ArtConnect

We’re on the lookout for exceptional new artistic talents from across the globe to highlight on ArtConnect in 2021. 

Take part in our open call for Artists to Watch for the chance to win exciting prizes that are sure to get you noticed.

Naz Cuguoğlu

David Reves

Radu Sticlea

Romeo Alaeff

Meaghan Gates

Kaija Hinkula

Jia-Jen Lin

Elinor Sahm

Ayin Es

Lisa McCleary

Dorsey Kaufmann

Anne-Marie Giroux

Laura Hart Newlon

Artists to Watch 2021

Boomer Gallery

While some artists are keeping a very traditional approach to art, others are taking risks into the unknown and there has always been a constant debate about “What Is Art” and what makes it valuable. 

In contemporary world success can be seen in both approaches, great examples are Damien Hirst and David Hockney, two of the worlds most famous and richest artists and yet with such a different approach to contemporary art. 

The purpose of this exhibition is to create a dialogue between different approaches to contemporary art and to demonstrate that either way can be successful. 

This Exhibition Will Take Place At Our Newly Opened Space In Tower Bridge. 

The new space is located in Tower bridge, one of most iconic places in the world and the most visited place in the whole UK. 

The space is nestled between modern and classic London icons: The Shard 4 minutes away, Tower Bridge 1 minute away, London Bridge 2 minutes away. 

With a blend of traditional Victorian brick walls and a central private bar just for our audience, the space is unique in the whole city of London. 

Important dates: 

- the open call will run until 02 November. 
- artworks delivery date is 11 November. 
- the exhibition will run from 12 November until 18 November with a private view on 12 November- 6:00 to 9:00 pm at our gallery space in Tower Bridge London. 

Alternatives. 

We had a lot of enquires from foreign artists to exhibit with us but sometimes shipping the work to London in time might be a bit difficult in this challenging period, that’s why we’ve come up with an alternative! If you are one of the accepted artist and you find it hard to ship your work to us, you can send us photos of your work and we can print and frame it for you at no additional cost. 

We have 3 available sizes for the frame: 

1. 32/32 cm
2. 30/40 cm 
3. 40/50 cm 

Good luck to you all! 

What is Art lll

IAVPOA ART

2ND INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNALE “VISUAL EXPRESSIONS OF DETAILS”
New opportunity for all artists around the globe to showcase their work in our virtual exhibition!
Living in a global world, we focus only on extreme events such as pandemics or corruption, and we pay less attention to aesthetic or non-aesthetic details of the world, for example, melting ice-cream or falling leaves. Uncaptured small elements of the visual world simply disappear. Therefore, we invite you to find such details in your environment and capture them. Try to admire their aesthetic or non-aesthetic side. The world is not only beautiful but it also has its non-aesthetic elements. This exhibition wants to combine these two elements. We usually think globally, but after all, we are here and now where many unexpected things happen.
Artists are welcome to submit their works.

TO APPLY
1. Submit up to 3 photographs.
2. Photo submission requirements: 
- the submitted photo must be in JPG/JPEG format;
- the submitted photo must have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi;
- the submitted photo must be approximately 2100 pixels on the longest side;
- the submitted photo must be labeled in the format “NAME_SURNAME_TITLE OF THE WORK _YEAR COMPLETED_COUNTRY”.


We are looking forward to your works.
*By submitting your works, you agree that they will be featured in a video on our YouTube channel “IAVPOA ART” and on other social networks.


Open call for artists

Karen Kjærgaard, curator, Head of Exhibitions and Secretary of the Jury

Photo Of The Year is an international photo competition for architecture students in celebration of the significance of architectural photography for the development of architecture. This marks the third installment of the annual competition, which is supported by Dinesen and the Dreyer Foundation. 

In 2019, Aarhus School of Architecture launched an international architectural photo competition for architecture students. The competition, Photo Of The Year, is a parallel to Drawing Of The Year, the school’s other big international competition, which annually receives hundreds of entries from architecture students all over the world.

Like architectural drawing, architectural photography is a specialized discipline closely associated with the development of architecture. The best architectural photographs approach photography from an architectural point of view and bring out the potential of photography – also as an artistic discipline – to challenge how we see and work with architecture. In a world that is constantly being flooded with images, it is more important than ever to address the medium from a critical perspective.

Louise Wolthers (DK), research manager and curator at the Hasselblad Foundation

Christina Capetillo (DK), PhD, architect, photographer and editor of the Danish landscape architecture journal Landskab

Trine Berthold (DK), architect, senior consultant at Kongelundens Sekretariat and former pro-rector of Aarhus School of Architecture

Torben Nielsen (DK), rector of Aarhus School of Architecture and photographer

Photo Of The Year | Aarhus School of Architecture

Fondation Carmignac

The 12th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is dedicated to Venezuela and its hardships at the individual, social and ecological levels.

This Latin American region was once an El Dorado bordered by the Caribbean Sea, which operated under a rich and prosperous democracy in the 1960s-1970s. It still holds the world’s largest oil reserves—ahead of Saudi Arabia—and vast mined resources (including gold, iron, steel, and coltan).

Twenty years after the Bolivarian revolution—led by Hugo Chavez and his radical socialist reforms—the country is struggling to extricate itself from a deep economic crisis, marked by the plummeting price of oil, endemic corruption and hyperinflation (3000% in 2020).

In under seven years, its GDP has fallen by 80% and importing has been slashed tenfold. In the face of this unrelenting recession, an informal shadow economy is growing.

While the results of the latest elections have gone unrecognized by the international community, the power struggle between the ruling Chavista regime under Nicolás Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido is dividing Venezuelan society. These institutional blockages, as well as accusations of electoral fraud or political imprisonment, generate frequent demonstrations and clashes.

These tensions, combined with problems of instability, only worsen the living conditions of Venezuelans, 80% of whom live in extreme poverty and suffer from severe shortages of running water, food and medicine. To date, 5.4 million Venezuelans—one in six inhabitants—live in exile in Colombia, Peru or Ecuador: the most significant migratory crisis in the world behind Syria.

Finbarr O'Reilly

Tommasso Protti

grant to carry out a 6-month field report with the support of the Fondation Carmignac

Carmignac Photojournalism Award

Manifest Gallery

Open to works of any media, any genre/style, any size... One work will be selected for the award, featured in the gallery, and published. Ten semi-finalist works will also be recognized and published.

In 2015 we were excited to announce that our non-profit board of directors approved an increase in the annual Manifest Prize (ONE) award amount to $5,000. This underscores our organization's strong desire to reward, showcase, celebrate, and document the most exceptional artwork being made today, and to do this in a tasteful non-commercial public context. Further, it is to incentivize the creation of excellent work and to support individual artists in meaningful, career-impacting ways. Manifest's mission is centered on championing the importance of quality in visual art. This project is one aspect of the realization of that mission.

Artist fee for 10 artists selected for exhibition

THE MANIFEST PRIZE

Kunstraum

KUNSTRAUM is seeking a Managing Director to support our team on a part-time basis. We are a community for artists by artists and a gallery/curatorial platform with two co-working lofts of 2,000 ft. located at 20 Grand Avenue, a beautifully renovated factory building in Clinton Hill/Navy Yard. We offer short- and long-term studio space, artist residencies, studio visits by curators/gallerists, member promotion, and host curatorial exhibitions, as well as an annual members’ show. 

As an interdisciplinary team of artists, curators, and architects, we seek to promote emerging art, as well as outstanding exhibition concepts featuring both established and emerging artists. Press coverage includes Communication Arts, Creator’s Project, Huffington Post, Artnet News, Interview Magazine, Art F City, and Artnet News. With Video Shop at NADA New York, Kunstraum won the Artfair Goers Award of Artspace for the best booth, and consecutively also participated in Untitled, Miami.

