Part of the puntWG Open Call Series

atelierWG Foundation is offering artists the opportunity to present new projects at puntWG. This initiative serves as a platform to stimulate dialogue between artists and their work, and as a meeting place for communities to share ideas and knowledge.

puntWG is seeking submissions for its 2027 programme from artist duos interested in collaborative resonance, not just working together, but exploring parallels, echoes, and overlaps between artistic practices.

This is the third year puntWG is experimenting with a more open-ended approach to its annual call. Building on the theme of collaboration, we continue to explore what it means to share authorship, blur boundaries, and work in dialogue.

This year, we invite artists to apply together as a duo. Rather than matching individual artists, we ask applicants to form their own collaborations and submit a joint proposal. We welcome both existing artistic partnerships and newly formed duos who are interested in exploring an experimental and collaborative approach to exhibition-making.

We ask each duo to submit portfolios and artist statements/bios for both artists, alongside a short description of their interest in working together. We are particularly interested in how your practices relate to one another, what questions or possibilities emerge through your collaboration, and how these might develop within the context of puntWG.

Duos will be selected based on their individual artistic practices, the potential of their collaboration, and their interest in engaging with the space and the public.

Selected duos will have access to puntWG for three weeks and are free to explore how they wish to use the space during this time. This could involve using puntWG as a working space with presentation moments or a public programme, preparing an exhibition beforehand and using the space primarily for its presentation, or developing another format that suits the collaboration.

The only requirement is that a public presentation takes place during the three-week period.

We will only consider applications that are delivered on time, complete and submitted in one single PDF file (max. 10MB) clearly named with your full name (e.g. Firstname_Lastname_puntWG2027.pdf).

About puntWG

atelierWG Foundation is offering artists the opportunity to present new projects at puntWG. This initiative serves as a platform to stimulate dialogue between artists and their work and as a meeting place for communities to share ideas and knowledge.

Selected artists are given access to puntWG for up to 3 weeks and are free to use the space in a way that fits their project. This may include using it as a working space with presentation moments or turning it into a fully staged exhibition — as long as a public component (presentation, event, screening, talk, performance, etc.) is included during the 3 weeks.

We are looking for artists who want to explore experimental and collaborative ways of working and are open to interaction with others and the public.

Support

The organisation of puntWG and Foundation atelierWG runs almost entirely on voluntary efforts. We sadly cannot provide any funding for the exhibition or production costs. While we provide:

• use of the space

• basic equipment

• professional photo documentation

Artists are responsible for:

• installation and deinstallation

• invigilation

• all other production aspects

We will publish your exhibition and events on our website and Instagram. Selected artists will also receive acceptance letters to support external funding applications.

Application Guidelines

Please send ONE PDF (max. 10MB) titled with your full name (e.g. Firstname_Lastname_puntWG2027.pdf) that includes:

• Full names, date and place of birth, postal address, phone number, e-mail, website

• CV’s (max. 4 A4 pages)

• Artist statements + short bio’s (max. 250 words)

• Short motivation/ description of your interest in working together (max. 100 words)

• Indicate in which of the 5 exhibition time slots you are available

26/01/2027 - 22/02/2027

23/02/2027 - 08/03/2027

04/05/2027- 24/05/2027

22/06/2027 - 12/07/2027

27/07/2027 - 16/08/2027

05/10/2027-25/10/2027

23/11/2027-06/12/2027

• Up to 10 supporting images or links to time-based works (5 min max per link; please do not submit websites)

We will not consider applications which do not follow these guidelines due to the high number of applications. 

