The Australia Council for the Arts has recently released the below tender.

Creatives’ Tender: Australian presence at Venice Biennale 2011 concept development, graphic design and production

The Venice Biennale is widely regarded as the most important and prestigious event on the international contemporary arts calendar for countries to showcase their contemporary visual artists. Australia has been consistently represented at the Biennale for more than three decades. The featured Australian artist for the 2011 Venice Biennale is Hany Armanious, who will present a selection of new and existing works.

Over 70 countries participate in the Venice Biennale. The event attracts 30,000 key international curators, critics, collectors and artists to the three-day Vernissage (preview) period alone, and a further 265,000 visitors (including school groups and young adults) to the six-month exhibition.

The primary goal of Australia’s participation in the Venice Biennale is to increase the profile of the featured artist, secondly, to profile contemporary Australian art internationally and thirdly, the Australia Council as the managers of Australia at the Venice Biennale.

The Australia Council’s Market Development division is seeking inspired proposals from graphic design agencies to undertake the concept development, graphic design, production and delivery of collateral to be produced for the Australian presence at the Venice Biennale 2011.

To download the tender document, click here

Please note – this is a revised version of the tender document as of Wednesday 27 April 2010.

The deadline for receipt of proposals is 5pm (EST) 21 May, 2010.

For further information, please contact:

Anne-Louise Wirth

Project Manager, Visual Arts and Venice Biennale

Market Development

(02) 9215 9002

a.wirth@australiacouncil.gov.au