Open Call: Group Exhibition – Copenhagen Architecture Biennial 2025

The group exhibition represents a joint effort between Copenhagen Architecture Biennale and Form/design Center, covering two venues—Halmtorvet 27 in Copenhagen and the Form/Design Center in Malmö.

We call for submissions to a group exhibition aligned with the overarching theme of Copenhagen Architecture Biennale 2025, Slow Down. We call for new narratives and concepts for a cultural imagination tied too much to speed—shock and surge, friction and frenzy, weariness and whirl. We welcome not just practical and concrete approaches, but also speculative concepts that challenge conventional thinking and suggest new ways to live, think, and navigate the future. We value transdisciplinarity and experimentation spanning a broad spectrum of media categories such as project models, installations, sound works, video, performances, drawings, and texts. We hope you will contribute to this critical investigation of speed and its impact on the future of urban environments.

What We Offer
𓆀 Support for transportation and installation of works.
𓆆 We offer honorariums in accordance with the recommended minimum honorarium standards established in the agreement for exhibitions at museums and art centers in Denmark and Sweden. Additional funding is contingent on the approval of our funding applications.
𓆃 Selected projects will be showcased during the Biennial, positioned within a global dialogue on architecture and spatial planning. The will be two locations for the exhibition Cafx in Copenhagen and at Form/Design Center in Malmö.

Who can Apply?
𓆙 Architects, urban planners, authors, designers, artists, academics, and activists.
𓆌 Established professionals and emerging talents, including students.
𓃝 Submissions are to be made digitally via the Biennial’s submission portal.
𓆦 We welcome both practical and speculative proposals that align with the Biennial’s theme.

Important Dates
May 6 (midnight CET) Submission deadline

17. September – 3. December Exhibition at CAFx
23. September – 23. November Exhibition at Form/Design Center
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Read more and submit here: https://www.cafx.dk/biennial/open-calls/exhibition

We are Copenhagen Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of how architecture shapes lives and worlds. Co-founded by Josephine Michau in 2014, we have been an active member of the European platform LINA since 2022, supported by Creative Europe. Our main supporters include the Municipality of Copenhagen, Realdania, and Statens Kunstfond.

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