Deadline: 22-Feb-23
Entries are now open for the Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2023, a prize that is awarded to show appreciation and encouragement to excellent visual artists and architects.
Goals
- With the Prix de Rome, the Mondriaan Fund aims to trace talented visual artists and architects and to encourage them to further develop and position themselves as an important contribution to contemporary visual art or architecture in the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. The prize also brings attention to contemporary visual art and architecture in a festive manner, so that their visibility is increased.
- The aim of the Prix de Rome is to stimulate the development of exceptionally talented visual artists and therefore to keep the visual arts field up-to-date. In a period of 4 years there will be an architecture edition and 2 visual art editions.
Focus Areas
- Visual Artist: anyone who professionally creates work within the framework of the visual arts in one or more of the following areas:
- drawing, painting and graphic arts;
- sculpture, (social) sculpture and installation art;
- conceptual art, performance art, artistic research;
- non-traditional forms of visual art;
- photography;
- audio visual, digital and (new) media art;
- visual applied arts;
- art in public spaces;
- Architect: a person who is professionally active within the framework of architecture, in one or more of the following areas:
- urban design;
- architecture;
- garden and landscaping.
Prize Details
- The work will be displayed in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam for 3 months. The winner will be announced by the end of October and will receive € 40,000 and the opportunity to participate in a residency programme of their choice.
- The 4 shortlisted architects nominated by the jury are invited to make a sketch proposal for a task formulated by the jury.
- The artists or architects referred to in this article receive a working budget. The amount of the compensation for and the duration of the work period and any other facilities are determined by the board.
- After consultation between the artist or architect and the board, each of the artists or architects referred to in this article will, if desired, be linked to an expert who will exchange ideas about the new work with the artist or architect on a monthly basis.
- The work created during this period will not be made public until the opening of the presentation. Earlier publication is only possible with permission from the Mondriaan Fund. By participating, artists or architects give explicit permission to make the work public after the opening of the exhibition. The Mondriaan Fund does not owe any compensation for this.
Eligibility Criteria
The visual artist or architect must:
- not follow education at an art or architecture academy/second phase education or a technical university in urban planning;
- be artistically active and integrated in the professional visual arts or architecture practice in the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustasius en Sint Maarten);
- have been working as a visual artist or architect for at least 1 year.
- No Prix de Rome can be awarded to legal persons, members of the jury, to members of the Supervisory Board or to those who previously received the Prix de Rome.
- A visual artist or architect can be nominated by a third party or register themselves.
- The board may decide to appoint scouts. The names of these scouts will be made public. A scout cannot nominate himself, a family member or someone with whom he maintains a lasting relationship or someone in whom the scout could have a direct financial interest if awarding.
- Artists or architects who have been nominated by third parties or themselves and who meet the conditions of these regulations are requested to send digital documentation of their work and an artistic work plan.
- Architects who have been nominated by third parties or themselves and who meet the conditions of these regulations are requested to send digital documentation of their work and a response to a statement formulated by the jury.
For more information, visit Mondriaan Fund.