Total amount of the
prize: 170,000 EUR
The Award includes: 5
money prizes of 7,000 EUR each, art residences, solo
exhibitions in art galleries, collaborations with companies,
participation in international festivals and collective
exhibitions.
Sections:
painting, sculpture, photographic art, videoart and
performance, virtual art-iFope
Deadline:
11th November 2011
Participation: the contest is open
to all artists, without any limit of age, the topic is
free
Curator:
Igor Zanti - Art Critic
Jurors:
Alessio Antoniolli - Director Gasworks of
London
Chiara Barbieri -
Publications Director, Peggy Guggenheim
Collection
Gabriella Belli - Director
MART of Trento and Rovereto
Ilaria Bonacossa – Freelance
Curator
Soledad Gutierrez - Curator
at MACBA Barcelona
Kanchi Metha - Curator Indian
Pavillon Prague Biennale
Ludovico Pratesi - Director
Centro Arti Visive Pescheria of Pesaro
Maria Savarese - Freelance
Curator
Ralf Schmitt - Director
Preview Berlin
Alma Zevi - Art Critic
5
money Prizes for the winner artists, one for each
section:
PRIZE Painting: 7,000.00 EUR
/ £ 6118
PRIZE Sculpture: 7,000.00 EUR
/ £ 6118
PRIZE Photographic Art:
7,000.00 EUR / £ 6118
PRIZE Videoart and
Performance: 7,000.00 EUR / £ 6118
PRIZE Virtual Art: 7,000.00
EUR / £ 6118
Collective
Exhibitions
The jury will select 110
finalists who will show their artworks at the Arsenale of
Venice in March 2012.
Another collective
exhibition, dedicated to under 25 artists, will take palce at
the Institute of Romanian Culture of Venice.
The winning artworks will
remain property of the artists and will be collected in a
bilingual catalogue.
A new competition section: VIRTUAL
ART
FOPE, jewelery company from
Vicenza, supports art through new technologies and promotes
the new section Virtual Art, dedicated to artworks entirely
created using COMPUTER or applications for SMARTPHONE and
TABLET. The winner, besides the money prize, will collaborate
with the company in a creative project.
A NETWORK OF
OPPORTUNITIES
Through its six editions, the
Arte Laguna Prize has established a strong network of local
and international collaborations with Foundations, Museums,
Festivals, more than fifty art galleries and many companies
which have decided to participate actively in the creation of
specific projects. The network keeps growing building new
opportunities for the artists.
Business for Art
The Arte Laguna Prize
connects the world of art to the one of companies, creating
each year a different collaboration.
This year the company
STILE original design of Brescia offers a
money prize of 8,000 EUR and will develop an art project
with the selected artist.
International
Festivals
Participation in
international festivals: Open in Venice and
Tina B in Prague will choose one artist each,
who will participate in one of their international events in
2012.
Art
Residences Program
Loft
Miramarmi – Vicenza marble district: 3 months
for 3 artists
this residence will establish
a real creative laboratory for the creation of artistic works
and projects
Glass School Abate
Zanetti – Venice: 1
month for 1 artist
workshops with master glass
masters of Murano, creation of the project presented during
the application and final exhibition
Art Stays -
Slovenia at the International Festival of Contemporary Art:
7 days for 1 artist
development of a project that
will be presented in a personal exhibition during the
Festival.
Carlo Zauli
Museum - Faenza city of ceramics: 1 month for
1 artist
creation of a personal
project with ceramic, that will be presented in a final
exhibition
iaab –
Basel: 5 months for 1
artist
the artist will be full time involved in
iaab activities with the aim of developing a personal
project
Personal Exhibitions in International Art
Galleries
The Prize Arte Laguna has
created a network of international galleries to introduce the
artists to the market of Contemporary Art. Each gallery will
select an artist for creating a solo
exhibition:
Anfiteatro Arte,
Milan
Cell63, Berlin
Dafna Home Gallery,
Naples
De Faveri Arte + Lab 610 XL,
Feltre and Sovramonte
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts,
Miami, Florida
Fabbrica Eos,
Milan
Franco Riccardo Arti Visive,
Naples
Galleria A+A,
Venice
Galleria Bianca Maria Rizzi,
Milan
Galleria d'Arte l'Occhio,
Venice
Galleria Federica Ghizzoni,
Milan
Galleria Gagliardi, San
Gimignano
Galleria Spazio Surreale, S.
Paolo Brasile
Largo Baracche,
Naples
Leo Galleries, Monza and
Lugano
Little Italy Art Gallery,
Milan
Maelstrom Art Gallery,
Milan
Mondo Bizzarro Gallery,
Rome
Rinascimento Contemporaneo,
Genova
Silbernagl&Undergallery,
Milan and Varese
Spazio Thetis,
Venice
Studio Maffei,
Milan
The Apartment Contemporary
Art, Naples
Yvonneartertecontemporanea,
Vicenza
Zaion Gallery,
Biella
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