Call for Ideas 2020
submission phase completed
We are looking for artistic ideas and project which will take our bid forward. The first hurdle is behind us – and now we are continuing the process with all intensity. In the final selection round of the competition for the title of European Capital of Culture 2025, it is the artistic and cultural programme in particular which will play a very significant part. During the entire bid process, we have been banking on the participation of the population in the city and in the region in all its diversity.
What ideas are we looking for?
For our second bid book, we are looking for excellent and outstanding ideas by artists or artists’ collectives which deal with our motto PAST FOWARD and the topics brought forward in Nuremberg’s bid. Creative artists will be completely free in their choice of medium: visual arts, film, literature, drama, photography, dance, architecture, design, fashion or crafts – everything is possible – across all boundaries.
The three topics
PHASE 1
The process is divided into two phases. Until 1 March 2020, ideas and projects may be submitted online or by post.
In the week after the deadline, an advisory board will look at all ideas and projects submitted and select those which are of particular artistic quality and relevance for Nuremberg’s bid and which clearly refer to one or several of the topics in Nuremberg’s bid to become European Capital of Culture.
On 9 March 2020, the artists whose ideas/projects have been selected will receive feedback from the advisory board. They will then have the opportunity to describe their ideas in more detail until 30 March, 2020:
- Short description of idea (in 2-5 sentences)
- Comprehensive description of idea
- Names of possible partners
- Timeline for implementation (starting in 2021)
- Outline costing/estimated overall budget
- Maximum of 10 pages
PHASE 2
The artists selected to go forward to phase II and submitting projects will receive a remuneration of 1,500 Euros each for developing their ideas/projects. By mid-May, the advisory board is expected to announce which of the phase II projects will be included in the second bid book. In phase II, the two main selection criteria are:
- the project’s ability to encourage and include international cooperation
- its feasibility