Open call for artistic works
The organizer of the SURVIVAL Art Review, the Art Transparent Foundation, announces an open call for artistic works for the 24th edition of the Art Review, which will take place during the last five days of June (26–30 June 2026) in Wrocław, in the former complex of buildings housing the Clinic of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases.
This time we will reflect on the theme “Finger in the Heart.” The curatorial team—Michał Bieniek, Daniel Brożek, Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz, and Ewa Pluta—write in their curatorial statement:
The eponymous Finger in the Heart emerges at the intersection of science, violence, ignorance, and emotion. It directly refers to a plaster cast of the finger of the legendary Wrocław cardiac surgeon Wiktor Bross, whose research and pioneering operations were conducted at the Clinics.
In the historical description of the space, Ewa Pluta writes:
From its inception, several renowned psychiatrists and neurologists worked at the clinic, foremost among them Alois Alzheimer, the celebrated researcher of memory degeneration. In 1912, he assumed the chair of the university’s Department of Psychiatry and the position of clinic director. Although his groundbreaking research on the “disease of forgetfulness” had already been published by the time he arrived in Wrocław, it initially had little impact on the scientific community.
Applications must be submitted via the application form by January 31, 2026.
Contact: konkurs@survival.art.pl
