2025 AZCUY PRIZE: NATIONAL CALL FOR LARGE-SCALE ART PROPOSALS

The national visual arts competition—organized by the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires and Fundación AZCUY—has opened the call for its 2025 edition. As in previous years, the prize invites artists to develop a site-specific, previously unpublished artwork to be installed in one of AZCUY’s buildings. This year, each finalist will receive a USD 1,500 grant, and the winning project will be awarded USD 10,000 plus full production costs.

Launched in 2019, the Azcuy Prize is an annual, nationwide competition offering visual artists the opportunity to develop and realize large-scale artistic projects specifically conceived for the Donna series of residential buildings, designed and developed by AZCUY in Buenos Aires. This seventh edition will focus on an intervention in Donna Settima.

A key highlight of this year’s edition is the expansion of the prize’s collaboration network. With support from institutions across the country, the initiative aims to reach and engage artists from a broader range of regions. So far, confirmed partners include the Castagnino + MACRO Museum in Rosario and the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts in Salta, both of which will host in-person events with representatives of the prize.

These efforts build on the outreach initiated in 2024, when prize representatives traveled to Mendoza and Córdoba to host presentations at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Mendoza and the Museo Evita Palacio Ferreyra, establishing direct contact with local art scenes.

This year’s jury will include Gerardo Azcuy (Founder and General Director, AZCUY), Guadalupe Chirotarrab (Curator, Buenos Aires), Raúl Flores (Curator, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires), Sol Juárez (Creative Director, AZCUY), Malgorzata Ludwisiak (International Curator, Gdańsk), Julián Terán (Artist, Buenos Aires), and Guido Yannitto (Artist, Salta).

The call is open to Argentine artists—both individuals and collectives—as well as to foreign artists with a minimum of three years of residence in Argentina. Applications will be accepted through September 15 on the Fundación Azcuy website.

Once the call closes, a jury composed of artists, curators, and representatives from both the Museo Moderno and AZCUY will select five finalists. Each will receive a USD 1,500 grant to further research and develop their proposals, which will then be evaluated in a final presentation round. At that stage, the winning work will be selected and announced in November. The winner will receive USD 10,000 plus full funding for the production of the piece.

Fundación Azcuy was founded in 2020 by Gerardo Azcuy, general director of the namesake real estate development firm, with a mission to generate a positive impact on the community. The foundation promotes creativity as a driver of social transformation, connecting emotions, ideas, and people to enrich communal life. Its work is organized around three central themes: art and culture, sustainability, and well-being. Its mission is to enhance community life by fostering innovative, creative, cultural, and sustainable development.