Competition for Billboards Artists and a Cash Prize up to $900 from Art Moves Festival

Art Moves Festival invites artists to participate in the 2021 competition. The purpose of the Competition is to propagate and popularize billboard art and to encourage artists to create art engaged in reality. This year’s competition theme: Getting infected with untruth. How can we find our path in a world full of contradictions, chaos, and uncertainty?

• The 6 most interesting works will be displayed on billboards in the city space during the Art Moves Festival in September 2021 in Torun, Poland.
• The best-selected work will receive the Main Award in the amount of PLN 3.500 (about USD 952.15). The winner will be obliged to pay a lump-sum tax on the award value.

• There is no entry fee.
• The Competition is open and all artists interested in billboard art are invited to take part, however, the Competition is particularly addressed to young artists, who are usually most eager to face new themes and untypical ways of art presentation.
• The artists taking part in the Competition are invited to prepare an artwork (maximum three pieces), the technique is up to you. The work is intended to be a creative response to this year’s Competition theme: Getting infected with untruth. How can we find our path in a world full of contradictions, chaos, and uncertainty?
• This competition slogan can be treated as a metaphor of all the processes taking place in the world today. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that the notion of truth is a fundamental problem in the contemporary world, posing a challenge for individuals, societies, and the globalized contemporary world.
• Incorporation of the Competition theme in the work is not required and will not have any impact on the evaluation of the work by the jury. If some other slogan or phrase is used in the work, it should be expressed in either Polish or English language.
• Both individual artists and groups of artists can participate in the competition. In the case of groups, the following data should be included on the application card: names and surnames of ALL the authors of the work and contact details of ONLY one person who will be representing a group in contact with the organizers of the competition.
• The jury will select the 6 most interesting works which will be printed and displayed on billboards in the city space during the Art Moves Festival in September 2021 in Torun, Poland.
• The works will be evaluated by a jury panel composed of artists and curators who are recognized authorities specializing in public art.
• The organizers of the Competition reserve the right to display on the billboards also the works which have not been selected by the jury.
• The artist who makes a submission to the Competition automatically consents to free of charge display of his/her work during the Festival and use of the work for information and promotional purposes associated with the Festival and the Competition on the Internet, in printed materials promoting the Festival, etc.

About Art Moves Festival:

The festival was held for the first time in 2008. It is a festival specialized in billboards.

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