The main responsibilities of the Managing Director are:
- Communication and admin support for 19 artist members and invited curators
- Studio listings, viewing appointments, on-boarding, paperwork, studio visits, newsletter 
- Promotion for members and exhibitions via ongoing social media posts and website
- Admin and production support on exhibitions and art projects
- Promote and facilitate grant writing, photography, and promotional services for artists
- Overseeing the biweekly cleaning professional, additional maintenance e.g., weekly trash
- Check mail, purchase supplies
- Manage gallery receptions facilitate sales
- Develop procedures, guidelines, rules, and optimize handbooks 
- Select and invite curators to the studio visit program from the personal network

The person taking the position will have the opportunity to grow with the company as we are currently expanding its offerings, improving administrative structures, and consolidating our curatorial program. Lots of communication and admin work can be done remotely and via email.

Hours: Part-time, 10-20 hrs per week (standard 10 hours, >50% from home)
Compensation: Intermediate-level freelance basis, commission on art sales, and new member acquisitions
Commitment: One-year minimum, must have continuous-time for this job, available to come to the location 2-3 times per week (20 Grand Avenue, close by Pratt + Navy Yard)

Our team:
Nadja Verena Marcin, Director, Visual Artist & Educator
Fernando Schrupp, Director, Architect & Project Manager
Anthony Huffman, Curator-in-Residence 
Sarah Sloan, Assistant Managing Director
Our community - the Kunstraum artists, www.kunstraumllc.com

Managing Director at KUNSTRAUM

Get International Exposure and Connect with Industry Insiders, Art Collectors and Potential Buyers

Each month an amazing photographer will be awarded a Solo Exhibition in our new dedicated showroom pages. Next exhibition dates: November 1 - 30, 2020 


We want to showcase incredible work. Photography that awakens our imagination, transforms our way of thinking, or simply resonates with who we are.

The Solo Exhibition enables you to reach a wider audience through our independent magazine that has become one of the most vibrant portals of photography on the web.

The Solo Exhibition competition is open to any category of photography or subject matter. Photojournalism, street photography, artistic photography, portrait, nudes, landscapes, nature, wildlife, urban, architecture, fashion, fine art, or documentary photography, the subject doesn't matter, unleash your creativity!

Whether you are a professional photographer or a photography enthusiast, please send us a cohesive body of work or portfolio.
Only a unified group of photos will be published as a solo exhibition.
Make your online photo gallery stand out. Submit one project or a body of work that showcases unity.
You can submit between 6 and 16 images for a flat fee of $45!

The Solo Exhibition is an amazing promotional tool designed to showcase your work worldwide!




Why should you enter the Solo Exhibition Competition? Because you will receive the following benefits:

Featured Solo Online Exhibition from November 1st to November 30th, 2020
Your Solo Exhibition will be featured in our Competition Gallery and in the New Showroom pages, the Home Page, our 'Top Stories', as well as in our 'Featured Photographer', 'Photo Exhibitions' and 'Article' pages.

Sell your work online with no commission fees!
Want to sell your work? No problem! In today's economy, almost 50% of sales come online! Don't miss this opportunity and skip the middleman, All About Photo won't charge any commissions if you make a sale. We will just put you directly in contact with the buyer.

Permanent Exhibition on All About Photo Online Gallery
Your solo exhibition will be permanently accessible in our past exhibitions as well as in our Article directory. You will also have a permanent page showcasing 20 images of your work in our Photographers Directory.

Your work Showcased to our Social Media Community
Gain International Visibility and Press Coverage by publishing your work across all of our online channels.
The winning photographer will be profiled via our Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts.
The Solo Exhibition will also be featured in our Newsletter!

International Visibility and Press exposure
The winning photographer will receive press coverage from publications and media outlets around the world. Past winners from All About Photo Competitions have been featured in major publications including The Times UK, National Geographic Espana, The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Eye of Photography, Digital Camera, and Competences Photo.
The Solo Exhibition will also be promoted on Art.Base.Co, Private Photo Review, and Visura.

