HANSEartWORKS 2024 is looking for tourist souvenirs "Made in Hansa"

Participation in the artist competition open until January 3

The next edition of the HANSEartWORKS exhibition will be held as part of the 44th International City Day of the New Hanseatic League, which will take place in Gdansk from June 13 to 16, 2024. The presentation is entitled "Made in Hansa".

The artistic works will be shown from 14 to 30 June 2024 in ŁAŹNIA 1, the Center for Contemporary Art, i.e. in a cultural institution that has been showing contemporary art in its most avant-garde manifestations for more than 20 years and is located in the buildings of the former city baths in Dolne Miasto and in Nowy Port.

The aim of the competition is to bring together artists from the cities of the New Hanseatic League and initiate an artistic discussion about the vision of their future.

The main theme of the Gdańsk exhibition will be the space of the Hanseatic cities and the way it is narrated. What characterizes the cities that make up the modern Hanseatic League? How does the modern Hanseatic League differ from the historical union? What could be a tourist souvenir from the Hanseatic cities?

About the competition

We are looking for "green" works from the following areas:

• Design
• Projects for public spaces
• Artistic actions (documentation/filming of performances is an acceptable form)
• Urban "eco-partisanship"
• Artivism

HANSEartWORKS offers artists from the Hanseatic twin city of Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice the opportunity to introduce themselves to a broad international audience and show, what artistic facets the region has to offer.

By participating in the competition, the twin city is making a further contribution to the Hanseatic League's offerings in order to be perceived and experienced as an active Hanseatic city.

The results will be announced and the winners will be officially invited to present their work at the exhibition in February 2024.

Conditions of participation:

• The artwork must be created specifically for the event (the work must not have been created earlier than 2022), not previously published and not presented in other competitions.
• The competition is not open to the public.
• Any person aged 18 or over can take part.
• Each participant may only submit one entry form and one work.
• A team may participate by submitting a joint application form and a work resulting from a group project.

Further information on the conditions of participation can be found online.

The application forms will be sent to the organizer by the responsible persons of the Hanseatic cities. By January 3, 2024, the completed application documents, including the required attachments, must be submitted to the following postal or e-mail address:

Stadt Frankfurt (Oder)
Dezernat IV
Kulturreferentin Jenny Friede
Logenstraße 8
15230 Frankfurt (Oder)

Jenny.Friede@frankfurt-oder.de