Fatherhood - birth announcement cards

For the group exhibition STRESS TEST. exploring fathering and fatherhood and opening on October 31, 2026, KIOSK is looking for birth announcement cards designed by artist-fathers to celebrate the birth of their own children.The exhibition explores the relationship between fatherhood and artistic practice. While becoming a parent profoundly reshapes daily life, time, attention and artistic production, one of the very first creative acts after (or even before) a child's birth is often the design of a birth card. Intimate in scale yet public in purpose, it announces the arrival of a new life while revealing something about the maker at a pivotal moment in their own.We would love to include a collection of these birth cards in the exhibition, bringing together many different approaches—from carefully crafted graphic designs to improvised photocopies, from understated gestures to exuberant visual statements. Together, they would form a modest collective portrait of artists entering fatherhood.If you designed the birth card for your own child(ren) and would be happy for it to be exhibited, please send it to us by post:

KIOSK (tav Simon Delobel)

Louis Pasteurlaan 2

9000 Ghent

Belgium

Please send it before 16 October 2026. If you include your return address, we will send the card back to you after the exhibition (January 2027).