ArtConnect is re-launching with new updates that will make it easier for artists to refine their search for trusted opportunities and to put their art in from of a global audience of art lovers.

This exhibition encompasses work by the artists who completed the Visual Arts MFA Program in May 2021. Curator Amy Sadao notes, “this exhibition of emerging contemporary art looks, sounds, feels like and responds to the world in which it is being made.”

Four exhibition proposals have been selected from 520 submissions through apexart’s 2021-22 International Open Call. They were evaluated by 514 individual jurors, including students from 24 university classes and 1 high school class, resulting in 18,462 votes cast!

Today, after hundreds of thousands of ‘likes’ on over two hundred thousand artworks, we are saying goodbye to the ‘like feature’ on ArtConnect.

The topic of decolonizing the art world is certainly not a new one, but with the recent rise of global protests in the fight against institutionalized racism, it has received increased attention — with many art institutions issuing statements of solidarity and messages of inclusivity. But without concrete terms of action, institutions’ statements have been called out as performative — made without rethinking the role of the institution and enacting change on a structural level.

The opening of Studio Berlin at Berghain was a main feature of this year’s Berlin Art Week. But the large-scale exhibition, which showcases contemporary art from Berlin and has made it possible for the famous club to open its doors again, has also been met with criticism over the fees paid to participating artists.