During Kinomural, one of the largest new media art festivals in Europe, you have the opportunity to showcase your work in large format. Selected projects will appear in September on the wall of one of Wrocław’s tenement houses and will be seen by nearly 30,000 people. Submit your project now in the OPEN CALL competition.
SAVE THE DATE! Two evenings with new media art
Kinomural has announced the date of the next edition — this year, the event will take place in Wrocław on 18 and 19 September. Contemporary art and urban architecture, experience and experimentation for the imagination, and above all, the most important works of new media art from around the world — these words perfectly capture what Kinomural is all about. The festival changes the topography of Nadodrze for two evenings. The streets, which are bustling with life during the day, become a living, pulsating screen in the evenings, as the works are displayed on six walls of tenement houses, averaging 300 metres in length. They become a new “exhibition” space for new media art, and it is on one of them that a review of projects by artists selected in an open call is presented. The organisers are waiting for applications until 8 April.
OPEN CALL for audiovisual artists
Flickering traces of movement and fleeting gestures began to live their own rhythm, and swifts nesting in the crevices penetrated the wall of Wrocław’s Nadodrze district. During last year’s Kinomural, Ada Napiórkowski’s “Jerzyki” (Swifts), winner of the OPEN CALL competition, transformed the urban space into a poetic record of the biological pulse of the world. How does the artist remember her participation in the festival? How did the urban space influence the presentation of her work?
Events such as Kinomural are a great opportunity for new media art to reach viewers who may be encountering it for the first time. For me, as a director, it is also an opportunity to go beyond the conventions of film and imagine my work in a new context. I am all the more pleased that I was able to present it in such a phenomenal format.
Experimental animation has shaped my thinking in such a way that I naturally assume a lack of complete control over the reception of a work, and I perceive its meaning as fluid — and this is where I see its strength. Presenting work in urban space further enhances this effect. Art can then breathe freely and function on its own terms, says Ada Napiórkowski. The works are shown in vertical format. Make sure the file resolution is 1200 × 1724, adds the artist.
The slogan for this section this year is ON REPEAT (more). Works created specifically for the call for entries or projects from previous work can be submitted to the open call. What is important to the curatorial team and what kind of artists are they looking for?
Every year, when selecting artists for OPEN CALL, we act a bit like treasure hunters. The theme of the edition is our compass, but the map is created along the way — from discoveries and surprises. We search for new media among the new lands of art, but we also reach for what has already been discovered. The age of a work is irrelevant to us, because the formula of our festival makes even the films of the precursors of computer art from the 1960s and 1970s, such as Lillian Schwartz, look like avant-garde from the future at Kinomural.
Kinomural is a completely different, complex medium, so when looking for treasures, we have to trust our intuition. This year, we have to imagine that we are standing among people at night, looking up at a huge wall and watching to see if space-time is curving in ON REPEAT mode or not,” says Bartek Bartos, the festival’s director.
How to apply?
The rules, calendar and technical guidelines are available HERE.
OPEN CALL calendar:
● submission of works: until 8 April 2026
● announcement of selection results: 30 April 2026
● exhibition of works during Kinomural: Wrocław, 18–19 September 2026
Prizes: all works selected in the call for entries will take part in the competition — the jury will award three people, who will receive an additional prize of PLN 3,000. Contemporary Lynx magazine will also award its own prize, and the winner will be featured in an interview in the magazine. Announcement of winners: by 20 September 2026.
Further festival announcements can be found at www.facebook.com/kinomural and www.kinomural.com.
source: press materials
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