Collaborative Artistic Practices - Proposals for the Museum Collection

Every two years, the Stedelijk organizes a major group exhibition from a discipline or current theme, serving as a platform for new collection acquisitions. The 2026 edition is dedicated to collaborative artistic practices. How does collective work generate new artistic forms, visual languages, methodologies and vocabularies, and create new relations between makers, and between makers and non-makers? Its forms can vary from artworks to (social) design, from manifestos to printed matter, and from archival work to workshops. The Stedelijk is interested in collective working methods, outlooks and attitudes that (re)shape the arts, and to explore how institutions can (re)present such practices that often want to move away from or critique the institutional apparatus. The Open Call for artists will be published in Fall 2025.