FREE ENTRY / Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2023

The Rencontres d'Arles are launching the call for applications for the 2024 Discovery Prize, which will be part of the 55th edition of the festival. Its aim is to promote the work of the selected artists who will exhibit in the Discovery Prize exhibition; and to reward the winning projects through the jury prize of 15,000 euros, and the public prize of 5,000 euros. Since 2021, the Rencontres d'Arles has associated the Discovery Prize with organizations that support emerging artists: associative spaces, independent places, run-space artists, exhibition venues with hybrid forms; galleries; institutions; foundations (...) which carry out real pioneering work, identifying and supporting artists.  These organizations, which are important actors who defend photography and artists, thus act as relays, discoverers, to present to the Discovery Prize artists whose work they have identified, followed, and/or supported. These structures can propose for the Discovery Prize an exhibition project of an artist that they defend; and whose work has recently been discovered or deserves to be discovered by an international audience. The projects selected to be exhibited during the next edition of the Rencontres d'Arles, as part of the Prix Découverte exhibition, will be accompanied by the festival team and an exhibition curator invited by Les Rencontres d'Arles. Arles. During the opening week, a jury appointed by the festival will award the Discovery Prize jury prize which rewards an artist and the structure supporting the project through an acquisition of works amounting to 15,000 euros; and the public will award the public prize which will reward an artist and the structure supporting the project through an acquisition of works amounting to 5,000 euros.