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OPEN CALL

Crumbs! - Exhibition

Can we imagine this: the overlooked minor cultures, marginal stories, fragmented emotions, and scattered individual feelings gather into a powerful source of hope? This question lies at the heart of Crumbs.

In a society that privileges results over process now, the small things that shape our bodily comfort and inner balance increasingly fade from view. We find ourselves physically within the collective, yet inwardly alone. In this condition, even the concept of wellbeing, as an illusion of wholeness — also begins to feel uncertain.

Wellbeing was a romantic word which points to a state of physical and mental health, happiness, and comfort, encompassing the overall condition of one’s physiological, psychological and social health, far broader than momentary happiness. However, wellbeing today is often compressed into measures of status, wealth, and visibility. When survival itself becomes urgent, we must ask whether wellbeing still exists as a lived experience?

When unified narratives fail to contain real experience, we must begin from fragments. Crumbs does not simply refer to small things. It points to a basic condition of life: what we encounter is scattered and unresolved, and wholeness is often constructed afterward. From this perspective, wellbeing is not the accumulation of grand moments of happiness, but rather the countless forms of the small, whether the scale of an object, a personal quirk, an overlooked detail of daily life…

That is the question: If life is inherently fragmented, can wellbeing remain a stable, attainable state? Or must it be reimagined as an ongoing practice unfolding within crumbs?

Wellbeing does not need to be wellbeing.
Wellbeing can be the process of anything.

We welcome:
Art works in all forms, including publications, paintings, installations, sculptures, videos, performance, toys, fashion and any other interesting things! We especially encourage works from subcultural perspectives.

Submission deadline: 01/04 2026
Exhibition period: 16/04 - 21/04/ 2026
Location: Indra Gallery
Submission email: contact@goen-project.com
An exhibition fee of £78 will be charged if the work is selected.

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OPEN CALL

Crumbs! - MARKET

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Can we imagine that the overlooked micro-cultures, marginal stories, subtle emotions, unacknowledged expressions, and fragmented individual experiences might gather into a powerful and moving form of hope? This is precisely what the market theme Crumbs seeks to define.

In today’s fast-changing, result-oriented society, our perception of the world continues to be compressed. Wellbeing, once a romantic and holistic concept, has gradually begun to reveal itself as a questionable illusion of wholéness. As wellbeing becomes quantified through status, wealth, and social attention, the ”small things“ that profoundly shape lived experience yet resist measurement are increasingly ignored. For us, The core of wellbeing has never been the accumulation of grand moments of happiness, but rather is composed of countless ”small“ elements, whether abstract or tangible. These may be the physical scale of an object, a minor personal quirk, or something easily overlooked in everyday life.

This leads us to ask: if an individual‘s life is inherently fragmented, can wellbeing still be understood as a stable and attainable state? Or must it instead be rethought as a practice that happens within Crumbs?

Market submission deadline: 01/04 2026
Exhibition period: 16/04 - 21/04 2026
Location: Indra Gallery N1 6AT
Submission email: contact@goen-project.com
Free submission.
A fee of £40 per day will be charged for selected stalls to help cover market costs. (Please be sure to indicate your expected attendance dates when submitting.)

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MARket information: 

To pursue wellbeing together with the public, we are openly recruiting artists for the market. In addition, workshops and public education programmes will be organised in an effort to dismantle, as far as possible, the consumerist and implicit class connotations often attached to wellbeing in the contemporary context. As long as the works can represent or respond to your moving experiences, we believe Crumbs will gather into a compelling collective vision, offering new inspiration and encouragement on our shared journey toward wellbeing.

OPEN CALL

Play, play play!

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This exhibition takes play as its core concept, exploring play as playfulness, performance, and process.
As Paul Valéry observed, if children are healthy, they are “monsters” for play and activity. They constantly tear apart, split, and rebuild.
Similarly, Yoko Ono described her book Grapefruit as a form of “therapy”. Being mischievous and childlike can empower people to process pain. The spirit of play offers the possibility for experiences to be re-narrated and reconstructed.
In this exhibition, artists are invited to engage with the space and the audience, creating works imbued with a strong sense of playfulness. We welcome works across all media and materials.
We also encourage spontaneous creation that emerges within the space itself, including music, theatre, performance art, and participatory installations.

🔗Apply via Google Form

Submission Deadline: 1 April 2026
Exhibition Dates: 20–26 April 2026
Location: Seager Gallery, SE8 4HP
An exhibition fee of £90 will be charged if the work is selected, to help cover exhibition costs.

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This exhibition will also be featured and reported by Artron Art Media.

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