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Date: March 2010

Deadline: Registration Closed

Open to : All Interested from Artists Living in South Africa

South Africa's Premier Art Competition and Exhibition

Spier Contemporary 2010

Cape Town, South Africa, March 2010

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The Africa Centre is proud to announce the launch of the Spier Contemporary 2010, the largest biennale art competition and exhibition in South Africa.

The inaugural 2007/08 exhibition received over 2,500 submissions from around the country, exhibited 95 artists in Cape Town and Johannesburg, hosted 25,000 visitors and awarded R1,000,000 in prize money.

The Spier Contemporary 2010 has opened its call to all artists living in South Africa to begin thinking about how they would like to reflect their experiences, aspirations and visions through new work submitted to this competition/exhibition.

About

Spier Contemporary

Intentions and Objectives

The Spier Contemporary competition and exhibition has been conceived to provide a platform for visual and performance artists to show their work, uncompromised by the limitations of technology, space and access. Artists in South Africa work under extremely varied conditions and see from radically different perspectives. These differences are what define our collective identity and unique social and cultural landscape. The Spier Contemporary provides a platform for exploring our diversity, giving audiences insights into our complexity and thus contributing to our understanding of difference.

The core objectives of the Spier Contemporary are to:

• Create a large-scale national exhibition, which genuinely reflects the diversity of the visual and performance arts community living in South Africa;
• Develop new audiences and markets for artists, who do not normally have access to such a large pool of potential buyers;
• Access new audiences and develop their respective appreciation of a spectrum of artistic forms; and
• Provide training and development for visual and performing artists and curators.

Exhibition Locations

The Spier Contemporary 2010 exhibition will open in March 2010 at the Cape Town City Hall on Darling Street in the Cape Town CBD. It will then travel to Johannesburg and Durban in the course of 2010. The exact locations and dates for Johannesburg and Durban have yet to be determined.

Compete

The Spier Contemporary 2010 will provide an extraordinary opportunity to showcase artists who work in diverse media from a broad range of cultural contexts. Artists living in South Africa are invited to reflect their experiences, lives, hopes and fears through new work, which can be submitted to the Spier Contemporary 2010. It is through these submissions and the work selected for the exhibition that we hope new voices and the languages to speak them will emerge, which can help us read and understand who and what we are as a nation.

What May Be Entered

Any original artwork, in any media, which has not been previously exhibited. There are no restrictions other than the artworks must not physically endanger anyone.

Who Can Enter

Any person living in South Africa over the age of 21.

How To Enter

Artists may submit artworks or a proposal for an artwork. Artists are allowed to submit up to a maximum of five artworks or proposals per person. A separate entry form must be filled out for each individual artwork. There are three ways to enter:

• Artworks and proposals can be delivered to one of the selection centres located throughout the country (see the selection centres below);
• Proposals or photographic representation of artworks can be posted to the Africa Centre – Africa Centre, PO Box 137, Lynedoch, Stellenbosch, 7603; and
• Proposals or photographic representation of artworks can be submitted online.
  Please Click here to enter online or download the pdf of the entry form, which includes the terms and conditions. Fill out the form electronically. Email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to submit your artwork.

When To Enter

All entries must be received by 30 October 2009.

The selection centres will be accepting entries ONLY between 26 – 30 October 2009. Online and postal entries may be submitted before this time but must reach the organisers by 30 October 2009. No artwork will be considered after this date.

Entry Forms

Each piece submitted to the Spier Contemporary 2010 will require a separate entry form. Entry Forms will be available towards the end of June 2009.

Selection and Return Process

Once all entries have been received by 30 October 2009 the curatorial team will travel to the selection centres and consider the submitted artworks and all posted and online entries.

An initial selection of work will take place and all short-listed artwork will be transported to Cape Town for the final selection. Short-listed artists will be informed of their selection by email or phone.

Artwork not selected will need to be picked up by the artist from the selection centre they submitted the work to.

Once the final selection has been made, all artists will be informed of their selection in writing. Short-listed work that is not selected will be returned to the selection centres for collection.

All artwork selected for the show will tour all three cities Cape Town – Johannesburg – Durban. Once the Durban show is complete (roughly December 2010), all artworks sold will go to the buyers and the remainder will be returned to the participating artists.

Exhibition Sales

All artworks in the exhibition will be for sale, unless otherwise instructed by the participating artists. The artist will determine the sale price. The Spier Contemporary will not take a commission on artworks sold.

Up to 100 artists will be selected for the exhibition. Each artist selected for the final exhibition will receive an artist fee of R4,000 (cash payment by EFT on final selection) regardless of how many of their artworks are selected. Any submissions from artist collectives will only receive one artist fee.

Five to seven awards will be made. These award winners will share up to R800,000 in prize money for career development.

Enter the Competition

Please Click here to enter online or download the pdf of the entry form, which includes the terms and conditions. Fill out the form electronically. Email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to submit your artwor

Attachment: SC Entry Form

Contact Information:

Africa Centre

PO Box 137

Lynedoch, Stellenbosch, 7603

Tel: 0860 111458

Fax: 021 422 044

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Website: Spier Contemporary