Submit your brilliant artworks to Emptiness 2025, the 4th edition of the unique triad art call offering smart exhibition, publication, and sales opportunity, to explore the profound essence of emptiness through art—unveiling its cultural, spiritual, and emotional dimensions while transforming voids into visual narratives that inspire contemplation and connection.
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What does Emptiness mean to you?
Emptiness is a concept with profound layers, transcending simple definitions. From a Western perspective, it often conveys loneliness, sorrow, or the void of purpose. However, in Eastern philosophies, Emptiness can represent stillness, harmony, and the essence of life itself. Lao Tzu’s timeless words in the Tao Te Ching remind us: “We mold clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that makes the vessel useful.”
In Zen, Emptiness is a place of interconnectedness, fullness, and calm, “the ground of everything,” as Thich Nhat Hanh described. This profound theme welcomes interpretations as diverse as human experiences. We encourage you to dive deep into your emotions and create art that speaks to both the serenity and the intensity of Emptiness.
Themes and Topics
To capture this boundless theme, we invite works across multiple topics, themes, and interpretations, including not limited to:
Solitude and Stillness: Art that reflects solitude, quiet spaces, and introspective emptiness, evoking a meditative peace or a pensive loneliness.
A lone figure sitting on an empty bench in a vast, fog-covered landscape, immersed in deep thought. A quiet room with soft light streaming through a single window, illuminating dust particles in the air, reinforcing a sense of stillness. A monochromatic painting of an unoccupied chair, symbolizing absence and contemplation.
Abandoned Landscapes: Explore vast, desolate scenes—whether natural or urban—that echo the essence of Emptiness, inspiring reflection on the beauty and desolation of abandoned spaces.
A forgotten house, overtaken by nature, with vines crawling through broken windows. A long stretch of highway disappearing into a hazy horizon, symbolizing isolation. A once-bustling city square now eerily vacant, with empty storefronts and scattered remnants of past life.
Conceptual Emptiness: Utilize innovative compositions, materials, or interactivity to immerse viewers in a state of contemplative void, transcending the physical to touch on existential themes.
A gallery space with a nearly empty canvas, containing only a small dot or a faint imprint, provoking thought about presence and absence. A sculptural piece made of hollowed-out materials, emphasizing what isn’t there rather than what is. A digital installation where words or images appear and fade, mirroring the fleeting nature of meaning and memory.
Minimalist Silence: With minimalism, bring Emptiness to life through subtle details and negative space, where less becomes deeply meaningful.
A nearly blank canvas interrupted by a single delicate brushstroke, evoking a quiet yet powerful presence. A sculpture consisting of a smooth, untouched surface, inviting viewers to engage with its simplicity. A photograph of a white-walled room with nothing but a shadow falling across the floor, emphasizing the weight of absence.
Emptiness in Nature: Capture the quiet of empty fields, silent forests, or still waters, exploring nature’s reflection of solitude and tranquility.
A vast frozen lake under a gray winter sky, void of any movement. A barren desert landscape stretching endlessly, interrupted only by the wind’s shifting patterns in the sand. A forest path shrouded in fog, where trees stand like silent witnesses to time’s passing.
Urban Emptiness: Depict cityscapes devoid of life, evoking stillness and the curious absence of human touch in bustling spaces.
A subway platform with no passengers, the fluorescent lights flickering overhead. A towering skyscraper with all its windows dark, revealing no sign of life within. A narrow alleyway where only the echoes of distant footsteps suggest human presence, yet no one is seen.
Existential Reflection: Engage with Emptiness as a mirror of the self, a place to question existence, belonging, and purpose, through portraiture or symbolic representations.
A self-portrait where the face is blurred or incomplete, symbolizing an identity in flux. A figure standing at the edge of a vast abyss, facing an unknown future. A surreal composition where people dissolve into the background, questioning the boundaries between presence and absence.
The Abstract Void: Express Emptiness through abstract forms, colors, and textures, hinting at the intangible, the unexplained, and the limitless.
A black canvas with faint, almost imperceptible patterns emerging, evoking a sense of the unknown. A chaotic explosion of paint surrounding a stark, empty center, representing contrast between fullness and nothingness. A digital artwork where layers of transparency and shadow create the illusion of infinite depth, drawing the viewer into a space without end.
All forms of artistic expression, whether abstract or representational, in any 2D or 3D medium, are welcome.
Visit the previous exhibitions at:
https://www.exhibizone.com/emptiness2024
Awards and Benefits
In addition to enhancing SEO and online visibility, with a life-long link to your selected artwork in Emptiness 2025 exhibition, selected artists will receive the following rewards:
● International Group Exhibition: Participation in a full-featured international smart group exhibition for 2 months with sales feature (sold or not-for-sales artworks are allowed)
● ARTSY.net Shop: A subset of selected artworks will be promoted on Artsy online shop platform to boost receiving more visitors, intensive exposure, online promotion, and sales. Artsy is known as the largest global community of art collectors, who look for buying quality art worldwide.
● Honorable Mention Award
Up to 10 artists will be selected to receive Honorable Mention personalized digital award certificate as a testament to their artistic achievement.
● Exhibition Catalogue(circulated online and accessible in over 150 countries, it can be ordered for print via print-on-demand services)
● Artist Certificates (stylish printable exhibition certificate for each selected artist)
● Artwork Badges (to be shared in social media)
● Exhibition Posters (in various formats for each selected artwork)
● Social Media Promotion (posts, reels, stories, tags)
● Magazine or Book Publication(selected artists will have a chance to be chosen for publishing in a well-known art media magazines or books in Biafarin network)
● News Circulation (in art media)
● Statistical Reports (useful to learn about engagements with your artwork)
● Artist Profile Page
Exhibizone art exhibitions have become very popular among art experts and enthusiasts, and so far have attracted more than 10,000,000 visitors globally.
Please take a look at some of the current and previous featured exhibitions organized by Exhibizone within the past 4 years:
https://www.exhibizone.com/exhibitions
The delivery of all the above mentioned awards has been guaranteed by Biafarin.
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Submission
This exhibition opportunity is open to all visual artists above 18 working in any art medium, from anywhere in the world.
The submission is free of charge, and a one-time small fixed fee applies to selected artists only.
A moneyback guarantee will be applied to all payments until the exhibition official opening day, supported by Biafarin (no questions asked).
Each artist can submit up to 6 artworks.
(If the artwork is already “sold” or “not-for-sale”, please set the price to zero.)
Please apply by February 04, 2025 via one of the below links:
You can also use the below alternative link for your submission:
Emptiness 2025 on CaFÉ (Call For Entry)
If you have an account in Biafarin portal, you can sign in and directly submit your art via:
Note: If you have already submitted via one of our partner portals, your data will be transferred to our system soon. You will get an update after the submission deadline.
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About Exhibizone
As a smart online exhibition platform, Exhibizone has become an international destination art zone for visual artists to exhibit their art efficiently via one-of-a-kind smart online shows attracting more than 10,000,000 visitors from 5 continents so far.
Each exhibition targets specific segments of visitors and provides online sales features, news circulation, social media badges, catalogues, and exhibition posters to maximize the art exposure for participant artists.
For more information about previous exhibitions, please visit:
About Biafarin
Biafarin is a Canadian registered artist management organization, supporting artists from over 150 countries to promote and sell their art effectively.
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Exhibizone benefits from Biafarin platform to deliver the smart online exhibitions to visual artists worldwide.
Biafarin also guarantees the delivery of awards and services offered by Exhibizone.
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