The bank has a new prize for young artists in Southeast Asia working in digital media.
Julius Baer is offering a total of $60,000 in prizes across two categories: Still Image and Moving Image, with a panel of five jurors to select 20 finalists based on conceptual insight, originality of visual expression and utilization of the medium.
Artworks submitted for the «Next Generation Art Prize» should reflect the bank's vision of the future in one of the following themes: Arising Asia, Digital Disruption, Energy Transition, Feeding the World, Future Cities, Shifting Lifestyles, Inequality, and Sustainability.
Julius Baer's support for Southeast Asia's burgeoning art scene and a technologically advanced arts community «in line with a worldwide shift to focus on digital and technology’s value as a conduit of business and leisure that has seen attitudes and assumptions challenged by the advent of the pandemic,» Jason Moo, Julius Baer's head of private banking Southeast Asia, and Singapore branch manager, said.
Submission Details
The panel of jurors includes Barbara Staubli, curator of the Julius Baer Art Collection; Dr. Wiyu Wahono, art collector based in Indonesia; Dr. Cheryl Loh, contemporary art collector and practicing doctor based in Singapore; Audrey Yeo, gallerist of Yeo Workshop in Singapore, and Inti Guerrero, curator based in Manila.
The competition is open to artists aged 18-40 in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam. Artworks must be original and completed between 1 January 2019 and 28 February 2021 to qualify for consideration.
Find out more at https://www.juliusbaer.com/en/spotlight/next-generation-art-prize/.
