acc next emerging asian artists international 2027
Know before you apply
- Emerging Asian artists under 40
- Artists working with art and technology
- Artists with prior exhibition experience
- Must be under 40 as of 2026
- Work must be previously unexhibited
- Attendance at installation and opening required
ACC NEXT Emerging Asian Artists seeks out creative work by emerging artists from Asia with strong potential and supports them in exhibiting their work. It looks for bold, experimental ideas throughout Asia, from countries that have already engaged with ACC to places where the centre has yet to build connections.
The open call is looking for work in Art & Technology, such as: interactive installations (physical computing, sensor-based); generative video and image (code- and algorithm-based); kinetic and robotic art; immersive and extended reality (XR); other. Works may not have been previously presented in another exhibition.
The theme is ‘Prototype’. Through works that hold possibilities poised for activation, the exhibition redefines and explores the prototype not as something unfinished, but as an original form that distils essential value.
There will be approximately 10 individuals/teams and the exhibition period is 2 April to 22 August 2027 in ACC Creation Space 5, in Gwangju, South Korea. Applicants must be nationals of an Asian country and have been born on or after 1 January 1987 (under age 40 as of 2026).