Open Call for the 25 Spiral Independent Creators Festival

Now accepting creators' applications for the 25 Spiral Independent Creators Festival (SICF25), happening from May 2-7, 2024 at Spiral (Tokyo). 

Launched in 2000, SICF is an open-call art festival that aspires to discover, foster, and support emerging artists and designers. Organized by Spiral, an arts complex in Tokyo’s Aoyama, SICF brings together creative talents across different fields and disciplines to present their work. The festival attracts a wide variety of visitors from the creative industries, including gallery owners, curators, collectors, buyers, and media professionals. Over the years, SICF has continued to expand as a platform for artistic activities, through encounters between new talents and visitors.

At the end of the festival, a series of prizes is announced, including the Judges’ Awards, Semi-Grand Prize, and Grand Prize as well as the Audience Award, which is selected by visitors and the Best Seller Award given to the creator who sold the most items. The winners receive the opportunity to exhibit their work again at Spiral.

EXHIBITION section

We are searching for creators in the fields of painting, sculpture, installation, illustration, graphic design, photography, video, media art, engineering, performing arts, mixed-media and more, who  are challenging the boundaries of genre. For 3 days, the selected creators will be able to express themselves freely, within a booth measuring W1,650 x D1,650 x H2,400mm.

MARKET section

We look for creators in the fields of design, craft, production and distribution of edible goods and more, who are proposing artistic ways of living, eating and dressing. For 3 days, the selected creators will be able to present and sale their items in an individual area composed of a counter table and the wall behind, measuring W1,500 x H2,400mm.