All About Photo connects you directly with industry experts from around the world.
Seek this new opportunity to reach a broader audience on a global scale!

Win a Solo Exhibition in November 2021

City of Gothenburg

The City of Gothenburg invites artists and artist groups to participate in the international selective tendering process for one of the biggest infrastructure and urban development projects in the city’s history: the West Link. It’s a new underground rail link with three stations in different parts of the city. The vision is for the artists who are awarded public art commissions to participate in the creation of the city’s shared public spaces around these stations.

The Chronotopia art programme
The art produced within the framework of the West Link project is to be rooted in the general art programme developed for the project, called Chronotopia. The name comes from the Greek Χρόνος (chrónos), meaning time, and τόπος (tópos), meaning place. The theme of the Chronotopia programme emphasizes the use of site-specific artistic exploration to investigate our contemporary world, the potential of the past, and possible stories of the future. The city of Gothenburg is both a place and an era in time, or rather many different parallel spaces and times. Cross-fertilisation among these spaces and eras can strengthen and deepen the city’s ethical and existential dimensions.

The urban spaces
This tender covers public art for the urban spaces around the Haga and Korsvägen Stations.

Haga Station lies at the intersection of three Gothenburg neighborhoods of cultural-historical significance: Vallgraven, Haga, and Vasastaden. The station will be an entirely new element in this milieu that facilitates better connections among these neighborhoods. The area around the site is characterised by a healthy mix of housing, workplaces, educational institutions, and commercial activity. There are also large parks that offer rich natural, cultural, and social qualities.

The Korsvägen (“Crossroads”) Station is being constructed beneath a transportation hub where public transit, car traffic, cyclists, and pedestrians all converge. It is a pulsing centre surrounded by some of Gothenburg’s most prominent landmarks, including the Swedish Exhibition and Congress Centre and Liseberg Amusement Park. A constant flow of people fills the place with life, movement, and diverse forms of human expression. Since the 18th century, the site has been a significant crossroads for two important roads leading into and out of the city, Södra Vägen and Örgrytevägen.

Open Call for Public Art | West Link: Chronotopia

Creative Giants

Norfolk County Council (UK) is looking to award five commissions of up to £60,000 for dynamic new artworks to form the Norfolk Way Art Trail, a brand new outdoor public art trail spanning 250 miles of Norfolk, England.

Design a multi-sensory, accessible public artwork that will engage local communities, reveal hidden stories and inspire visitors to explore Norfolk County between off-peak season October-March. There are five locations to choose from, you can submit up to two ideas and the opportunity is open to artists WORLDWIDE. Please follow the website link for full briefs and short films about each location, FAQS and access/application support.

Deadline for submissions 20/10/21; finalists develop designs and submit to panel by 10/12/21; contracts awarded 14/01/22

International Open Call - Public Artwork Commissions up to £60K

Art Room Gallery

Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 2nd "Contemporary" Online Art Competition for the month of October 2021. This is the open subject theme with an emphasis in contemporary art. 

Contemporary Art Competition

Spudnik Press

The Spudnik Press Cooperative Residency Program supports a broad range of artists including artists working in communities outside of the Chicago area. Resident Artists will bring new resources, perspectives, and professional connections to the various audiences that Spudnik Press serves, including first-time printmaking students, emerging artists, professional artists, art collectors and supporters.

Through integrating the production of innovative and well-executed print-based work with public programming and educational opportunities, the Residency Program strives to increase public awareness and appreciation of printmaking and its role in contemporary art practices.

Artists can apply for residencies of 2 to 6 weeks in duration, local artists are encouraged to apply for the maximum time.

Spudnik Press Cooperative encourages applications from artists from all backgrounds, including underrepresented groups that include (but are not limited to) artists of color, LGBTQ artists, women artists, and artists with disabilities. Our Accessibility page includes additional information about getting to the studio and using the equipment. Any requests for accommodations can occur upon finalist notification or acceptance.