Submissions open for Guest Room Exhibition

Guest Room is dedicated to igniting collaboration. Christiane Monarchi, the founding co-editor of Hapax Magazine and founding editor of Photomonitor, is teaming up with curator Eva Eicker, an expert focusing on social and cultural issues for critical engagement with contemporary photography.

For this edition of Guest Room, they have crafted the guiding framework: “Wortbildsalat/word-image-salad.” Christiane Monarchi and Eva Eicker extend an invitation to create a communal poem, whose image-text interplay evolves throughout the 15 days of the online curation.

This theme draws inspiration from Surrealist salons, reflecting the artistic practices of figures such as André Breton and Marcel Duchamp, who famously collaborated on “cadavre exquis” or “exquisite corpse” creations, merging words or drawings.

Artists are invited to submit images accompanied by a caption formed of a line of text or another form of language experiment which can act as a gateway into an internal world. They welcome you to share an inner experience of the submitted photograph with them and join in crafting a photographic “Wordbildsalat/word-image-salad”.

Each day’s curation of selected images will generate an experimental image-based poem inviting readers along on a journey of connections between visual and linguistic cues. In juxtaposing the internal and visible world, this Guest Room curation will be an artwork in its entirety, unfolding as a 15-part love letter to inner worlds accessed through the photographic.

Guest Room is a monthly online exhibition with open submissions curated in real-time by personalities from the international photography scene. Der Greif is an award-winning organization for contemporary photography. It is print-publication, online-publication, curatorial team and joint project all at once. Der Greif connects the digital and the analogue, exploring and expanding the borders and limits of image-distribution and -reception in the digital era.

Why submit to Guest Room?

• Get the chance to be awarded a 1.000 € Guest Room Scholarship sponsored by MPB.
• Be discovered by two experts in contemporary art and photography.
• Get published in an online showcase on Der Greif alongside emerging artists from all over the world.
• Submit for free or pay a voluntary donation of 8€.
• Please note: Images which have been selected for a previous Der Greif opportunity are not eligible for re-submission. They want to support the broadest range of photographers possible and therefore encourage you to submit work that has not yet been selected by their past Guest Curators. Any images which do not comply with these terms will be removed from the selection process.

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