OPEN CALL 2025
December 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
Participating Artists
Jiří Bartoš / Lizi Budagashvili / Anton Calmîș / Claire Cansick / Billel Decherani /Connor Fitzsimmons / Grant Fryc / Christos Giannopoulos / Agnieszka Wajda-Hänninen / Lexi Hsieh /Linnea Jensen / Danni Jiang / Rhys John Kaye / Fionn Kelly / Mya Kerner / Alison Kruse / Merlin Lentz / Emma Limtiaco / Andrea Mangione / Emma Mclaughlin / Calum McClure / Niah McGiff / Benjamin Moravec / Mohadese Movahed / Joseph Noderer / Sean O'Halloran / Jo Ophardt / Mia Risberg / Sally Smith / Susan Stillman / Winnie Weiyun Szu / Jen Till / Irakli Toklikishvili / Sofia Viol / Timothy Wiebe / Charlie Yates / Jiaxiang Xiong / Robert Zurer
Paintingsince2000 is delighted to introduce our second International OPEN CALL Exhibition.
Presenting a selection of works by 46 international painters, selected from hundreds of submissions from emerging, mid-career and established artists.
Many thanks to everyone included in this exhibition and to all who submitted their artwork for consideration.
Budagashvili Lizi, 'Urban Ballad', 2025, Oil on canvas, 36 x 28cm
Jen Til, 'Silent Veil', 2024, oil on panel, 15.2 x 15.2cm
Alison Kruse, 'You're On My Time', 2025, Oil, pastel, paper, pin on linen canvas, 76 x 60cm
Mya Kerner, 'Blood Moon', 2025, Oil Stick On Yupo, 28 x 35.5cm
Benjamin Moravec, 'A walk in a state of awe', 2024, Oil on wood panel, 30 x15cm
Timothy Wiebe, 'Blood Moon', 2023, oil on cardboard, 17.5 x 13cm
Mia Risberg, 'Swift as This Night', 2024, Acrylic, oil, cold wax, and oil pastels on wood panel, 30.5 x 40.5cm
Sally Smith, 'Winter Solstice', 2023, Oil on linen, 51 x 41cm
Linnea Jensen, 'Snug as a bug', 2025, oil on canvas, 140 x 65cm
Charlie Yates, 'The Golden Beetle', 2025, Oil on Board, 16.5 x 19cm
Calum McClure, 'Indistinct Objects On A Surface', 2023, oil on board, 22 x 17cm
Claire Cansick, 'Welter Skelter', 2025, oil on wood, 45.5 x 61cm
Joseph Noderer, 'The New Year', 2023, Oil on Board, 17.8 x 25.4cm
Sean O'Halloran, 'Shady Lane 2', Oil on Board, 297. x 21cm
Emma Mclaughlin, 'Island Rain', 2025, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 61 x 71cm
Fionn Kelly, 'In Response to My Desire to Leave', 2025, oil on canvas, 76.2 x 137.16cm
Anton Calmîș, 'Mtatsminda Turn III', 2025, Oil on panel, 20 x 29cm
Lexi Hsieh, 'What’s behind all along', 2025, Oil on canvas Panel, 15 x 22cm
Xiong Jiaxiang, 'A volcano has the power to vitrify the human mind', 2025, cosmetics on canvas, 60 x 60cm
Mohadese Movahed, 'Under the Bridge', 2024, oil on canvas, 61 x 50.8cm
Irakli Toklikishvili, 'Kalamaja Cemetery Park', 2023, oil on canvas 63 x 94cm
Rhys John Kaye, 'Flesh For Mercy', 2025, Oil on canvas, 76cm x 91cm
Agnieszka Wajda-Hänninen, 'Moon from Kellokoski', 2025, acrylic on canvas, 33 x 24cm
Niah McGiff, 'Birds of Play', 2025, Oil on canvas, 80 x 60cm
Jiří Bartoš, 'Burden of possibilities', 2025, oil on canvas, 200 x 180cm
Andrea Mangione, 'Ufficio 900', 2024, oil on paper, 35.5 x2 5cm
Emma Limtiaco, 'Erosion', 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 152.4 X 121.9cm
Merlin Lentz, 'Concrete Poem', 2023, Earth, Chalk, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 100 x 80cm
Grant Fryc, 'Inna', 2025, Oil on Canvas, 40.6 x 30.5cm
Connor Fitzsimmons, 'Window Near Lake Champlain', 2025, oil on canvas, 137.2 x 76.2cm
Danni Jiang, 'Untitled', 2025, oil on wood, 27 x 35cm
Billel Decherani, 'Drive', 2025, Oil pastels and oil painting on canvas, 36 x 48cm
Winnie Weiyun Szu, 'Bottom of the sea', 2025, oil and color pencil, sumi ink on canvas, 27.9 x 35.5cm
Robert Zurer, 'Amidst the Wild', 2025, oil on linen, 30.5 x 35.5cm
Christos Giannopoulos, 'Feral', 2022-2023, oil on canvas, 40 x 50cm
Jo Ophardt, 'Flowers on Snoopy Fabric', 2025, oil on board, 35.6 x 40.6cm
Marceline Mason, 'Two Pines on Dragon Highway', 2024, Oil on Panel, 122 x 107cm