On Monday 1 November at 6pm CET, the winner of our online competition will be announced: He or she will be invited to participate in an exhibition in our gallery space in Cologne in 2022. Every day at 6pm CET, we will unveil another name and a new artwork, so that the exhibition slowly comes together as a whole. Until 31 October, the 15 artists and their submitted artworks will be presented one after the other – in no judging order – on our website, Instagram and Facebook. We have selected a total of 15 finalists from the applications received in response to our Open Artist Call from 26 September to 10 October. Read more about Eva Dijkstra and her work – including her artist statement – below. Based on data such as the Dow Jones or WTI crude oil price, the individual pieces are titled (from top left to bottom right): Corona cases +971%, Toilet paper sales +60%, Unemployment USA +26%, Gold price -12%, AUD to Euro -15%, Dow Jones Industrial Average -30%, Air pollution -50%, WTI crude oil price -57%, Commercial flights -65%. It is already the 11th day of our current online group exhibition ART MATTERS 4 and we are pleased to present the 11th of 15 finalists: Eva Dijkstra (*1974 in the Netherlands, lives and works in Sydney and Amsterdam) with her conceptual wall object "D3.F2 – COVID19 – March 2020" from 2021 (composition of shaped canvases, synthetic polymer paint, MDF, 45 x 51 cm). Personal contact for further information: or +4635 The work is available through our gallery: Click here to get to our online shop. (Top left to bottom right: Corona cases +971%, Toilet paper sales +60%, Unemployment USA +26%, Gold price -12%, AUD to Euro -15%, Dow Jones Industrial Average -30%, Air pollution -50%, WTI Crude Oil Price -57%, Commercial flights -65%) Shaped canvas composite, synthetic polymer paint, MDF PS: Our next open call will take place in March/April 2022… You can check out our first three ART MATTERS shows further down or in our exhibition archive. An exhibition that matches the direction and philosophy of the gallery, but also brings something new to our programme. From this multitude of perspectives and positions, we look forward to get an exhibition that shows a field of tension but also a symbiotic dialogue between the individual artworks. But it was precisely the idea of an open call that appealed to us: to invite artists from the most diverse directions to apply and submit their work. Just like with our first three open artist call projects in April and November 2020 and again in April 2021, we were aware how versatile and eclectic this fourth online exhibition could be. We invite you to visit ART MATTERS 4 regularly here on our website, Instagram and Facebook. On Monday 1 November at 6pm, the winner of our online competition will be announced: He or she will be invited to participate in an exhibition in our gallery space in Cologne in 2022. The presentation of our Top 15 is rounded off by "Honourable Mentions" in our daily Instagram stories, in which we acknowledge the works of a selected number of artists who just missed the final cut (90, to be exact, posted in our Instagram stories from 18 October to 1 November, 6 per day and between noon and 6pm). Every day at 6pm, a new name and artwork will be unveiled so that the exhibition slowly comes together as a whole. From all the applications received, we have selected 15 finalists, who will be presented with their submitted artworks on our website, Instagram and Facebook, one after the other until 31 October. Following our 4th Open Artist Call, we have launched our new ART MATTERS 4 online group exhibition on Sunday 17 October at 6pm.