Secondary Archive is Launching the Next Open Call for the Younger Generation of Women Artists from Central and Eastern Europe!
15/09/2026

Secondary Archive is Launching the Next Open Call for the Younger Generation of Women Artists from Central and Eastern Europe!

We are officially launching the next Open Call for the younger generation of women artists from Central and Eastern Europe! 

The Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation and its partners invite female-identifying artists aged 35 and under from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine to apply to Secondary Archive.

What, where, when:

-the Open Call opens on Sep 15 and invites emerging and early-career artists working in any visual arts discipline,

-selected artists will be invited to join the Secondary Archive and develop their personal artist statement (both written and video format) in collaboration with the project curators,

-the final statements will be published on the Secondary Archive website,

-more information about the application requirements can be found at in the news page on the secondaryarchive.org platform: OPEN CALL FOR WOMEN ARTISTS FROM V4, WB AND EAP.

We invite emerging artists to share their work, perspective and voice with us!

Send your application to: hello@secondaryarchive.org

The curators of the Ukrainian part of the archive are Kateryna Iakovlenko, Alia Siehal, and Oksana Briukhovetska.

 

The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.

Additional support for the project from the EAP is provided by the Ministry of Culture of Moldova and by “Culture Helps Solidarity /Культурадопомагає:Солідарність” for Ukraine. It is a project co-funded by the European Union and implemented by the European Cultural Foundation (NL), Insha Osvita (UA), zusa (DE) and VETERANKA Movement (UA).

 

Secondary Archive is Launching the Next Open Call for the Younger Generation of Women Artists from Central and Eastern Europe!

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