Gallery 21 is the exhibition space of the Artists’ House Vorwerkstift in Hamburg, where an ever-changing international community of artists from diverse fields have fostered independent artistic creation since the 1980s. It has become an important Off-Art Space within the art scene of Hamburg. The gallery is hosting various events and exhibitions from local and international artists. It is an open space for experimenting with new formats and exploring different media. From performance, music to painting, sculpture, social interventions, film and mixed media – the manifolds formats and artists have shaped the character of its program. The gallery supports creating a profound network through generations of artists, residents and creative practitioners. Through the years, it became a vibrant creative community and a meeting point at Karolinenviertel, situated in the heart of Hamburg.
The gallery space is located on the ground floor of artists house Vorwerkstift. Here, surrounded by a huge garden and a terrace, we have hosted exhibitions, open air concerts, music and comic festivals, artistic research formats, workshops, readings, performances, screenings, and a wide range of creative practices.
More information can be found on this website or the Gallery Instagram account
Application Deadline: 31.08.202507.09.2025
Open Call Guidelines
What Gallery 21 offers
- Exhibition space (see the floor plan above)
- Basic tools for installing works, lights and multimedia equipment (or help to organize adequate equipment in the city via rentals)
- Accommodation for artists (1-2 persons) during the installation and exhibition of their project (max: 7 days) in our guest flat
- Advertising the exhibition through poster or leaflet (printed matter) and via social media.
- We are applying for a support for production costs and artists fee for 2026 via program funding of BKM Hamburg. If positive, the exhibitions can be supported financially.
What Gallery 21 expects of exhibiting artists
- The gallery team can help to facilitate communication and coordination, but curating, installing and de-installing the art work and/or preparing the space for the opening events is done by the artists.
- Applying with a written proposal for the exhibition.
- Promoting the event and spreading the advertisement in additional networks.
- Documentation of the exhibition.
- Exhibition space to be returned in its initial condition.
Additional information about solo or group show
If you apply as an solo artist and are open to present your work together with others in the frame of a curated show by gallery 21 team, please notify in your application.
For further questions please contact: opencall.galerie21@gmail.com