Submit to: opencall@atelierwg.nl
Deadline: October 21st until 23:59 CET
Notification by: November 2026

Contact

For questions about puntWG: opencall@atelierwg.nl
Organisation and programming by: Nína Harra, Julia Dahee Hong, Susan Kooi, Lily Lanfermeijer, and Smári Róbertsson www.puntwg.nl

About atelierWG & puntWG

Following the relocation of the Wilhelmina Gasthuis hospital (now AMC) in 1984, artists and residents shaped the unique site of WG in Amsterdam. AtelierWG, established in 1989, now houses 120 artist studios and initiates cultural projects and exchanges.

puntWG was founded in 2006 as an interdisciplinary exhibition space and platform for artistic discourse. In 2015, airWG, an artist residency, was launched to foster research and collaboration. The exhibition space of puntWG is now shared by the three teams with their respective programs: puntWG, atelierWG, and airWG. 

Part of the puntWG Open Call Series

Bringing together new works by Heidi Holmström, Masha Ryabova, and Lisa Sudhibhasilp, ‘A Guide to Better Judgement’ consolidates the artists’ shared interest in how value is (re)produced and negotiated through display systems. In displacing light fixtures, vitrines, product packaging, architecture, and other forms of scenographic containment, the show considers the visual and spatial methodologies that organise attention, bodies, and behaviour, and how these shape the very act of making art. To look at the display itself is then an invitation to look at the conditions of artistic production, a way of making visible the circumstances, gestures, and decisions through which a work—a meaning—comes into being.

With an exhibition text by Sara Vallis
and design by Catherine Hu.
The show will host the 3rd meeting of ‘Artists Anonymous’ initiated and led by Pennie Key—date and time TBA.

Many thanks to Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst for their generous support.

Boekpresentatie & Opening tentoonstelling: 25 september, 17.00-20.00u
puntWG Open Ateliers: 26 & 27 september, 12.00-17.00u 
Overzichtsexpositie: ook te zien op 3 & 4 oktober, 12.00-17.00u

Op zaterdag 26 en zondag 27 september vinden op atelierWG in Amsterdam de jaarlijkse Open Studio’s plaats. Dit jaar is deze gebeurtenis extra bijzonder: niet alleen vindt er in puntWG, de expositieruimte op het terrein, een overzichtsexpositie plaats waaraan bijna tachtig van de kunstenaars die op het terrein werken deelnemen, ook wordt het boek Wil, Verlangen en Bescherming gepresenteerd, waarin kunstenaar Noa Giniger, na bijna drie jaar onderzoek, de geschiedenis van het WG-terrein heeft opgetekend. 

AtelierWG is het grootste ateliercomplex van Nederland, met meer dan 120 studio’s. Het is al ruim veertig jaar gevestigd in de voormalige Oog- en Vrouwenklinieken van het toenmalige Wilhelmina Gasthuis. In Wil, Verlangen en Bescherming brengt Giniger uitgebreid archiefonderzoek samen met verhalen en foto’s van kunstenaars, schrijvers en fotografen die op het terrein werken. Tijdens de opening van het Open Studio-weekend, dat een keer per jaar plaatsvindt, wordt het boek worden gepresenteerd; in het daaropvolgende weekend is een groot deel van de studio’s die in het boek worden beschreven te bezoeken, waarbij natuurlijk ook het werk van de kunstenaars te bezichtigen is. Een weekend dat zowel een unieke kans biedt aan bezoekers om meer te leren over de geschiedenis van het WG-terrein als om kennis te maken met de kunstenaars die daar nu werken.  

Praktische informatie: de Open Studio’s op het WG-terrein vinden plaats op 26 en 27 september van 12.00 tot 17.00u. Een plattegrond is te verkrijgen bij de deelnemende studio’s en in puntWG, WG-plein t/o nr. 80. Daar vindt ook de overzichtsexpositie plaats van kunstenaars die werken op het terrein. De opening van de tentoonstelling vindt plaats op 25 september van 17.00-20.00, in puntWG, daar is ook om 18.30u de presentatie van Wil, Verlangen en Bescherming. De tentoonstelling is na de Open Studio’s nog te bezoeken op 3 en 4 oktober, van 12.00-17.00u.