Experimental Photo Festival 2027 Open Call for Exhibitions

About this call

The eighth Experimental Photo Festival, organised by the Barcelona-based Asociación Experimentalphotofestival, selects 12 artists or projects for 12 solo exhibitions in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2027. There is no fixed theme: the festival welcomes analogue, digital, historical, alternative, hybrid and expanded photographic practices, including work combined with installation, video, sound or other disciplines, and projects may be finished, in progress or previously exhibited. Each solo exhibition artist receives a €150 artist fee, a production budget of up to €200 managed by the festival, access to the 12-month Ágora Diploma in Experimental Photography (valued at €999, not exchangeable for cash), festival access, lunches, merchandise, curatorial and production support and priority access to accommodation at Col·legi Major Penyafort-Montserrat (costs not covered). The jury may also select a group exhibition with a €150 artist fee each, and 20 further artists for an online feature in Analog Forever Magazine. The group exhibition stays on view until December 2027. Venues include Centre Cívic Pati Llimona and MUHBA Porta de Mar; some exhibitions will be installed in time for the IPFA Meeting in Barcelona from 30 June to 4 July 2027, and the festival's current dates are 21 to 25 July 2027.

Who can apply

• The official call states no eligibility restriction
• Medium: Photography / Installation
• Entry fee: €20
• Open to photographers, visual artists, multidisciplinary artists and collectives of any nationality, country of residence, age or career stage. Employees, contractors, jury members and direct family members of the Experimentalphotofestival Association are not eligible; a collective names one main contact. Apply only through Picter: personal and professional information, a mandatory artist portrait, project description, biography, up to 10 project images and technical, production and installation information. €20 application fee per project; you may submit more than one project, each as a separate application with its own fee. Submissions cannot be modified and the fee is non-refundable. Selected artists must be present in Barcelona to install and dismantle their own exhibition (with the production team's help), for the opening and to take part in the festival, whose current dates are 21 to 25 July 2027, and must sign a mandatory participation agreement. Unless agreed otherwise in writing, artists organize and pay for transporting their artworks, materials and equipment to Barcelona and back. To receive the €150 artist fee the artist or collective must be able to issue a valid invoice; the production budget is not paid as cash. Accommodation costs are not covered. Works will not be offered for sale by the festival during the event. Results are sent by email in January 2027.