Moldovan artists invited to modern art contest
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The Moldovan are invited to take part in the contest dedicated to modern art “Henkel Art.Award 2007” for industrial design.
The Cultural Institute in Vienna in cooperation with Kulturkontakt Austria is announcing the Henkel Art.Award, its annual art prize for the Central and Eastern European and Central Asian region. This award encompasses three key components of modern art – drawing, photography and design.
Henkel Art.Award 2007 considers its art prize, endowed with the sum of 7,000 Euro, to be a contribution to the process of European integration and to the cultural understanding of the region. This is a topic which is of increasing importance, thanks to the process of EU enlargement in the CEE region.
The application material must include plans/blueprints or printable photos of the work, originating after the year 2004. At the same time, the works have to be of industrial design.
Only artists from the following countries are eligible to participate: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
Henkel is also granting a Youth Artist’s Prize endowed with a monetary award of 2,000 Euro to the participants of the Artists-in-Residence Program of “KulturKontakt Austria”.
Henkel Art.Award 2007 will also provide support to organizing an exhibition of the prize winner in his or her homeland as well as an exhibition to be held in November 2007, featuring the entries of all nominated finalists. Artists in the field of industrial design from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine can compete for this prize. The prize winner will be selected by an international jury in early September.