About
Allegro and Contemporary Lynx Foundation are proud to announce
the third edition of the Allegro Prize competition with a
total prize pool of 80 000 PLN.
Our jury has selected the winners of this year's of the Allegro Prize competition
We aim to:
- Give artists the chance to present their works to an extremely wide range of Polish and international recipients.
- Through this financial support give artists the opportunity to fully devote themselves to artistic development.
- Create a platform where art lovers and professionals from all over the world can meet artists selected by the prestigious jury panel.
- Search for new talent and promote the visual arts.
Calling all:
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Artists from any country, all ages
representing all forms of visual arts.
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Students and graduates
of art schools and colleges.
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Artists who haven’t graduated
but have documented artistic pathway.
No entry fee
All participation fees are waived.
Prizes
Main Award
3 x 25 000 PLN
- Article in Contemporary Lynx Magazine 1(19)2022 or 2(20)2022.
- Article with works published in Contemporary Lynx Weekly Online and on the Allegro Prize website.
- Article posted on the social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Newsletter).
- Annual subscription for the print edition of Contemporary Lynx Magazine (delivery cost included).
AUDIENCE AWARD
5 000 pln
- Article with works published in Contemporary Lynx Weekly Online and on the Allegro Prize website.
- Article posted on the social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Newsletter).
- Annual subscription for the print edition of Contemporary Lynx Magazine (delivery cost included).
SPECIAL MENTIONS
10 x
- Article with works published in Contemporary Lynx Weekly Online and on the Allegro Prize website.
- Article posted on the social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Newsletter).
- Annual subscription for the print edition of Contemporary Lynx Magazine (delivery cost included).
ADDITIONAL GIFTS
30 x
- A copy of the latest Contemporary Lynx Magazine.
Jury
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Joanna Kamm
Director of Liste Art Fair Basel
Born in Munich, Joanna Kamm studied philosophy and cultural studies in Munich and Berlin. From 1998 to 2001 she was the director of a Berlin project space before founding Galerie Kamm, which she ran until 2014. From 2001 to 2003 her gallery was part of Liste Art Fair Basel and took part at Art Basel from 2005 to 2013 at the sections Statements, Feature and Galleries respectively. As a gallerist, she was a member of the committee of Art Basel Miami Beach and of the boards of abc – art berlin contemporary as well as Gallery Weekend Berlin. As successor to Peter Bläuer, she is the director of Liste Art Fair Basel since September 2018.
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Slavs and Tatars
Art collective
Slavs and Tatars is an internationally renowned art collective devoted to an area East of the former Berlin Wall and West of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. Since its inception in 2006, the collective has shown a keen grasp of polemical issues in society, clearing new paths for contemporary discourse via a wholly idiosyncratic form of knowledge production: including popular culture, spiritual and esoteric traditions, oral histories, modern myths, as well as scholarly research. The collective’s practice is based on three activities: exhibitions, publications, and lecture-performances. The collective has published more than twelve books to date, including most recently The Contest of the Fruits (MIT Press, 2021) as well as a translation of the legendary Azerbaijani satirical periodical Molla Nasreddin (currently in its 2nd edition with I.B Tauris, 2017). In addition to launching a residency and mentorship program for young professionals from their region, Slavs and Tatars recently opened Pickle Bar, a slavic aperitivo bar-cum-project space a few doors down from their studio in Moabit.
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Ksenia Malykh
Head of the Research Platform of PinchukArtCentre
Art historian, curator, researcher, Head of the Research Platform of PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine. Co-founder of the OK Projects NGO and Closer Art Center, Kyiv. General manager of the Ukrainian National Pavilion on 58th Biennale in Venice.
Focused on research and education activities.
Born in Kyiv, 1985. Temporary based in Hannover, Germany as a resident of Kestner Gesellschaft.
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Anja Rubik
Supermodel, philanthropist and Founder of sexed.pl
Polish born supermodel Anja Rubik has been at the pinnacle of her industry for 20 years. She has featured in ad campaigns for the most notable houses that included Saint Laurent, Chloe, Gucci, Chanel, Valentino, Estee Lauder, Versace and Fendi just to name a few. She has become one of Karl Lagerfeld’s most recognizable muses and supported the career of Saint Laurent Creative Director Anthony Vaccarello where she continues to be the face of his designs. Rubik’s time during the past two decades has been shared between dozens of Vogue covers and other top fashion magazines, television series and catwalk through to consulting and designing for brands. Vogue Paris named her one of its Top 30 models of the decade, and she has ranked third on the US edition of the publication’s list of Top 10 models.
