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Dear AI... Something Strange Happened To Me Today
Dear AI... Something Strange Happened To Me Today
Deadline February 22, 2026, midnight. Notification by February 27, 2026.
"Dear AI… Something Strange Happened To Me Today" is a participatory exhibition exploring vulnerability, trust, and emotional intimacy with artificial intelligence — at a moment when human presence is increasingly displaced by technological proxies.
The project is based on anonymous AI diary entries: deeply personal questions, confessions, doubts, and moments of crisis that people have addressed to AI instead of another human.
Selected artists are invited to work with these diary entries as fragile material — not as content, but as emotional states. The task is not illustration, but translation: transforming intimacy, uncertainty, and trust into visual language.
Five to seven artists will be selected to:
Create one individual figurative painting (max. A2) based on a selected diary entry
Participate in the creation of one large collective painting, developed together during guided studio sessions
The project culminates in an exhibition at Kunstraum Heartspace, Berlin, accompanied by a Symposium in the form of a moderated Human Sharing Circle.
This is a collaborative, process-based project. The ability to work with others, hold emotional material carefully, and stay present within a group is essential.
Location: Kunstraum Heartspace, Danziger Str. 172, 10407 Berlin
Kick-off meeting: March 6, 2026
Collective painting sessions: March 13 + 14 + 15, 2026
Vernissage: April 16, 2026.
Exhibition: April 17 - 26, 2026
And there is more to it. We have another open call for those of you who wish artistic intelligence to translate your diary entries into pieces of art. The submission is completely anonymous.
You can start with one of these prompts:
Dear AI…
Today I had a crisis…
Let me tell you about today…
Here we go…
Today was a long day…
Something strange happened today…
Can you analyse this situation…
Red as a Memory
Red as a Memory
Deadline March 15, 2026
We are happy to share this Open Call by Lama Ali.
Red as a Memory explores the colour red as a carrier of memory, emotion, and experience.
Red can stand for personal or collective memories:
Love and loss, violence and resistance, warmth and danger, the body, the past, or traces of what remains.
We invite artists to reflect on red as an emotional, political, poetic, or abstract element — whether subtle or dominant, symbolic or material.
We welcome digital artworks (video, animation, digital painting, photography) as well as paintings, drawings, and mixed media works. Works that can be exhibited digitally and/or as prints or originals.
Please submit your application until March 15, 2026, via email to Lama Ali at artproject1225@gmail.com, including:
3–5 works (PDF file or links)
Short artist statement
Short bio
Red as a Memory will take place in Kunstraum Heartspace, Danziger Str. 172, 10407 Berlin, from April 30 through May 6, 2026.
Please note that this is a private initiative. We do not have external funding. Selected artists will be asked to contribute 45€ participation fee, part of which we hope to be able to refund through donations from the exhibition.
For any questions, feel free to contact Lama Ali via email to artproject1225@gmail.com.
Diffraction &
& Connection
Diffraction &
& Connection
Deadline Midnight, April 19, 2026
When waves hit an obstacle, they will bend around the obstacle.
This applies to any type of waves - water waves, sound waves, light waves.
Once waves have hit the obstacle, they will connect and interfere behind the obstacle
– constructively, or destructively.
One year of Kunstraum Heartspace: One year of connection through art and your heart. For the 1-Year Anniversary Exhibition of Kunstraum Heartspace, artists of different disciplines are invited to collaborate and explore the theme of Diffraction & Connection.
We are looking for works from all disciplines.
You can also apply as groups of 2-5 artists from different disciplines.
The exhibition understands Kunstraum Heartspace's entry door as a slit, and the front room's walls as a panel where waves interfere.
To prepare your submission, you are welcome to visit the space beforehand: Please schedule your appointment via email to mail@kunstraum-heartspace.de
Submission:
Please submit 1 PDF file via email to mail@kunstraum-heartspace.de by April 19, 2026, midnight. The PDF should contain:
Title of the work
A short text describing how the work explores the theme of Diffraction & Connection
Artist name, email contact, phone number, and short bio
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