CONTEXTILE 2020
International Exhibition of Contextile 2020 – Contemporary Textile Art Biennial
Between September 5 and October 25 2020, the city of Guimarães and its territory will host the 5th edition of a major international event: the Contemporary Textile Biennial Contextile 2020
The city and its textile community are preparing to welcome with enthusiasm, as for the past editions, the numerous national and international artists who visit and participate in each biennial. Counting on the strategic support of the Municipality of Guimarães, there will be a number of textile companies and, among others, DGartes (The Directorate-General for Arts is a central department of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture whose mission is to coordinate and implement the policies in support of the arts in Portugal, with the top priority of promoting and defining the artistic creation, as well as ensuring the universality of the arts)
CONTEXTILE 2020 will once again occupy the various cultural spaces and public areas of the city, with the aim of introducing the best of contemporary textile art, in Portugal and worldwide.
Objective: to place textile art in the context of contemporary art … a great challenge!
Sfoglia il catalogo dell’edizione 2018 QUI
In 2020, the Contextile biennial focuses its activity on the thematic concept Places of Memory, transversal to all the rubrics of its programmatic contents
The Competitive International Exhibition will be composed by 50 artworks from 50 artists, selected by an international jury who will also award an Acquisition Prize of €. 5000 and Distinctions, during the biennial’s opening. (The 50 works of the international exhibition may also be selected, during the biennial, for the ATP Acquisition prize and the ASM Acquisition prize, for the amount of € 2500).
The interested artists may apply with new creations or recent artworks, until the 1st March 2020.
The proposals and artworks submitted for the competition will need to address the textile element, through its concept, theme, techniques or materials. The artworks will have to be highly creative, original and technically competent.
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