{"id":8244,"date":"2025-09-14T11:02:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contextile.pt\/en\/?page_id=8244"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:22:25","slug":"contextile-2026-open-call-international-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/contextile.pt\/en\/contextile-2026-open-call-international-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Contextile 2026 \u2013 Open Call \u2013 International Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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OPEN CALL<\/b>
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
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The Open Call has closed.
Thank you to all the artists who submitted applications!<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Dear Artists,<\/p>\n

As indicated in the additional information in the application form:<\/p>\n

… We will send a confirmation of receipt in the 10 following days from the reception.
Do not duplicate emails, as this may delay confirmation of receipt.<\/p>\n

We appreciate that you wait for our confirmation of reception, as we are confirming by order of arrival of the applications, it may take some time to reply to all participant artists.<\/p>\n

If any information is necessary to be resubmitted by the artists, we will request it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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CONTEXTILE invites all artists (national and international) to present artworks to the competition for the International Exhibition (competitive), as part of the programme of its 8th Edition, Contextile 2026 – Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, to be held in the city of Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal, from the 5th September to the 29th November 2026.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

In 2026, the Contextile biennial focuses its activities on the thematic concept\u00a0BY A THREAD<\/b><\/a>, transversal to all the rubrics of its programmatic contents.\u00a0<\/p>

The International Competitive Exhibition will be composed by 50 artworks from 50 artists, selected by an international jury, composed by Lala de Dios<\/u> (curator, textile artist), Magd<\/u>a Sobo\u0144<\/span><\/u>\u00a0(artist and teacher), Magali Junet<\/u> (chief curator of Fondation Toms Pauli), Susana Pires<\/u> (visual artist and teacher), Lewis Biggs (consultant and curator) and Cl\u00e1udia Melo<\/u> (artistic director of Contextile 2026).<\/p>

The Contextile 2026 jury will also award an Acquisition Prize of \u20ac8.000,00 (eight thousand Euros) and two Honourable Mentions of \u20ac2.500,00 (two thousand five hundred euros) and \u20ac1.000,00 (one thousand euros) each, with the awarding of prizes (see selection process of the Regulations), at the moment of the biennial\u2019s opening, on September 5th 2026.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

All interested artists may apply with new creations or recent artworks, until the 7th March 2026, being accepted all artistic expressions in the visual arts disciplines. The proposals and artworks submitted for the competition will have to be around the textile element, through its concept, theme, techniques or materials.\u00a0<\/p>

The artworks will have to be highly creative, original, technically competent and relate to the theme and concept of this 8th edition.<\/p>

To submit an application, it is necessary the payment of a registration fee of \u20ac20,00 (euros).<\/p>

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OPEN CALLINTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION \u2014 Contextile 2026 The Open Call has closed. Thank you to all the artists who submitted applications! Dear Artists, As indicated in the additional information in the application form: … We will send a confirmation of receipt in the 10 following days from the reception. Do not duplicate emails, as this may… Read More »Contextile 2026 \u2013 Open Call \u2013 International Exhibition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pagebuilder-full-width.php","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"full-width","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"on","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contextile.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contextile.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contextile.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contextile.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contextile.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8244"}],"version-history":[{"count":136,"href":"https:\/\/contextile.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10819,"href":"https:\/\/contextile.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8244\/revisions\/10819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contextile.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}