For artists

WALLSTREET Stockholm welcomes professional artists to apply for the Open Call, which is open until 31 January 2022. The festival has a number of art consultants who are responsible for curating the art in  different places.

WALLSTREET Stockholm 2022 is about outdoor public art – artistic stories in our “common living rooms”. The festival focuses on visual arts: sculpture, temporary architecture, light installations, murals – in all sorts of different sizes. Miniatures as well as big works of art. WALLSTREET Stockholm has a clear environmental thinking and prioritises art materials and processes that have little or no impact on nature.

Yes, and it is briefly about the importance of artistic quality and artistic freedom. The main target group for the art is residents and visitors in the Stockholm region. The art can be both temporary and permanent. All production of art must, as a starting point, be preceded by a sketching process.

Art can interact with what has already been built, with what is to be built, or with what is to be demolished and disappear. Art can be a response to a deficiency, or an input or response to a development. The art can be new production or art that is renewed by being placed in a new context or renovated.

Art can be a source of deep, subjective insights that create a commitment – participation in society and democracy. Art can add something new, engage, challenge and deeply touch our souls. Art can create curiosity, rapture, arouse new thoughts and feelings.

Yes, there is an artistic advisory board, consisting of people from participating municipalities responsible for public art, and some external representatives with artistic competence. The advisory board give support and advice in matters concerning the artistic process. The board strengthens the artist’s professional role and position. The purpose of the board is also project coordination and learning through information exchange and knowledge sharing.

We have chosen not to have a specific theme. However, we encourage participating artists to take into account the spirit of the place as input in the work. The world at large right now has several highly topical inevitable themes we all have to deal with, such as the climate crisis, the pandemic and Agenda 2030. We believe that this is more than enough as a starting point for artists with the freedom to interpret, shape and contribute.

WALLSTREET Stockholm 2022 is about outdoor public art – artistic stories in our “common living rooms”. The festival focuses on visual arts: sculpture, temporary architecture, light installations, murals – in all sorts of different sizes. Miniatures as well as big works of art. WALLSTREET Stockholm has a clear environmental thinking and prioritises art materials and processes that have little or no impact on nature.

WALLSTREET Stockholm has two different types of partners – public sector (municipalities) and private sector (mostly property developers).

Participating municipalities (Nacka, Stockholm, Upplands-Bro) use existing established municipal processes for the production of art where arm’s length distance applies (no politicians are allowed to be involved) and all art production is led by people with artistic competence.

Private business uses the art consultants who are connected to the festival, and who act as a link between private partners and the artist. Most art productions in the private sector follow a given process.

WALLSTREET Stockholm wants to involve neighbors at the place where there will be art as much as possible (if there are any people living on the site, that is).

WALLSTREET Stockholm will take place in the Stockholm region in the summer of 2022. The inauguration will take place on Wednesday 1 June at Sergels torg in central Stockholm.