Art Gallery O-68 will present the O-68 Award for the third time on October 16, 2022, an incentive prize of €10,000. This Award is open to visual artists who were born, studied, work or live in the Dutch border provinces, Rhineland Westphalia in Germany or Flanders in Belgium, and who graduated from an art institution between 7 and 16 years (2006-2015) ago. The jury of experts for this prize chose the three finalists from 50 entries. The winner will be announced during the opening. The other two finalists will each receive an amount of €1,000. Warp, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium offers the three finalists an exhibition.
The jury of experts for this prize consists of Isabelle Bisseling, art historian, curator and visual artist, Netherlands; Gerd Borkelmann, visual artist, curator, Germany; Marcel Doorduin, visual artist, teacher, Netherlands; Karen Vermeren, visual artist, teacher, Belgium. They chose Bas Ketelaars (Breda) Charlotte Koenen (Maastricht) and Emanuele Dainotti (Antwerp) as finalists.