Scemtovici & Benowitz Gallery - Galerie de artă contemporană
APRIL - JUNE 2025
1st edition P A I N T I N G P R I Z E
obiective
Scemtovici & Benowitz Gallery and the Art Movements Foundation are continuing their collaboration to enhance the sustainability of the art sector through the first edition of the painting award "Emerging Me: Breaking the Ice."
With this award, we aim to discover and support emerging artists, offering them a stage to present their boldest, most groundbreaking works in the vast and complex landscape of contemporary art.
our expectations
The invitation is open to artists who are no older than 29 years of age by the final date of the open call (May 11, 2025), who place a strong emphasis on painting, and have completed art studies at an accredited art university. Young artists of other nationalities are also welcome to apply.
The submitted works should align with the concept and stand as emblematic expressions of a defining moment in each creator’s artistic journey.
promovare
The Art Movements Foundation supports young artists with a total of €5,000 in prizes, awarded to the three works that receive the highest cumulative scores following the jury’s evaluation. Additionally, a partner collector will grant the Collector’s Prize, worth €1,000.
In June 2025, the top 35 finalist works will be promoted in the national press and showcased at Scemtovici & Benowitz Gallery as part of the group exhibition that concludes the first edition of the Emerging Painting Award.
Contemporary Drawing in Romania 2024
AMF Award - 2nd edition
CONTEMPORARY DRAWING IN ROMANIA, curated by Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu, invites you to take a journey into the world of Romanian graphic creation.
Certainly incomplete due to the physical space limitations, the selection of drawings considered, alongside artistic excellence, a wide diversity of techniques and trends present in contemporary creation.
may 29th - june 2nd
MoBU 2024
Location: Romexpo Central Pavilion
”The Scemtovici & Benowitz Gallery is a creative space of the current era, with spearheads thrown into the future, a place for young creators and a good laboratory for observing what was created before and laid the foundations of what we are today. Amid the (dis)order of post-disciplinarity and of the eclecticism within art, in our (meta)gallery space dedicated to contemporary creation, we want to connect decency with boldness, to host artists who challenge truths, to open (new) paths for some unjustly forgotten in their studios, as well as for the established.” - Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu, curator and artist
NEW PROGRAM
volunteer with us
If you are thinking about means to develop professionally and personally in the art sector, you want to know more about what is behind the projects of a contemporary art gallery, you are over 16 years old and you are ready to start, we offer a series of opportunities within the team. We would be very happy to meet you, first by a short letter of intent at contact@artmovements.ro.