Art Moves 2026 International Billboard Art Competition invites artists to create work for the billboard as a public art medium. Presented as part of the Art Moves Festival in Toruń, Poland, the competition focuses on art made for urban space, replacing commercial messages with visual ideas that can be encountered by a broad public audience.
The 2026 edition is built around the theme “Fear or courage? How can we stop fearing tomorrow and start creating it together?” Artists are asked to consider fear, uncertainty, responsibility, courage, relationships, and collective agency in the contemporary world, while the official rules state that direct use of the theme is not required and will not affect jury evaluation.
Participants may submit up to three works, with technique left to the artist, provided the final concept is suitable for horizontal billboard presentation. Text used in submitted work should be in Polish or English, and entries are judged by a jury of artists and curators specializing in public art.
Entry fee: There is no entry fee.
Eligibility
Open to individual artists and groups of artists interested in billboard art; works must be created personally and independently, and projects generated wholly or partially with AI image generators are prohibited.
Prize
The jury will select 8 most interesting works to be printed and displayed on billboards in the city space during the Art Moves Festival in September 2026 in Toruń, Poland, and the author of the best selected work will receive the Main Award of PLN 6,500.