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ArtDeco II.

Decorative Art Exhibition

Golden bird cage standing on the lying golden roses

Have you thought how to start up the upcoming year? The cold snowy winter is giving us more and more reasons to stay inside. This is the perfect time for some stunning, exaggerating art piece to light up our days.

The Golden Duck Gallery launches the ArtDeco II. Open Call & Show to celebrate decorative art of any kind. 

The ArtDeco Show was a great jump-start for the 2024 artistic season, driving a lot of attention of both Hungarian and international visitors as well as the press. 

We believe that this tradition should become annual, giving exposure to true masterpieces in a great variety of styles and colours. 

DEADLINE
EXHIBITION
VENUE

December 18
February 4 - March 13
Golden Duck Gallery

Submit up to 10 artworks and win a chance to exhibit your stunning artworks physically in our brilliant gallery for nearly 40 days in February and March!

We do not limit the sizes or styles, and this show is not only about the art déco (art décoratif) styles. Feel free to submit any artwork with the vibe of decorativeness, luxury and crispin' style. 

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We pay money prizes

Best of Show Award

€200

1 winner

Talent Award

€60

2 winners

Duck's Special Prize

€40

3 winners

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Why to submit?

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Exhibition

The main prize of the ArtDeco II. is the opportunity to exhibit your brilliant artwork both physically and virtually in the Golden Duck Gallery between

Feb 4 - Mar 13, 2025 

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Easy submission

The submission process is easy and gathers all the necessary marketing information to represent your artwork.

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Awards & Prizes

We pay money prizes in the following categories:

Best of Show Award - €200

Talent Award - €60

Duck's Special Prize - €40

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Customer Care

Our colleagues are trained to solve all the issues that might occur. You will never be in a difficult situation on your own.

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Gallery location

Our gallery is situated in the city centre on the second touristic avenue filled with restaurants, theatres, galleries and gift shops. The street front with large windows attracts a lot of attention of the people passing by. 

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Secure Payment

The payment for our Open Call is securely handled by the world-famous payment operators Stripe and PayPal.

Submission
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Submission details

The submission prices start at $30 for the first artwork. You can submit up to 10 artworks. 

To participate, simply select the number of artworks you would like to submit.

 

DISCLAIMER!

  • Please be informed that the Open Call is an art contest. This means your artworks undergo a jury that decides whether the artworks are eligible for the physical or online exhibitions.

  • The Open Call fee is the administrational fee for running the jury and is not refunded to those artists who do not get their art exhibitied. 

  • A sign-in to your Google Account (Gmail) is necessary to fill out the Google Form collecting the data for the submission. This is the policy of Google Forms. 

  • The submission and shipping deadlines are strict deadlines. Please be informed that exceeding the deadlines might mean your artworks will not make it into the jury and will not be chosen for show. Exceeding the deadline on the artist's side does not make the artist eligible for refund. 

Deadlines

The submission for the ArtDeco II. runs till December 18, 2024


The results will be announced till January 3, 2025

Shipping must be complete by January 27, 2025

Arwork number

Contact information

Due to tight deadlines and short delivery times we ask you to provide us with email and telephone numbers that you can easily check. Our colleagues do their best to reach out if they have any information.

Artistic Conditions

Feel free to submit:

  • physical & digital paintings,

  • sculptures,

  • photography,

  • videos (under 1 min.),

  • any type of mixed media

Please note that AI-created art or art co-created with AI should be marked up!

All artworks created on workshops or during painting masterclasses are not eligible for the exhibition. 

Study copies are allowed. 

Theme, topic & size limitations

The ArtDeco II. Open Call & Show has the goal of runnung a decorative art exhibition. So here are some tips & tricks for you to know how to maximize your chances to be there on our walls. 

  • Make sure your art is decorative. We consider decorative as depicting scenes without violence, war or any other social or historical issue. We would like to see artworks that depict scenes of a desirable lifestyle, decorative elements. 

  • We suggest working in limited color palettes to fit into many interiors.

  • We have no size limitations, so consider submitting various sizes of artworks. 

  • There are no price limitations either, but we suggest staying within reasonable borders. 

