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Tokyo Gendai Art Fair 2025 (Japan) – Call For Artists

Tokyo Gendai Art Fair 2025 (Japan) – Call For Artists

[Side Arts Certified Sponsored Listing] ArtSeen announces a call for artists for the Tokyo Gendai 2025, the heart of Japan’s cutting-edge art fair. This September, the international art world converges on Tokyo for Tokyo Gendai (September 12-14, 2025) – and your art can take center stage!

ArtSeen offers a unique opportunity for visual artists to gain massive exposure through high-impact digital billboards across key Tokyo locations during this prestigious event. Imagine your work captivating leading galleries, collectors, and curators from around the globe.

Click here for the application / registration

Enter by: 18 August 2025

Entry Fee: $90.  Limited spots available.

Tokyo Gendai Art Fair Artist Benefits

Artists will benefit from exceptional global exposure by having their work showcased on high-traffic digital billboards strategically placed across Tokyo during the renowned Tokyo Gendai Art Fair. This is a rare opportunity to reach thousands of art enthusiasts, top galleries, collectors, and curators from around the world — without the high costs and barriers of a traditional art fair booth. Participating artists will elevate their visibility, expand their audience, and build valuable connections in one of the most dynamic contemporary art markets. It’s a bold, impactful way to stand out internationally.

About ArtSeen

ArtSeen is an innovative platform that offers visual artists new, accessible ways to showcase their work in major global art markets. Instead of relying solely on traditional, expensive art fair booths or gallery representation, ArtSeen empowers artists to reach large audiences through high-impact digital billboard campaigns timed with key art world events. Their mission is to democratize art exposure — making it possible for emerging and independent artists to be seen alongside leading names in the art world. With events in cities like New York, Tokyo, London, and beyond, ArtSeen is redefining how artists connect with international audiences.

For more information, contact hello@art-seen.com

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Rewrite Reality (Online Exhibition) – Call For Artists

Rewrite Reality (Online Exhibition) – Call For Artists

[Sponsored Listing] Independent & Image Art Space (Chongqing, China) announces a call for artists for an online exhibition open call with the theme of “Rewrite Reality”. Our lives are being rewritten almost every day. All kinds of inventions and new technologies are rapidly produced on a daily basis and are continuously applied to human life. It is even more obvious now when the pandemic continues to spread. As many people have to stay at home, virtual experiences such as online shopping, online chatting, and video conferencing become a major life trend quickly, giving resolutions to people’s problems. The vaccination that we call for is becoming a reality in 2021, bringing hope to overcome the disease.

Can the rewriting of these lifestyles make human beings happier? How does our mind adapt to the life that is constantly being rewritten? Faced with the continually changing world, will the expectations for the future be rewritten accordingly? Under the expectation-satisfaction cycle, can human beings be truly satisfied, or just live as an insatiable desire machine?

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Deadline: 10 Mar 2021

There is no limit on the art medium, size, year of production, artist age, or nationality, but the submitted works should respond to the exhibition theme “Rewrite Reality”.

Exhibition Dates: March 20, 2021 – April 17, 2021

Selection Notification: March 15, 2021

Selected Rewrite Reality Artists Win:

  • Artworks show at an online virtual exhibition
  • Chinese-English bilingual online feature on the Independent & Image Art Space website
  • Chinese-English bilingual digital catalog to be published on ISSUU and widely promoted
  • Showcase the selected works on the internationally influential art platform: ARTLAND
  • Chinese-English bilingual artist promotion on popular Chinese social media: WeChat Public Account, Art Express App and ZAIYI App, on the platform: MEDIUM, and on international social media Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook
  • Priority to further events, including offline exhibitions in Independent & Image Art Space’s Chongqing space, art projects, art fairs in China and internationally, and other art events

About Independent & Image Art Space

Founded in 2008, Independent & Image Art Space is located in 501 Art Base, which is the most important art zone in Chongqing, next door to one of China’s top art university — Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.

Independent & Image Art Space has been paying close attention to the development of Chinese and international contemporary art. With an open attitude towards the global art scene and unique art vision, Independent & Image Art Space endeavors to participate in the practices of Chinese contemporary art development, especially to improve a deeper understanding of contemporary art in our society.

During the years, Independent & Image Art Space has held numerous solo and group exhibitions for artists and international cultural exchange events, displaying the artworks of photography, painting, sculpture, installation, and new media art. During the exhibitions, they present related thematic lectures, seminars, and workshops.

For more information, contact info@independentimage.org.

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