CALL FOR APPLICATION: 'Open Letters' via Page Not Found

Via: Page Not Found
Deadline: 8 June 2025
More info: www.pagenotfound.nl

Open Letters is an open call for artists and writers based in The Hague to occupy our storefront with messages of urgency and vulnerability. Now in its fifth year, this initiative reflects Page Not Found's long-term commitment to supporting the city's artistic community-creating space for local voices to speak publicly, intimately, and on their own terms.

The initiative takes its inspiration from the short essay The Year I Stopped Making Art by artist Paul Maheke, written on March 18, 2020. The essay is both a reflection and a call for solidarity in the current global situation and art world. The essay lists the many unacknowledged inequalities facing artists who do not belong to the privileged ethnicity, gender, or class, and whose practice is threatened in consequence to disappear silently. The Year I Stopped Making Art was the first Letter displayed in our storefront, followed by many others contributed by artists from The Hague.

The open call will be accepting applications starting Monday May 19, 09:00 until Sunday June 8, 23:59.

This project is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Mondriaan Fund and the Municipality of The Hague.