Sunday, January 09, 2022
25th Gabrovo Biennial of Humour and Satire in Art 2022
Humor House - Gabrovo Info <info@humorhouse.bg>
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Dear artists,
The organizers of the 25th Gabrovo Biennial of Humour and Satire in Art kindly invite you to submit works to the competition addressing the 2022 topic Economy of Means.
The world has been running on steroids. Nature is
privatized and cheapened. Our voracious extraction and consumption of resources
have created an ecological debt gone default. Acceleration and gigantism have
shaped a metabolic cycle between capital and nature, North and South, rich and
poor, clean and polluted, with greed and hypertrophy on one end and exhaustion
on the other. There is a global freak show going on, a spectacle of
disproportion and distortion reminiscent of those 19th century displays of
deformed humans and animals. Only now it happens on a planetary scale and we’re
all in it. At times, it seems as if the vicious comedy of the freak show might
be the appropriate response to our present-day monstrosity.
The Biennial consists of two juried exhibitions - one
for cartoons and one for contemporary art - and a curated exhibition,
titled Sensitivity Training which, for the 25th edition, will
be curated by the artist Olav Westphalen. The 25th Biennial
will open on 20th May 2022 at the Museum of Humor and Satire in Gabrovo. The
exhibitions will continue until 30th September 2022.
You can participate through the Biennial website www.biennial.humorhouse.bg, where the full conditions of entry and the
entry-form are published. You should submit the filled-in online form with your
proposals until January 17th, 24:00 CET.
The Biennial is organized by the Museum of Humor and
Satire with the support of the Municipality of Gabrovo and the Bulgarian
Ministry of Culture.
The organizers of the Biennial kindly request you to read the conditions of entry carefully and wish you much creative inspiration. In case you have further questions, you can contact us at biennial@humorhouse.bg
Sincerely,
The Biennial team
