Art Moves 2024 - Billboard Art Competition

Art Moves 2024 - Billboard Art Competition is now open for entries!

Art Moves 2024 - Billboard Art Competition: Billboard Art Competition Art Moves 2024 has been recently opened for entries and like every year invites all artists interested in billboard art, especially the young ones, to prepare an artwork in response to this year’s competition theme ’To become dependent or independent? To swim with or against the tide?’

Short description

The 17th Art Moves Festival is hosting its international Billboard Art Competition Art Moves 2024 with a purpose to propagate and popularize billboard art and to encourage artists to create art engaged in the reality.

Participants are invited to prepare an artwork in response to this year’s competition theme: ’To become dependent or independent? To swim with or against the tide?’ This competition slogan can be treated as a metaphor of all the processes taking place in the world today. Every time has its challenges and it is impossible to escape them. Despite the fact that we as humanity in many respects solved a range of different problems faced by our ancestors, with the development of civilisation and technology they have been replaced with new challenges that we must face. Since a large part of global society is not able to cope with their own fears and dark thoughts, how can we cope with these new challenges? Instead of taking the bull by the horn and making a real effort to find creative solutions, we often prefer someone else to resolve the problems. Instead of making decisions for ourselves, we prefer other people to make decisions for us, instead of acting, we escape, instead of swimming against the tide, we swim with the tide. How can we break this deadlock, give up pessimism and malaise, and find the courage and energy within us (and our communities) to take action and build a more positive reality? How can we regain self-agency and stop believing that only artificial intelligence, governments or other people are able to resolve our problems? How can we stop resorting to various kinds of addictions: social media, technologies or psychoactive substances? How can we regain independent and critical thinking, as well as the will to make decisions about our own life and the shape of reality? How can we stop escaping and face up to reality? How can we avoid being dependent? How can we become independent and self-manageable? How can we create a common better future on our Planet? The artists taking part in the competition are invited to prepare an artwork (of maximum three pieces) in a technique of their choice.

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.

The works will be evaluated by a jury panel composed of artists and curators who are recognized authorities specializing in public art.

Submission requirements:

At this point of the competition, do NOT attach files of the complete (heavy) works.

You need to dens a preview of the submitted work in the following format: 30 cm x 14,6 cm (11,8 inches x 5,7 inches) in a horizontal layout, 72 dpi, jpg. The Competition organizers will contact the selected artists after the announcement of the jury’s verdict in order to receive the final works to be printed off and displayed on the billboards.

The format of the final work should be 498 cm x 243 cm (196 inches x 95.7 inches) in a horizontal layout, 100 dpi, cmyk, tiff.

Who may enter?

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.

Prize:

The 6 most interesting works will be displayed on billboards in the city space during the Art Moves Festival in September 2024 in Torun, Poland. The best selected work will receive the Main Award in the amount of PLN 4000 (about EUR 918,00).