The BMW Art Journey to send artists on journeys of creative discovery

Munich/ Miami. Starting in 2015, Art Basel and BMW will support emerging artists by awarding the BMW Art Journey, enabling them to go on their own journey of creative discovery. Functioning as a mobile studio, the BMW Art Journey can take artists almost anywhere in the world – to conduct research, make new contacts, and create new work.

The artist proposes the journey. The artist sets off on the journey. The artist reflects on the journey. Inspired by travel and encompassing infinite potential variations on places and experiences, encounters and destinations, the artists will have an opportunity to develop new ideas, discover new themes, and envision new creative projects.

Artists who are exhibiting in Art Basel’s sectors for emerging-artists in Miami Beach and Hong Kong, respectively, are eligible to receive a BMW Art Journey. It will be awarded twice a year, to one artist among those who exhibit at each location. Two international expert juries, one for Hong Kong and one for Miami Beach, will determine a shortlist of three artists per sector and invite these artists to submit proposals for a journey. One artist from each shortlist will then be selected, in a second round of judging, to receive the BMW Art Journey. The artist chosen from the Discoveries sector of Art Basel’s show in Hong Kong, taking place in March 2015, will be announced in the summer of 2015. The selected artist from the Positions sector of Art Basel in Miami Beach, in December 2015, will be announced in early 2016.