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Artes Mundi Prize

  • Artes Mundi.
  • Biennially – even-numbered years.
  • Top prize of £40,000, with runners-up awarded £4,000. The work of short-listed artists is displayed as part of the Artes Mundi exhibition at the National Museum Cardiff.
  • Open to any artist of any age and nationality whose work explores the human condition.
  • Focus on international contemporary visual artists who engage with social reality and lived experience.
  • Open call for nominations artists via an online form. Artists can be nominated more than once across successive cycles. Two selectors then determine a shortlist of 5–7 artists for exhibition. Prizewinner is selected by a larger panel of eminent judges that does not include the original selector.
  • http://www.artesmundi.org

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Baloise Art Prize

  • Baloise and Art Basel International Art Fair.
  • Annual – winners are announced at Art Basel fair.
  • Two top prizes of CHF 30000 (£21,770). Prize includes the acquisition by Baloise of a selection of works by the award winner. Baloise buys groups of works by the prize­winners with the object of donating them to two lead­ing European museums, currently the MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt and the MUDAM, Luxembourg.
  • Eligibility limited to ‘emerging artists’, but candidates can be of any nationality.
  • Outlook of the award tied up with that of the corporate founder: ‘Baloise believes that the privilege of owning art brings with it the obligation to present it to a wider public.’
  • Winners chosen by a jury of five curators and art directors.
  • https://www.baloise.com/en/home/about-us/responsibility/art-baloise.html

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Celeste Prize

  • Celeste International – based in New York.
  • Annual.
  • A total of €23,000 in prizes divided across categories of painting and drawing, photography and digital graphics, video and animation, installation, sculpture and performance and a prize for young artists. Other benefits include promotion and expenses.
  • Unrestricted entry.
  • Aims to ‘…promote international contemporary art in its widest sense’.
  • Selection from a shortlist of 50.
  • http://www.celesteprize.com/prize/

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Columbia Threadneedle Prize: Figurative Art Today

  • Mall Galleries.
  • Biennial.
  • The Columbia Threadneedle Prize champions figurative art today. It is one of the most valuable open art competitions in Europe.
  • One artist will be chosen to win the First Prize of £20,000 and a solo exhibition. A further prize of £10,000 is awarded by visitors to the exhibition, which takes place at Mall Galleries in central London. Five Shortlisted Artists each receive £1,000.
  • The Prize, UK and Europe’s pre-eminent prize for figurative and representational art, showcases important new works by emerging and established artists.
  • https://columbiathreadneedleprize.mallgalleries.org.uk/

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Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

  • The Photographers’ Gallery.
  • Annual.
  • First prize of £30,000, and £3,000 for the three runners-up, with an exhibition at the Photographer’s Gallery for all four shortlisted candidates.
  • Artists can be of any nationality and are nominated on the basis of a previous exhibition/publication within Europe.
  • Rewards artists who have made a ‘significant contribution’ to the medium of photography in Europe over the previous year.
  • Candidates are nominated by an independent academy of experts and are subsequently judged by a jury of four.
  • http://www.photonet.org.uk/index.php?pid=8

Tags: 20 - 40K | International | Photography   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

European Association for Jewish Culture Visual Arts Grants

  • European Association for Jewish Culture.
  • Annual.
  • Grants of up to €5,000 for new exhibitions of contemporary art that address the Jewish experience. Awards are made in two instalments. The project must be exhibited within 12 months of the first instalment.
  • Applicants must be resident in Europe. They must have two years of arts experience and must have exhibited their work at least once previously.
  • Focus of the European Association for Jewish Culture is to enhance Jewish life by fostering and supporting artistic creativity and achievement.
  • Application by e-mail only, including details of exhibition budget, venue and purpose. Examples of work also required.
  • http://www.jewishcultureineurope.org/schedule.htm

Tags: 5 - 20k | International | Various   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

FIRST@108 Public Art Award

  • Royal British Society of Sculptors.
  • Award previously offered in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2015
  • Five shortlisted artists receive £500 to develop their proposals for exhibition at the RBS Galleries and presentation to a panel of art industry professionals. The winner receives a further £10,000 to create their proposal for public exhibition. The winning work is exhibited at the RBS galleries. The award catalogue includes a profile of all five shortlisted artists and a foreword by a respected curator or art critic.
  • The award is open to sculptors of any nationality, working in any medium. The only restriction is that artists must not previously have received a public commission worth more than £10,000.
  • The award supports innovation and excellence in public art by offering valuable professional development opportunities that enable sculptors to break into the field.
  • rbs.org.uk

Tags: 5 - 20k | International | Sculpture   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

Hugo Boss Prize

  • Guggenheim Foundation, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum.
  • Biennial.
  • Award of $100,000.
  • No age, gender, nationality or media restrictions on eligibility.
    Nominations include emerging artists as well as distinguished professionals who are due recognition.
  • Focus on rewarding work that represents a significant development in contemporary art. Hugo Boss sees the prize as ‘…underlining our commitment to the arts as an integral part of our corporate culture’.
  • A jury of curators, critics and scholars nominates six or seven artists for the shortlist and subsequently chooses the prizewinner.
  • https://www.guggenheim.org/hugo-boss-prize

