The Arte Laguna Prize contemporary art and design exhibition this year also opens to Crypto Art. Therefore, all works of art certified with NFT can also participate in the call for applications. All the works will be exhibited from mid-March to mid-April in the evocative 4,000 square meters of the Arsenale Nord in Venice
Arte Laguna Prize is confirmed as an exhibition of innovative art and design. In fact, the call for artists and designers opens with a novelty. Art forms that involve the digitization of a physical work can also participate. Or the creation of a digital work.
The jury
In the jury important names of the current artistic panorama. For example Mohamed Benhadj, curator for the territories of North Africa and Spain and founder of AlTiba9; Raphael Chikukwa, director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and Giulia Colletti, digital curator for the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin.
In addition, Paul di Felice, curator, critic and art historian based in Luxembourg; Chloé Hodge project manager at Tate Britain in London, curator and producer; Dick Spierenburg, creative director of IMM – Cologne International Furniture Fair.
Finally Xiaoyu Weng, curator based in New York and Toronto, head of Modern and Contemporary Art at AGO, the Art Gallery of Ontario.
The jury will select the 120 finalists who will compete for the € 10,000 prize.
Alongside the jury there will also be the Honorary Committee. It is composed of the art critic and curator Luca Beatrice, Alberto Torsello winner of the Compasso d’Oro 2018 and Xing Dong honorary president of the China Fujian Graphic Design Association (Fgda), artistic director of Mansion Art Museum and Xiamen Ximind Culture Center.
The appointments
The first appointment to mark on the agenda for 2023 will therefore be the collective exhibition at the Arsenale Nord which will be held from 11 March to 16 April and which will kick off a series of events for all the following months.
In autumn 2023 an exhibition of video art works is scheduled in Beijing and the artistic residency at the Roberto Cipresso winery in Siena will begin. The winner of the residency will also be awarded a cash prize of 5,000 euros.
Also for this edition there will be the 3,000 euro Prize dedicated to Sustainability created with the support of Cantarina spa and the collaboration of Ca ‘Foscari Sostenibile of the Cà Foscari University of Venice. This year the focus is on the artistic reuse of cork.
Particular interest for Under 35 artists. In fact they will have the opportunity to participate in BJCEM – Mediterranea 20 – Young Artists Biennale in 2024 and will be the recipients of three special prizes of 1000 euros each
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