Dreamavera - 2026 (Juried Annual Exhibition, Publication, Sales)

Dreamavera 2026: Dare To Dream, Make It Real

What do you see when your eyes close… and the world softens its hold on you?

Dreamavera 2026 invites you into that space — where inner visions begin to take form and meaning. What starts as something personal can become part of a shared landscape of imagination, hope, and possibility.

Your dream matters. It can be a memory, a question, a quiet truth, or a vision of change. Something you carry, release, or are still discovering.

From lucid moments and recurring spaces to imagined futures and abstract dream states — expressed through color, rhythm, and gesture — this is a space for what is felt more than explained.

Artists worldwide are invited. Selected works will be featured in a global smart exhibition, with Artsy exposure, publication, and promotion.

Let your art hold what you wish to heal, honor, or transform. Add your voice to this evolving landscape of dreams.

Dare to dream.
Bring it closer to reality.

Dreamavera 2026: Dare to Dream, Make It Real

The Art of Dreams, Memory and Becoming

What do you see when your eyes close…when the world softens, and something quieter begins to speak?

Dreams arrive in fragments, in feelings, in places we somehow recognize.
They reveal what we carry, what we long for, and sometimes what we’re not yet ready to face.

Dreamavera 2026 invites you into that space.

A space where imagination drifts freely.
Where memory reshapes itself.
Where truth doesn’t need explanation, only expression.

Gallerium proudly presents Dreamavera 2026, the international juried exhibition, publication, and sales opportunity dedicated to exploring dreams, daydreams, memory, and the deeper meanings of Avera—a word that holds many layers: healing, truth, grace, reconciliation, and the quiet desire to simply be well.

This is for the dreamers, the observers, the feelers.
For those who know that what happens inside us matters just as much as what happens around us.

Bring us your inner world.
The place you return to at night.
The story you carry.
The future you’re still imagining.

Why Dreamavera 2026?

Because dreaming is not escaping reality.
It’s how we understand it… and sometimes how we change it.

Dreamavera 2026 is more than an art opportunity. It’s a shared space where artists from around the world come together to express what is often unseen, unspoken, or deeply felt.

Beyond exhibition, publication, promotion, and sales, this opportunity becomes:

A reflection of our time — how we imagine healing, belonging, identity, and hope.

A space for pause and depth — where rest, emotion, and inner life are honored.

A bridge between worlds — where private visions become shared experiences.

When you submit, you’re not just entering an art call.
You’re contributing to a living, evolving story of human imagination.

Because what we dream… shapes what we become.

Themes and Topics to Explore 

These are invitations to explore, not limitations.
Follow what feels true to you.

1) Core Dreamscapes

The spaces where dreams unfold, shift, and repeat.

• Ah-ha moments: Depict a sudden moment of clarity within a dream, where something finally begins to make sense in reality.
• Night journeys: Explore the in-between state of drifting into or out of sleep, where reality fades, and strange, vivid experiences begin to take over.
• Recurring rooms: Revisit spaces that return again and again in your dreams. Bring to life familiar corridors, staircases, or places that feel known but never quite the same.
• Flying, falling, floating: Capture the sensation of movement in dreams — drifting, rising, or losing control as gravity no longer behaves the way it should.
• Déjà vu and time loops: Explore moments that feel like they’ve already happened — where time repeats, bends, or circles back on itself.
• Archetypes and shadow selves: Reveal hidden parts of yourself — the versions you suppress, question, or only encounter in dreams.

2) Avera — Meaning and Emotion

The emotional layers we carry, even when we don’t speak them.

• Crossing the line (averia): Explore moments of breaking rules, making mistakes, and the journey toward guilt, forgiveness, and grace.
• Letting go of conflict (Pali avera): Capture the feeling of peace, compassion, and reconciliation — within yourself or with others.
• The need to feel well (Latin avere): Express rest, healing, and recovery — the quiet process of becoming well again.
• Dignity and inner strength (Noble Dream): Reflect on identity, values, and the way we carry ourselves — or question what that means.
• Truth and honesty (Vera/True dream): Reveal personal truths, confessions, or the tension between what is real and what is believed.
• Places of emotional refuge (places called Avera): Reimagine spaces that feel safe, distant, or deeply personal — real or imagined places you return to.

