apexart welcomes idea-based group exhibition proposals for our 2025-26 INTL Open Call from February 1 – March 1, 2025. Five winning proposals will receive a $10k exhibition budget and become “apexart exhibitions” in their respective locations around the world as part of our 2025-26 exhibition season. Curators, artists, writers, and creative individuals, regardless of experience level or location, are invited to submit a proposal online.
The submission process
Proposals should describe a focused, idea-driven, original group exhibition. No biographical info, CVs, links, or images will be accepted. Submissions cannot exceed 500 words and must be submitted in English. Jurors from 85 countries then jury proposals based on their personal interest, cultural assessment, content and communication of the idea, rather than images. See examples of winning proposals here.
The selection process
Instead of a 5-person panel to review hundreds of ideas, apexart’s crowd-sourced system involves hundreds of jurors from more than 85 countries, reviewing proposals at their own schedule. The jury is composed of more than 600 individuals from a wide variety of professional backgrounds and international locations including students from 20 participating university classes who will rate the proposals. Proposals are anonymous and randomized to ensure each submission receives equal consideration, resulting in more than 20,000 votes on almost 600 proposals. apexart staff does not influence the results of the jury in any way.
The results
Each of the five winning proposals receives an exhibition budget of $10,000; our exhibition brochure, printed and mailed to over six thousand international recipients; and be part of apexart’s 2025-2026 exhibition season. apexart provides full admin and logistics support, assisting curators to realize their original ideas into apexart exhibitions. Exhibition curators must work within the funding provided to transform their winning proposals into focused, noteworthy exhibitions.
To submit an exhibition proposal, visit https://apexart.org/opencalls.php between February 1 and March 1, 2025.
*Caption: Installation view of “Null,” an apexart International Open Call winning exhibition curated by William Contreras Alfonso & Linda Pongutá, in Bogotá, Colombia, 2024
