Every year the Trieste Contemporanea Committee assigns the Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award to a young Central Eastern European artist with the aim of promoting his or her work on the international art scene.
Submissions have to include:
• an artistic statement ( in English, maximum 1500 characters )
• at least 5 images of recent works with their description ( in English )
• a brief CV ( in English, 1 page maximum )
All eligible applications will be examined by a judging committee comprising experts and curators of contemporary art from Central Eastern Europe, who are members of the Continental Breakfast network.
There is no entry fee . Eligibility Open to any young artist aged under 30 and born in one of the following countries: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine . Prize The award gives the overall winner the opportunity of conceiving and developing a solo exhibition for Studio Tommaseo ( Trieste, Italy ), opening in March 2016 .
The artist will also have a monographic catalogue published for the solo show and will benefit from professional exposure as a consequence of the award.