OPEN Buenos Aires II Edition
Deadline May 28th, 2023

From May 1st to May 28th, 2023, Fundación´ace opens the call to select 16 emerging artists whose practices focus on the fields of graphic work and printmaking (engraving, xylography, screen printing, lithography, mixed techniques and 2D and 3D digital printing), print art, expanded print media/installation and artist books, as well as emerging artists from any discipline who may submit a project involving print media and/or work on paper, who are:

• Argentines living in Argentina;
• Latin Americans with residence in Argentina (with a DNI);
• Uruguayans living in Uruguay or Uruguayans with residence in Argentina (these last ones with a DNI);

who will be awarded scholarships to participate in the OPEN Buenos Aires II Edition, 2023, a professionalization event that includes exhibition of their works, mentoring by guest curators, demos, portfolio reviews, networking sessions, and a round table on contemporary printmaking.

OPEN Buenos Aires is a proposal for the exchange and generation of artistic and cultural networks between the cities of Buenos Aires and Bilbao (to which Montevideo is added on this occasion as a guest city), through an event that includes exhibitions, demonstrations, talks and free seminars—all of the activities are open to the public, free of cost and will take place from June 17th to 20th, 2023.

From all the applications, 16 artists will be selected to participate in these activities, and on June 20th, the last day of the OPEN Buenos Aires, an international jury will select among them:

• four artists who will participate in the final phase of the program and will travel to Bilbao to exhibit at the XII Edition of FIGBilbao Fair from November 23rd to 26th, 2023, competing for the Open Portfolio awards;
• two artists to attend the residency offered by the CIEC Foundation of Galicia, Spain;
• one artist to carry out a residency at the Basque bioDesign Center (Bilbao, Basque Country);
• and one artist for a residency at Fundación´ace within the ´acePIRAR | International Artist Residency Program.