10/12/2025
OPEN CALL: MERZ mail art EXHIBITION 2026
But is it? When the absurd becomes today’s reality what still remains to be ‘preposterous’?
The 2026 MERZ mail art EXHIBITION will try and celebrate what might still be preposterous … contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous … you just couldn’t believe it was possible!!
Within a year the world has been turned upside down and every which way - so might a profusion of new absurdity and ridiculousness help turn the world right side up?
On a postcard measuring - 105 × 148 mm (4.13 × 5.82 inches), or the slightly larger US postcard at 4 × 6 inches (101.6 × 152.4 mm) - make a collage, painting or drawing or a combination and add words that conjure up something so absolutely ridiculous that it could never ever be believed to become reality.
Each artist’s card will be given to a group of local children in Sanquhar for them to try and imagine making these absurdities real.
Exhibition of the postcards by artists and the response cards by local kids will be on display at MERZ over the Easter weekend in April 2026.
A selection of the combined works will go on display at the second Sanquhar International Art Festival in November 2026.
You couldn’t make it up - or maybe you could?
Send your postcards in an envelope with £5.00 for UK for return with kids response cards and $10 or €10 for international artists. Please Include a paragraph about yourself and a return postal address.
MERZ Queens Road Sanquhar DG4 6DH UK to arrive not later than 1st February 2026.