In 2017 Rubik accepted the role of Creative Consultant and Ambassador for Parley. In the same year she founded a sexuality education foundation, #SEXEDpl, in her country of origin Poland citing a void in the current curriculum that could not be responsibly ignored. #SEXEDpl quickly became the the most successful educational platform in the Poland while being recognized by the most influential global institutions such as the United Nations and UNFPA. Anja Rubik is also the author of the #SEXEDpl book for teenagers that became a nation-wide bestseller, selling over 220K copies. Over the years Anja Rubik has been a figure that has transcended the fashion world into social and environmental issues in many forums and many different platforms and her consistent clarity of thought and moral courage has become universally respected.
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Dorian Batycka
Curator and art writer
Dorian Batycka is a curator and art writer based in between Europe, Canada and Dubai. His writing can be found in Hyperallergic, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Artnet News, The Art Newspaper, Contemporary Lynx and others, where he covers everything from the trials and tribulations of the art market, cultural politics and issues ranging from censorship to restoration, heritage and technology.
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Karolina Miszczak
Owner of the Collectibles and Art category, allegro.pl
A graduate of art history and cultural studies at the University of Warsaw and graphic design at the Warsaw School of Photography and Graphic Design. She has been connected to the art market for over 10 years. From 2014 to 2017, she was an advisor to collectors associated with the art tank collection project, and she was also a co-curator of the collection with the same name – based on Polish artists’ works of the young and middle generation. From 2018 to 2019, she was the director of the Fort Institute of Photography in Warsaw. Since 2020, she has been associated with Allegro as a Key Account Manager in the art, collectables and investment segments. Since October 2021, she has been the Senior Category Owner of the Collectibles and Art category and is also responsible for activities involving contemporary art in the platform's communication area.
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Dobromiła Błaszczyk Sylwia Krasoń
Editors-in-Chief of Contemporary Lynx Magazine
Dobromiła Błaszczyk — art historian, curator and author of texts about art. She’s the co-founder of the Contemporary Lynx organisation and press outlet established in London (2013), as well as the editor-in-chief of Contemporary Lynx Magazine and President of the Contemporary Lynx Foundation in Warsaw. She obtained her MA degree in art history from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. At Starmach Gallery, where she worked in the years 2009–2016, she organised and coordinated exhibitions, art fairs and projects in close collaboration with institutions and art collectors from Poland and abroad. Previously she worked with, among others, Galerie Parrotta Contemporary Art in Stuttgart, lokal_30 in Warsaw, Kraków Photomonth Festival, Art Agenda NOVA and East of Art Foundation (2007–2008). She was involved in organising the 7th edition of Biennale Jeune Création Européenne in Montrouge, France. Member of competition juries, lecturer, moderator and participant of panel discussions held in Poland and the UK.
Sylwia Krasoń — art historian, co-founder of Contemporary Lynx organisation and independent press outlet established in London (2013), editor-in-chief of Contemporary Lynx Magazine and Vice-President of the Contemporary Lynx Foundation in Warsaw (since 2018). She obtained her MA degree in art history from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, as well as an MA degree in arts policy & management with a specialisation in curating contemporary art from the Birkbeck College of the University of London. She worked at the Saatchi Gallery in London, Phillips de Pury Auction House and Barbican Art Gallery, where she joined the curators’ team as an intern and contributed to the creation of the exhibition ‘Bauhaus. Art of Life.’ She run her own London-based art gallery Wrong Door in 2012. Author of texts about art and culture, member of competition juries, conference speaker, guest and moderator of discussion panels held in Poland and the UK.
Deadlines
Start
11
May
Deadline
27
September
Shortlist
16
November
Winners
06
December
What are the basic portfolio criteria?
- The portfolio shall be submitted in English with a short biography of the artist. It should include at least 3 works (but not more than 30) in one pdf, and the file should not exceed 10MB.
Application
Application via online form:
Meet the WinnersApplication via e-mail
Before submiting, please read all legal documents:
Articles
Portfolio: SAGG NAPOLI Multidisciplinary artist working with performance, video, sculpture, installation, fashion design and sound curation.
The artist devotes her practice to cross-examining gender politics, economy, along with portrayals of class and ethnicity in high and popular culture.
Portfolio: Filipka Rutkowska She is a multidisciplinary artist working with performance, video and drawing.
Her work is primarily focused on sexuality, society and identity from a gender-fluid perspective. In her practice, she explores how queerness can become a form of narration about society as a whole.
Portfolio: Veronika Cherednychenko Her body of work ranges from large-scale public art to VR projects.
Her artistic practice appeals to the unconscious, provoking the imagination in an attempt to look into the future or into oneself: nature, organic forms, growth dynamics, transformation, but also decay and death, fundamental and mundane processes for all living beings.
Organisers
Initiators:
One of the largest Polish e-commerce platform, which since 2018 has been promoting antique and contemporary art through the Collector's Zone programme.
allegro.pl
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