Brooklyn to Gangnam Volume 2 Open Call for Visual Artists

Roundcube Contemporary announces an open call to writers and artists for its new Fall 2026 edition and onward of Brooklyn to Gangnam, a 7.5 x 7.5 inch, 60 plus-page magazine book, featuring artists and writers and/or Fall 2025/Spring 2026/Fall 2026 online digital supplement through our official website.

Info:

Brooklyn to Gangnam Magazine is an analog + digital hybrid home for work that pushes the edge and crosses the aisle—between genres, disciplines, and communities. Founded in 2025 by Chunbum Park and Julie Jang, and led by Literary Editor-in-Chief Albert Abdul-Barr Wang, we publish an admixture of experimental writing and contemporary art that speaks across languages, mediums, and neighborhoods. Our core aim is to convene the Asian-American and its allied communities with the literary and visual art worlds at-large, building a living commons where surprise, rigor, and generosity meet.

Our pages welcome hybrid forms: the essay that sketches like charcoal, the poem that thinks like code, the photograph that argues like a manifesto. We pair text and image, critique and creation, translation and original work, so readers encounter ideas the way artists make them—layered, provisional, alive. Every issue builds deliberate bridges: between emerging and established voices; between artists working in studios and writers publishing online; between traditions inherited and forms not yet named.

Brooklyn to Gangnam is an editorial practice as much as a publication. We mentor early-career contributors while inviting mid-career and veteran practitioners to take risks in public. We commission dialogues, portfolios, and cross-genre experiments; we host readings and pop-up exhibitions that meet communities where they gather; and we cultivate partnerships with schools, studios, and independent spaces to widen the circle of access. Our digital and print features are designed to travel—shareable, teachable, and ready for conversation.

Our commitment to equity is structural and ongoing. We actively solicit work from a broad range of Asian and Asian-American perspectives and from allies whose practices resonate with ours, understanding that no single lens can hold the fullness of contemporary culture. We publish with care—editorial rigor, and a collaborative process—so contributors are seen, credited, and sustained. Accessibility matters: we prioritize legible design, alt text, captioning, and translation pipelines that carry work across borders.

Above all, we believe culture moves when voices move together. Brooklyn to Gangnam Magazine is a meeting point and a launchpad: a place where experimental literature and contemporary art converse, where local stories carry global voltage, and where readers discover, return, and bring others along.

The magazine will be printed on premium lustre paper and provide each writer with their piece, including a short contributor bio.

The physical copy for some of the accepted writers and all visual artists will also be available for purchase through us via email. Furthermore, additional copies of the magazine will be printed and distributed in and around the galleries, libraries, and public spaces in Chelsea and Tribeca in Manhattan

Visual Artists:

Please send here your bio, CV, artist statement, social media and website links, image list (including title, year, medium, and dimensions), and 1 ~ 10 images shared via this portal. The participation fee is $10 to apply, and $50 upon acceptance.

The magazine will be printed on premium lustre paper and provide each artist with a 2-page spread, including a short bio + statement for 1 page and 1 artwork image for the 2nd page.

The accepted artists will receive a free physical copy of the magazine (via shipping), and the digital version will be available for download on issuu. The physical copy will also be available for purchase on Blurb. Furthermore, additional copies of the magazine will be printed and distributed in and around the galleries, libraries, and public spaces in Chelsea and Tribeca in Manhattan.

The types of work accepted will include contemporary art and photography. (The theme is open-ended.)

How to apply

Please send here your bio, CV, artist statement, social media and website links, image list (including title, year, medium, and dimensions), and 1 ~ 10 images shared via this portal. The participation fee is $10 to apply, and $50 upon acceptance.

https://brooklyntogangnam.subfolios.com/submit

Application Deadline

02/08/2026

Application Fee

$10.00