11 Mar 2016

Call for participation in id.new talents 2016

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE 2nd INTERNATIONAL DAY OF NEW TALENTS OF ART on MAY 21, 2016

Deadline: April 30, 2016
Open to: museums, collections, foundations, exhibition- and project spaces


The international day of new talents of art – the id.new talents – is a day, a growing network and a platform set up to promote young professional artists and the initiatives that support them.
The id.new talents is meant to raise awareness and public attention for museums, collections, foundations, exhibition and project spaces which offer valuable support and presentation potential for young artists who have just finished their studies.

The 2nd id.new talents takes place on May 21, 2016.

We are inviting arts initiatives operating anywhere in the world to participate and present a new talent of art locally on May 21, 2016. The deadline for submission is April 30, 2016 and the participation is free of charge.


Institutions, non-commercial spaces and public collections can participate…
… by presenting at least one work of a new talent (a young professional artist who has graduated in the four previous years) or

… by presenting an early work of a today well-established artist (a work that has been produced in the 'new talent' period within four years after graduation).

The chosen artist can be presented within a running exhibition or as a special event (i.e. special exhibition/ screening/ performance/ programme) on the occasion of id.new talents on May 21, 2016. The selection and presentation of the artist is by the institutions´ own choice and authority.
Those individual local presentations as well as information on the institutions and their chosen artist will be communicated on www.id-newtalents.com.

For participation please submit the application form that is available for download at www.id-newtalents.com until Saturday, April 30, 2016. For more information please visit www.id-newtalents.com


id.new talents is an initiative of the cologne arts festival new talents – biennale cologne, the trendsetting platform for artistic and creative young professionals from the fields of arts, film, composition, design and choreography. Every two years, the biennale presents more than 50 selected graduates from the regional arts academies plus national and international guests in the city centre of Cologne. In 2016 we cooperate with the Marrakech Biennale and Havana and are happy to welcome two Chinese participants.

The 5th new talents – biennale cologne takes place from May 21 to June 5, 2016
www.newtalents-cologne.de