Eikon - International Magazine for Photography and Media Art

DATES

Submit entries beginning: February, 2011
Entries can be submitted until: April 30, 2011
Jury viewing: May 19–20, 2011
Award and presentation of winners: June 22, 2011
Exhibition date: June 23–July 17, 2011
Foto-Talk: June 27, 2011


JURY

The jury consists of the following art experts:

  • Ulrich Haas-Pursiainen (Curator, Fototriennale Tampere)
  • Václav Macek (Curator, European Month of Photography, Bratislava)
  • Matthias Michalka (Curator, MUMOK, Vienna)
  • Eva Schlegel (Artist, Austrian commissioner of the Venice Biennale 2011)
  • Artur Walther (Art collector, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm)

PRIZES

The EIKON Photography Competition 2011 will be awarding a total of 5,000 Euros in prize money, distributed as follows:

1st place 2,500 Euros
2nd place 1,500 Euros
3rd place 1,000 Euros

The best projects will be shown in a three-week exhibition at the renowned Leopold Museum in Vienna from June 23 to July 17, 2011. How many projects are going to be part of the exhibition depends on their particular scale and will be decided after the jury viewing at the end of May 2011.