Faena announces Faena Prize for the Arts 2018

A biennial international juried prize, the Faena Prize for the Arts recognizes artistic experimentation, encourages post-disciplinary and temporal exploration, and promotes inquiry of the multiple links between art, technology and design.

Art today has abandoned the notion that vision is reason's vehicle of choice, and space no longer seems to be the privileged model for experience. Under these historical circumstances art should continue to favor time and its irreversible and heterogeneous nature, as it was once approached through Henri Bergson’s fundamental concept of "duration" (la durée). Traditional science and philosophical definitions have imposed spatial homogeneity and reversibility upon a temporal dimension that consequently became static. Time was thus petrified in the delimitation of past, present and future as separate entities, while duration for Bergson meant "invention, creation of forms, continuous production of that which is entirely new.” Rethinking duration challenges us to reflect upon the boundaries and definition of art today.

This year’s open call aims to summon multidisciplinary artists from across the world to imagine site-sensitive works that rethink performance and time-based practices, in dialogue with the physical and symbolic space of the Faena Art Center while engaging with the cultural and urban conditions of the city of Buenos Aires. Projects that highlight the potential crossovers and synchronicities between the two spaces and two cities of the Faena District may ultimately be eligible for exhibition in both spaces.

Previous Faena Prize winners are Roger Hiorns (2016), Cayetano Ferrer (2015), Fundación Vairoletto (2013), Martín Sastre (2012). Special mention awards have been granted to Mercedes Azpilicueta (2016), Public Movement (2016), Nicolas Gullota (2015), Pablo Rasgado (2015), Santiago Sierra (2013), Sebastián Díaz Morales (2013), and Wilfredo Prieto (2012).

FAENA PRIZE FOR THE ARTS 2018

Under the coordination of
XIMENA CAMINOS
Chair and Artistic Director Faena Art

Advisor to the Prize
JESÚS FUENMAYOR
Curator

International Jury

CARLOS BASUALDO
Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art

ANDREA BELLINI
Director, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève

ANITA DUBE
Artist and Curator of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018

PABLO LEÓN DE LA BARRA
Curator, Latin America, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

FRANKLIN SIRMANS 
Director, Pérez Art Museum Miami

Open Call
Starting November 1, 2017 through February 15, 2018

Artists worldwide are encouraged to submit proposals
www.faenaart.org