Anonymous Drawings 2024 / International open call for drawing s & exhibiton
The deadline for online-submissions was September 8, 2024. All participants were informed by email of the outcome of the selection for the exhibitions on 23 September. Please understand that we cannot provide reasons for the decision. The selection was made on the basis of anonymised image files. Only then do we receive the contact addresses and names of the selected artists for the exhibitions. Everyone else remains anonymous to us.
The next call for participation will be in 2026. Those who are interested can sign up for our MAILING LIST.
A selection of roughly 1000 original drawings and a screeening of animated films by the our partner–project Lines Fiction will be on display at Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien from November 16, 2024 – January 12, 2025. Afterwards a part of the exhibtion travels to Erfurt and Hamburg, Germany:
16 November 2024 – 12 January 2025, opening: 15 November 2024, 5 p.m.: Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
07.02.-28.03.2025, Opening: 7. 02.2025: Kunsthaus Erfurt
May 2025: Hyperculturalpassengers, Hamburg
About the project: How is one's own judgment of a work of art changed if one knows nothing about the names and origins of the authors? How do you develop your own definition of value if the prices are standardized? Where is the boundary between art and non-art?
ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS 2024 at Kunstraum Kreuzberg features 1000 DRAWINGS by 1000 international artists. The works will be presented with no mention of authorship or title. The drawings are offered for sale at a symbolic price of 250 Euros. The identity of the artist is revealed only after the work is sold: Sold drawings will be taken right off the wall. The empty space left behind will be marked with the artist‘s full name and place of origin. The given unit sales price should not be seen as a real market price, but as a conceptual place holder for any conceivable amount of money in the art market.
The exhibition was preceded by an INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL for submissions. There were no guidelines specifying content; the only requirement is that the drawings are no bigger than A3 (29,7 x 42 cm). Age, biography or gender was not requested to be disclosed and do not play any role in the final selection of works. The selection will be made on the basis of anonymized image files.
ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS is conceptual art and exhibition project all in one: Each and every artist becomes part of a collective work of art where hierarchies are entirely absent.
Everyone was eligible. The participation was free of charge.
Idea and realization: Anke Becker