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Shipping information 

The winning artworks must arrive to Budapest

before January 27, 2025.

Please note, that the artworks arriving at a later date might be denied of physical exhibition!

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The shipping address is: 

1092 Hungary, Budapest

Raday utca 31/a 

Golden Duck Gallery

After the end of the exhibition, the Golden Duck Gallery shall send unsold artworks back to the artists.

DISCLAIMER 

  • Please note that shipping fees on both ways (inside the gallery and outside for the artist) should be paid by the artist. 

  • If shipping from outside of the EU, VAT or import customs might be applied on the border. In order to avoid that, please mark the artwork as gift. If the Artist marks it as goods, the Artist shall refund the gallery with the sum of the tax & VAT. 

  • Our colleagues are ready to help you with shipping and delivery of your artworks. If you would like to organise the shipping yourself, please inform us about the delivery services arrival times and special needs. 

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Budapest

The restaurants, cafés, shops are in a great hurry to get ready for two beautiful international holidays  - Valentine's Day and International Women's Day. We are also planning big on these dates!

In the past years Budapest has become the favourite tourist destination for travellers all over the world. In February and March the city is getting ready for the season.

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Written about our work

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Szalma Júlia
About ArtDeco 2024
Open Call

Tisztelt Szervezők! 
Nagyon szépen köszönöm a lehetőséget, hogy egy ilyen színvonalas kiállításon is részt vehetek. Jól kezdődik ez az év!!!!!! :) 
Szívélyes üdvözletem, további jó munkát es sikerekben gazdag Új Esztendőt az egész csapatnak! 
Szalma J
úlia (Sz. Szabó Júlia)

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Anita Jozsef, Hungary
About ChristmArt 2023  Open Call

Thanks for the lovely exhibition, Catherine. Kind regards and cheers. Anita

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Nldhi Panwar
About ChristmArt 2023  Open Call

Thank you so much for the opportunity to submit for the show!

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Nagy Kálmán
About ArtDeco 2024
Open Call

Nagyon örülök, hogy bejutottam!

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Gulyás-Németh Georgina, Hungary

About ChristmArt 2023  Open Call

Nagyon szépen köszönjük  a tegnapi kiállítást,  minden tiszteletem a 3 nyelven megtartott köszöntőért, kedvességért, profizmusért és hogy a művészek támogatása mellett még jó ügyet is képviselnek a vakvezető kutyák támogatásával! 

Nagyon jó érzés volt, hogy saját kutyusomat sem kellett otthon hagyni, nem tudok elég hálás lenni!

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Kolozsvári Edit
About ArtDeco 2024
Open Call

Hálásan köszönöm a lehetőséget!  Minden nyertesnek és döntősnek, szívből Gratulálok

Thank you very much for the opportunity! Congratulations to all the winners and finalists!

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Eva Laszlone Wagner
About ArtDeco 2024
Open Call

Nagyon boldog vagyok, hogy az ArtDeco pályázat nyertesei közé tartozhatok.  Nagy elimerés ez nekem. Köszönöm és további bátorítást ad a festéshez.

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The Grand Opening Gala

Great feast of art

Meeting art should be a great & picturesque holiday, we believe. That is why we arrange Grand Opening Gala evenings for every exhibition in the Golden Duck Gallery. 

It is our pleasure to ensure all our clients will get a unique opportunity to get to know the art exhibited in the gallery and to meet the artists in person. This tradition is becoming even more important with international art shows. In this case there are only few days the public can meet an artist from abroad. 

Here you can see how grand openings go in our gallery.

Copyright conditions

Additional information

Awards

We have the following types of winners in the Open Call. 

Winners 

Winners are those artworks that won the main prize - the offline physical exhibition opportunity in the ArtDeco II. at the Golden Duck Gallery. Along with that, we guarantee the winners' pariticipance in the ArtDeco II. Online Exhibition on the Golden Duck Gallery's website and a Winner's Certificate of Participance issued by the Golden Duck Gallery. 

