AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Call for Applications

Sam Prize for Contemporary Art 2011

Deadline to apply: September 15, 2011, midnight

The aim of the prize is to allow the selected artist to carry out a project which they will conduct in an emerging country in the Southern hemisphere, and exhibit in France, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, in the following year.

With its grant of 20 000 euros, this competition is open to all artists corresponding to each of the following criteria:

• over the age of 25
• french or who have been resident in France for at least 2 years
• who have a a signed contract with a gallery in France.

Every kind of expression and all the visual arts disciplines are accepted : painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video…

To apply, the artist should send their project—exclusively PDF document—at the latest september 15th, at the adress below:

prixsam2011@gmail.com

The Jury in charge of the final choice is composed by:
Anne-Pierre d’Albis, Curator and Creator of the Parcours Saint-Germain in Paris
Fabrice Hergott, Director of the Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris
Jean-Hubert Martin, Conservateur général du patrimoine, exhibition curator
Hervé Mikaeloff, Exhibition Curator and Artistic Consultant
Sandra Mulliez, Founder of SAM Art Projects
Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of The Serpentine Gallery, London,exhibition curator
Marc Pottier, Exhibition curator and artistic consultant
Marc-Olivier Wahler, Director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, exhibition curator

This jury will meet and decide the shortlist late november and the prize-winner on the 15th December 2011.

SAM Art Projects was founded in April 2009 by Sandra and Amaury Mulliez to promote, support and defend contemporary creation in the plastic arts through a dialogue between France and the so-called "emerging" countries.

1. SAM Art Projects awards two annual residency grants at Villa Raffet in Paris to artists from the so-called "emerging" countries.

2. The SAM Award for Contemporary Art is presented each year to an artist living in France who has a project intended for one of these countries.

Each of these three artists benefits from an exhibition at a prestigious venue in Paris and a publication.

www.samartprojects.org

SAM Art Projects contacts:
Delphine Perru
delphine.perru@samartprojects.com
Alice Vaganay
Alice@samartprojects.org

Press Contact:
Claudine Colin Communication
Albane Champey
albane@claudinecolin.com

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