• OPEN CALL 2026
     
    Application deadline: 10 April 2026
    Results: 12 April 2026
    Exhibition opening: 7 May 2026

     
    Open-air exhibition: PLAFOND.
    Presentation

    In everyday life, much of what surrounds us goes unnoticed. We move through streets, buildings, and familiar faces without really seeing them. Even the ceiling above us, though constantly present, is rarely seen.

    If your first reaction is to look up and think, “There is no ceiling here, we are outside,” then you have already understood the idea behind this open-air exhibition.

    Within our homes, the ceiling is no less absent from conscious attention. It is so present and familiar that it becomes invisible.

    The exhibition PLAFOND interrogates this form of invisibility created by familiarity. What is always visible can become unseen.

    Across Sarreguemines, the exhibition presents artworks in public space that draw attention to what is usually overlooked. It asks simple questions: what do we lose when we stop noticing something? What remains when it disappears from attention?

    The works deal with presence and absence in different ways. They invite the public to reconsider what it means to notice, or not notice.

    Rather than treating architecture as background, PLAFOND focuses on perception itself and how it can fail or shift.

    The exhibition is ultimately less about the ceiling than about the act of seeing, and about everything that disappears from view precisely because it is always there with us.

  • About the exhibition:
     
    The Collective for a European Civic Service is launching an OPEN CALL for the 2026 edition of the open-air art exhibition of the LUST IN SARREGUEMINES festival.
     
    Each year, a selection of 25 artists is invited to highlight their diversity. The exhibition takes place in public space and allows the artworks to be presented to a wide audience across the city of Sarreguemines and the Grand Est region.
     
    The LUST IN SARREGUEMINES festival is an annual event that combines art and music, transforming the city into an open cultural space, accessible to both local residents and visitors from across the region.
     
    PLAFOND is an open-air art exhibition taking place on 7 May 2026 in Sarreguemines.
     
    The project is based on a simple idea: in our daily lives, many things become invisible not because they disappear, but because they are always present.
     
    Starting from this observation, the exhibition invites artists to explore a question: how do we perceive what we no longer look at?
     
    The exhibition aims to encourage visitors to take a new look at their everyday surroundings.
     
     
    Accepted types of works:
    All visual works that can be digitised are accepted, including:
    Painting, Drawing, Illustration, Printmaking, Photography, Textile art, Collage, Mixed media, Digital art, etc. Any work that can be reproduced as an image.
     
     
    How to participate?
     
    Participation is free and exclusively online. No physical submission of artworks is required. Please submit:
    - Works
    1 to 2 artworks maximum (high-quality images or scans).
    - Texts
    A short biography + a text presenting the work and its connection to the theme of the exhibition PLAFOND.
    - Personal information
    First and last name (or artist name/pseudonym) + country of residence + links to social media.
     
    Selected works will be displayed on panels installed in public space. Each panel will include the artwork(s), a short biography, an explanatory text, the artist’s name, country of residence, as well as links to the artist’s social media.
     
     
    Why participate?
     
    Participating in the exhibition is an opportunity to:
    - Present your work in public space and reach a wide audience.
    - Take part in a collective artistic project, open to all, that goes beyond traditional frameworks.
    - Gain visibility as part of the LUST IN SARREGUEMINES festival.
    - Selected artists will also be able to promote their social media throughout the duration of the festival. 

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    You may submit 1 to 2 artworks maximum.
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  • Do not miss this opportunity!
    This exhibition is an opportunity to present your work, reach a wide audience, and develop your artistic visibility.

     

    Contact:
    For any questions or additional information, you may contact:
    sarreguemine@service-civique-europeen.com

    Or the project coordinator:
    Email: nadia.rjiba@service-civique-europeen.com
    Instagram DM: @nadiarjiba
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  • *Terms of participation and legal notice

    Artists retain full copyright and intellectual property rights to their works. However, they authorize the organizers to disseminate their works exclusively within the framework of the PLAFOND exhibition, including printing, public display in physical space, and use for communication purposes (website, social media, press).
     
    Artists agree to provide files of sufficient quality for printing. The organizers cannot be held responsible for any degraded output resulting from the quality of the submitted files. Technical adjustments (formatting, slight cropping, layout adjustments) may be made, while respecting the integrity of the artwork.
    The organizers reserve the right to refuse any submission that does not comply with the conditions of the call or contains inappropriate content, as well as to modify or cancel the event if necessary.
     
    The personal data collected is used solely for the management of this call for applications, in accordance with applicable regulations (GDPR). Participants may request access to, modification of, or deletion of their data.
     
    Participation in this call for applications is free of charge and does not give rise to any form of remuneration.
     
    [The theme of this exhibition was inspired by the 2025 art exhibition Sufit, curated by the team of NISKO Gallery in Poznań, Poland.]
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