Unleash Your Talent
MArteLive is an European contest for young fahsion designer
Are you a fashion designer looking for opportunities to make your creations known in Europe?
Are you ready to live an unforgettable experience of Art Residency?
If you are a European artist between
18 and 35 years old,
this opportunity is for you!
Don’t miss the chance
to win prizes, featuring and collaborations
Discover MArteLive
Our mission is to generate opportunities for emerging artists in 16 different disciplines: Music, Dj and Producer, Theatre, Dance, Contemporary Circus, Literature, Painting and Drawing, Sculpture, Photography, Digital Illustration, Street-Art, Fashion Design, Handicraft, Short Film, Music Video, Video Art.
- Are you looking for new opportunities to make your name and work known nationally and internationally?
- Would you like to have the opportunity to exhibit your creations and organise your own fashion show or performance?
- Participate in festivals in Poland, Lithuania or Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Be selected for art residencies in Poland, Italy, Lithuania or Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Pack your things and fly to Rome Italy.
What’s in it for you?
- Win Cash prizes
- Get paid gigs, performances and exhibitions all over Europe
- Perform and exhibit in front of wide audience.
- Get in touch with high profile experts and professionals: your Jurors!
- Gain international exposure on selected media
- Live the unforgettable experience of an Art Residency in Europe
- Network with fellow artists and high profile professionals
Challenge the finalists selected in 3 European areas and compete to win the European title!
I TAKE THE CHALLENGE
When?
- Call for artists! NOW OPEN !
- Online Auditions - 2022
- Semifinal Show - Summer 2022 in Krakow, Poland
- Art Residencies - Summer 2022 in Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland
- Final Show - 18-19-20 October 2022 in Rome, Italy
European Areas
MArteLive Europe Contest and Festival covers 47 countries.
Artists enroll in 3 European Areas: Blue, Green, and Yellow, depending on the country selected in the application form.
According to where you are located, you’ll compete with so many different talents!
The green Area is a East-West connection
The yellow Area brings you the northern lights
The blue Area is all at sea, from the Mediterranean to the Ocean
If you are preselected to the semi-final shows, you will be traveling to Krakow (Poland), or Tuzla (Bosnia & Herzegovina) and if you’re among the best in your discipline, you’ll fly to Rome for the MArteLive Biennaial.
Semi-final shows for northern Europe took place in Vilnius (Lithuania) in June 2021. Check out the after-movie.
MArteLive Biennial
The MArteLive Biennial is a massive wave of events and culture that hits Italy every two years with its epicentre in Rome.
For each edition, about 1,000 Italian and international artists perform for a total of over 300 shows in about 70 locations scattered throughout the Lazio region.
The beating heart of the event is the MArteLive Contest in its historical format which, since 2011, along with the Biennial, has witnessed an amazing evolution on a regional scale.
The phases of the competition
The MArteLive Contest is open to artists between 18 to 35, European residents or citizens. It follows a 4-step process of selection, running both online and live.
STEP 1 - CALL FOR ARTISTS
Submit your best work or performance. Process is super easy and quick. Just head to MArteLive Europe application form, fill it in, submit your best performance / artwork and… GOOD LUCK !
STEP 2 - ONLINE AUDITIONS
MArtelive selects the best 10 artists for each Artistic Discipline. Artists are evaluated by both qualified juries and the audience.
STEP 3 - SEMI-FINAL SHOWS (Summer 2022)
Spectacular live events where the best 3 artists, for each of the 16 Artistic Disciplines, perform all together: a unique experience for both the artists and the audience. Semifinal Shows will be in Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Krakow (Poland). The winners get a cash prize and fly to Rome for the European Final Show.
STEP 4 - EUROPEAN FINAL SHOW (October 2022)
An unforgettable show, where the best of European talents perform together to really wow the audience. The show is held during the prestigious MArteLive Biennial, a high-impact event spread through 70 locations in Rome
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Art Residencies
MArtelive is much more than a contest. Semifinal winners and other selected artists can take part in 1-week Art Residencies in Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The artists live together and create unique multidisciplinary performances, that will be showcased in special events in the Art Residency location and during the MArteLive Biennial Festival in Rome, Italy.
Here is an Art in Progress residence which took place in a historical palace close to Rome, involving 16 artists during 3 days in November 2021.
20 years: forever young
This first European edition of the MArtelive contest takes place after 20 years of experience in Italy, where MArtelive has already helped thousands of youngsters express their artistic views and gain international exposure.
Thanks to this background, MArteLive proves that creativity has no limits: the energy of the festival vibrates across styles and ways of expression, creating a unique space for connections.
MArteLive Europe semifinals in Vilnius
Photo by Martynas Vitėnas
Testimonials
What do the artists think?
"I entered the competition at the last minute after some indecision, mainly due to the high level of the competitors.
In the end I took the plunge and I'd say it went well!
I didn't expect to win, because compared to the other finalists, who presented themselves with already established businesses or brands, I presented myself as a recent graduate and with the collection on which I focused my degree thesis.
I'm happy with this win, because I was hoping more than anything that the message behind my work would get through!"
Alma RinaldelliWinner MArteLive Fasion Design 2019What do the institutions think?
"MArtelive is an important initiative that MiBACT has rightly decided to promote because it multiplies places of culture and entertainment, mixing centre and periphery, genres and forms of expression that now, thanks to the new law on live entertainment, the Republic is called upon to support".
Dario FranceschiniMinister for Cultural Activities and Heritage in ItalyWhat does the public think?
Total, involving and exciting performance. A brilliant and unique idea, capable of embracing and enhancing different artistic expressions. Besides, those who know him know that Peppe Casa is a living idea!
Ferdinando MorabitoSpectatorWonderful experience, and fantastic people!!! Girls of the staff available to our every need, and all with a great organization!
SaraSpectatorAmaazing! Amaazing! MARTELIVE competition and festival!!! Wonderful people, fantastic environment!!!! Together with JL Interviews magazine (media partner) I recommend this event!!!!
joanna longawaJournalistThey say about us in the press
