To celebrate their 45th Anniversary, Kaldor Public Art Projects has announced a first for the organisation, with an open call for Australian artists to create a Kaldor Public Art Project.
Titled ‘YOUR VERY GOOD IDEA’, the open call asks Australian artists with at least three years of exhibition experience to submit an ambitious site-specific concept. Selected by a panel of leading international curators, the project will be realised at a site within the City of Sydney precinct.
The first Kaldor Public Art Project was in 1969, when Christo & Jeanne-Claude wrapped the coastline of Sydney’s Little Bay. For the past 45 years, the organisation has been passionately committed to giving Australians access to the world’s leading international artists in the form of groundbreaking public art projects. YOUR VERY GOOD IDEA, extends the organisation’s mission, inviting Australian artists to create and realise their own extraordinary Kaldor Public Art Project.
John Kaldor AM, Director of Kaldor Public Art Projects said: “On the occasion of our 45th birthday, we would like to offer Australian artists the opportunity to tell us about their very good ideas. We have a strong history of presenting some of the most groundbreaking contemporary art projects, and it’s now time to turn the spotlight on the talent which resides here in Australia”.
‘YOUR VERY GOOD IDEA’ will be judged by a panel of local and international curators, including Nick Baume, Director and Chief Curator of Public Art Fund, New York; Alexie Glass-Kantor, Executive Director of Artspace, Sydney; James Lingwood, Co-Director of Artangel, London; Jessica Morgan, Daskalopolous Curator of International Art at the Tate Modern; Nick Mitzevich, Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia; and John Kaldor, Director, Kaldor Public Art Projects.
The winning artist will work closely with the Kaldor Public Art Projects team to bring their idea to fruition. Entries must outline the artist’s innovative, site-specific idea that can be transformed into a temporary art project. The concept must be original, ambitious, and at the cutting edge of contemporary practice.
Submissions are due by
9am Monday 26 May, 2014