The Quadrennial World Cup Art Championships are global art exhibits that open in tandem with the quadrennial World Cup Football Championships. In the culturally unifying tradition that has existed for eighty-eighty years, thirty-two qualifying international football teams converge to play and compete.  Together in that custom, our goal is that thirty-two qualifying international artists or artist teams will be chosen to merge artworks in Soul: 2018 World Cup Art Championships in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in Daedalus Knights: 2022 World Cup Art Championships in Qatar, and then every four years thereafter.

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Also featured in the exhibits are an additional thirty-two international artists or artist teams who may apply from any country who are chosen to represent the diaspora in sport and art.

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In addition, every single artist that submits an application will have their artwork seen and featured in digital pop up exhibits that will be staged in surprising spaces and venues throughout the cities of the games in the host countries.  The exhibits function as visual representations that celebrate cultural diversities in union, and the rich histories surrounding the sport of football as seen through the artist’s eyes and creativity. 

 

2022 or 2026 is our new premier goal and we are working to earn an affiliation with FIFA.  We imagine our future; and project, like the Venice Biennale and Art Basel, to become an artistic mainstay that fosters art and artists and the recapturing of traditions via a new global arena and medium for artistic expression.  Participating artists will become a part of that new global art tradition; a genre that uses football as a technical support to create singular pieces that merge in global discourse and that grows alongside the evolution of world class football.

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There are thirty-two participating football teams in the world cup football championships. For our exhibits, 32 Artists and artist teams from every participating country will be chosen through a special jury process to represent their countries team.  In addition, thirty-two artists from all countries will be chosen to represent the diaspora. And every artist that submits an application will have their work featured in digital popup exhibits that will be staged in unique and surprising places throughout the cities of the host country.

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The participating artists use football as the technical support for the invention of new mediums to use for the creation of the artworks.  Specifically, the artists will be provided a ball or balls that has seen play by their team.  They will be asked to deconstruct these materials and then reconstruct them to create art in any medium that expresses their culture and how it relates to the sport of football.  The merging of the singular art pieces functions as a visual representation and global narrative that is culturally and historically significant as a whole; The singular visions converge to create a unique global art experience with dynamic visual narratives celebrating cultures and traditions side by side.  

 

The art aims to open dialogues across disciplines through its narratives; embracing histories, politics, and  myriad artistic expressions of cultures in relation to a global sport tradition.  The biggest potential for impact is one of artistic, cultural, and social exchange.  The exhibit travels; offering a surprising artistic experience of an engaging global narrative relative to the merging of the artists’ singular visions.

 

The exhibits are held in a venue in the host country of the World Cup Football Championships; near to the stadium of the matches, making it accessible to the audiences of the games, the residents of the host country, and to tourists alike. 

 

The exhibits run for the duration of the games, and a world cup artist will be named and awarded a grand prize and a world cup artist cup.  There will be an additional four artists who will be awarded runner up prizes. There will be a "Ties that Bind" award for the Diaspora; and every artist submitted will have work featured during the World Cup Football Championships in the host country.

In addition to prizes, global exposure, and exhibition opportunities all artists chosen to represent their team in the competition will receive sixty percent of the proceeds from the auction of their work.  :) :)

 

Every four years:  The 1st exhibit is projected to open in either the host country of Qatar in 2022 in tandem with the opening of the World Cup Football Championships or in 2026 when the USA, Mexico, and Canada host .  It will run for the duration of the games.  

 

At the close of the exhibit, the championship artworks will be made available to travel together to museums and galleries globally for four years;  after which time, the work will be auctioned off individually; making room for the next round of world cup artists to participate in the next World Cup Art Championships related to world cup football in the new host country.  The process will repeat and the World Cup Art Championship traditions and artists will evolve with World Cup Football.

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Our goal for the quadrennial World Cup Art Championships aims to bring art and artists together with global audiences of world class football and of world class art in dynamic and unexpected ways.  At the same time because the event opens in different countries of the world, features a variety of international artists, and exhibits myriad works investigating distinct cultural content, it is highly accessible to audiences of all ages and nations as well as across disciplines.

 

The event applications are open globally to all artists over the age of eighteen.  Since only artists are assured a spot in either the competition or in the pop up digital exhibits, Artists are asked to submit an application that illustrates a proven history of their artistic work, development and or education, exhibition history, etc. including images, resumes, artists statements, and project goals. Quadrennial World Cup Art may ask an applicant for more information or require alternate images to determine the capacity of participation for certain people and will not include work that is hate-based.

 

There is one jury for each country and so artists will be grouped according to their country of origin.  Each of the 32 international juries will choose the artists from each country to represent their county's team in the competition. There is a special jury tasked to choose the 32 additional artist participants representing the diaspora.

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