Salamander International Art Prize 2024 – 2nd Edition

Created by Monteoliveto Gallery

After the great success for its first edition in 2023, the Salamander International Art Prize comes back for its second edition in 2024! The application are open until the 18th of March 2024 and the Awards Event will take place the 18th of May 2024 in our home city, the artistically vibrant: Napoli!

What is the Salamander International Art Prize:

Monteoliveto Gallery, in search of new artistic adventures, has decided to set out towards a new appointment dedicated to contemporary art which, as always, highlights and enhances its interpreters. With this in mind, the Salamander International Art Prize was born, a prize dedicated to contemporary art.We chose the Salamander to represent our prize, as it was one of the animals that fascinated our beloved director, Chantal Lora, who sadly left us in 2022. Chantal Lora was also Monteoliveto Gallery’s co-founder and in the last 20 years she has carried out, with a smile, an energetic and passionate work, to make the gallery’s artists, coming from all over the world, known, throughout Europe with always original events.For this reason and for many others, from the first moment we thought of dedicating this Prize to her memory. In this way her positive spirit will always be linked to the Art world.

How it is organized:

This year we will have some major changes in the prize’s organization, compared to the first edition.

First of all there will be three categories in which you can inscribe your artworks. All artworks will “compete” for the Salamander International Art Prize but we will have also: three Category Awards and one Award of the Public.

These are the three artworks categories:

– Graphic arts: painting, mixed media, drawing, illustration and engraving techniques

– Sculpture and installation

– Photography, video-art and performance

These are the Awards:

An award to one artwork for each category chosen by experts jury (related to the category)The winners receive: an Award certification, their artworks exhibited during the Awards Event in Napoli the 25th of May 2024 and the participation in a Monteoliveto Gallery’s exhibition decided with the directors.

An award from the Public on social mediasThe winner receive: an Award certification, their artwork exhibited during the Awards Event in Napoli the 25th of May 2024 and their artwork exhibited at the Monteoliveto Home Gallery in the heart of Napoli

One Winner of the Salamander International Art Prize selected by the full juryThe winner receive: The Salamander International Art Prize certification and trophy, their artworks exhibited during the Awards Event in Napoli the 25th of May 2024 and will have organized a 10 days solo-show with the Monteoliveto Gallery in one of its international locations (Paris, Milano or Napoli) decided with the directors.

Calendar

25th of March 2024

Last day to apply to the Salamander International Art Prize  

All the participating artworks, will be presented on the gallery’s and Salamander International Art Prize’s social channels and website.

2nd to 7th of April 2024

Votes are open on socials for the Award of the Public

25th of April 2024

Communication of the results

Each category will be evaluated by a category’s experts jury that will decide, to which artwork, give the category award.

The three jury will then regroup to form the full jury and decide the 20 finalists of the Salamander International Art Prize. 

Among these 20 artworks, the full jury will declare the winner of the 2nd edition of the Salamander International Art Prize.

25th of May 2024

Awards Event in Napoli (Location coming soon)

All the participating artworks will be digitally projected during the event.

The 20 finalists’ artworks will be exhibited, along with the category winners and the laureate of the Award of the Public, during the event. The exhibited artworks must arrive in Napoli before the 5th of May 2024. 

Catalogue

The 20 finalists and the awards winners will be part of the catalog of the 2nd edition of the Salamander International Art Prize, that they will receive in 1 copy (complimentary copies can be bought at the prize of 20 €/copy). 

1st Salamander International Art Prize