In Pueblo Garzon, a small town in Uruguay with less than 200 residents, an international art festival took place. The 8th edition of the Campo Artfest, founded by American photographer Heidi Lender, drew around 6,000 visitors. The event featured over 20 artists from countries such as Brazil, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States, including Lukas Kuhne who created a sound sculpture made of resonance boxes and rubber mallets in a local chapel.
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3293714/who-needs-art-basel-town-uruguays-tuscany-hosts-international-campo-artfest?module=top_story&pgtype=sectionThe Moscow Times organized an art exhibition titled "Artists Against the Kremlin" at the De Balie Arts Center in Amsterdam, featuring over 100 works by Russian-speaking artists who oppose war and authoritarianism. The show ran for a month, showcasing the creative expressions of these artists as they speak out against the current political climate in Russia.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/01/07/the-best-of-russian-diaspora-art-2024-a87525BE OPEN Art, an online art gallery founded by humanitarian expert group BE OPEN led by Elena Baturina, is organizing its third consecutive year of the BE OPEN Regional Art competition. The competition aims to support emerging artists whose work best represents their regional, cultural and ethnic identities. In 2025, the BE OPEN community will select artists who best represent a region's artistic tradition to feature in the BE OPEN Art gallery and increase their visibility. The first stage of the third year's program will cover countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. A winner from each region will receive 500 euros, selected by both public vote and a favorite chosen by the founder.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/be-open-art-lanza-la-primera-competicion-regional-de-2025-para-los-artistas-emergentes-del-sur-de-asia-302337857.htmlBE OPEN Art, an online gallery founded by Elena Baturina's humanitarian group BE OPEN, is hosting its third annual BE OPEN Regional Art competition to support emerging artists who represent their regional, cultural and ethnic identities. The competition will focus on South Asia for the first time this year, featuring artists from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. A winner will be selected in April and receive a 500 euro prize, as well as the founder's favorite award.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/be-open-art-lance-le-premier-concours-regional-de-2025-pour-soutenir-les-artistes-emergents-dasie-du-sud-302337860.htmlElena Baturina's humanitarian think tank BE OPEN has launched its third year of the regional art competition, BE OPEN Regional Art. The initiative aims to support emerging artists who best represent their region's cultural and ethnic identity. In the first phase of the program, which will last three months, seven South Asian countries - Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka - will be featured. A regional winner from each country will receive a 500 Euro prize, chosen by a public vote. The competition runs parallel to BE OPEN Art's regular work, where experts select emerging artists for the online gallery based on their social awareness and aesthetic solutions to contemporary issues.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/be-open-art-lanciert-den-ersten-regionalen-wettbewerb-2025-zur-unterstutzung-aufstrebender-kunstler-in-sudasien-302337769.htmlElena Baturina's humanitarian think-tank BE OPEN has launched the third year of its Regional Art competition, which aims to support emerging artists from South Asia. The competition will feature artworks by 20 artists from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, with a public vote selecting the Regional Artist of the Month and ultimately the Artist of the Region. The winner will receive a €500 prize, in addition to a separate award chosen by the founder. This is part of BE OPEN Art's ongoing mission to promote emerging talent that emphasizes social consciousness and aesthetical solutions to contemporary issues.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/be-open-art-launches-the-first-regional-competition-of-2025-to-support-emerging-artists-of-south-asia-302337421.htmlA group of artists showcased their work in an exhibition that was officially opened by Prof Dr Rahat Naveed Masud, who praised the artist's innovative approach and the gallery's support for emerging talent. The event drew a large crowd of students, art enthusiasts, and other artists, and will remain on display until January 6, 2025.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/1268796-painting-exhibition-beginsThe Nigaah Art Awards honored outstanding artistic talent in Pakistan with a ceremony that featured performances by fire dancers, dhol players, and folk musicians, as well as an auction of paintings to support art student scholarships. The esteemed jury, comprising RM Naeem, Dr Arjumand Faisel, Dr Rahat Naveed Masud, Amra Ali, Noorjehan Bilgrami, and Tauqeer Muhajir, selected winners who demonstrated innovation, dedication, and a profound impact on contemporary aesthetics. The awards aim to promote artistic talent in Pakistan and beyond, inspiring the next generation of artists to push boundaries and tell their unique stories through their craft.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/1268448-bank-al-falah-nigaah-art-awards-2024-honouring-excellence-in-art-and-creativityThe Los Angeles art scene is thriving with two notable exhibitions currently on view at local museums. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is hosting "Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968", a show featuring 40 artists working in the photorealism movement between the 1960s and today, including Vija Celmins, Audrey Flack, and Barkley L. Hendricks. The exhibition highlights the technical proficiency and meticulous verisimilitude of photorealism, as well as its political and aesthetic role in depicting people and places historically omitted from artistic representation. In a separate exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), "Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics" is taking an expansive view of contemporary Black art, featuring work by 60 artists from Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The show includes painting, sculpture, photography, and video created over roughly the past 25 years, curated by Dhyandra Lawson and pulled primarily from the museum's collection.
https://hyperallergic.com/979207/10-art-shows-to-see-in-los-angeles-january-2025/