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Call for Application: VIA Arts Prize
The Visual Ibero-American Arts Prize is dedicated to supporting UK-based artists of any nationality in the production of cross-cultural artworks, giving them the incentive to develop their creative ideas, based on a theme, and contributing to their personal and professional growth. It also encourages them to engage with and take inspiration from Ibero-American art and cultures, through a process of intercultural exchange. It will be an opportunity for the artists to exhibit their work at a prestigious and highly visible space in the heart of London and to have their profile raised through media coverage.
Call for Applications
Organised by the Embassy of Brazil to the UK, in partnership with ACALASP (the Association of Cultural Attachés of Latin America, Spain and Portugal), People’s Palace Projects (Queen Mary University of London) and Itaú, VIA is currently inviting entries.
Competition Exhibition
Following a pre-selection process conducted by the curatorial committee, up to 30 artworks will then go on display for three weeks.
Prizes
A special jury will judge the final selection. Cash prizes, generously provided by Itaú, are to be given to the jury’s first (£5,000) and second (£2,000) choices.
2016 Competition
The 2016 edition, entitled the “Ibero-American Arts Award”, was a resounding success, attracting a richly diverse range of entries responding to the theme of “Utopias”. The jury consisted of Catherine Petitgas, José María Cano, Marko Daniel, Robert Bound and Nayia Yiakoumaki – all art experts from Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Monocle Magazine and the wider cultural world. They were delighted to award visual artists Ting Tong Chang and Gwil Hughes with the first and second prizes respectively.
2017 Competition Theme
This year marks the third edition of the visual Ibero-American arts prize and the theme will be DIALOGUES.
We are inviting visual artists working in the media of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and print-making, to produce original works in dialogue with any specific work or the oeuvre of Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese art and artists.
To Apply
For details and online application, please access www.viaartsprize.org
Application Deadline
16th October 2017
Contact
Andrzej or Marcio, Project Managers
