International Art Competitions - art contest for artists

Site specific art contest

Deadline: 19 April 2020

As a part of the Visual stage, Pohoda Festival is launching the sixth year of Pohoda Visual Art Contest.
Anyone can send their proposals for a site-specific art installation for Pohoda festival and the author(s) of the chosen project will be granted 3500 € to implement it.

The contest is open to any kind of site-specific works, happenings, spatial media, installations and interactive works with inter-media features that will become a part of the festival life. The winning project will be decided by a board of artist professionals and will form part of the Visual Stage at Pohoda festival. The winner will be announced by the end of April.

 Proposals must be submitted by mail in the application form in A4 format. Each proposal must contain a visualisation of the artwork (by any graphic method).

Authors must be able to ensure the actual implementation of the work.

The work must be safe, controllable, and in accordance with applicable legislation of the Slovak Republic.

No entry fee

Prizes:
The contribution for one piece is €3,500.

Details:
https://www.pohodafestival.sk/sk/contest

Weeklong residency in Chile

Deadline: 5 March 2020


SACO Contemporary Art Festival is held annually in the region of Antofagasta in northern Chile, as an independent initiative of the Collective SALE Mobile Platform Contemporary Art, under the direction of Dagmara Wyskiel and production of Christian Nunez. Aims to establish a permanent core of reflection, criticism and dialogue through the work in the territory marked by the absence of institutions dedicated to pursuing these purposes. The world capital of copper mining, proposed as an alternative to deepen excavations no less valuable or less urgent and renewable wealth - creativity and dialogue.

The 9th edition of the Contemporary Art Festival invites artists to participate in the open call for its main exhibition entitled Now or Never. The selected artists will take part in a weeklong residence at ISLA, Latin American Superior Art Institute, with all expenses paid, for the realization and installation of their works. After the opening, they will participate in an immersion trip within the territory, into the interior of the Atacama Desert.

Visual artists of any nationality may participate.

No entry fee

Residency offers:
-all travel costs are covered
- accomodation
- food
- A maximum of U$ 1.500 (one thousand five hundred U.S. dollars) is budgeted for
each intervention
- trip to Atacama Desert

Details:
http://proyectosaco.cl/convocatoria-saco9/

Site-specific commission

Deadline: 12 January 2020


A once in a lifetime opportunity to create a site-specific commission on the sub-Antarctic
Island of South Georgia.

This commission by the South Georgia Heritage Trust (SGHT) will celebrate the whale
through a reinterpretation of the former Flensing Plan, offering a message of hope for future
generations by demonstrating how humankind can move from exploitation to conservation.

Eligibility:
Open to individuals, collaborative partnerships or organisations from varying artistic
disciplines.
Open to mid-career or established practitioners with a proven interest in one or
more of the following areas - cultural heritage, the natural environment, ecological
issues or conservation.
5+ years’ experience practicing in your chosen artform

There are two stages of application process
After the first stage, three selected proposals will be given a fee of £3000 (based on Scottish Artist
Union rates) to prepare for Stage 2, the fee covers all expenses including travel for
interview.

no entry fee

Residency offers:
- Artist Fee £50,000 (incl. of VAT if applicable)
(we expect the period of engagement to be 24 months, but this is subject to
concept, production, Government priorities, maintenance & fundraising – artist fee
covers all stages outlined below)
- Production Budget of between £150,000.00 – £2,000,000.00


Details:
http://www.sght.org/commission-grytviken-whaling-station-south-georgia

Deadline: 14 July 2019


Māk/Sīt [Make/Site] is a project thought just for the spaces of the Sala Santi
Filippo and Giacomo, now head office of C.AR.M.E.
The intent is to deepen the site-specific topic in order to investigate the work
that the artist does of himself in relation to his space, his time and his place. The
site-specific artwork is compared to the environment in which it is but also to the
community that lives it and that makes it alive.

CALL’S OBJECT
C.AR.M.E. – Multicultural Ethnosocial Arts Centre, a reality that deals with
multicultural contemporary art, calls young artists to realize site-specific projects.
The ones who participate to Māk/Sīt [Make/Site] have to take a site-specific
project thought for the former church of Saints Filippo and Giacomo, head office
of the Cultural Centre C.AR.M.E.
At the end of the call, it will be chosen a single project that will be exposed for
a month inside the exhibition venue: from the 18th of October to the 10th of
November 2019.
The selection is curated by C.AR.M.E., coordinated by Valeria Magnoli,
Federica Scolari and Federica Zubani.


No entry fee

Awards:
The Cultural Centre C.AR.M.E. offers to the winner a prize / reimbursement of
expenses of € 500 (VAT included) + accommodation (max. 2 artists) from the
12th to the 18th of October 2019 + reimbursement of the trip expenses (for a
max. of € 100).
C.AR.M.E. will produce the winning work for a maximum of € 2000 (materials
reimbursement).

Details:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15yd-vVMKERt_m_TmBzMe2jBaMx8xCuFG?fbclid=IwAR3p-6yr7vHJoi1rLyTtwi2RHxyiQBf-YD_bFjHFTfAjIHgP1v5optQ0tRY