Every year the

Trieste Contemporanea Committee

assigns the

Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award

to a young Central Eastern European artist with the aim of promoting his or her work on the international art scene.

Submissions have to include:

• an artistic statement (

in English, maximum 1500 characters

)

• at least 5 images of recent works with their description (

in English

)

• a brief CV (

in English, 1 page maximum

)

All eligible applications will be examined by a judging committee comprising experts and curators of contemporary art from Central Eastern Europe, who are members of the

Continental Breakfast

network.

There is no entry fee

.

Eligibility

Open to any young artist aged under 30 and born in one of the following countries:

Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey

and

Ukraine

.

Prize

The award gives the overall winner the opportunity of conceiving and developing a

solo exhibition

for Studio Tommaseo (

Trieste, Italy

), opening in

March 2016

.

The artist will also have a

monographic catalogue

published for the solo show and will benefit from professional exposure as a consequence of the award.