Exhibit at the Biennale for Crafts & Design 2025

The Danish Crafts & Designers Association is seeking works that showcase the latest trends for the Biennale for Crafts & Design 2025 at Glas - The Museum of Glass Art.

This time, the Open Call has no specific theme. Instead, the Biennale aims to take the pulse of crafts and design in 2025 with the curatorial collective Ukurant at Glas - The Museum of Glass Art.

Danish craftsmanship and design are world-class. We are known for quality, craftsmanship, sustainability, and unique handmade products, which stand in contrast to contemporary overconsumption and mass production.

A world with material scarcity and overconsumption calls for practitioners with a unique ability to create objects of high aesthetic value and craftsmanship precision. Aesthetic objects that captivate with materiality, surfaces, form, and sensuality.

Now it’s about celebrating the slow and meticulous processes of craftsmanship that produce complete and durable works.

In 2025, the Biennale celebrates its 30th anniversary. The anniversary marks a strong tradition, while the Biennale's vision is to lead the way and point to the future.

The anniversary is the perfect occasion to show that Danish craftsmanship and design are strongly rooted in materiality, design, and super-objects that can help care for a world that is broken.

Jury

The Biennale 2025 collaborates with the curatorial collective Ukurant. The group offers a youthful perspective on a forward-looking framework for the exhibition. Ukurant has already won great recognition and, not least, awards for their refreshing and different take on presenting contemporary crafts and design. Josefine Krabbe Munck, Kamma Rosa Schytte, Kasper Kyster, and Lærke Ryom are well-versed in curating, organizing, and executing strong exhibition concepts with broad appeal in both the industry and the press.

To ensure fair voting, applications for the Open Call will be anonymized through a new application module. This ensures that the exhibitors for 2025 are selected solely based on their submitted works and not on their name, gender, ethnicity, or background.
Application Period: 9. September - 7. October 2024

Exhibition Period: 9. October 2025 - 22. February 2026 at Glas – Museet for glaskunst

THE BIENNIAL OF ART CRAFTS & DESIGN - GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION CONDITIONS

Who can apply?

• All professional Danish practitioners within the field of handicrafts and design, including also architecture, applied art, functional art, collectible design and material-based art.

• Practitioners living in Denmark incl. the Danish Commonwealth, Danish performers living abroad or performers with a strong connection to Denmark, e.g. via education.

• Groups with at least 1 participant resident in Denmark can apply to take part in the Biennale.

With the application, photo documentation of works, video or sound files must be submitted. The application is digital and it is not possible to submit physical works.

Each application project allows one project to be uploaded, which may contain several works/elements (e.g. a series). A total of 4 images can be uploaded per project.

The application fee is DKK 450.

You can apply with several projects, but each project requires an independent application with its own journal number and application fee.

Fees for artists

The Biennale offers an exhibition fee of DKK 2,000 for each project that is accepted at the Biennale for Crafts & Design.

Any questions regarding the instructions below can be directed to the secretariat of Danish Crafts & Design Association:

E-mail: info@dkod.dk

Phone: +45 33 15 29 40 (Tuesday-Friday, 12-16).

Registration and payment

The application procedure for the Biennale is carried out online on the Biennale's website via the application module in the period 9 September - 7 October 2024. This applies to registration, registration, payment, filling in the application form and uploading images.

Registration
The first step in the application procedure is the registration form with registration of e-mail address, name, address and telephone number. This information is used exclusively for communication in connection with the application and exhibition. The Biennale does not share the information with third parties, and data is deleted from servers when it is no longer relevant in connection with this year's exhibition.

The applicant's website or Instagram profile can be provided during registration and will be listed on the Biennale's website if the project is accepted.

Payment
As the next step in the application procedure, the application fee of DKK 450 is paid online. Payment can be made with Dankort, Visa or MasterCard.

Receipt
After the payment has been completed, the applicant receives a receipt per e-mail. The receipt contains the journal number and password, which is used to log in to the application module. The project can then be uploaded and edited until the deadline of 7 October 2024 at 23:59.

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Note that the receipt is sent as an automatic email, which may mean that the receipt is treated as spam. Therefore, always check the spam folder if the receipt has not arrived within a few minutes.

If problems arise with the payment, please contact Danish Crafts & Design Association:

E-mail: info@dkod.dk // Phone: +45 33 15 29 40 (Tuesday-Friday, 12-16).

Completing the application form

Login
Use the journal number (BN24-xxxx) and pin code from the receipt sent after the payment has been completed to start filling in the application form.

Completing the application form
Application and uploading of works takes place via the application form. One exhibition project can be uploaded on one application form. Upload one project photo in the application form, as it ensures quick identification of the project. Each project can be documented with up to 6 images. It is not a requirement to use all image fields if it does not make sense in relation to the project. An exhibition project can consist of several parts (e.g. a series). This must be evident from the photo documentation.

Note:
Only image files (jpeg) can be uploaded in the application form. The ideal size is 2600 x 2600 pixels, but a maximum of 6 MB.

All other file types cannot be uploaded in the application form.

​​The works can be applied for in the categories: handicraft, design, architecture, digital or other. 'Other' is intended for works that do not fit into the other categories.

Video, audio and other file types on e.g. YouTube, Vimeo or Dropbox can be uploaded with a web link in the application form.

All works must appear on the application form – including video and audio works.

Follow the other instructions in the application form.

If applying with additional exhibition projects, a new journal number must be purchased for each project.

Pricing of works
If a work is for sale, the sale price must be noted. If the work is not for sale, mark 'Private ownership' in the price field.

Danish Crafts & Design Association does not take a commission from a possible sales at the Biennale. If a work is not for sale, the insurance sum must be stated, as all exhibited works are insured during the exhibition period. The sum insured must express the estimated cost of reproducing the work.

Post-editing and deadline
The application can be edited throughout the application period until the deadline on 7 October 2024 at 23:59.

Once you have uploaded an image and clicked on SAVE, the application will be saved on the Biennale's server. The application process has thus ended.

All applicants for the Biennale for Crafts & Design 2025 will be notified by email by the end of November 2024.

Terms of Business

Business conditions for purchases at the Biennale for Crafts & Design

Protection
All payment and credit card information is protected, which means that the information is encrypted between the applicant's internet browser (the cardholder) and the server at Nets. The Biennale for Crafts & Design does not have access to information about the card number, check digits and expiry date.

See Danish Crafts & Design Association's data processing policy here

Read more about security and your rights in e-commerce here.

Right of withdrawal
Purchase of an application form can be canceled until the deadline for registration that year.
If you wish to cancel a purchase, contact Danish Crafts & Design Association at: +45 33 15 29 40 or e-mail info@dkod.dk

Delivery/sending of codes
Upon registration, a confirmation e-mail with journal number and pin code is sent.
This information must be used to log in to the application form via https://apply.biennalen.dk
It is the buyer's own responsibility that the specified e-mail address works correctly when registering.

Payment
Payment is made in Danish kroner DKK.
Payment can be made with Dankort, Visa or MasterCard.
Receipt and login information will be sent per e-mail immediately after the payment has been registered.

Reservation
We reserve the right for printing errors and server crashes.

Question
Questions can be directed to Danish Crafts & Design Association at phone number +45 33 15 29 40 or e-mail info@dkod.dk