Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb
in collaboration with
YVAA – Young Visual Artists Award,
Residency Unlimited and
Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York
are pleased to announce an open call for the 2016 YVAA – Radoslav Putar Award – for a Croatia artist up to 35 year of age, including artists born in 1981.
The deadline to apply for the award is Sunday, April 10, 2016 & the results of the competition are announced the latest by April 20, 2016.
Send your applications to:
Institut za suvremenu umjetnost
TRG KRALJA TOMISLAVA 20, HR – 10000 Zagreb
(za Nagradu Radoslav Putar 2016.)
All info at
email: nagrada.putar@scca.hr
tel: +385 1 88 97 098 | gsm: +385 91 61 99 454
The winner will attend a two-month artist residency program in New York at Residency Unlimited (http://residencyunlimited.org/) in the period of February and March 2017. If obligations preclude an artist from attending during the specified residency period please consider applying at a later date.
Artists working the field of contemporary art including painting, sculpture, prints, drawing, installations, photography, video, new media and performance art are encouraged to apply. Artists working in applied arts, design, theater, dance and film should not apply. Applicants should enter the open call individually or can be nominated by arts professionals active in the field of contemporary art.
ELIGIBILITY
The award is intended for individual artists only up to 35 years of age. The residency program is designed for and can only host one individual artist per country, in a given award year.
Applicant must have graduated from a Academy/University, been active as an artist for at least 3 years in Croatia and have a considerable body of work exhibited in art institutions such as galleries, art centers or museums. Non-citizen artists of Croatia have to be recognized for their contribution in the developments in the art scene and their artistic career must have significant connection with Croatia. Emigré artists should be members of the country’s artistic community and regularly exhibit in Croatia.
Artists should have command of conversational English in order to participate in the residency program and engage with art professionals and artists in New York.
APPLICATION PROCESS
1. Name, surname, address, phone, e-mail of the applicant
2. Professional curriculum vitae (in language of country and English) – with the mandatory year of birth!
3. Documentation of the submitted works of art, marked with all the
information about the author and the work (title, year, technique,
dimensions, where the work was exhibited). Documentation may include
digital images on a CD / DVD or video (VHS, CD, DVD) – with
a total length of more than 10 min. Photos submitted should be
high-quality (300dpi, max 3MB).
4. A short statement about the artist work in language of the country and English
Original works, late or incomplete applications will not be considered.
SELECTION PROCEDURE
Finalists will be selected on the merit of their portfolio, exhibited artwork in the finalists’ exhibition, prior accomplishments and exhibitions, and demonstrated potential.
A jury of established professionals will select four finalists who will present work in a group exhibition at MMSU, Rijeka, on Thursday, June 9.
A jury, including a representative from Residency Unlimited, who will interview finalists in English, over Skype, will select a winner.
In 1990 Wendy W. Luers, founder and director of Foundation for a Civil Society, together with President Vaclav Havel and a group of dissident artists first established the Jindrich Chalupecky Award in Czechoslovakia to recognize artistic excellence in young visual artists, under 35 years old, and provide them with a U.S. residency experience. The Young Visual Artists Awards program (YVAA – http://www.yvaa.tumblr.com/) was established over several years as an international network of similar awards with support from the Trust from Mutual Understanding, a US foundation. Today 10 European countries are part of this network: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Albania and Bulgaria. In 2015, Residency Unlimited (RU) was engaged as the organizer of the YVAA program and host of the NY residency program.
Documentation sent to the competition will not be returned. It will be become archived in Radoslav Putar Award Archive at the Institute for Contemporary Art.
In the period between March 14 and April 10 2 workshops will be organized at the Institute, including presentation of the Award and instructions of how to apply.
Dates to be confirmed. Info: nagrada.putar@scca.hr