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Open call for one-to-one artworks is open from 15.1. to 28.2.2025

We invite you to propose your one-to-one artwork for our festivals. One-to-one art means works by one artist presented to only one person at a time. We welcome works from all artfields. Disabled artists are also welcome to participate. You can propose your work to the Kehä Festival in Oulu, Finland (held on 14.–18.10), to the One-to-One Festival in Oeiras, Portugal (held on 14.-16.11.) or to both.

We are looking for three kinds of artworks:

  1. Private encounters where the artist and “the audience of one” meet in a closed space & artistically stimulating framework.
  2. Performances etc. where contact between the artist and the participant can be viewed by a larger audience.
  3. One-to-one work with the audience that builds up to an exhibition, concert, etc.

The program work is loosely guided by the theme “travel”. If your artwork deals with travelling at the level of content or form, please tell it in your application. Relation with the theme is not obligatory. Most important thing is an interesting take on one-to-one. We want to give the artists a freedom to explore different possibilities of the artform. What is possible only in one-to-one art? The works can last from a few minutes to a couple of hours.

A European portal for one-to-one art is now open! You can also find the Open Call on the portal at www.onetooneart.eu

The portal will gather in one place the relevant information of organisations, collectives, artists, residencies and festivals focusing on one-on-one artworks around Europe. The portal is meant for anyone who cares about this highly marginal and potential artform and wants to get connected. On the notice board you will find information of upcoming open calls, events and other initiatives.

The portal is part of the Creative Europe funded One-to-One Art project and facilitated by Cultural cooperative ILME

Article photo:
Artist Roosa Halme Block Theatre: Variation II – My Blocks of Life
Photographer Anniina Kettunen