We are announcing the second OPEN CALL for students within the International Lviv Quadriennale of Scenography 2025

The Scenography Gallery and Lviv Quadriennale of Scenography are always open to young people. And today, with the best hopes and anticipation, we announce the next - but not the last - Open Call for students!

The Lviv Quadriennale of Scenography 2025 will feature an exhibition of young artists who are studying and making their first steps in the art of scenic design.

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Who can apply:

Students majoring in scenic design, fashion design (including theatrical costume), puppetry, or other creative specialties, but have chosen theatre and performing arts for their realisation.

Application deadline:

10 September, 18:00

Important dates:

• By 15 September, you will receive an answer whether your work has been selected to participate in the exhibition.

• By 20 September inclusive, you will have to bring or mail the selected works to Lviv (to the address that will be indicated in private correspondence). Sending the works is at the sender's expense.

The opening of the Lviv Quadriennale of Scenography 2025 and the exhibition will take place on 26 September in Lviv. The exhibition will run until 2 October.

After the exhibition, you will be able to pick up your works in person or we will send them to you by post (the cost of sending the works is at the expense of the recipient).

The format of the Quadriennale:

It is important that the works proposed for the exhibition were created within the last four years (2021-2025). Works created before 2021 will not be considered .

We equally consider works created as part of the educational process and outside of it as personal creative projects. Development projects (models, sketches, videos) created as current, course or diploma work are accepted for the exhibition. Works realised as part of student theatre productions, or created on their own or as part of student/youth creative initiatives are also welcome.

The following are accepted for the exhibition:

• models of scenography;

• sketches of scenography;

• theatre costumes and costume designs;

• video art created for a play or performance;

• photos from performances - only as a possible informational supplement to layouts, sketches or costumes.

We are also open to proposals for installations, as well as kinetic or other art objects specifically for the Lviv Quadriennale Scenography exhibition .

Тechnical requirements:

• sketches made in computer graphics or photography: files for printing should be in high quality - TIFformat , 300 ppi, at least 420 × 594 mm (A2 format);

• hand-drawn sketches must be sent in a framedform: frames with glass or plastic, with mounts for hanging and matting.

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Please send your application to:  scenography.gallery@gmail.com

Please indicate in the subject line: Name and surname. Application for the LCC Student Exhibition 2025

In your letter, please write information about your works that you propose for the exhibition (for future texts in the exposition) according to the following scheme:

1) Safonovna's costume for the performance "Five Songs of Polissya" by Lyudmyla Tymoshenko. Set and costume designer Oleh Tatarynov, director Ihor Matiiiv, Chernihiv Regional Academic Music and Drama Theatre named after Taras Shevchenko, 2023.

2) Scenic design for the play Five Songs of Polissya by by Lyudmyla Tymoshenko. Set and costume designer Oleh Tatarynov, director Ihor Matiiiv, Chernihiv Regional Academic Music and Drama Theatre named after Taras Shevchenko, 2023.

3) A sketch of Safonivna's costume for the play Five Songs of Polissia by by Lyudmyla Tymoshenko. Set and costume designer Oleh Tatarynov, director Ihor Matiiiv, Chernihiv Regional Academic Music and Drama Theatre named after Taras Shevchenko, 2023. Paper, watercolour, pencil, 42 x 54 cm.

If necessary, add comments to the proposed work in the letter:

• indicate if the model has internal lighting that requires a power outlet;

• indicate whether the mannequin will be provided in a mannequin box or will be displayed on a tablet;

• what type of mannequin you prefer for your costumes: with a head (if the costume will have a headdress), with legs (if there will be pants or other costume elements that require legs), with arms, whether you can use a tailor's mannequin to display your costume, whether you need to hang any elements of your work;

• other features.

Attach a Word file with your CV to the letter (information in the sequence and format as shown in the example):

1) Your first and last name: Yulia Polishchuk

2) Year of birth: 1992

3) Place of birth (or the city you represent, if you are an IDP): Mykolaiv

4) Artistic profile: scenographer, costume designer, architect

6) Education: National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (Kyiv). Department of scenography and screen arts. First year of study. Course leader: Liudmyla Nahorna

7) List of major exhibitions (according to the following scheme: year - "Title". Place or organiser, city):

2024 - participation in the exhibition "Ukrainian theatrical costume of the XX-XXI centuries: Identity, context and landscape". Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Gallery "Razdroża" Lublin (Poland).

8) A list of the main realised performances (according to the following scheme: year - role in the production "Title" Playwright in the nominative case, director Full name, surname, Full name of the theatre (city if necessary):

2024 - scenic and costume designer for the play Ninja Hedgehog by Ihor Bilyts, directed by Ihor Bilyts, Student Theatre of the National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television named after Shvan Karpenko-Kary (Kyiv), 2022.

Please attach photos of the works you propose for the exhibition.

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What you get:

• Participation in one of the central exhibitions of the international Lviv Quadriennale of Scenography 2025, which gathers a wide audience of visitors and invited guests. This will be an important, large-scale art event in autumn 2025, supported by the Lviv City Council, the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, Lviv theatres and other partners.

• Information about you and your work will be published on the Scenography Gallery website, where it will remain accessible to a wide audience for years to come.

• The web version of the catalogue of the Lviv Quadriennale of Scenography 2025 will also be published on the website. All participants of the exhibitions will receive a free printed copy of the catalogue.

Participation in the exhibition is free of charge.

Also, the exhibitions and all events of the Lviv Quadriennale of Scenography 2025 will be free and open to the public.

However, the organisers may ask the artists invited to participate in the exhibition to donate one of their works to form the permanent collection of the Scenography Gallery, which will become the basis for future projects and exhibitions.