Open Call BAiR 2025: Trigger Witness

Brno Artists in Residence & Galerie G99 invite you to participate in an open call for all researchers in the field of contemporary art (visual artists, theoreticians or curators) of any nationality, gender and age to participate in a two-month residency in 2025. The BAiR residency programme is institutionally managed by the Brno House of Arts.

THE THEME OF BAIR AND G99 IN 2025
In 2025 G99 and BAiR (Brno Artist in Residence) announce an open call for residencies focused on exploring emotional triggers. Based on this open call, three residencies will take place, spread over the dates 1 March–30 April 2025 and 15 May–15 July 2025.

An emotional trigger is a stimulus that suddenly triggers a strong emotional memory of a past experience and is often used as a tool for manipulation in commercial and political marketing or perceived as an undesirable effect that we try to avoid (trigger warnings). However, in the context of contemporary art and social discourse, it can point to deeper truths about the context of our lived presence.

We are looking for artists and curators who want to focus on the influence of emotional triggers on our culture and their potential to reflect on our society in 2025.