‘Slow Down’ Exihibtion Open Call

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Short Description

The group exhibition represents a joint effort between Copenhagen Architecture Biennale and Form/design Center, covering two venues—Halmtorvet 27 in Copenhagen and the Form/design Center in Malmö—thereby deepening the exploration of the theme.

We call for submissions to a group exhibition aligned with the overarching theme of Copenhagen Architecture Biennale 2025, Slow Down. We call for new narratives and concepts for a cultural imagination tied too much to speed—shock and surge, friction and frenzy, weariness and whirl. We call for innovative protocols for collective rituals, new infrastructures for slow looking, novel techniques for slow mobility, and new sites for noticing the slow—the long-term developmental horizon of societies, the deep time of geological movements and the gradual growth of plants.

We invite contributors to unsettle traditional distinctions between urban and non-urban, challenging the binary logic that opposes sites of consumption to sites of extraction, spaces of visibility to spaces of invisibility, and the urban mainstage to the non-urban backstage. How can we conceive of deceleration as an integral part of a larger system that transcends classical notions of urbanity? And how can we seek imaginative responses that envision the city not just as a standalone entity but as deeply interconnected with and reflective of broader ecological, geological, and societal systems?

Eligibility

  • Architects, urban planners, authors, designers, artists, academics, and activists.
  • Established professionals and emerging talents, including students.
  • Submissions are to be made digitally via the Biennial’s submission portal.
  • We welcome both practical and speculative proposals that align with the Biennial’s theme.

Submission Requirements

  • Personal Information
  • Project Description
  • Project Files & Media

How to Apply

Online Application

Program Benefits & Awards

  • Support for transportation and installation of works.
  • We offer honorariums in accordance with the recommended minimum honorarium standards established in the agreement for exhibitions at museums and art centers in Denmark and Sweden. Additional funding is contingent on the approval of our funding applications.
  • Selected projects will be showcased during the Biennial, positioned within a global dialogue on architecture and spatial planning. The will be two locations for the exhibition Cafx in Copenhagen and at Form/Design Center in Malmö.

Entry Fee

None

Location

Copenhagen, Denmark

Timeline

  • Application Deadline: 6 May 2025

Website Link: https://www.cafx.dk/biennial/open-calls/exhibition

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