Open Call for Artists and Art Researchers
The international Salon of Innovative Procedures in Art, VANGUART 2026, is open to anyone with an innovativetechnique that can be applied to art.
These include cutting techniques for wood or any other material, stone prints, biological techniques for treating paints or canvas, biochemical techniques, digital techniques, algorithms, product presentations for artists in any discipline, tools for urban art... and anything else you can imagine that could help artists grow their creativity. Our curatorial team will be in charge of selecting the techniques that will be presented in person, which ones can be communicated on a poster in person, and which ones in e-Poster format (attending online).
You can purchase your ticket to access the conferences online or you can purchase your ticket to attend in person.
Note: If your abstract is selected as an oral presentation or poster, attendance is mandatory. If your submission is selected as an e-poster, you may attend online.
Examples:
Unpublished techniques in progress: works that use new procedures, from
organic dyes to algorithmic code;
Artificial intelligence: indications for producing exhibited new age art on screens.
Art with algorithms: rendering software, digital collaboration.
BioArt with bacterial pigments, DNA, biopolymers, living cells, fluorescence.
Advanced artwork procedures such as crystallization,controlled, thermochromic, electroplating, galvanizing, 3D printing
experimental, laser, large-size CNC milling, kinetic art and mechatronics, aeolian sculptures, chemical reactions, chromic pigments and metals.
Politics of the body in process: works that interrogate gender, presence,
tactility, control and subjectivity.
Anti-form and mutation: parts in process that change over time, the
viewer or the environment.
Critique of the market: art as a counter-hegemonic, delocalized device.
Write us to (info@vanguart.es) and let us to know your innovative artistic procedure in order to be evaluated by our commissariat team.
You can present your innovation oral or poster , in this case remember that it's mandatory to attend at VANGUART 2026 F2F (see Tickets).
Depending on your selection, you will receive a format procedure for final communication (Oral presentation, Poster presentation or e-poster).
The person whose innovative procedure is selected must confirm their attendance in person or online within 21 days of receiving notification by email.
Participation of artists:
-Basic workshop stand option (1 day): 300€ ; The artist will contribute, assemble and dismantle what he needs for the Fair in the time in which he has been allocated the space.
-Option (5 days): 1200€ (20% discount)
Deadline to send communications, and stand participation 1st February 2026 at 00:00h.