The 16th Edition of the Combat Prize Now Open to the Public
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The Combat Prize, the international contemporary art competition now in its sixteenth edition, is back, scheduled from June 28 to July 12, 2025. The event is organized by the cultural association Blob Art ETS, in collaboration with the City of Livorno and the Region of Tuscany, with the support of the Livorno Foundation, Sillabe Publishing House, and the support of partners Opera Laboratori and Poliart, a leading manufacturer of expanded polystyrene.
The 80 finalist works will be exhibited in the venues of the Livorno City Museum (Painting, Graphics, Sculpture/Installation) and the Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum - Granaries of Villa Mimbelli (Video). The prize gathered significant participation again this year: about 1,000 works from 34 different countries, confirming the international scope of the project.
Free-themed and with no age limit, the Combat Prize continues to be a reference point for the most current languages, offering an open mapping of contemporary artistic research, freed from purely commercial logic and capable of giving voice to new and transforming perspectives.
Among the recurring themes: identity, memory, landscape and global crises, addressed with intimate, political or visionary approaches. The works become tools that interrogate the present and open up new perspectives, inviting the viewer to step outside the boundaries of habit, generating unexpected spaces for reflection
The Combat Prize thus confirms itself as a creative ecosystem capable of adapting to societal transformations, deepening the dialogue between art, context and audience year after year.
The 2025 Prize jury consists of Francesca Baboni, independent curator; Lorenzo Balbi, director of MAMbo in Bologna; Andrea Bruciati, independent curator; Davide Ferri, director of Arte Fiera Bologna; Ilaria Gianni, independent curator; Angel Moya Garcia, co-director of visual arts at Tenuta dello Scompiglio; and Stefano Taddei, independent curator.
The final awards ceremony will be held on July 12 at the Museo della Città di Livorno. The €10,000 Combat Prize will be awarded, along with cash prizes for the winners of the five sections, and the Special Galleries Prize, which includes collaborations with major exhibition spaces for the 2024/25 season. Also returning is the Popular Jury Prize, which will allow the public to vote for their favorite work.
It consolidates the Poliart Prize, which will support the production of a new work by one of the finalists, testifying to the value of the dialogue between art, business and the territory.
The 2025 edition also sees the birth of a significant new award: THE PLACE Prize, promoted by the newly formed marketplace of the same name together with the association Ultracontemporary Art Project aps (U-ART-P aps), in collaboration with Calcografica Petronilla. Created with the aim of bringing chalcographic engraving back to the center of attention of the new generation, the prize involves the creation of a work, produced during an artistic residency in June at Calcografica Petronilla..
The name of the first winner will be announced on June 28, at the official opening. The work produced will be exhibited together with the finalists at the Museo della Città di Livorno, renewing the dialogue between the engraving tradition and contemporary experimentation.
Combat Prize 16th Edition
dates: june 28 - july 12, 2025
Locations
Museo della Città di Livorno
Piazza del Luogo Pio, 19 - Livorno
+39 0586 824551
Sections Painting - Graphics/Drawing - Sculpture/Installation
Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori - Granai di Villa MImbelli
Photography - Video/Performance Sections
via San Jacopo in Acquaviva 65/71 - Livorno
+39 0586 - 808001/ 824607
Schedules
Museo della Città di Livorno
Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori - Granai di Villa MImbelli
Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. / 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. / 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Opening: Saturday, June 28 h 17.00 Museo della Città di Livorno
Awards Ceremony: Saturday, October 5 h 17.00
The Finalists
Painting Section
Andrea Astolfi, Giuseppe Atzori, Azzurro, Nicola Bindoni, Pietro Catarinella, Ilaria Costaglia, José Victor De Castro Negreiros, Tali Dello Strologo, Francesca Filicaia, Giovane Ceruti, Lorenza Iacobini, Hongjing Lin, Besnik Lushtaku, Francesca Mazzagatti, Carlotta Mazzariol, Gemma Mazzotti, Nikko Mundacruz, Lorenzo Piazza, Noa Quintáns Rey, Chris Rocchegiani, Debora Romei, Michael Rotondi, Sara Sacchet, Ersilia Sarrecchia, Marila Scartozzi, Michele Stagni, Petra Stipanovic, Dorotea Tocco, Mattiasalvatore Valentino, Xi Zhang
Graphics/Drawing Section
Valeria Carrieri, Nicolas Crocetti, Antonella De Sarno, Axel Gouala, Marta Lech, Pamela Pintus, Lucia Simone, Bernardo Tirabosco, Luca Valli, Veljko Vuckovic
Photography Section
Eddy Babetto, Chiara Beretta, Luigi Di Fabio, Alice Ippolito, Ivan Terranova, Lori Lako, Lisha Liang, Leonardo Magrelli, Marcela Castaneda Florian, Mariano Vargas, Alice Muratore, Giovanna Petrocchi, Sara Rinaldi, Federica Rugnone, Thomas Schlereth, Roberto Solomita, Alessandro Truffa, Giulia Vanelli, Jenny Ymker, Elena Zanfanti
Sculpture/Installation Section
Alessia Arnone, Sara Cancellieri, Marta Caproni, Valeria Carrieri, Alberto Fanni, Axel Gouala, Agnese Oprandi, Dilan Perisan, Sofja _ Zosia Metel, Claudia Vetrano
Video/Performance Section
Andisheh Bagherzadeh, Francesca Catellani, Duo Evangelisti _ Serenari, Leila Erdman Tabukashvili, Mariana Ferratto, Alessia Piccinetti, Riccardo Androni, Tommaso Sacconi, Transparent,
Christa Zhou
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