2025.07.09
Next Art Tainan 2026
1. About the Award
The Tainan City Government has organized the Next Art Tainan Award since 2013 to support young artists in their creative endeavors, invigorate the art market, and establish a platform for collaboration between artists and businesses. Aiming to discover the "next rising stars,” the Award solicits artworks from outstanding young artists nationwide and exhibits them at art galleries in Tainan. Each year, a curator is specially appointed to plan different themes for the Next Art Tainan Award and to facilitate the collaboration between emerging artists and gallery spaces, thereby promoting the development of contemporary art.
2. Highlights
- Applications are accepted through an open call, with registration available for individual or group categories. The works are judged across the two categories.
- In principle, ten award recipients (both individuals and groups) will be selected for the Next Art Taiwan Award. Their works will be exhibited in selected galleries in Taiwan. The recipients will also be able to participate in the Art Tainan exhibition.
3. Organizers
- Supervising organization: Minister of Culture and Tainan City Government.
- Organizers: Tainan City Government Cultural Affairs Bureau and Tainan City Cultural Foundation.
4. Qualifications and Application Requirements
- Qualifications
- For individuals: Applicants must be born after January 1985 and have no exclusive representation contract with any gallery. The Award is limited to individuals with Republic of China (Taiwan) nationality or those holding a Republic of China residence permit or legal residency status.
- For groups: Each group member must meet the aforementioned qualifications for individuals. The information on group name, group representative name, and the list of all group members must also be provided upon submission.
- Application Method
All applications must be submitted online. Please visit the official “Next Art Tainan Award" website (http://next-art.tainan.gov.tw/) to complete the online application. - Online Application
- Personal information (including basic information, contact details, highest education, exhibition experience, award records, and the front and back of the ID card in JPG file); group applicants should provide a list and details of all group members.
- An affidavit declaring that the artist does not have an exclusive representation contract with any gallery.
- Information about the artwork should include the title, medium, dimensions, year of creation, and artist's statement (limited to 200 words, including punctuation). Entries are categorized into two-dimensional, three-dimensional, video, and installation works. The works will not be judged by category, but for administrative purposes, artists should select the type of artwork accordingly. Please upload one primary artwork and two reference artworks.
- Once the materials are uploaded and the application process is complete, no changes to the application information will be accepted.
- Submission Formats
Images of the uploaded artworks will be used for event promotion, including the design of promotional materials. To ensure quality in submissions and promotional materials, please upload according to the following file formats:- Two-dimensional: For each artwork, please upload one full image and up to two partial detail images. File formats should be JPG file, between 2MB and 20MB in size, with a resolution of 300dpi, and dimensions of at least 3,000x3,000 pixels.
- Three-dimensional: For each artwork, please upload one main image and up to three partial detail images showing different angles. File formats should be JPG file, between 2MB and 20MB in size, with a resolution of 300dpi, and dimensions of at least 3,000x3,000 pixels.
- Video: Digital videos should be a maximum of 5 minutes in length, in MP4 format, and should not exceed 800MB in file size.
- Installation: For each artwork, please upload one main image and up to three partial detail images showing different angles within the space. File formats should be JPG file, between 2MB and 20MB in size, with a resolution of 300dpi, and dimensions of at least 3,000x3,000 pixels. For digital audiovisual files, they should be a maximum of 3 minutes long and total no more than 600MB. Video files should be in MP4 format, and audio files should be in MP3 format.
5. Submission Deadline
- Please submit your application from midnight (12:00 a.m.) on July 14, 2025 to 5:30 p.m. on September 5, 2025.
- Participants must upload all required information before the submission deadline. If the information is not fully uploaded by the deadline, the application will be considered unsuccessful.
- Applications with late submission or incomplete information will not be accepted. Please ensure timely submission.
- The selection results will be announced by the Bureau, and the selected applicants will be notified by phone. Unselected candidates will not be notified separately.
Ms. Lee, Division of Art Development, Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government.
https://next-art.tainan.gov.tw/index.php