Announcing Call for Print 2025!
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Are you an artist, illustrator, or graphic designer based in Sweden or Sápmi who wants to explore printmaking? Grafikens Hus is seeking a professional artist, illustrator, or graphic designer from the BIPOC community* to create a new edition of prints together with the master printers at the Longest Night, a screen printing workshop in Kortedala, Gothenburg.
This year, guest curator Reyhaneh Mirjahani invites applicants to engage with the theme of ”Print as a Probe”, exploring printmaking as a method of investigation, experimentation, and reflection – both conceptually and materially. How can print be used to probe the boundaries of knowledge, perception, representation, or production? Whether mapping social structures, uncovering hidden narratives, or pushing the technical limits of the medium, applicants are encouraged to approach print as an active and dynamic tool for inquiry.
How to Apply
Prior experience in printmaking is not required – we encourage applicants who are interested in exploring print as a medium.
Your application should include:
– A brief description of your artistic practice (max 150 words and 3-5 images of earlier art works) (PDF/JPEG, total file size max 10 MB)
– A description of the project you want to realise in relation to the theme of this year (max 200 words)
Who Can Apply?
We are looking for:
– A professional artist, illustrator, or graphic designer from the BIPOC community*.
– Someone actively working in Sweden or Sápmi.
– Someone able to work at Longest Night, Kortedala in Gothenburg to create an edition of prints.
Fee and schedule
The production will start in May 2025 and all material costs will be covered by the project. The fee for participating in the project is invoiced at SEK 7,500 excluding VAT, which will be paid to the person selected by the jury who receives the assignment when the edition is printed, signed and approved by Grafikens Hus.
The project does not cover travel or accommodation this year, which we understand is a structural barrier to who can apply. In the future, we would like to be able to cover these costs as well.
The printed edition will become part of Grafikens Hus‘ future collection and be sold in Grafikens Hus’ Fine Art Print shop, where compensation to the artist for sold artworks is paid once a year.
Send your application by e-mail to: callforprint@grafikenshus.se, no later than April 19.
*BIPOC: Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour
Selection Process
The selection process is based on the material submitted in the application. Applications will be assessed by the jury set up for the call. In its assessment, the jury will use the following guidelines, not as a requirement but as a tool and support for discussion:
- Design and Feasibility:
Applicants should demonstrate strong design skills in their work samples and how they relate to the artistic idea. - Relevance to the Theme:
Applications should show a connection to the thematic framework “Print as a Probe”. - Printmaking as a Medium:
Applicants should present how they want to work with printmaking within their artistic practice and/or challenge printmaking as an art form with new perspectives. Applicants can also express a willingness to push their practice by exploring new methods or interdisciplinary approaches, potentially integrating printmaking with other artistic fields or rethinking its possibilities.
Why does Grafikens Hus implement Call for Print?
Grafikens Hus wants to change the homogeneous art scene that we operate in and are part of, and to broaden who gets the opportunity to work in the field. We hope that Call for Print will break down walls created by institutions, which often stay within the same communities, reproducing the same knowledge.
We at Grafikens Hus aim to constantly question our own position in knowledge production and representation. By visualising a breadth of perspectives and expressions, we open up to different ways of understanding and thinking about the world, society and being human. Grafikens Hus aims to be an art museum where more people want and are allowed to take their place.
Call for Print is an open call that takes place annually.
About Longest Night
Longest Night is an artist-run screen printing workshop, gallery and shop in Kortedala, Sweden. We print and publish graphic art in collaboration with the most interesting artists we know. We also organize exhibitions, workshops, residencies and other events where people and art meet. We aim to be a vibrant place for production, participation and creativity in our local residential area in Eastern Gothenburg.
As artists, we strive for independence, self-sufficiency and collective utilization of resources. Our craftsmanship gives us the means to reproduce art without intermediaries, to work with recycling and upcycling of textiles and clothing, and to create printed matter in all possible formats and forms. We collaborate with underground stars and outsiders, self-taught and professionals, experienced graphic artists and those making their first attempts at graphic production. Our workshop is open to local artists and their ideas, we share knowledge, resources and contacts and we regularly organize free creative workshops for children and young people.
Where: Dagjämninggatan 14, Kortedala
About the jury
In Modhir Ahmed’s work, painting and printmaking expand beyond their own boundaries, turning matter into a language in itself. Nature is directly integrated into the pictorial process: pigments, branches, leaves and fruits leave their mark on the surface of the painting, creating a dialog between the organic and the painterly. The artist’s approach to textures where chance and intention coexist. By superimposing signs, stains and texts, the work is established as a field of meaning in permanent transformation, where the image ceases to be a representation and becomes a sensory experience.
Modhir Ahmed is educated at Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad, Iraq and the Academy of Fine Arts-Warsaw, Poland. From 1992-2019 he worked as artistic director of Falu Konstgrafiska verkstad and was a member of the jury for the Falu Triennale. Over the years he has been a guest teacher and led printmaking courses for artists and children, in Sweden and abroad.
Ulrika Flink is the artistic director of Konstfrämjandet Stockholm and is interested in the social history of art – especially how it makes visible forgotten and oppressed narratives and highlights moments of struggle and resistance. Her work explores how art reflects, challenges and questions social structures and dominant narratives.
Ulrika Flink has curated exhibitions in Sweden and internationally, including the Nordic art biennial Momentum 9 (2017), Borås International Sculpture Biennial (2021) and in 2024 the Swedish pavilion at the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, the Çanakkale Biennial in Turkey and Ingrid Pollard: Being in Landscapes at Eva Livijn Artspace in Stockholm. Flink holds a Master’s degree in Curatorial Practice from the Royal College of Art in London and has previously worked at Konsthall C, Tensta Konsthall, Autograph ABP (London) and Bonniers Konsthall.
About the guest curator
Reyhaneh Mirjahani is an artist and independent curator based in Stockholm. Her practice operates at the intersection of visual art, curating, research, organizing, publishing, and participatory interventions, employing collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to create discursive spaces that investigate agency, counter-narratives, dilemmas, participation, and the politics of space. She is particularly interested in exhibition-making beyond conventional formats, exploring how artistic interventions can unfold in alternative gathering sites rather than traditional white-cube settings, fostering different forms of engagement. She holds an MFA in Fine Art from HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University, and has completed the postmaster programs Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art at HDK-Valand and CuratorLab at Konstfack.