Art Moves 2025 Billboard Art Competition

Art Moves 2025 Billboard Art Competition is now open for entries!

Art Moves 2025 Billboard Art Competition : Billboard Art Competition Art Moves 2025 has been recently opened for entries and like every year invites all artists interested in billboard art, especially the young ones, to prepare an artwork in response to this year’s competition theme ’Love or anxiety? How can we stop escaping and take responsibility for our own fate and the fate of the world?’

➜ Short description

The 18th Art Moves Festival is hosting its international Billboard Art Competition Art Moves 2025 with a purpose to propagate and popularize billboard art and to encourage artists to create art engaged in the reality.

This is an international event held annually as a core part of the renowned Festival of Art on Billboards, set to take place in Toruń, Poland, in September 2025.

The purpose of the Competition is to propagate and popularize billboard art and to encourage artists to create art engaged in the reality.

Participants are invited to prepare an artwork in response to this year’s competition theme: ’Love or anxiety? How can we stop escaping and take responsibility for our own fate and the fate of the world?’

This competition slogan can be treated as a metaphor of all the processes taking place in the world today. The contemporary world is filled with turmoil, challenges, and rapid changes. Societies and individuals struggle to keep up with the pace, and often find it difficult to understand and respond properly. We face permanent perceptual overload and overstimulation, along with an excess of emotions and events that drive us to retreat and escape, leading to increased anxiety instead of motivating us tackle challenges, take actions, and create new solutions. This anxiety is further fuelled by various social actors, such as corporations, the media, and politicians. How long will we continue to escape? How can we take action without succumbing to anxiety? How can we stop escaping and take responsibility for our own fate and the fate of the world? How can we collectively care for the world of which we are all a part? Where can we draw the energy for action? Where can we find the time to calm down, rest, and recharge? How can we tap into the source of creative power – love – which can serve as an antidote to destruction and harm? The contemporary world tempts us with numerous options, but each choice carries its consequences. Therefore, we must choose – love or anxiety?

The artists taking part in the competition are invited to prepare an artwork (of maximum three pieces) in a technique of their choice.

Incorporation of the Competition theme in the work is not required and will not have any impact on the evaluation of the work by the jury. If some other slogan or phrase is used in the work, it should be expressed in either.

The works will be evaluated by a jury panel composed of artists and curators who are recognized authorities specializing in public art.

➜ Submission requirements:

➜ At this point of the competition, do NOT attach files of the complete (heavy) works.

➜ You need to dens a preview of the submitted work in the following format: 30 cm x 14,6 cm (11,8 inches x 5,7 inches) in a horizontal layout, 72 dpi, jpg. The Competition organizers will contact the selected artists after the announcement of the jury’s verdict in order to receive the final works to be printed off and displayed on the billboards.

➜ The format of the final work should be 498 cm x 243 cm (196 inches x 95.7 inches) in a horizontal layout, 100 dpi, cmyk, tiff.

➜ Who may enter?

The Competition is open and all artists interested in billboard art are invited to take part, however, the Competition is particularly addressed to young artists, who are usually most eager to face new themes and untypical ways of art presentation.

➜ Prize:

The 8 most interesting works will be displayed on billboards in the city space during the Art Moves Festival in September 2025 in Torun, Poland. The best selected work will receive the Main Award in the amount of PLN 6 000 (about EUR EUR 1 404).