purpose

TheAdam Mickiewicz Institute announces a competition for the curatorial design of an exhibition/installation to be realized in the Polish Pavilion during the London Design Biennale 2025. The project should present Polish design thought and correspond to the specifics and theme of the London Design Biennale 2025 - "Surface Reflections ", which is an attempt to explore how our thinking is shaped by both internal experiences and stimuli from the external world.

terms and conditions

The curatorial project should include:

• a concept for the exhibition/installation (up to 2,700 characters with spaces in Polish and its translation into English),

• the full scenario of the exhibition/installation (in Polish and its translation into English) with visualization or sketch,

• a cost estimate for the production of the exhibition/installation, excluding the costs listed
  in Appendix 1 to the Regulations under the heading Economic Guidelines.

The project curator, or in the case of a curatorial team at least one person, must have:

• good knowledge of contemporary design issues, including phenomena occurring on the international design scene,

• curatorial experience in organizing exhibitions/installations in the field of design, architecture, fashion, new media or visual arts (a minimum of two foreign exhibitions),

• good knowledge of Polish design,

• good knowledge of English.

Interested persons are requested to send/submit the project by July 15, 2024 by 4:00 pm to the headquarters of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute - Mokotowska 25 Street, 00-560 Warsaw (the date of the stamp confirming receipt at the IAM headquarters is decisive) in the following manner:

1. The title page of the given Competition Work should specify the title of the Work. The Competition Work should be placed in a closed envelope, which makes it impossible to read its content without damaging the envelope; the envelope, as well as the Competition Work, must not bear the name and address of the Competition Participant, or be marked in any other way enabling the identification of the Competition Participant; the envelope should be marked as follows:

"Adam Mickiewicz Institute, 25 Mokotowska St., 00-560 Warsaw".

Competition work for the development of a curatorial design of an exhibition/installation to be realized during the London Design Biennale 2025.

Not to be opened before July 15, 2024, before 4:00 pm".

2. In a separate envelope making it impossible to read its contents without breaching the envelope(i.e., inserted inside the envelope containing the Competition Work), an application should be submitted
   for admission to the Competition together with a statement, which constituteAppendix No. 2 to these Regulations. The envelope must not bear the name and address of the Competition Participant, or be described in any other way that allows the identification of the Competition Participant, and should only contain the following information:

"Adam Mickiewicz Institute, 25 Mokotowska St., 00-560 Warsaw".

Competition for the development of a curatorial design of an exhibition/installation to be realized during the London Design Biennale 2025.

COMPETITION PARTICIPANT'S APPLICATION

Not to be opened before the conclusion of the Competition".

additional information

The organizers invite you to an online consultation meeting with one of the curators of the winning exhibition for the London Design Biennale 2023 - Michal Sikorski - on Tuesday,June 11 at 4:30 pm.

For information on the competition, please email:konkursldb@iam.pl.

more information

More information, rules and regulations and attachments are available on the competition website.

terms

https://iam.pl/pl/konkursldb25

regulations

https://iam.pl/sites/default/files/regulamin_konkursu_-_london_design_biennale_2025.pdf