Open Call: Selected projects + The list of nominated artists

The selection committee for the 2013 Visible Award, gathered last week to assess the proposals received through the open call, selecting the projects that will become part of the long list nominated by the advisory board. The committee – composed by Charles Esche, chairman of the 2013 Visible Award jury; Andrea Zegna, head of the Fondazione Zegna’s Art Projects; Matteo Lucchetti and Judith Wielander, curators of the Visible project – was positively impressed by the number of proposals coming from a variety of locales, contexts and perspectives, dealing with a socially engaged approach to the artistic practice in our contemporaneity.

In assessing the projects received, the parameters and criteria that connote the Visible Award have been carefully respected, and the committee have selected five projects from the public call to be included in the long list of nominated artists. We are happy to release the names of the selected projects that will run for a position in the shortlist.

Mabe Bethonico, Museum of Public Concerns
Beatrice Catanzaro, Bait Al Karama
Fernando García-Dory, New Country – Borgate
Dor Guez, CPA – The Christian Palestinian Archive
Amina Menia, Discover Algiers

We are equally glad to finally share with you the list of artists that have been nominated by the 18 curators of our renewed advisory board.

Sammy Baloji
Beta Local
Beyond Pressure
Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center
Caminul Cultural
Giuseppe Campuzano
Futurefarmers
The Garden Library
Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel
Marlon Griffith
Honf – House of Natural Fibers
Dalia Khamissi
Suresh Kumar G
Nesrine Khodr
Iconoclasistas
Inkanyiso (Zanele Muholi)
Les Palettes du Kamer
Maha Maamoun and Ala Younis
Mosireen
Ahmet Öğüt
Maria Papadimitriou
The Propeller Group
Rafani collective
Rigo 23
Ruangrupa
Jon Rubin
Meir Tati
Temporary Occupations
Teatro de Operações
Bert Theis
Yeh Wei-li
Siren Eun Young Jung
Arseniy Zhilyaev

More information on the submitted projects for the 2013 Visible Awards will be released in September, and shortly after we will make public the shortlist. On the 14th of December 2013 the shortlisted projects will be discussed and assessed in the final jury session at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.

Expect to see more from Visible in the coming months, we’ll see you after the summer break.