The 6th Arte Laguna Prize extends its deadline to the 30th of November for entries via postal service and to the 6th of December for on-line entries.
The staff has taken this decision considering the large number of requests received during these days by the artists.

5 sections: painting, sculpture, photographic art, videoart and performance, virtual art.

Awards total amount is 170.000 EUR, including:
5 money Prizes of 7,000 EUR for the winner artists, one for each section.
6 Art Residencies: Loft Miramarmi - Vicenza, Carlo Zauli Museum - Faenza, Glass School Abate Zanetti – Venice, Art Stays - Slovenia, iaab – Basel, Technymon India ARTresidency – Mumbai.
2 Business for Art: STILE Original Design offers a money prize of 8,000 EUR and the development of an art project; another project will be offered by the jewelery company FOPE of Vicenza.
2 International Festivals: participations in Open in Venice and Tina B in Prague.
26 Personal Exhibitions in International Art Galleries: a network of international galleries to introduce the artists to the market of Contemporary Art. Each gallery will select an artist for organizing a solo exhibition.
Furthermore 110 finalists will be chosen by an international jury to participate to the collective exhibition in Venice, and their artworks will be published in a bilingual catalogue.

Jurors: Igor Zanti - Art Critic; Alessio Antoniolli - Director Gasworks of London; Chiara Barbieri - Publications Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection; Gabriella Belli - Director MART of Trento and Rovereto; Ilaria Bonacossa – Freelance Curator; Soledad Gutierrez - Curator at MACBA Barcelona; Kanchi Metha - Curator Indian Pavillon Prague Biennale; Ludovico Pratesi - Director Centro Arti Visive Pescheria of Pesaro; Maria Savarese - Freelance Curator ; Ralf Schmitt - Director Preview Berlin; Alma Zevi - Art Critic.

Application fees: 50 EUR for one artwork and 90 EUR for two, but for artists Under-25 are 45 EUR and 80 EUR.

Info: info@artelagunaprize.com; www.artelagunaprize.com