000 Swiss francs.

Travel and accommodation in Switzerland for the opening events covered by the festival. Production of the works and artist’s fee paid by the festival

Exhibition production and costs:

The selection of the works will be discussed with the festival’s director.

The curator acts as a liaison between the festival and the artist. He or she provides exhibition texts as well as the final biographies of the artists.

Please note that the festival will produce the prints in Switzerland. The festival doesn’t borrow existing prints as all exhibitions are held outdoor. Prints are destroyed at the end of the festival. The curator provides a list of works and files ready for production

The festival is responsible for the production, installation, and communication of the exhibitions and the costs related thereto.

The festival provides full support in executing the finalists’ proposed project

Other:

One of the significant evaluation criteria will be a project’s mobility and ability to change, adapting to the characteristics of the exhibition space.

Curators from all geographic areas are encouraged to apply.

Curators will be part of a vast network of high profile and cutting edge established and emerging artists, curators and other art professionals.

Alt.+1000 Photography Festival’s working language is English; therefore all applicants must understand, speak, read and write in English.

Exhibition views of the previous editions are available at the below link: www.dropbox.com/sh/2mae0nmw303jpzy/AAA9-ow58yo8dh0uCRFgDZJWa?dl=0

The curators will be announced on June 30, 2022.

Questions regarding the application process can be sent to: info@plus1000.ch.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

Founded in 2008 in the small village of Rossinière, Switzerland, the Alt.+1000 festival has been held since its creation in a magnificent landscape at an altitude of 1000 meters. The landscape is the DNA of the festival, which brings together the works of contemporary photographers who all deal with the theme of nature. After four editions in the Pays-d’Enhaut (canton Vaud), Alt.+1000 continues its adventure since 2019 in the canton of Neuchâtel.