Fundación´ace Prix
Award Opportunity

At ´ ace, we are happy to announce the Fundación ´ ace Award within the Open Portfolio 2024, in October 2024. The award, intended for a Spanish artist, includes a Production Residency at ´ ace, roundtrip airfare, accommodation and per diem. It will be awarded among the 16 artists selected by open call to participate in the Open Portfolio in its October 2024 edition, to be held in person in Bilbao, Basque Country.

In 2024, Fundación´ace continues its partnership with Asociación Arthazi-FIG Bilbao by offering a prize for Spanish artists (living in Spain) within the Open Portfolio 2024. This prize will provide round-trip airfare Spain-Buenos Aires, €300 per diem, accommodation and a 4-week Production Residency at Fundación´ace’s studio (Buenos Aires).

The prize will be awarded to an artist who has presented a project within the languages of graphics, printmaking and print media, and who is included in the selection of artists participating in the Open Portfolio in its in-person edition in October 2024 (Bilbao, Basque Country).

Fundación´ace is supported by the CCEBA–Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires.

ABOUT THE OPEN PORTFOLIO

The Open Portfolio FIG Bilbao was born eleven years ago with the aim of supporting, giving visibility and boosting the professional careers of new talents in the graphic and printmaking/print media arts. Open Portfolio is a platform for the promotion, dissemination and professionalisation of emerging creators, which has already attracted more than 250 artists from all continents.

In this line, the OPEN Buenos Aires emerged in its two editions (2022 and 2023), an exhibition and training event in which 27 artists from Argentina, 1 artist from Venezuela and 4 from Uruguay participated. From this group of selected artists, 8 were chosen to participate in the FIG Bilbao Fair 2022 and 2023, while 9 received residency awards both in Spain and Argentina.

The objective and philosophy of Open Portfolio define it as a platform for emerging creators and contemporary artistic manifestations in the field of printmaking, graphics and works in editions. It is conceived as a tool that makes it possible to establish the necessary bridge between the field of training and the professional practice of art.