- Celeste International – based in New York.
- Annual.
- A total of €23,000 in prizes divided across categories of painting and drawing, photography and digital graphics, video and animation, installation, sculpture and performance and a prize for young artists. Other benefits include promotion and expenses.
- Unrestricted entry.
- Aims to ‘…promote international contemporary art in its widest sense’.
- Selection from a shortlist of 50.
Artists, photographers and creatives submit online their artwork for review by a jury of top, art curators and critics. Six winners will receive 23,000 € prizes and every participant is up for selection in our 12 gallery benefits programme.
Past and present chief-jurors
2017 – Fato≈ü √ústek, Turkey
2016 – Ellen Blumenstein, Germany
2015 – Koyo Kouoh, Senegal
2014 – Elena Sorokina, France
2013 – Ami Barak, France
2012 – Katya Garcia-Anton, Spain
2011 – Eugene Tan, Singapore; Sara Reisman, USA
2010 – Julia Draganovic, Germany; Mark Gisbourne, UK
2009 – Mark Gisbourne, UK; Adrienne Goehler, Germany; Victoria Lu, China
Celeste Prize promotes and supports the work of visual artists, ensures that it’s seen daily in over 100 countries and each year by an audience of over 2 million people. Exhibitions have been held in Berlin, London, Miami, Milan, New York, Rome and Venice.