3) Daydream, Wish, Manifest, Change

The quiet space where imagination begins to shape reality.

• Drifting thoughts and daydream logics: Capture moments of daydreaming — when your mind wanders during everyday life, and something unexpected begins to form.
• Wishes and longing: Express those “what if” feelings — hopes, desires, and small rituals that carry meaning.
• Turning vision into reality: Explore the process of imagining something and slowly manifesting and bringing it to life — change, growth, and transformation.
• Dreaming of a better world: Reflect on ideas of justice, belonging, and change — what needs to shift, and what could be.
• Shared dreams: Bring to life visions shaped by community — collective hopes, voices, and imagined futures created together.
• Imagining tomorrow: Reimagine the future — from environmental change to new technologies — through hopeful, thoughtful perspectives.

4) Bodies, Psyche, Identity

How we see ourselves — and how that changes.

• Surreal/shifting bodies: Explore bodies that transform, merge, multiply, or take on new forms — reflections of inner change and identity.
• Layers of memory: Capture how memories build over time — overlapping, fading, or reappearing in unexpected ways.
• Ancestral presence: Reflect on family history, inherited stories, and the emotional traces passed from one generation to another.
• Personal and cultural rituals: Depict practices, symbols, or repeated actions that shape identity across cultures and experiences.
• Care, illness, and perception: Reveal moments of healing, vulnerability, or altered perception — where senses blend, and reality feels different.

5) Nature, Cosmos, Built Worlds

The worlds around you — as they feel, transform, and come alive.

• Night worlds: Capture the mystery of night — glowing plants, moonlit landscapes, quiet animals, and the rhythm of tides.
• Water and atmosphere: Express the feeling of rain, fog, or being submerged — moments of clarity, memory, or forgetting.
• Weather as emotion: Explore how weather reflects inner states — storms, light, heat, or shifting skies as feeling.
• In-between places: Reimagine spaces that feel temporary or transitional — streets, stations, motels, empty buildings, or places that don’t fully belong anywhere.
• Looking to the sky: Reflect on the vastness above — stars, constellations, and the sense of distance, wonder, and the unknown.
• Imagined worlds: Depict spaces and environments that don’t exist — living spaces, natural systems, or entire worlds shaped by your imagination.

6) Culture, Story, Myth

The stories we inherit, remember, and continue to tell.

• Spirits and symbolic beings: Explore figures from folklore and imagination — unseen presences, guiding animals, or mythical characters that carry meaning.
• Rituals and protection: Capture moments of comfort, belief, and repetition — lullabies, charms, and objects that offer a sense of safety.
• Echoes of history: Reflect on shared memories — cultural identity, migration, and the stories carried across generations.
• Truth and illusion: Express the tension between what is real and what is told — stories, rumors, beliefs, and personal truths.
• Sacred and forbidden: Reimagine spaces and ideas shaped by belief — what is honored, hidden, challenged, or questioned through themes of taboo, atonement, and pilgrimage.
• Childhood spaces: Depict early memories — rooms, toys, and objects filled with imagination, shadow, and emotional meaning.

7) Tech, Media, Futures

Where imagination and dreams meet technology and the unknown.

• Artificial memory: Explore how machines remember — fragmented, reconstructed, or imagined versions of reality.
• Glitch and distortion: Capture broken images, lost data, and digital traces — where something once clear becomes unstable or incomplete.
• Virtual dream spaces: Reimagine immersive environments — digital worlds that feel like dreams you can enter and move through.
• Watching and being watched: Reflect on trackers, biometrics data, and surveillance — how presence, identity, and privacy are experienced in a digital world.
• Interactive dream worlds: Create narratives that unfold like dreams — where the viewer becomes part of the experience.
• Modern symbols and beliefs: Depict how meaning is shaped today — through images, memes, and digital forms of connection and identity.

8) Social and Ethical Terrains

The inner response to the world we live in.

• Justice and healing: Reflect on the desire to make things right — forgiveness, accountability, and the possibility of reconciliation.
• Borders and belonging: Explore movement across places and identities — migration, exile, and the search for home or safe passage.
• Trust and secrecy: Capture the tension between closeness and distance — trust, betrayal, intimacy, and what remains unspoken.
• Climate and the future: Reimagine how we live with the changing world — grief, adaptation, and hope in dreaming future habitats for what comes next.
• Work, rest, and exhaustion: Depict the weight of labor and burnout — and the need to pause, recover, and reclaim rest.

9) Abstract Dream

Where feeling comes first, and form follows. Use color, movement, texture, and rhythm to express what cannot be seen, only felt.

• Fields of color: Explore how color alone can carry mood, temperature, and a sense of time.
• Intuitive gestures: Capture spontaneous marks and movements — letting the subconscious guide your hand.
• Blended senses: Express experiences where senses overlap — seeing sound, feeling color, or sensing atmosphere.
• Layers and transparency: Reveal what appears and disappears — through layering, erasure, and soft transitions.
• Simple symbolic forms: Reimagine shapes like circles, spirals, ladders, or lines — as quiet carriers of meaning and emotion.
• Distortion and noise: Capture visual disruption — fragments, static, and imperfect signals of memory or perception.
• Repetition and rhythm: Explore patterns, movement, and looping forms that create flow and continuity.
• Light and afterimage: Express glow, reflection, and the traces light leaves behind.
• Clarity and blur: Play with contrast — between structure and softness, precision and haze.
• Time in motion: Depict the feeling of time passing — blurred movement, fading traces, and overlapping moments.

Optional Add-Ons (expand your path)

• Dream symbols and signs: Create your own visual language — recurring symbols, patterns, alphabets, sigils, or forms that carry personal meaning.
• Spaces of rest: Reimagine the quiet environment of sleep — beds, windows, soft light, night-sounds, and the feeling of stillness at night.
• Scent and taste memories: Explore how smell and taste connect to memory as portals — subtle sensations that open hidden emotional spaces.
• Animals as guides: Depict animals as messengers, companions, guides, or symbols — carrying meaning, instinct, or quiet warnings.
• After the dream: Capture what remains when the dream fades — fragments, distortions, or the feeling that lingers into waking life.

More than Awards and Benefits

Dreamavera 2026 is not just another art call. It is a shared act of dream-making, a gentle yet daring dialogue about how we heal, remember, and imagine. Here, the layered meanings of dreams meet on the canvas and the page: transgression and grace, life without enmity, the wish to be well, the noble stance and its critique, and the search for what is true, even when it arrives as a whisper in the dark.

When you submit, you do more than enter an art opportunity. You add your testimony to a living archive of the unseen, joining artists across borders to map the rooms we return to at night and the futures we dare to dream. Your work will join in conversation with others, spark recognition, invite reflection, and remind us that inner life is world-making, that what we dream shapes what we become, even in stillness, everything is becoming.

An Exclusive Triple Art Opportunity

Selected artworks will receive global exposure and career-boosting opportunities, including:

Exhibition by Gallerium – Your art will be showcased in an exclusive international online exhibition, reaching art lovers, collectors, experts, and curators worldwide.

Publication – All jury-selected artworks will be published in the official catalog. A selection of featured works will have a chance to get published in The Book of Arts, extending your art’s legacy.

Sales and Global Promotion – Your work will be featured on ARTSY, the largest global art collector platform, giving your art greater visibility and opportunities for sales.

Who Can Apply?

Open to all artists worldwide – Any age, background, or career stage
All 2D and 3D mediums accepted – Painting, drawing, digital, mixed media, sculpture, installation, fiber art, photography, and more.
All styles welcome – Abstract, conceptual, figurative, contemporary, modern, surrealism, minimalism, and beyond.

