2026 Edition Categories

Painting

This category encompasses painting-based practices in their broadest contemporary understanding. In addition to traditional approaches, SUPERIORITAS welcomes expanded, conceptual, and research-driven forms of painting that question the medium’s boundaries, materials, and historical conventions.

Eligible works may engage with painting as an image, object, surface, process, or spatial element, and may incorporate interdisciplinary methodologies or theoretical research. Painting is understood not as a fixed discipline, but as a field of inquiry through which artists explore perception, representation, materiality, and meaning.

Curatorial Special Prize (Painting)
Awarded to a painting-based practice that demonstrates exceptional conceptual clarity, research relevance, and a rigorous relationship between idea, medium, and execution.

Sculpture & Installation

Including Land Art and Urban Art

This category is dedicated to three-dimensional, spatial, and site-responsive practices. It includes sculpture, installation, land art, and urban interventions that engage with physical space, material research, architectural contexts, environmental conditions, or public settings.

Practices in this category may address issues of scale, temporality, context, and viewer experience, and often require a strong awareness of spatial relationships and situational meaning. Works may exist as autonomous objects, immersive environments, or context-specific interventions, whether realized in natural, urban, or architectural spaces.

Curatorial Special Prize (Sculpture & Installation)
Awarded for an outstanding practice that demonstrates strong research foundations and a meaningful engagement with spatial, environmental, or contextual conditions.

Research-Based Art Prize

Special Prize Winners

This category includes practices that unfold over time or operate within digital, performative, or technologically mediated environments. SUPERIORITAS welcomes works that engage with movement, duration, sound, code, performance, digital imagery, or hybrid forms combining multiple media.

Time-based and digital practices may be experimental, interdisciplinary, or process-oriented, and often challenge traditional modes of spectatorship and presentation. Artists working in this category frequently explore relationships between body, technology, temporality, and perception, as well as the cultural and political implications of digital and networked systems.

Curatorial Special Prize (Time-Based & Digital Practices)
Awarded for a practice that demonstrates conceptual depth, innovation, and a research-oriented approach to time-based or digital media.

Curatorial Note

This prize is awarded across all categories to an artist whose practice is distinguished by sustained inquiry, critical methodology, and a strong research framework that extends beyond medium-specific definitions.

The Research-Based Art Prize recognizes practices in which research is not supplementary, but foundational—shaping form, process, and meaning. It is intended for artists whose work demonstrates long-term conceptual development, critical engagement, and intellectual rigor.

Special Prizes may be awarded to selected artists across all categories whose practices demonstrate notable artistic quality, conceptual relevance, experimental approach, or interdisciplinary reach.

These prizes acknowledge works that challenge categorical boundaries or propose particularly compelling relationships between research, form, and context.

While categories provide structural orientation, selection is driven by the conceptual coherence, research depth, and critical relevance of the work. Practices that operate across or beyond traditional media classifications are actively encouraged.

Time-Based & Digital Practices

Including Video Art · Digital Graphics · Performance · Sound Art

Accepted Artistic Practices

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Artists may submit works in any of the following practices and formats. The list is inclusive and non-exhaustive, and submissions are not restricted to a single category.

  • Painting and expanded painting practices

  • Sculpture and object-based works

  • Installation and spatial practices

  • Land art and environmentally engaged practices

  • Urban and public space interventions

  • Drawing and printmaking

  • Photography

  • Video art and moving image

  • Performance and performative practices

  • Sound art and audio-based works

  • Digital graphics and digital imaging

  • Code-based and software-driven practices

  • Interactive and immersive works

  • Audiovisual and hybrid media

  • Experimental and interdisciplinary practices

  • Research-based and process-oriented practices