OPEN CALL | Young Art Critic Award Trieste Contemporanea

Description

Are you a young contemporary art curator? Are you under thirty-five years old and born in Central Eastern Europe? Do you want to be a speaker at the 11th CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators, which will take place during the vibrant international pre-opening days of the Venice Biennale?
Apply by sending Trieste Contemporanea your review of an art exhibition by March 24, 2024!

WHAT TO DO?
Send Trieste Contemporanea a review of a contemporary art exhibition that you consider the most important/interesting you have visited between February 2022 and February 2024, anywhere in the world, and explain the reasons for your judgment.

THREE YOUNG CURATORS AT THE FORUM
The three best reviewers will be selected by an international judging panel and invited to participate as speakers at the 11th CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators from Central Eastern Europe in Venice: they will have the opportunity to address the international audience of the Forum and benefit from a lively exchange with colleagues and professionals present at the meeting. Their travel and accommodation will be covered by Trieste Contemporanea. The text submitted for the call will be their intervention (or the basis of it: in English, a 15 minute speech).

THE FORUM
The eleventh edition of the CEI Forum in Venice will take place on Friday, April 19 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and can be attended by the public in person and online via streaming. The meeting is organized by Trieste Contemporanea with the patronage and support of the Central European Initiative (CEI), the patronage of the Italian National Commission for UNESCO, the support of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, and in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and Juliet art magazine. Go to the CEI Venice Forum main page

THE YOUNG ART CRITIC AWARD TRIESTE CONTEMPORANEA
The audience at the Forum will vote for the best of the three speeches to award the Young Art Critic Award Trieste Contemporanea.

PUBLISHING IN THE JULIET ART MAGAZINE
The three finalists will also be offered by Trieste Contemporanea the opportunity to publish in the Italian contemporary art magazine «Juliet» a text on an artist, an exhibition, or a contemporary art institution from their own country (5000 characters).
Go to Juliet magazine

HOW SHOULD THE REVIEW FOR THE CALL BE?
The proposal to be submitted by the deadline of Sunday, March 24, 2024, is a text in English of up to 8000 characters to be sent to the email info@triestecontemporanea.it by that date (with the e-mail object: “Call for Young Curators”). The text must have a title and have to be accompanied by an information sheet of the selected exhibition (country, city, venue, opening dates, title, exhibiting artist/s, curator/s, organizing body/bodies, etc.) and possibly by images with captions. Contact details of the candidate and a brief curriculum vitae including place and date of birth and citizenship should also be enclosed.
As to its content, beside the evaluation and interpretation of the exhibited works in terms of appropriateness and originality (compared to the trends in contemporary visual art discourse), the review should concern also the appreciation/discussion of the curatorial thesis presented in the exhibition (based on the criteria used by the young reviewing critic for their personal provisional recording of ongoing trends and emerging stimuli). This latter attention to the curatorial concept of the exhibition under review must in any case be developed by the three finalists in their contribution to the Forum.