Free Submission – Only selected artists will be required to pay a small fixed selection fee to participate.

Your art is not only seen; it is remembered. It heals, it questions, it reveals. Dreamavera 2026 is your invitation to join a global chorus that turns private visions into a shared map of hope. Be the whisper of truth, the kindness without enmity, the vow to be well—the dream that makes tomorrow real.

Explore Gallerium’s past exhibitions that have engaged over 4 million art lovers worldwide: https://www.gallerium.art/exhibitions 

AWARDS

■ International Exhibition
Selected artworks will be part of an exclusive two-month global online exhibition, running from April 23 to June 23, 2026. 

■ Artsy.net Global Marketplace Shop
Selected works will be showcased and featured on ARTSY, one of the leading platforms for art collectors worldwide, broadening exposure and enhancing sales opportunities for artists.

■ Publication Feature
A subset of the selected artworks may be chosen to be highlighted in The Book of Arts Publication. The book will be available in both digital and premium print editions, featuring vivid, colorful A4 pages. It will reach a wide audience, including art experts, galleries, curators, businesses, and collectors, through prominent publication networks.

■ Artwork Promotion and Sales
All exhibited works will be available for viewing through the online showcase, with the option to sell. Artists are welcome to participate, whether or not their works are listed for sale or sold.

■ Curated Reviews
Selected artists will have the opportunity to receive professionally curated reviews, designed to enhance their artistic profile and broaden their impact.

■ Focused Interviews
A group of selected artists will be invited to participate in personalized interviews that strengthen their exhibition presence and deepen their connection with the global audience.

■ Audience Feedback
A select number of participating artists will be chosen to receive this award, which features curated and insightful feedback about their artworks, gathered through audience surveys and direct engagement with a trusted network of art enthusiasts. These reflections reveal how the artwork resonates with viewers, offering meaningful perspectives that enhance visibility, connection, and artistic growth.

■ Exhibition Collection Catalogue
All exhibited artists will be featured in the catalogue. Artists can request printed copies via print-on-demand services from a partner platform, and the catalogue will be promoted internationally online, reaching art lovers, galleries, curators, and collectors.

■ Honorable Mention Artist Award
Up to 10 outstanding artists will receive a personalized, distinguished artist award digital certificate, recognizing their exceptional skill, originality, and artistic contribution. This honor will also be featured across our social media channels, spotlighting these remarkable talents.

■ Permanent Online Presence
Exhibition links, along with artist profiles, will stay active permanently, enhancing online visibility and boosting search engine presence. After the exhibition concludes, the Buy button will be deactivated, but artist pages will continue to promote the artist's work and achievements.

■ Exhibition Poster
Each artist will receive a downloadable exhibition poster in various styles, providing a meaningful keepsake from the event.

■ Artwork Visibility Badges
Artists will be provided with a downloadable promotional badge for each selected artwork, encouraging them to share their participation on social media, boosting their visibility and audience engagement.

■ Visitor Comments
All exhibition visitors can submit their comments and ratings of the exhibition and each artwork online. These opinions and ratings can provide valuable insights about the audience's feelings and understanding of the artworks. Artists will be notified about the received comments by email.

■ Promotion Campaign
A comprehensive promotional campaign will be launched to enhance exposure for all selected artists and drive artwork sales during the exhibition. This will include press releases, catalogue distribution, social media promotions, and more.

■ Performance Insights and Reports
Artists will receive detailed reports with insights on exhibition visits, artwork engagement, popularity, and sales performance. These analytics will be sent periodically, helping artists understand their impact and audience reach.

■ Professional Artist Profile 
Each artist will be granted a complimentary profile page on the Biafarin platform, offering a professional space to showcase their portfolio, biography, and accomplishments.

■ Certificate for Exhibited Artists
All selected artists will receive a Digital Certificate of participation, acknowledging their contribution to the exhibition.

