Art Explora opens applications for €50,000 cultural project prize

One of many artwork world’s most formidable awards is searching for functions for 2023 with three prizes of €50,000 up for grabs. The Artwork Explora & Académie des Beaux-Arts European prize, funded by the European tech entrepreneur Frédéric Jousset, is open to all non-profit European cultural organisations.

“The European Award encourages new types of viewers engagement and participation in arts and tradition, supporting progressive initiatives, throughout all artwork types,” says the award guidelines. which additionally state that “the award should fund the institution of a brand new mission or the enlargement of an current mission with a brand new dimension. It may well cowl capital or working bills.”

Purposes have to be accomplished on-line between 3 Could and 11 September at artexplora.org. As soon as functions are closed, a shortlist of 18 initiatives will probably be made by the Artwork Explora groups. A jury made up of 9 individuals—4 lecturers appointed by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, 4 consultants appointed by Artwork Explora and the chairman, Frédéric Jousset—will determine the winners. An Viewers Selection Award of €10,000 will probably be made to one of many 18 shortlisted candidates, which will probably be chosen by public vote.

The Artwork Explora & Académie des Beaux-Arts European prize is one in all plenty of initiatives spearheaded by Jousset’s non-profit organisation Artwork Explora, which is backed by a €100m funding fund.

The Nationwide Gallery in London was among the many winners of the inaugural award in 2020 which enabled its curators to take a Dutch Golden Age masterpiece, Jan van Huysum’s Flowers in a Terracotta Vase (1736-37), on tour round Britain. Final 12 months’s winners embrace the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla in Spain and Projekt Europa theatre firm within the UK.

Jousset, the son of former Centre Pompidou curator Marie-Laure Jousset, is the founding father of WebHelp—a tech help and outsourcing firm that was valued at €2.4bn in 2019 in response to Enterprise Evaluation journal (he has stepped down from the corporate). The tech mogul additionally acquired the French artwork journal Beaux-Arts in 2016.

Earlier this 12 months Artwork Explora backed a Cell Museum which toured works from the Tate assortment to boroughs within the Liverpool metropolis area.