Beauty Unseen

An international student art exhibition presented simultaneously across three European universities and online — as an official satellite event of the New European Bauhaus Festival, Brussels, 9–13 June 2026.

ABOUT THE EVENT

Bauhaus Nova is the flagship cultural event of the BAUHAUS4EU Student Council, uniting students from eleven European universities in a shared act of creation and discovery.

This year's edition explores what lies beneath the surface — the unseen. Under the theme "Beauty Unseen", students are invited to reveal the hidden beauty, quiet stories, and invisible connections that shape our shared European experience: the subtle interplay of light and shadow, the quiet rhythms of everyday life, the gestures that pass unnoticed, and the traces of creativity that transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Rooted in the Bauhaus legacy of unity between art, craft, and life, Bauhaus Nova is where the next generation of European creatives first steps onto the international stage.

THE EXHIBITION

Selected works will be displayed simultaneously at three partner universities across Europe and accessible worldwide through a digital online gallery on the BAUHAUS4EU website. As an official New European Bauhaus satellite event, the exhibition is also open to attendees of the NEB Festival in Brussels during 9–13 June 2026.

Each edition of Bauhaus Nova explores a new theme — this year inviting emerging artists, designers, filmmakers, and thinkers to make visible what is so often overlooked. The result is an event without borders, as expansive as the Alliance itself.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE

Students currently enrolled at one of the eleven partner universities of the BAUHAUS4EU Alliance are eligible to submit. Individual and group submissions of up to five participants are welcome.

The digital medium remains open. Accepted formats include: Digital art, graphic design, sound art, short films, performance videos, digital fashion design, and other digitally created formats.

KEY DATES

• Open Call — 1 April to 24 May 2026
• Selected works announced — 3 June 2026
• Exhibition launch — 11 June 2026
• Exhibition closes — 30 June 2026

APPLICATION DEADLINE

24 May 2026

Refer to regulation document for more details

SUBMIT YOUR work here:

https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/BAUHAUSNOVA2026

ABOUT THE ORGANISER

The BAUHAUS4EU Student Council is a self-managing body that represents students within the full-member higher education institutions of the BAUHAUS4EU Alliance. Its main role is advisory, providing insights and perspectives from students across the nine nations and cultures involved in the alliance to support the BAUHAUS4EU Project. The Council aims to create an organized structure for student representation, encourage international relations among students and ensure that students have a voice in shaping the direction of the project while considering their needs. Additionally, the Council works to raise awareness of the opportunities off ered by the project and to promote student engagement with its initiatives.

ABOUT BAUHAUS4EU

The BAUHAUS4EU Alliance unites eleven universities and dozens of partners across Europe into a shared campus where 124,000 students and 10,000 staff learn, imagine, and create together. Rooted in a vision of unity in diversity, the alliance cultivates a vibrant European learning community where ideas, disciplines, and cultures intersect.

Bauhaus Nova is organised by the BAUHAUS4EU Student Council — a self-managing student body representing the alliance's partner universities across nine nations.
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