Online Exhibitors 

Finalists are those participants who did not make their way to the offline physical exhibition opportunity of the ArtDeco II.. On the contrary, though we guarantee the winners' pariticipance in the ArtDeco II. Online Exhibition on the Golden Duck Gallery's website and an Online Exhibitor's Certificate of Participance issued by the Golden Duck Gallery. 

Special Award Winners 

The Golden Duck Gallery launches several Special Awards that can be awarded to Winner artworks only. The Special Award is verified by a Certificate issued by the Golden Duck Gallery and contains the Award name, the name of the Artist and the name of the Artwork. Some of the Special Awards also have money prizes. The jury judges on the awards after the exhibition has started. The Special Awards Winners List is announced at the Grand Opening of the exhibition along with the presentation of certificates and  money prizes. 

The following Special Awards will be given at the ArtDeco II.: 

 

Best of Show Award - 200 EUR - 1 winner

Talent Award - 60 EUR - 2 winners

Duck's Special Prize - 40 EUR - 3 winners

Please note that the Golden Duck Gallery reserves its right to launch additional non-financial Special Awards without specially informing the participants. 

Technical Conditions

For submitting to the ArtDeco II. you will need to provide us with high-quality images of your artwork in JPEG or PNG file format. We do not define a minimum or maximum resolution of the image as different artworks might have different criteria of a high-quality image. Instead we set the maximum size of the file of 10 MB.

For submitting video files please upload it to some videohosting (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo) or cloud drive (Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox etc.) and share the link with us in the description of the artwork. Please make sure the link is active and the content of the link is accessible to everyone who has the link. Otherwise we will not see the video you are sharing. 

Copyright  Conditions

You can only submit original artworks created by yourself for the Open Call. In case you are not the author and/or creator of the artwork, please make sure you are eligible for the copyright of the artwork. 

As the organiser of the Open Call, the Golden Duck Gallery hereby states that all images collected during the Submission process of this open call will be treated securely and used only with the following intentions: 

  • Running the jury process (the images are organized in spreadsheet and made visible for the jury only and are not accessible for the general public at this point) 

For those images that are chosen for exhibition purposes (winners or finalists of the Open Call) will be used in the following ways: 

  • The images will be published to the web page of the online exhibition on the Golden Duck Gallery website. 

  • The images shall be published to the Golden Duck Gallery social media pages, such as Instagram, Facebook and TikTok pages for information purposes as stipulated in the main prize conditions. 

  • The images may be used with promotional purposes that include online and offline marketing materials (banner advertisements, search-based advertisements, promoted social media posts and stories, printed flyer ads, newspaper and magazine ads) that promote the ArtDeco II. exhibition in the Golden Duck Gallery to its potential visitors. The promotional usage will be stopped by the 2nd of April, 2025.

  • The images may be used to create a printable & online catalogue of the ArtDeco II. and a digestive catalogue containing all the artworks exhibited in a certain period of time (e.g. the catalogue of 2024 or a digest of several years, e.g. 2022-2026)

Please note that the right of the Golden Duck Gallery to use the images for the purpose of promotion and catalogue creation do not result the obligation for the Gallery and its owners to do so. 

Please note that by submitting for the ArtDeco II.  you accept the Copyright Conditions. If you do not want to give your consent to this type of usage, the Golden Duck Gallery reserves its right to deny your participance in the ArtDeco II. as the Golden Duck Gallery cannot provide the service as stipulated above.

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How the process works

  1. Choose the number of artworks you would like to submit.

  2. Tap the Purchase button.

  3. Fill in the necessary information and choose the payment option (Stripe for debit/credit cards or PayPal).

  4. After payment you will receive your confirmation email with the PDF with the link to the submission page.

  5. You can also access the same PDF from your Order successful page that you see after the successful payment.

  6. Simply click the Download button. 

  7. Open the downloaded PDF file. Usually this type of files can be opened in a variety of different software. The most popular ones are Google Chrome, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Word. 

  8. In the opened file click the Submit my artwork button. A webpage will open. 

  9. In the opened webpage provide all the necessary information (artwork details, artist details, billing details and shipping address, which will be used in order to communicate and organize the whole process leagally correct) and click the Submit button to complete the submission process. 

How many artworks you wish to submit?