Artist open call.
Ten Boats+ is the name. Edition 01 carries 21 hulls — ten is the minimum. Apply to take a berth for Kep International Art Week, 10–13 December 2026.
Keep the hull whole
Its silhouette remains legible as a fishing boat from fifty metres — painted, carved, wrapped, rigged, lit, planted or filled with sound.
Use the whole boat
Dismantled at the Yard with the fishing family present, filmed, every plank numbered and honoured in a Plank Manifest that hangs beside the finished work.
Neither pathway allows a hull cut down for convenience, or a hull reduced to flat sawn panel.
Who the 21 berths are for.
Five places an artist can answer from.
- The family who built or sailed the hull.
- The years it worked, and the coasts it knew.
- Its paint layers, repairs and scars.
- The coordinates written in its passport.
- Your own material practice — wood, salt, sound, film, text or performance.
The hull, the means, and a place on the shore.
- The retired wooden fishing hull itself.
- Materials, tools and workshop support.
- Travel, board and accommodation for the residency.
- A stipend for the artist’s time.
- Documentation, a shore label, and a place in the project book and digital archive.
- The artist retains artistic ownership of the work.
Two working locations
The Yard in Kep, with boat-builders and the fishing family present when a hull is opened. Or a working location arranged with Art for Kep, with the finished work returned to the Sculpture Park at Kep West for 10–13 December 2026.
Write to us
Send the form below with your pathway and berth family.
You choose
Pathway, berth family, and where relevant a preferred hull.
A short agreement
Contribution of the hull, recognition, and the position of your name.
Production
November at the Yard or an arranged working location.
December on the shore
The work lands at Kep West for Art Week.
Commitments needed by 31 October 2026 to appear in the project book and on the shore map.
Send your interest.
The team will reply from Kep. Art for Kep issues a formal receipt for every contribution and a confirmation for every accepted berth.