Open Call for Exhibitions Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon 2027, 2028 and 2029

• You can apply if you are a professional artist living in Ireland working in the visual arts or in contemporary fine art led craft.
• You can apply as an individual artist. You can apply as a group of artists who work together or as a group of artists who would like to exhibit together.
• You can apply if you are a curator working with one or more artists.
• You can apply as an arts organisation.
• You can apply if you have had an artwork included in the DLR Open Submission Exhibitions (For example, Utopia/Dystopia 2019, Order/Chaos 2023)

• You cannot apply if you were awarded a DLR Open Call exhibition or DLR Visual Art Commission for the period 2019-2026.

• A fee for you as the artist: €6,500 for if you are an established artist / €4,300 if you are an emerging artist.
• Marketing material and PR (dlr Arts Office will take care of any print and online PR for your exhibition).
• Professional art technicians will install your work. Exhibition opening event.
• The support of a curator if you need this (to a maximum amount of €1,000 per exhibition).
• The cost towards the transport of your artwork by art handlers, up to the value of €750.
• You must help us organise the transportation. We will not fund international travel for this exhibition.
• Insurance of the artworks while in the Gallery. If an artwork is too fragile to be covered by our insurance, you may be asked to insure it or remove it from the exhibition.

• Established Artist

You will have been working professionally for several years, with a strong track record of exhibitions, awards, or recognition. Your work may be widely known, and you sell and/or exhibit your work regularly. You may be represented by a gallery.

• Emerging Artist

You are at an early stage in your professional career as an artist. You may have some experience showing your work, however you are still developing your practice and building a reputation in the art world.

The applications will be assessed in two stages in a competitive selection process. This means that applications are marked in comparison to each other. We will use the same Scoring System for Stage One and Stage Two.

• In Stage One, a group of independent art experts, who do not work in the Arts Office, will review your application. This group includes working artists. A shortlist of all applications that receive over 70 marks out of 100 in this assessment will move on to stage Two. We will not consider applications that receive less than 70 marks.
• In Stage Two, the Arts Office team will assess the shortlisted applications. We will mark them and the highest scoring ones will be selected. The minimum mark required at Stage Two is 80 out of 100. We will keep a list of all the shortlisted applications that score over 80 marks at Stage Two for two years. We will use this list to select more exhibitions if we receive more funding. We will start with the applicant who has the highest score. The decision of the selection panel will be final and will be based on the scoring system that is outlined below. If no application reaches the minimum marks, we will not choose an exhibition from this process. We will then use a different selection process instead.