Quadrennial World Cup Art
Events
Now Open:
Artist Calls
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Events:
Our exhibits celebrate cultural diversities in union. The singular visions converge to create a unique global art experience with dynamic visual narratives celebrating cultures, traditions, and rich histories surrounding the sport of football as seen through the artist’s eyes and creativity.
Please Check in with us frequently for dates and times for Receptions, Gala Events, Award Ceremonies, and Openings
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We are busy!organizing for our premier World Cup
Art Championship Exhibit. The event is projected to
open in tandem with the World Cup Football
Championships.
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*Soul: 2018 World Cup Art
Championships
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*Daedalus Knights:
2022 World Cup Art
Championships
*North American
2026 World Cup Art
Championships
Artists may apply on our website or via links.
For more info check out our For Artists page and
Please check back with us for calls and updates
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We are dedicated and excited to present to a global
audience a dynamic, engaging, artistically, culturally,
and contemporarily significant art experience
surrounding the merging of cultures in the sport of
football.
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what's
happening?
Every four years 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, thirty-two international artists will 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. In concert with World Cup Football and In the spirit of play and competition the quadrennial exhibits celebrate cultures and myriad sport histories; unexpectedly, distinct audiences share in a dynamic tradition fostering world class art evolving alongside world class football.
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The exhibits will be held every four years in a venue in the host country of the World Cup Football; 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 will feature opening and closing receptions, gala events, and will run for the duration of the games. A world cup artist will be 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 artists; and every artist that submits an application will have thier artwork seen and featured in digital pop-up exhibits staged in surprising places and venues throughout the cities of the matches in the host country of the World Cup Football Championships.
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 biggest potential for impact is one of artistic, cultural, and social exchange. The art aims to open dialogues across disciplines through its narratives; embracing histories, politics, traditions, and myriad artistic expressions of cultures in relation to a global sport tradition. The exhibit travels; offering a surprising artistic experience of an engaging global narrative relative to the merging of the artists’ singular visions.
At the close of the exhibit, the artworks will be 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 alongside World Cup Football.
By reaching and surpassing our goal we are striving to show the dedication and merit to earn an affiliation with FIFA; and like the Venice Biennale and Art Basel, to become an artistic mainstay and tradition that fosters art and artists, and the recapturing of traditions via a new global arena and medium for artistic expression that investigates diverse cultures and grows alongside the evolution of world class football. In addition to prizes, global exposure, and exhibition opportunities the artists will receive sixty percent of the proceeds from the auction of their work.
Thank You For Your Time and Support! Please share world cup art with your friends and colleagues!
Also, we will be updating this page as we move forward with SOUL so please check back with us frequently!
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