International Prize for the support of young international artists
Application deadline: October 27, 2024, 12 noon (Rome, GMT+1)
Roberto Boscolo, in collaboration with the BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory, is pleased to announce the Boscolo Collection Art Prize. This prize, an extension of the current activities of the Boscolo Collection Art Program 2024/2025, is designed to support and promote deserving young international artists, continuing the patronage role assumed by the Boscolo Collection over the past three years of the program.
The Boscolo Collection Art Program, which runs from 2021, is hosted in Boscolo hotels in Nice and Lyon. It aims to create a new cultural hub for the two cities and their region by presenting a series of contemporary art exhibitions held in the two venues that showcase a diverse spectrum of international artists and galleries. The program, complemented by side events and an artist residency, contributes to the local cultural scene and artistic debate and creates a unique experience for hotel guests.
The Boscolo Collection Art Program intends to take hospitality services to a new level:
Art is a powerful and surprising medium, capable of stimulating creativity and curiosity, provoking the right questions, questioning the existing by breaking conventional thinking, encouraging shifting points of view, facilitating a corporate cultural integration and becoming an antenna tuned to the future, anticipating scenarios and behaviours.
(Roberto Boscolo)
In keeping with the forward-thinking of the Boscolo Collection Art Program 2022/2023, Roberto Boscolo, in collaboration with BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory, is proud to announce the launch of the Boscolo Collection Art Prize 2024-25 and the opening of the open call for the first edition.
Boscolo Collection Art Prize – mission: today as yesterday, a marriage of international depth between hospitality services, lifestyle & artistic patronage.
For more than thirty years, Boscolo has made a passion for hospitality its hallmark, blending luxury and the pleasure of living with uniqueness and tradition. All our hotels are distinguished by elegance, courtesy, and hospitality and can be considered witnesses of the Italian lifestyle in the world: a style that transcends the fashions of the moment, is strongly linked to its cultural roots and has a cosmopolitan character.
Set in prestigious architectural contexts that celebrate the beauty of their host cities and contribute to enriching their architectural heritage, all Boscolo Collection hotels are unique and original places that inspire the desire to be experienced.
Boscolo Collection Art Prize – vision: to support young artistic excellence on an international level
Boscolo Collection Art Prize directly expresses Roberto and Angelo Boscolo’s commitment to promoting the excellence of hospitality services with an Italian matrix but with a cosmopolitan approach at an international level.
Boscolo Collection Art Prize aims to support young contemporary art and promote it beyond the narrow confines of the “art system.”
The winning artist will be awarded a one-month residency at the spaces of Boscolo Nice Hotel & Spa, a production prize to conduct the same for 1,500.00 euros. One of their works submitted in the application phase will also be acquired by Roberto Boscolo, thus becoming part of the Boscolo Collection. This illustrious collection boasts names among the best-known masters of the 20th century.
The winner and second and third place winners will be entitled to a 3-month exhibition at Boscolo Nice Hotel & Spa curated by BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory.
Boscolo Collection Art Prize aims to promote the value of the young international art scene from multiple points of view: exhibition, collecting, and patronage. In addition to the acquisition of the work, Boscolo Collection strongly believes that the opportunity offered to the winner to carry out a period of residency and bring to completion together with the other two prizewinners an exhibition project in one of the corporations awarded as the most illustrious of the city and the Italian-French hotel industry can have a significant impact of promoting the same. During the residency period, the Boscolo Collection, in collaboration with BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory, will organise meetings with exponents of the French art scene, collectors, art advisors and curators, as well as discussions with representatives of local and international companies and confrontations with hotel guests, invited to participate in the artistic program actively. In doing so, the artist will have the opportunity to get in touch with different types of audiences and market sectors as well as with institutions and galleries in the area or related to the three partners involved in the project (Boscolo Collection, BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory).
Boscolo Collection Art Prize – open call: terms and modalities
The open call will be from Monday, August 22, to October 27, 2024. Applications must be sent in a single PDF file via email to info@beadvisorsart.com no later than noon (Rome, GMT+1) on that date. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered in the selection process.
The open call is open to international artists under 35, regardless of sex, gender, race or any other social distinction.
Artists may participate in any visual expression, including painting, drawing, graphic design, sculpture, installation, video art, performance, sound installation, or photography. However, the work must be consistent with the spaces and activities of the host hotel.
Boscolo Collection Art Prize – open call: how to participate
Applications should be emailed to info@beadvisorsart.com no later than noon (Rome, GMT+1) Oct. 27, 2024, unless any exceptions will be communicated later, at info@beadvisorsart.com in a single PDF document.
Applicants should submit to the committee:
- Two works previously created and available for possible acquisition (without impediments regarding previous exhibitions or publications). Works submitted must be accompanied by relevant images, captions (Author, title, date, technique, dimensions and possible courtesy), explanations, concepts, critical texts, and any mentions/publications/previous exhibitions.
