Open Calls

Guest Room aims to inspire collaboration and creative exchange. In this edition, we welcome a trio of curators from FOTO ARSENAL WIEN: Marit Lena Herrmann, Mona Schubert and Felix Hoffmann.

Together, they introduce the theme for your submissions:

"Messy"

In a world that celebrates perfection and control, we’re shifting our focus to the raw, the chaotic, the unfiltered.

Learn more and submit below before the deadline on July 18.

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Guest Room aims to inspire collaboration and creative exchange. In this edition, we welcome Christine Serchia, an American-British Director and Curator for SERCHIA, and Charlotte Jansen, a British Sri Lankan author, journalist, and critic based in London.

Together, they introduce the theme for your submissions:

"The Dark Before Dawn"

We welcome work that challenges the idea of where and how the light can be found, and experiments with evoking magic, levity, and hope.

Submit when the open call opens on July 24.

Der Greif has invited Hank Willis Thomas, supported by Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, to guest-edit Issue 18.

The theme for the open call: “Tomorrow is Today.”

What if tomorrow were already here? What if today were our last chance to choose love over hate, action over apathy, community over chaos?

We invite you as image makers, visual storytellers, and artists to respond to the fierce urgency of now. Inspired by the final published words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., this open call asks: Can we live the future we hope for – today?

Submit work that reflects:

• Love as a revolutionary force
• Urgency, choice, and consequence
• Hope, resistance, and community
• Visions of a world that could be – if we act now

Deadline July 11