Unleash Your Talent
MArteLive is an European contest supported by Creative Europe for young handicrafter and makers
Are you a handicrafter looking for opportunities to exhibit your work and gain visibility 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 and unleash your talent
MArteLive Europe is an international contest and festival supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
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 internationally?
- Would you like to have the opportunity to exhibit your works in galleries and fairs in Europe?
- 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: Agoust 2022
- Semifinal Show - September 2022 in Krakow, Poland
- Art Residencies - Autumn 2022 in Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland and Lithuania
- Final Show - 18-20 october 2022 in Rome, Italy
European Areas
MArteLive Europe Contest and Festival covers 47 countries:
- 27 EU members
- 20 non-EU partners or neighbouring countries which are partners of the Creative Europe Programme.
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 diverse 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), Vilnius (Lithuania), Tuzla (Bosnia & Herzegovina) and if you’re among the best in your discipline, you’ll fly to Rome for the Biennaial MArteLive.
Biennial MArteLive
The MArteLive Biennial is a massive wave of events and culture that hits Italy every two years in December 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 Total Show 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.
STEP 2 - ONLINE AND LIVE STREAM AUDITIONS
MArtelive selects the 10 best artists for each Artistic Discipline that will perform online in livestream audition events. Artists are evaluated by both qualified juries and the audience.
STEP 3 - SEMI-FINAL SHOWS
Spectacular live events where the 3 best 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 Vilnius (Lithuania), 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 2021)
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 60 locations in Rome, with an audience of 50,000 people.
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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 on the MArteLive Biennial Festival in Rome, Italy.
Best moments of the experience and “making of” will be shared on MArteLive social media and website, giving the artists a platform to directly connect with the audience.
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.
Testimonials
What do the artists think?
"The experience at MArteLive was very nice and unexpected.
I had only been in Rome for a month and felt out of touch on so many fronts, so I wouldn't have put a penny on my winnings,
After all, I had never taken part in a competition because of my low self-esteem.
But it went well, and winning the Handicrafts section was even better, because that's how I feel, a craftswoman, not an artist as I'm sometimes described."
Valentina Musiu, in art ValegnameriaWinner MArteLive Handicraft 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 Italy"MArteLive drags, overflows, invades different spaces and places and therefore reaches different audiences, like a cultural fertiliser on Lazio. There is energy, desire, creativity. Their initiatives reduce the gap between Rome and the rest of Lazio, which is exactly one of the main objectives of our policies. It's money well spent, therefore."
Lidia RaveraWriter and ex Assessore alle Politiche Culturali della Regione Lazio - Italy"MArteLive is a shared and participatory process. And it must be seen as a seed that grows, that does not end on 28 September. From the point of view of the development of the suburbs, this is certainly one more weapon to defeat degradation."
Paolo MasiniPaolo Masini, ex Councillor for the Development of the Peripheries of Roma CapitaleWhat 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
