Venice, Italy
Open call for designers – Arte Laguna Prize
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Arte Laguna Prize is inviting applications from designers for its 14th edition of Arte Laguna Prize in Venice, Italy.
Entries are open for the 14th edition of Arte Laguna Prize, the world’s most influential competition for emerging artists and designers, which showcases and promotes creative talents giving them many opportunities for gaining international visibility and realising new projects.
Art design
After its launch in 2018, the new edition of Arte Laguna Prize renews the section dedicated to design, giving it a new interpretation that is more art-oriented and supported by Assarredo/FederlegnoArredo, the Italian Federation of wood, cork, furniture, lighting and furnishing industries. The best work selected by the jury will be awarded with a cash prize of €10,000.
The international jury
For art design:
- Karel Boonzaaijer (Netherlands) conceptual designer, architect and professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Aachen
- Aldo Cibic (Italy) fundamental name of the made in Italy design, among the founders of Memphis
The other members of the jury are:
- Igor Zanti (Italy, curator and art critic) – curator of the prize
Iwona Blazwick (the United Kingdom, director of the Whitechapel Gallery, London) - Valentino Catricalà (Italy, contemporary art curator – art section director of the Maker Faire – the European edition)
- Erin Dziedzic (the United States, chief curator at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri)
- Zhao Li (China, professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and curator of the Chinese Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale)
- Riccardo Passoni (Italy, director of GAM – Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Turin)
- Vasili Tsereteli (Russia, director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art)
The prize
With fourteen years of history, Arte Laguna Prize gives the opportunity to join a huge network of collaborations worldwide, exhibit in the breathtaking location of the Arsenale of Venice, win cash prizes of a total amount of €40,000 and much more.
- exhibition of the 120 finalist artists
- Arsenale of Venice, March 21-April 13, 2020
- 120 finalist works
- in addition, a selection of works will be exhibited in 2021 at the MMOMA – Moscow Museum of Modern Art
The prize is open to the following artistic disciplines:
- painting, sculpture and installation
- photographic art, video art and short films
- performance, virtual art, digital graphics, land art and urban art
- art design
The opportunities:
- four cash prizes of €10,000 each
- one important exhibition at the Arsenale of Venice
- two solo exhibitions in international art galleries
- two collaborations with companies
- six art residencies in Italy, Russia, Spain, India, Mauritius
- one prize sustainability and art dedicated to the reuse of aluminium packaging
- two international festivals
- publication in the official catalogue
- free visibility on Arte Laguna World
Entries are open until 27 November 2019.
Please submit your entry via Arte Laguna World website.