Deadline: 13-Nov-22
British Council is now inviting organisations and individuals from the UK’s visual arts sector to nominate an artist (or collective) to represent the UK in 2024.
The nominee will be required to create a dynamic, all-inclusive work of art for the British Pavilion that would be very much ‘of and for the time’. The past three years have had a momentous impact on global communities in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and its wider effects on mental health and wellbeing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the ever-increasing climate emergency and the artist selected should be someone who can respond to both time and place.
Eligibility Criteria
- This invitation is extended to publicly funded UK-based arts organisations and also to independent curators, programmers or producers who have curated or programmed exhibitions in the UK public sector within the past five years.
- They encourage you to discuss your nomination with colleagues to ensure the widest possible consultation at all levels but they request that you propose just one name per organisation or individual.
Brief for Nominations
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Below are some broad criteria to inform your artist nominations:
- The British Council takes a broad view of what ‘British’ means. Artists don't need to have been born in the UK, or to currently live or work in the UK, to exhibit at the British Pavilion. They do, however, need to be strongly associated with British art and have made a significant impact or contribution to the British art scene
- The proposed artist should have a UK public profile and must have exhibited at a publicly funded organisation in the UK at least twice in their career and at least once within the last five years. However, they should be someone who would potentially benefit from the international exposure that Venice offers.
- The exhibition will be solo rather than group but collectives, groups or duos, who work together as part of their practice, are admissible for selection
- Previous representation of Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland for the Venice Art Biennale, collateral events or any other National Pavilion, does not disqualify any artist from being selected. However, the artist selected to represent the UK for the
- 2024 Venice Biennale will not be able to take part in other National Participations or Collateral Events at the same edition of the Biennale
- You may only submit one nomination.
- Nominations will be presented to a panel of visual art specialists from across the UK to select the artist for 2024 and the chosen artist will be announced in early 2023.
For more information, visit Venice 2024 Artist Nominations.
For more information, visit https://venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org/venice-2024-artist-nominations