5 Oct 2024

Compete PH21 Gallery CFE: Dis/harmony

PH21 Gallery Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

PH21 Gallery

Opportunity Description

International Deadline: October 14, 2024 – PH21 Gallery invites photographers to submit their work for its group exhibition themed Dis/harmony.

Harmony is an elusive, perhaps even ineffable aspect of photographic images. The same can be said for disharmony, its potentially disturbing, but often stimulating opposite. While many photographers share the view that the communicative impact of images is enhanced by harmony, there are countless individual artistic interpretations of what makes an image harmonious or disharmonious. Some view harmony primarily as a visual compositional feature, accepting the unusual, the unexpected, or even the disturbing within the realm of compositional harmony or disharmony. For others, harmony is also a thematic concept, and they find harmonious elements in the communicative content of the image, arising from the various interactions depicted. The intentional lack of harmony can also lead to some of the most creative photographic compositions.  All photographic genres utilise compositional elements to create the sense of harmony or its opposite.

Exhibition dates: December 14, 2024 – January 7, 2025.

ELIGIBILITY
We are seeking submissions from all photographers who consider harmony or disharmony to be a constitutive element in their work and who wish to share their art with a wider international audience through PH21 Gallery. The theme is broadly construed; harmony or disharmony may be present as a formal aesthetic feature and can be expressed visually on personal or social levels, whether literally or in abstract, symbolic ways. Indeed, we are interested in all possible creative artistic interpretations of the theme.

CURATORS
Zsolt Bátori is a philosopher of art and photographer. He is an associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and at Kodolányi János University, where he currently serves as Head of the Research Centre for Art and Creative Industries. He visits the University of Murcia in Spain for regular research collaborations. He has conducted research and taught philosophy of art and photography courses at various universities in Hungary, the United States, Spain and Argentina, and has exhibited his photographic work internationally. Zsolt is also the founder and director of PH21 Gallery.

Borbála Jász is an art historian and a philosopher of art. She works as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and as an assistant professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. She is responsible for the operations of our new Project Room at Ráday 52, and she also works with our social media accounts and website… see more

ENTRY FEE
The entry fee is €25.00 for the first 3 images. There is a special rate for maximum 5 images for students and unwaged persons as well as for applicants from low-income economies.

SUBMISSION
Visit PH21 Gallery online for complete details and to Apply.

All entrants will be notified 10-15 days after the deadline.

FLAT FILE & SALES
Exhibition prints will be kept on file for six months for future promotion unless the photographer prefers some other arrangement. In case of a sale inquiry the photographer will be promptly contacted. PH21 Gallery commission is 25%. (Submitted photographs, however, do not have to be for sale; exhibition prints will never be sold, they are for exhibition and promotion purposes only.)

PH21 Gallery archives all photography exhibitions electronically, allowing us to promote our exhibiting photographers to curators, collectors as well as the viewing public. Our website also functions as a virtual gallery site, and all photographs included in our exhibitions are published on the dedicated page of the exhibition.


About:
PH21 Gallery is a contemporary exhibition space established in 2012 in Budapest, Hungary. The mission of the gallery is to provide group and solo exhibition opportunities and international exposure for contemporary photographers around the world.

PH21 Gallery
55 Ráday St.
Budapest
H-1092

Opportunity Categories: Photography Only. Opportunity Types: Compete. Opportunity Tags: Deadlines 09 Sept thru Oct, Open to Artists Worldwide, and Special Opportunities. Benefits: Exhibition - Group, In-Kind Benefit, and Sales.

Opportunity expires in 4 days.

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