Bringing social justice to the art world! Show a piece of your work during the Venice Biennale 2024 at Palazzo Pisani-Revedin. Plus, gain your unique profile on Artsy where you can promote and sell your work alongside the likes of Banksy, Tracey Emin and Anish Kapoor. Artsy is the world’s largest art, e-commerce archive. This is a fantastic opportunity to get seen by art collectors around the world and get the word out about critical social issues we face today.

"Calling all artists who are committed to socioeconomic equality either through who they are or the work they make".

Show one piece of your work at Palazzo Pisani-Revedin, Venice, Italy which attracts over 12,000 collectors each year. Plus gain your unique profile on Artsy where you can promote and sell your work alongside the likes of Banksy, Tracey Emin and Anish Kapoor. Artsy is the world’s largest art, e-commerce archive. With 2.9mn views a month and growing, it is a great place to launch and develop your art career. 

Cost: 

£12 to apply, £150 if selected to have your art printed in high-quality Hahnemuhle Photorag Giclee (12x12 inches) and included in the Exquisite Corpse in the exhibition.

Upload three pieces to Artsy, which is included in the £150 fee, to obtain your personal profile page and benefit from social media marketing materials you can use throughout the eight-week exhibition.

The small exhibition fee includes:

- Representation at this beautiful gallery during the Venice Biennale 2024 for eight weeks. Your piece will be printed in high-quality Hahnemuhle Photorag Giclee (12x12 inches) and included in the Exquisite Corpse in the exhibition.

- An online Artsy profile where you can upload 3 artworks for sale. 

- Social media marketing materials to promote your inclusion during the right week exhibition. 

- Inclusion in the exhibition catalogue as a double page spread about yourself and your work.

• Opening night: 3rd September 2024

• Exhibition: 3rd September - 3rd November 2024

• Artsy:  3rd September 2024 onwards

Please fill in the form and provide a square image no larger than 4MB which you would like to exhibit in Venice. If you are chosen, we will ask you to send us a high-resolution image.

Artists' work will be printed, framed and arranged in a grid as an "exquisite corpse" with each image representing a different artist's work, QR codes available at the exhibition will provide viewers with more information about the selected artists and link to your new Artsy account online where the work will be for sale.

Timeline: 

• 25th March 2024 - Open call is live

• 15th May 23:59 GMT - Deadline for submissions 

• 1st June 2024 - Successful candidates announced 

• 30th June 2024 - Deadline for fees, exhibition text and Artsy images. 

• 3rd September 2024 - Exhibition opens

• 3rd November 2024 - Exhibition closes

Social Justice: The Path is an art piece comprising sculpture, performance, spoken word and visual art. Underrepresented artists or those working with themes of social justice, equality or climate activism should respond with work they would like to exhibit as part of a grid of 50 like-minded artists.

The exhibition is open to both established and emerging artists. The piece shines a light on critical collective action to help us fight major and interlinked societal issues of our time, specifically climate change and inequality. More than just artwork, Social Justice: The Path is a platform for transformation, designed to make us pause and reflect on the biggest challenges we face and determine what we can do to change our world for the better.

During the show: 

The selection process and curation will be managed by Amy Jackson. An exquisite corpse will be compiled of all artists working with social justice, QR codes will link buyers, collectors and viewers to artists' work online. Ahead of the show, each artist will have their exhibition piece, alongside two others of the artist's choice uploaded to Artsy, the leading online platform for selling work, usually available only for those with gallery representation. Thus this is an excellent opportunity to promote your work and have access to buyers worldwide online.

About Amy Jackson: Jacqueline Amy Jackson) studied Fine Art at The Ruskin, University of Oxford. Jackson is an artist, activist, curator and responsible investment specialist blending philosophy, humour, nature and science to create immersive experiences in traditional galleries and unconventional spaces. Her work includes street art, happenings, photography, painting and found objects. Jackson explores issues such as climate change, consumerism, mental health, social inequalities and critically, how these themes are inextricably linked. Her work often exists outside of the ‘white cube’ and inside the communities it touches. Experience spans art commissions for Kensington + Chelsea Art Week to public speaking on climate change. Her work has been featured in the Times, Art World Magazine, Modern Art Oxford, Time Out and Tate Britain. Jackson received the Pirye Prize and Kevin Slingsby Prize for Funnel Vision. She was shortlisted for the YICCA Art Prize and Creative Green Awards and recognised as Rising Star at the LAPF Investment Awards 2021.

About SHIM’s mission: The art fair model is 60 years old and has changed little in that time. Designed as a trade event where galleries sell directly to clients inside a shared space. Measured by retail economics. How much the linear wall or floor footage costs determines who can afford to participate. This model is fine for a mid to large gallery that can afford the risk. It is less than ideal when considering the large share of the creative art world that is excluded. How to resolve this is the challenge. The main challenge to making the art fair (and the art world) more inclusive is that the art fair imagines its users to be almost exclusively galleries. This excludes all art institutions and universities, regional collectives, small galleries, geographically isolated individuals who share the same ethical, formal, or aesthetic concerns, and artists who are now achieving viral fame without any desire for traditional gallery representation. The solution to expansion therefore must address this crucial “filtering” dilemma. How to expand the art fair model to new talented artists while maintaining curatorial control? SHIM supports a “blended” art fair model approach. One that provides current galleries with traditional services, while also allowing access for those usually excluded.