Mediterranean art prize is the biennial prize conceived by Porta Cœli Foundation with the aim of producing systematic solicitations in the art of the present time. Map3 intends to set the context to build fruitful relationships with those territorial and social specificities that make Italy a place rich in those experientialities that are essential for contemporary artistic creation. For Porta Cœli Foundation, the prize is also a very important occasion of investigation and relationship with international artistic contexts, even among the most remote and unprecedented ones: each edition is a dizzying and irreplaceable enrichment of the possibilities of acting in the contemporary, both for the Foundation and the artists who participate in it, as well as for the territory and for the international partners involved.