Call for Artists — Video Art / Moving Images
OMG, Franck! is a one-week festival at Franck Areal in Basel where music, art, performance, fashion and food collide. See last year's edition→
Apply by: 5 APRIL 2026
OMG, Franck! is a one-week festival at Franck Areal in Basel — where music, art, performance, fashion and food collide. OMG, Franck! invites artists and designers to participate in this year's edition with experiences in moving images, video art and installations, AR, XR art, club visuals, and immersive media formats that expand the dialogue between art and club culture within a singular industrial setting.
Show us what moves you.
Video: 777studio.ch — Artwork: Dirk Koy
OMG, Franck! invites artists, VJs, and designers to participate in this year's edition with video art, AR, XR, moving images, live visuals, and immersive media formats that expand the dialogue between art, sub- and club culture.
Taking place during Basel Art Week, OMG, Franck! transforms an industrial venue into a hybrid environment of installations, a listening room, a pop-up restaurant and a performance space. We are looking for visual practices that activate space, atmosphere, and audience experience. Please note that the works will be presented within the context of a club music festival, in dialogue with sound, light, and movement.
We welcome submissions including:
- ✦Video art & moving image works
- ✦AR, XR art
- ✦Video installations
- ✦Post-photography art works
- ✦Generative or real-time visuals
- ✦Experimental and immersive media formats
- ✦Any individual or collective can submit one or several works
- ✦We encourage proposals that challenge conventional presentation modes and create sensory, site-specific experiences.
- ✦Selected artists will present their work across fashion runway presentations, a gastronomic context (pop-up restaurant), club-settings, and time-based performances throughout the festival.
Video: 777studio.ch — Artwork: Dirk Koy
Presentation format
OMG, Franck! takes place in a raw industrial site and embraces its unfinished architectural character. Works may be presented on untreated walls, temporary structures, screens, or outdoor surfaces across both indoor and outdoor areas.
The festival team will determine the final placement and display of all works. Due to the site-specific nature of the event, artists cannot prescribe specific presentation conditions. Flexibility and openness toward unconventional spatial situations are essential.
We offer:
- ✦Presentation during OMG, Franck! as part of Basel Art Week from 15–20 June 2026
- ✦Technical support
- ✦Access to the festival's creative network
- ✦Visibility within an international art and culture audience
- ✦An artist fee/honorarium of CHF 200 per presented artist. Travel/production costs are not covered.
Video: 777studio.ch — Artwork: Dirk Koy
Who can apply
Artists, collectives, designers, and practitioners working with moving image, real-time graphics, or video art. Emerging and established practices are equally welcome.
How to apply
Please submit:
- ✦a short artist statement
- ✦a project description (new or existing work)
- ✦a link to the work or work sketch
- ✦a portfolio and/or links to previous work
- ✦technical requirements
We look forward to receiving proposals that transform image, space, and body into a shared immersive experience.
Video: 777studio.ch — Artwork: Dirk Koy
Selection process:
- 1Pre-selection based on your submission (portfolio/concept/link to work), by 5 April 2026
- 2Jury will discuss the longlist and selects works for the shortlist in mid April
- 3Jury meets to discuss the shortlist end of April
- 4Final selection by the jury in mid May
This is our Jury
Yulia Fisch
Independent Curator
Yulia Fisch is an independent curator with over fifteen years of experience in new media art and photography. She curated Echoes of the Present – Choose Your Reality for the Pax Award 2025 and previously served as project lead for the exhibition Earthbound at HEK (House of Electronic Arts), as well as Assistant Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur.
Philipp Selzer
Kunstmuseum Basel | Contemporary Art
In 2024, he helped drive the pivotal exhibition When We See Us to take shape and sound in Basel, while currently he is leading preparations for a major Cao Fei retrospective exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart (opening May 2026), including scenography-heavy production and intercultural dialogue. Alongside his project work, Philipp served as ad interim head of the Gegenwart department in 2025, guiding the team through a transitional phase. He was also active beyond the museum in a civic capacity as a jury member for the Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt from 2018–2022, contributing to public art funding.
Sandra Sheckter
Art Historian
Sandra Sheckter received her PhD in Japanese art history in 2006. She has extensively curated, written, and lectured on East Asian art at universities and museums in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Pilar Quinteros
Artist
Pilar Quinteros (b. 1988, Santiago, Chile) lives and works in Basel. Her practice moves between video, performance, installation, and drawing. In 2025, she exhibited at the Istanbul Biennial.
Key facts:
- ✦Show dates: 15–20 JUNE 2026
- ✦Location: Franck Areal, Basel, Switzerland
- ✦Presented in indoors and outdoors areas selected by the festival team and jury