Premio Francesco Fabbri 2024

The Francesco Fabbri Onlus Foundation holds the Francesco Fabbri Prize for the Contemporary Arts with a view to promote international contemporary photographic research and the emerging arts, in general.

Overview

The award competition is open to all contemporary artists no matter the nationality. It imposes no limitations in terms of themes, as per the criteria provided in the individual sections. Artists can register with both sections and/or submit multiple artworks within the same section.

Practical Info

The Emerging Art section includes works by contemporary artists under 35 years of age at the closing date of the Call, this year being 2ns September 2024. All participants will be invited to submit any form of visual artwork—with no limitations in terms of the language used—such as painting, drawing, graphic art, sculpture, art installations, video-art, performance art, sound-art and photography.
The artworks will not exceed 150×150 cm in size, if two-dimensional, and a footprint of no more than 150x150x150 cm, if three-dimensional.

The Contemporary Photography section calls for authors of all nationalities working with any photographic medium, with no limits of age. The artworks submitted will not exceed 150×150 cm in size.
Artists will be able to submit only one entry per submission, also as one installation including multiple images falling within the allowed size of 150×150 cm (e.g. diptychs or triptychs).

Winners of both sections will be awarded a €5,000 cash prize. The jury reserves the right to also assign special mentions wherever particularly significant artworks in terms of quality and research were identified. The prize amounts will be subject to a 25% withholding tax as per laws currently in force. The two winning artworks will remain in the property of the Francesco Fabbri Foundation and will be installed at Casa Fabbri, the Foundation’s headquarters.

The jury for the Emerging Art section is composed of Lorenzo Balbi, Rossella Farinotti, Antonio Grulli, Angel Moya Garcia and Carlo Sala. The jury panel for the Contemporary Photography section includes Matteo Balduzzi, Francesca Lazzarini, Giangavino Pazzola, Mauro Zanchi and Carlo Sala.

The artworks by the shortlisted artists will be exhibited at Villa Brandolini of Pieve di Soligo, Treviso, from 30th November until 15th December 2024. During the private view of the exhibition, the Prize winners will be announced, in the presence of the public and the press.

About Fondazione Francesco Fabbri

Established at the behest of the Fabbri family, with the support of the Municipality of Pieve di Soligo and the BIM-PIAVE Consortium of Treviso, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri collects and develops the legacy of Senator Fabbri by promoting cultural, social and economic development actions and initiatives in open dialogue with all relevant territorial stakeholders, both public and private.