Plazuli invites artists and designers to apply for Lip Lines, a curated publication and exhibition exploring lips as sites of language, desire, identity, intimacy, and control. Lips exist at the boundary between the body and the world. They speak, kiss, consume, conceal, and resist. Through the lips, language is articulated, desire is enacted, and identity is performed.

This open call is interested in works that engage with:

voice, silence, and censorship
beauty, eroticism, and bodily control
language, translation, and communication
excess, distortion, resistance, and refusal

We welcome works across all media!

Opportunities

Plazuli Digest Publication
Around 50–70 artists will be selected for inclusion in the Plazuli Digest, a printed and digital publication distributed to galleries and creative platforms.

Participation Fee: €55

Barcelona Exhibition

A curated group of artists will be invited to participate in a week long exhibition at Haba Art Lab in Barcelona.

Exhibiting artists are automatically included in the publication at no additional cost.

Participation Fee: €125

Magazine Feature

One selected artist will be featured in a partner magazine (to be announced).

Important Information

• Open internationally
• Open to emerging and established artists
• Deadline: 24 June 2026
• Artists retain full ownership of their work
• Artists are responsible for shipping costs
• Plazuli  takes 40 % commission on sales
   

Publicity

A curated press release will be distributed to selected media contacts and publications, including Dezeen, Wallpaper, Waastaa, and ICON Magazine, alongside promotion across Plazuli and partner platforms.

About the Organisers & Promotion

Curator:

Naj Shirazi is a London-based artist and emerging curator working across sculpture, textile, moving image, and contemporary curatorial practice. Her work spans metalwork, fabric, ceramics, text, and stop-motion, often incorporating her own body as both subject and material.

Drawing on feminist theory and personal experience, her practice explores embodiment and the complexities of identity as shaped through cultural, linguistic, and social structures.

Through an engagement with gender, agency, and the male gaze, she investigates how bodies are seen, interpreted, and regulated, while also examining language as a system that constructs meaning around the body.

Central to her work is an inquiry into how systems of power shape perception and visibility, and how these structures may be disrupted, resisted, and redefined.

Her practice reimagines the body as a site of autonomy, resistance, and transformation.

Plazuli is an independent curatorial platform based in Barcelona, focused on contemporary art, design, and material storytelling through exhibitions, publications, and open calls.

Following the success of our first open call, The Houses We Create, Lip Lines continues Plazuli’s commitment to supporting emerging and interdisciplinary artistic practices through curated physical and editorial opportunities.

The project is developed in collaboration with Haba Art Lab, an exhibition space located in El Born, Barcelona, near the Banksy Museum and Palau de la Música Catalana, an area with strong daily cultural foot traffic.

Publication & Promotion

• Around 50–70 artists will be featured in the Plazuli Digest
• The publication will be produced both digitally and physically
• A minimum of 20 physical copies will be distributed to galleries, curators, and creative platforms
• Additional copies will be available through preorder
   

Audience & Reach

Instagram

• Curator Naj Shirazi: 900 followers 
• Plazuli: approximately 750 followers
• Founder account (@sanad.khoury): approximately 1,370 followers
• Haba Art Lab: approximately 2,500 followers

Website Traffic

• Plazuli receives approximately 200 monthly visitors, increasing to around 400+ visitors during open call promotion periods

Exhibition Visibility

• Haba Art Lab benefits from significant foot traffic due to its location within Barcelona’s cultural centre in El Born
   

Experience

Plazuli previously organised The Houses We Create, an international open call and exhibition bringing together artists working across painting, photography, sculpture, and installation, culminating in a curated exhibition and publication in Barcelona.

Plazuli was founded by Sanad Khoury, a graduate of Chelsea College of Arts in London. His first experience organising exhibitions emerged through his graduate show at Yorkton Workshops, which later received editorial recognition from Dezeen.

More recently, his work was recognised by IQONS as one of the Arab designers to know from Milan Design Week 2026.