Open call – TRANS REMEMBRANCE expo
We invite artists, researchers, and activists to propose interventions for an exhibition and public program leading up to Trans Day of Remembrance.
This open call emerges in the wake of a persistent campaign against trans existence. According to the Trans Murder Monitoring Project, at least 350 trans and gender-diverse people were murdered globally in 2024, with over 5,000 documented killings since 2008. These numbers reflect only a fraction of the epidemic of violence against trans people, with many deaths going unreported or misgendered.
Through this initiative, we remember those who were silenced, but we also honor their refusal to disappear. We recognize remembrance not only as mourning, but as protest. In the midst of a crisis of mass trans erasure, we aim to look both backward and forward in time, and question what happens when we explore archiving as activism, remembrance as resistance, and queerness as a tool for constructing new narratives.
We welcome installations, performances, workshops, and talks that engage with trans loss, visibility, and survival. The program will culminate in a public vigil, recognizing memory not only as grief, but as an act of defiance and care. Through the exhibition and public program, we seek to activate space as a site of collective grief, radical imagination, and political urgency.
- Exhibition: 17-20 November 2025 at the Kavka Oudaan in Antwerp
- Open Call Deadline: 29 August 2025 at 23:59.
Organized by Genderspectrum Antwerpen, and curated by Bethan Burnside.
