“More or less freedom?"  is the theme for the 2014 Art Moves Festival in Torun, Poland. Artists worldwide are invited to submit works on the topic for presentation on billboards in the city festival in September/October 2014.

There is no entry fee. The Competition is open and all artists interested in billboard art are invited to take part. The works should be submitted by 30 July 2014, 00:00 CET via electronic mail to the address: artmoves(at)tlen.pl

The 10 most interesting works will be displayed on billboards in the city space during the Art Moves Festival in September / October 2014 in Torun, Poland. The author of the most interesting work will receive the Main Award in the amount of PLN 3.000 (about EUR 726, USD 984).

Artists are invited to prepare an artwork in response to this year’s competition theme “More or less freedom?”

This competition slogan can be treated as a metaphor of all the processes taking place in the world today. Freedom was and still is a word of great value. At the same time, freedom is a paradoxical word. This is one of the fundamental ideas that drive individual and social life. In the history of mankind, great and wonderful, but also tragic things happened in the name of freedom. Paradoxically, freedom is most easily defined and appreciated when one tastes its lack (e.g. in a totalitarian state). When we have it, we do not notice it and it rapidly loses its real value – we take it for granted. So, what is freedom then? Is freedom essential to life? Should it be unlimited or have some limits? Can other people limit our freedom – because they also have a right to feel free? Is freedom responsibility or rather doing what one feels like doing? What do we really need? What do you need? More or less freedom?

For more information see the Competition Rules.