Open Call: tabula rasa
The Well-dressed Table by yMAK
yMAK invites creative young artists and designers to start with a clean sheetor rather bare tabletopand not only dress it anew but also rethink its essential functionality.
We are looking for visionaries capable of opening up perspectives on objects, artefacts, and performative acts beyond the merely conventionalof generating ideas that question our habitual ways of thinking and force us to reimagine the essence of tableness: who may be seated at a table, and what may be served thereupon? What culinary, material, or performative acts are capable of initiating innovative table-based narratives? And what form will tomorrow’s tableware, food design, and eating rituals take?
Three projects will be selected from all entries and on 5 July 2026 presented as part of an event in the Well-dressed Table series, in cooperation with PopChop food magazine. Each selected project will receive a production budget of €700. The selection process will take place in close cooperation with the yMAK Collective.
yMAK project team
Juri Oskar Eigel, Sophie Geyer, Nina Gstaltner, Viktoria Halling, Ninon Hauswirth, Flora Neubert, Frieda Rief, Loris Riz, Nicole Schadensteiner, Gizem Sarkan, Stella Schweitzer, Charlotte Thieme
More information about the open call and the submission process can be found here: Download: Open Call (PDF)
