Six galleries, an independent space, and Poliart join the Special Prizes of Combat Prize 2024. Each gallery/space, autonomously from the judging panel of the Prize, will select an artist among the eighty finalists in order to realise a new collaboration (solo or collective show or site-specific project). All the exhibitions and events will take place in the exhibition season 2024-2025. The project is designed to continue the artistic research and give continuity to the comparison opened during the participation in the Prize.
A PICK GALLERY is a contemporary art gallery that, as its name suggests, focuses on the careful research and selection of emerging artists on the international scene. The gallery is dedicated to exploring new artistic languages, regularly curating solo and group exhibitions, participating in national and international fairs, and producing events in collaboration with other galleries and organisations. The gallery is located in the centre of Turin. Located in the centre of Turin, the 300-square-metre space allows for the organisation of large-scale and site-specific exhibitions.
A.MORE gallery was founded in September 2020 in Via A. Massena 19, in the heart of Milan. The gallery focuses on contemporary art and promotes the work of national and international artists. Its mission is to present to the art market artists of high impact, emerging and mid-career. In fact, the aim is to promote new collecting perspectives in contemporary art.
Federico Rui started working in the art sector in 1995 for a prestigious Milanese gallery. He was later among the creators of one of the first online portals dedicated to art, developed an art magazine for a publishing house, collaborated with the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and founded the Pittura Italiana Gallery in 2002. In 2010, he founded Federico Rui Arte Contemporanea and participated in the most important art fairs (Milan, Basel, Verona, Bologna) and organised exhibitions in London, Brussels, Rome, Genoa, Venice and Cape Town.
MAG | Magazzeno Arte Contemporanea is an art gallery dedicated to the exhibition and promotion of contemporary art in all its forms. Founded in Ravenna in 2016 by Alessandra Carini in a former sulphur warehouse (from which it takes its name), it immediately focused on promoting and exhibiting fine art and works influenced by urban culture. In January 2020, MAG moves to the first floor of a building built in 1836 in the historical centre of Ravenna: a more intimate space to welcome collectors and visitors, better representing the concept of an inclusive, open and hospitable gallery. At the same time, a small space was opened in the centre of Bologna. MAG is rethinking the gallery space and adapting it to today's needs, focusing more on fairs, online sales and temporary exhibitions in pop-up spaces, thus increasing the visibility of its artists in places other than just gallery or museum spaces and increasing a diversified audience in terms of provenance, age and interests.As of March 2020, MAG will join ANGAMC, Associazione Nazionale Gallerie d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea.Collaboration with Bonobolabo since 2017.
Lunetta11 is located in an ancient 17th century village in the Alta Langa region of Piedmont. A place in constant dialogue with the surrounding territory and contemporary art, with a focus on the artistic expressions of new generations. The gallery will be inaugurated in 2019 and will be run by Claudia Zunino and Francesco Pistoi.
Since 2019, the SAC – Spazio Arte Contemporanea is the new exhibition venue of the Cultural Association Blob ART. The Cultural Association Blob ART is a non-profit organisation for the promotion of contemporary artistic research, which has been passionately encouraging cultural experimentation in all its forms, in Italy, since 2009.
The company, leader in the processing of expanded polystyrene, will award an artist selected among the finalists, supporting the production of a work. The maximum format can be 200 x 60 x 80 cm. Technical specifications:
