UNFINISHED SPACESOPEN
WHAT: group exhibition
WHO: no restrictions
WHEN: Beginning of 2027 ( TBC )
WHERE: Firenze, Italy ( TBC )
SUBMISSION FEE: single image $10 / series $25
DEADLINE: 15 December 2026
ANNOUNCEMENT SHORTLISTED WORKS: 22 December 2026
ANNOUNCEMENT FINALISTS: 6 January 2027
Photographers, artists, authors, designers, video and sound artists from anywhere in the world can submit their work, without any limitations on age, approach, or technique.
Whether it is a single photo, a series, a drawing, an essay, poetry or mixed media, anything that can be printed on paper is acceptable for submission. We also accept video and sound works, installations, and physical works.
A single submission consists of one work. A series consists of up to 15 images. For series submissions, the curators reserve the right to make a partial selection.
The submission link will be provided upon completion of payment.
OVERVIEW
UNFINISHED SPACES
No place is ever finished
A friend of ours has a phobia of unfinished spaces. It sounds like a narrow fear. It may be the widest one there is. Everything is in shift, nothing settles into its final form. To fear the unfinished is, in a way, to fear the world as it actually is.
A journey that ends at a threshold no one crosses. Two people agree to meet, neither comes, and the camera waits anyway while the light changes. A story that breaks off mid-sentence. A place its inhabitants keep deliberately incomplete, as if finishing it would be the start of its end. None of these arrive. Each holds something an ending would have closed off.
Unfinished Spaces starts from that condition. The interval, the threshold, the shift that never settles. A space can be physical, mental, social, or a single frame. It can be approached as fear, as attraction, or both at once.
INTENT
We are looking for work that stays in the interval. Work that holds back from resolution, that leaves its own form open, or that registers a world in constant shift without trying to fix it in place. Work that treats incompleteness as a state to inhabit, not a problem to solve.
We welcome both subtle and direct approaches. Documentary or experimental. Fear or attraction. The work should reflect a clear engagement with this condition, where the medium itself becomes part of the question.
This overview is intended to provide context, not to limit your artistic expression. You may choose to focus on any single aspect of these themes/keywords.
Should the curators deem it necessary, you will be asked for additional text to contextualize your submission.
This overview is intended to provide context, not to limit your artistic expression. You may choose to focus on any single aspect of these themes/keywords.
Should the curators deem it necessary, you will be asked for additional text to contextualize your submission.
1. Threshold
2. Interval
3. Suspension
4. Incompleteness
5. Shift
6. Waiting
7. Absence
8. Unease
9. Possibility
10. Fragment
MISSION
Unfinished Spaces gathers work that stays with what has not settled. Not as a lack, but as a condition.
Every place, image, and life is in transition. The unfinished is not the exception. It is the rule we prefer not to see.
By bringing together a range of practices at MONO in Firenze, we hope to build a shared reflection on what remains open, what an ending would close off, and how visual work can hold a world that never stops shifting.
PLAYLIST
SELECTED PARTICIPANTS
Selected artists will be featured in the group exhibition Unfinished Spaces, to be held at MONO, Firenze, Italy. Dates TBC. Printing of all selected works will be handled by zerofeedback.
Artists exhibiting physical works are responsible for all shipping, insurance, customs, and return costs. Zerofeedback and MONO do not insure exhibited works.
For video, sound, and installation works, technical requirements will be agreed with the artist after selection.
Further details will be announced later.
Selected artists will be featured in the group exhibition Unfinished Spaces, to be held at MONO, Firenze, Italy. Dates TBC. Printing of all selected works will be handled by zerofeedback.
Artists exhibiting physical works are responsible for all shipping, insurance, customs, and return costs. Zerofeedback and MONO do not insure exhibited works.
For video, sound, and installation works, technical requirements will be agreed with the artist after selection.
Further details will be announced later.
CONTACTS
For any inquiry regarding this open call write to:
opencalls @ zrfdbck.com
For any inquiry regarding this open call write to:
opencalls @ zrfdbck.com
To ensure to keep you updated, all email addresses provided by submitters will be added to our mailing list.