LONDON, Oct. 18,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- BE OPEN Art, an online gallery
set up by Elena Baturina's
humanitarian think-tank BE OPEN, continues to run BE OPEN
Regional Art, the regional competition for emerging artists
aimed to support those whose art best represents their regional,
cultural and ethnic identities.
Throughout 2024, the BE OPEN expert community will continue
selecting those artists who best represent the artistic tradition
of a certain region to feature in the BE OPEN Art gallery and offer
them greater visibility.
The fourth stage of the second year of the programme run will
cover the countries of Southern
Africa: Angola,
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South
Africa, Swaziland,
Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
The stage will traditionally last three months, and the regional
winner for Southern Africa will be announced and awarded
500 euro at the end of December 2024. In the meantime, artworks by 20
emerging artists from the listed countries will be posted at the
online gallery every month, and a public vote will select the
Regional Artist of the Month. At the end of the stage, one of the
monthly winners will become the Artist of the Region, based on the
amount of votes by the public and the BE OPEN art community
members.
The regional competition runs alongside the regular ongoing work
of BE OPEN Art, whose experts every month select 20 new artists for
the gallery, using online voting to name the Artist of the Month
and the Artist of the Year.
Aiming to support emerging talent, BE OPEN Art selects artists
at an early stage of their career who emphasize social
consciousness and aesthetical solutions to the wrongs of the
contemporary world. The project sees its mission in looking for new
influencers in the art scene, and invites everyone to
contribute.
BE OPEN is a global initiative to foster creativity and
innovation, a think-tank whose mission is to promote people and
ideas today to build solutions for tomorrow. It is a cultural and
social initiative supported by Austria-based international philanthropist and
businessperson Elena Baturina.
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