Tags: > 40k | International | Various   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

International Print Biennale

  • Northern Print.
  • Took place in 2009, 2011 and 2014.
  • Top prize of £6,000. The scheme also hosts an open exhibition that takes place across multiple venues in Newcastle and Gateshead.
  • Eligibility is a loose interpretation of ‘…all artists whose work encounters print’. Since this is an international award, there is no restriction on applicant nationality.
  • Focus of the award is to encourage, recognise and reward artists making prints.
  • Selection for the exhibition and subsequent prizes is managed by a panel of three, which is comprised of a curator, artist and master printer. Selectors are also each permitted to invite one artist to display work.
  • http://www.internationalprintbiennale.org.uk

Tags: 5 - 20k | International | Print   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

Pollock-Krasner Grants

  • The Pollock-Krasner Foundation (USA).
  • No deadlines – rolling application programme.
  • Grants of varying amounts.
  • Eligibility limited to painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper. Applications encouraged from candidates who have a genuine financial need. Applications from all nationalities are welcomed.
  • Mission of the grants is to aid those individuals who have been working as professionals for a significant period of time.
  • Foundation staff are assisted with selection by a dedicated committee. Artists submit examples of their work and previous exhibition history is taken into account. Applications are promptly considered.
  • http://www.pkf.org/grant.html

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Roswitha Haftmann Prize

  • Roswitha Haftmann Foundation.
  • The prize is usually awarded annually, though this cycle may vary.
  • Award of CHF 150,000 (£101,671).
  • Prizewinners chosen on the basis of their artistic significance, without regard for age, nationality or gender.
  • Aim of the award is to recognise outstanding achievement in visual arts.
  • Selection process conducted solely by the ‘board’ of the Foundation. This panel consists of six members, four of whom are nominated by institutions. The institutions are the Kunsthaus Zurich, Kunstmuseum Bern, Kunstmuseum Basel and Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
  • http://www.roswithahaftmann-foundation.com/en/prizewinners/default.htm

Tags: > 40k | International | Various   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

  • Taylor Wessing and National Portrait Gallery.
  • Annual.
  • First prize of £12,000, second prize £3,000, third prize £2,000, fourth prize £1,000. National Portrait Gallery exhibition of the work of 60 artists. Elle magazine commission for the winner.
  • Any photographer of any nationality may enter, as long as they are over 18. In 2009/2010, 2,500 photographers submitted more than 6,700 pieces. Each artist can submit up to six photographs.
  • Aims to ‘…showcase the work of the most talented emerging young photographers, photography students and gifted amateurs alongside that of established professionals’.
  • A panel of six whittles down the entries to 60 for the exhibition. The prizewinners are then chosen.
  • http://www.npg.org.uk/photoprize1/site14/index.php

Tags: 5 - 20k | International | Various   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

The Jameel Prize

  • Victoria and Albert Museum.
  • Biannual.
  • A single prize of £25,000 is awarded to the winner at a prize-giving ceremony.
  • Entry is by nomination only. Nominations are invited from a wide range of specialists with a knowledge of contemporary art and design inspired by the Islamic tradition. More than 200 artists are put forward in this way.
  • The prize is truly international. It is not restricted to entrants who are Muslim or from the Islamic world, but is open to designers for any nationality, creed or age.
  • The aim of the award is to ‘…explore the relationship between Islamic traditions of art, craft and design and contemporary work as part of a wider debate about Islamic culture and its role today’.
  • The shortlisted artists and designers are invited to show examples of their work in a special exhibition at the V&A.
  • http://www.vam.ac.uk/info/jameel-prize-4

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The Prix Pictet

  • Pictet & Cie.
  • 18-month cycle.
  • A single prize of CHF 100,000 and a commission in which a shortlisted photographer is invited to undertake a field trip to a region where Pictet & Cie is sponsoring a sustainability project.
  • Entry is by nomination only.
  • Mandate is to use the power of world-class photography to raise awareness of a global audience to the social and environmental challenges of the new millennium.
  • http://www.prixpictet.com/about/

Tags: > 40k | International | Photography   -   Category: Visual Arts   -  

Turner Prize

  • Tate.
  • Annual.
  • £25,000 for the winner and £5,000 for each of the other nominees. Shortlisted artists present works in a show normally held at Tate Britain before the winner is chosen.
  • British artists under 50.
  • High-profile prize to celebrate new developments in contemporary art.
  • Nominations are invited each year and are judged by a rotating independent jury. Members of the jury in 2014 were: Stefan Kalmar, Helen Legg, Sarah McCrory, Dirk Snauwaert and Penelope Curtis.
  • http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/abouttheturnerprize.shtm

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