2025 AICA International Open Call – Incentive Prize for Art Critics

AICA-Int. Congress: Johannesburg, South Africa, October 27-October 31, 2025

Theme: Imaging / Shaping / Re-Thinking the Global South through Art

Entry Deadline: Sunday July 27, 2025 – Paris Midnight (CET)

Eligibility: Critics (commentators, curators, educators) writing from anywhere, newspapers, magazines, television, radio, internet

Entry fee: None

Cash Prizes: First Place €1000 (or dollars); Second Place €500 (or dollars); Third Place €250 (or dollars); Certificates emailed after Congress.

Jury Process: Aica-Int. Awards Committee reads and ranks essays

Notification: Only the three winners will be notified by email & announced at the Congress. First place winner will be invited to read essay via Zoom at the Congress. Winning essays will be posted on the AICA-Int. website.

Application Process:

Applicants should email an all-inclusive document in English (Microsoft WORD, Not PDF) including:

• 2000-3000 word count essay (one essay per applicant) with bibliography
• Optional six images (max) labeled
• Short BIO including writer’s nationality, workplace and email

Email your entries to all three: [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]

Additional Details:

• Essayists do not have to be AICA members
• Essays do not have to follow 2025 Congress theme
• Previously published essays, or essays sent to other contests, are eligible
• AICA-Int. reserves the right to publish entries on its website

If you have any queries, please email: Jean Bundy (Awards Chair) at [email protected] or visit the website linked below