Bloom 2025 / Open Call
Bloom Young Artists’ Exhibition
Open Call for Submissions
Application deadline: Monday 21.4.2025
Bloom 2025 / Open Call
Bloom Young Artists’ Exhibition
Open Call for Submissions
Application deadline: Monday 21.4.2025
We are delighted to be having our eighth Bloom, Lokal’s biannual young artists’ exhibition. Bloom has become an established platform for young blossoming creatives to present their works in a curated group show context.
Bloom exhibits the works of Finnish of Finland-based artists and artisans under the age of 35. The 2025 edition of Bloom will be held at Lokal, Annankatu 9, as well as online, in September 2025. Central to Lokal’s mission is to support emerging makers, make new connections, and promote the work of new visionaries – and this exhibition is of course no exception.
There is a focus on mainly art pieces and select unique craft and design editions, and we kindly request you not to submit furniture design prototypes or homeware items.
Please send your application as one PDF file (max size 20MB), including a short bio and CV, 3–4 previous works, as well as your exhibition piece proposal to the address katja.hagelstam@lokalhelsinki.com.
Your proposal can be either an existing singular piece or series, or a draft of something you are in the process of working on this coming summer.
Deadline for applications: Monday 21.4.2025
Confirmation of participation: 15.5.2025
Works to be delivered to Lokal: 2.9.2025
Exhibition dates: 5.9.–4.10.2025
Image: Artwork by Kati Peltola
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Exhibition #104 – BLOOM 8th Edition
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