Open call for Open Out Festival 2026

Call for queer artists and practitioners from the Open Out team!

We are proud hosts for Open Out Festival 5-12 September 2026 - Tromsø's dear queer art festival
Send your application to: openoutfestival@gmail.com
Deadline: January 4, 2026 (midnight CET)

🐝 ABOUT OPEN OUT FESTIVAL 🐝

Open Out Festival is a queer art festival taking place in Tromsø, Norway since 2017.
We are dedicated to hosting and showing queer artists for a week-long festival, aiming to create a sense of community: Coming together with a shared responsibility of taking care of the queer, the alive, each other and the works and inputs we bring. The festival program consists of a main exhibition, performances, workshops, social activities, parties and more.
We like to think of Open Out Festival as a temporary collective, a shared experience created by everyone who participates, art also as lived experiences.

🦕 We invite you to come and bring your work - we accept both already existing pieces and new ideas! We welcome all types of works that fit into a group exhibition, as well as performances, workshops, funerals for heteronormativity, dinners, or things we can’t even think of.

🐝 PRACTICAL INFO 🐝

To apply, send an email to openoutfestival@gmail.com with the following:
✅ a motivation letter explaining why you want to show your work at Open Out and how it resonates with our theme (DREAMING IN THE DARK), max 1 page.
✅ a description of your work / performance / workshop / etc, with documentation if it's an existing work. We also accept new works: in that case, describe what you propose in as much detail as possible.
✅ your portfolio and/or CV.

🐿 The festival covers a travel grant, accommodation in Tromsø and an artist fee for selected artists.

🍁 The deadline is January 4, 2026 at midnight CET.
If you have questions about the open call, send us an email at openoutfestival@gmail.com.

We're looking forward to reading your applications! 🌠