FEES

Submission: FREE

Only jury-selected artists will pay a selection fee of USD 40

An early bird selection fee with a 15% discount (USD 34) will be offered.

Up to 6 artworks can be submitted.

A maximum of two artworks will be selected per artist.

Jury Process

We use two phases for jurying. The first phase of jurying is the Yes/No selection, and the 2nd part is the scoring model. For scoring, each jury member scores artworks from 1 to 10. Artworks with the highest scores in the "Yes" group will be selected.

Why Selection Fee?

Submission to this art opportunity is free of charge, and we only ask the selected artists to pay a small fixed fee to proceed. 

This decision was made in good faith because we wanted artists to only pay when selected. We have a thorough jury process as our art opportunities are popular and have a low acceptance rate.

Money-back Guarantee

A money-back guarantee is available for all selection fee payments until the exhibition's official opening day.

About Gallerium

Gallerium art exhibitions are intended to create equal showcasing opportunities for brilliant visual artists worldwide.

Art improves people's lives, and showcasing art is a true and effective way of playing a part in building a better world. In this way, Gallerium utilizes the Biafarin exhibition platform to boost the benefits of the exhibitions. It is always free to submit your art in Gallerium competitions, while only selected artists need to pay a small selection fee.

Each one of Gallerium's shows focuses on a unique subject.

International artists are encouraged to express their artistic interpretation of the subject for an opportunity to be selected for exhibition.

Gallerium exhibitions have been seen by more than 3.5 million visitors worldwide.

About The Book of Arts

The Book of Arts is a series of contemporary art books published by Discover the Artist Media Holding and Art Publications Network. The mission is to publish prominent art from artists of various cultures and nationalities via several editions each year. Each edition focuses on a specific subject to make a visual story of modern and contemporary art in the art world.

The publications are available to hundreds of thousands of art experts, collectors, galleries, museums, curators, and enthusiasts in digital and print format and reach readers in over 150 countries.

The online version of the book will be published and circulated globally, while the high-quality hardcopy version can be ordered online and directly via a print-on-demand platform.

ARTIST DATA

Artist Headshot Photo
Artist Full Name
City and Country of Residence
Phone
Email
Social Media Links (optional)
Website (optional)

Biography 

Artist Statement (optional)

ARTWORK DATA

Title

Category

Technique

Surface

Creation Year

Size (WidthXHeightXDepth) in cm or inches

Artwork/Series Description (Optional)

Price in USD

ARTIST ELIGIBILITY

This opportunity is open to all visual artists worldwide.

ARTWORK ELIGIBILITY

Art Categories

The submission is open to all visual artists creating original artworks in 2 and 3-dimensional media.

Visual Arts Categories: Painting, drawing, landscapes, printmaking, illustration, photography, digital arts, sculpture, metalsmithing, installation, crafts, jewelry, glass art, ceramic art, paper art, book art, land art, fiber art, textile art, wood art, collage, abstract, graphic arts, design, and mixed media are accepted.

Style
All styles are accepted.

Any abstract or representational interpretations of the subject are welcome.

Size
There is no size limit for submitted artwork.

Duration
There is no limit to the artwork creation year.
Artworks created within the last 5 years are preferred.

Originality and Rights
Artworks must be entirely the work of the entrant, executed without the supervision of an instructor.

Entries must not be copies or derivatives based in any way on other copyrighted or published paintings, photographs, or other artistic work. Any infraction of this rule will result in serious consequences.
Artists should have all the rights to present and publish their artworks internationally.

Artwork Photo

Only the artwork should show in the photo (no frames or extraneous backgrounds).

Invited artists might be asked for high-resolution artwork photos if needed.

Availability

Artists can submit artworks that are not for sale.

Number of Artworks

Artists can submit up to 6 pieces of original artwork in relation to the subject.

The artworks are subject to selection, and a maximum of two artworks might be selected from the chosen artists.

Other

Artworks that, in the reasonable view of the organizer, include porn, violence, and/or racial, and religious hatred, inappropriate and/or offensive content, are not admissible.