CELESTE PRIZE 2015

Celeste Prize is an international contemporary art prize open to all artists, photographers and creatives, without limits of age or experience. The Prize is open to the many and varied artistic practices which define today’s approaches. Crossover works in multiple media or time-based work are being accepted for submission. Thanks to Koyo Kouoh, this year’s chief-curator of Celeste Prize, the founding artistic director of RAW Material Company, Dakar and curator of 1:54 FORUM, London, the prize shows work which nurtures the common ground between artistic languages as well as giving artists an opportunity to investigate key issues which matter to the world.

According to last year chief-curator Ngone Fall "Celeste Prize gives great visibility to artist from different backgrounds and cultures because they can apply easily, and submit their works online by a simple clic."

The last day to pay the entry fee was 15th July 2015. But works can be uploaded till 22th July.


20.000 € PRIZES:

Project Prize 4.000 €

Painting & Drawing Prize 4.000 €

Photography & Digital Graphics Prize 4.000 €

Video & Animation Prize 4.000 €

Installation, Sculpture & Performance Prize 4.000 €

Celeste Prize 2015 has added to the exhibition and residency benefits it offers artists, a series of new, enviable benefits: which include putting artists in direct contact with all the prize’s past 150 curators, dedicated news articles and personalised video interviews.

Full details about benefits, prizes, who is involved :
http://www.celesteprize.com/celesteprize2015/

JURY

- Koyo Kouoh, Chief-curator Celeste Prize 2015, Director of Raw Material Company, Senegal

- Jörg Bader, Director, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva

- Eva Barois De Caevel, Assistant Curator RAW Material Company, Paris

- Lucrezia Crippitelli, Independent Curator, Brussels

- Miguel Lopez, Director TEOR/ética, San Jose

- Nicola Müllerschön, Director, arts and culture foundation KfW Stiftung, Frankfurt

- Aida Muluneh, Founder Addis Foto Fest, Addis Abba

- Tobias Ostrander, Chief Curator, Pérez Art Museum, Miami

- Rasha Salti, Curator, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto & Beirut

- Gloria Sensi, Independent Curator, Paris

- Gaia Tedone, Independent Curator, London

- David Teh, Director Future Perfect, Singapore

AFRICA ACTS DU 5 au 12 JUILLET 2015

Performance de Jelili Atiku, « Body + Light + Gunpo » (Séoul). Photo Quentin Cornet © Jelili Atiku

A vos agendas ! La première édition d'AFRICA ACTS , dont AFRIKADAA est partenaire média, se tiendra du 5 au 12 juillet 2015 à Paris. A cette occasion une dizaine d'artistes parmi lesquels Jelili Atiku, Em’kal Eyongakpa, Jean Pierre Bekolo ou encore Kapwani Kiwanga seront réunis pour une semaine de manifestations culturelles et artistiques consacrée aux arts de la performance en Afrique et dans ses diasporas.

AFRICA ACTS est un évènement organisé à l’occasion de la European Conference on African Studies par l’Institut des mondes africains du CNRS et par Les Afriques dans le monde, avec l’appui de l’agence à paris.

Retrouvez tout le programme de cette semaine exceptionnel en cliquant ici >> et suivez toute l'actualité de AFRICA ACTS sur Facebook.