- One project for a work to be realised in case of selection by the jury.
- One possible project for a residency at Boscolo Nice Hotel & Spa spaces.
- Artist Portfolio complete with curriculum vitae, statement and academic record.
- CV & Biography
- List of publications, if any.
- Critical texts, if any.
Boscolo Collection Art Prize – open call: the prizes
The winner will be selected from the finalists who will be entitled to:
- 15-day artistic residency at Boscolo Nice Hotel & Spa with a production prize of Euro 1,500.
- Acquisition by Boscolo Collection of one of the three works submitted by the winner.
The jury and the organising committee will award two special mentions to the second and third nominees.
The winning artist and the two mentioned artists will receive the opportunity to have a four-month-long group exhibition at Boscolo Nice Hotel & Spa curated by the BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory.
The award will bear the logistics and transportation costs of the work.
Please note that the works selected as finalists will be part of the exhibition and held in reserve for its duration.
Boscolo Collection Art Prize – open call: the residency
The winning artist selected by the jury will be entitled to a 15-day residency at Boscolo Nice Hotel & Spa, held in conjunction with the group exhibition featuring him/her and the second—and third-place winners.
Boscolo Collection offers individual workspace and accommodation at the hotel, including breakfast, as well as productive, technical, and organisational support for the development and implementation of the project for a maximum of Euro 1,500.00. The residency must have at least one moment of return open to the public and hotel guests in the form of open studios, critiques, individual/group studio visits, and activities involving hotel guests and staff. Boscolo Collection, in collaboration with BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory, will expand the opportunities for visibility of the artist in residence on other occasions as well, inviting exponents of the local, national and international art scene, collectors from the area or visiting artists. Through dedicated activation moments, special attention will be given to representatives of excellence in regional and national Industry and Business, such as Rotary Club of Nice members.
To enliven and enrich the period of artistic residency, BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory plan to devise corporate collaborations between the winning artist and, firstly, the reality of Boscolo Nice Hotel & Spa and Angelo Restaurant and, secondly, between the winning artist, Boscolo Nice Hotel and French and Italian industrial excellence.
Art is a powerful tool capable of facilitating corporate cultural integration and becoming an antenna tuned into the future, anticipating scenarios and behaviours.
Proposals for corporate collaborations between the artist and Boscolo Nice Hotel & Spa aim to engage hotel guests and other external audiences, in keeping with the mission of the Boscolo Collection Art Program: to elevate hospitality services to a new level.
Proposals for corporate collaborations between the artist and industry excellences aim to engage the local area and attract other external audiences, in keeping with the mission of the Boscolo Collection Art Programme: to take hospitality services to a new level, establish a solid link with the local area and its institutions, and provide a valuable contribution to the city’s contemporary artistic discourse.
The residency participant will bear board and travel expenses.
Boscolo Collection Art Prize – open call: Timeline
It will be possible to apply for the Prize from August 22 to October 27, 2024
After the call for entries closes, the BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory organising committee will make a preliminary selection of applicants.
The jury will meet at Boscolo Nice Hotel & Spa during the third week of November to deliberate the winner and the two special mentions of the second and third candidates.
Before Christmas 2024, the three finalists and the committee will announce the winner’s name. The winner will be notified via personal email and communicated on the organising committee’s social channels and website and Boscolo Collection’s website.
The finalist artists must prepare the selected works for shipment to Nice by the end of January.
The group exhibition, which will feature the works of the three artists selected by the jury, will open on Thursday, February 13, 2025. It will last four months and end on May 16, 2025.
During the exhibition period, the winning artist may choose one of the following slots to conduct their residency:
March 24, 2025 – April 6, 2025.
April 7, 2025 – April 20, 2025.
Boscolo Collection Art Prize – open call: The jury.
The jury is currently being selected and will be announced later.
Boscolo Collection Art Prize – Responsibility.
Roberto Boscolo, in collaboration with BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory, guarantees the utmost expertise in the Prize’s organisational and exhibition phases, taking charge of the logistics and transportation costs of the works.
Please note that the works selected as finalists will be part of the exhibition and held in reserve for its duration.
Boscolo Collection Art Prize – Privacy policy
In collaboration with BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory, participants in the Prize authorise Roberto Boscolo to process personal data following Law 675/96 (Privacy Law) and subsequent amendments D.lgs.196/2003 (Privacy Code). Each participant is granted free of charge to the Boscolo Collection Art Prize the reproduction rights of the images of the works and the texts produced for the publication of any communication, promotion, and activity related to the Prize, including social and event websites.
Boscolo Collection Art Prize – Acceptance of the announcement
Entry to the Prize implies automatic acceptance of all articles in this announcement.