NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Art exhibitions in ELTE Botanical Garden (first in 21.06.11-04.12 and the second in 22.23.04-31.05) The main goal for our newly founded initiative was to make
visual arts easily accessible but also more experiental to a wider, generic audience by creating a location specific, innovative exhibition which had been put into a vegetal frame that takes the observer by surprise. This way the audience can free their minds and break away from the common exibitional spaces of art galleries and museums.

The former barber and hairdressing salon Ozbič, is the most completely preserved artisan salons in Slovenia from the period between the two world wars. Carefully restored, with original equipment and details, selected contents and exceptional respect for the past, which has been written in it for almost a century. With its unusual and unique appearance, the house on the corner enlivens the old town center of Postojna and the cultural heritage of this craft in the local area and beyond.

Spain’s Urban Analyses of Vulnerable Neighbourhoods have examined urban vulnerability in its 147 largest cities through expressly elaborated neighbourhood-scale delimitations. The open data project developed here is based on these analyses and makes them available to the public on the e-ScienceData portal. The analyses are part of the Observatory of Urban Vulnerability of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda and serve as a starting point for the design of urban public policies.

Created and realized by Vesuvioteatro, "Racconti per Ricominciare" is a multi-venue eco-friendly performing arts festival that takes place in National Cultural Heritage of South of Italy. During the Festival, some of the most evocative locations in Campania are transformed into natural theaters for site-specific performances staged at sunset, in perfect symbiosis both with ancient architectures and natural landscapes.
Recognized as National Theatre Festival by Italian Ministry of Culture.

POOL IS COOL has been advocating for the reintroduction of outdoor swimming in Brussels since 2015. In 2021 they opened FLOW, the first public outdoor pool in the city in forty years, designed and built by Decoratelier Jozef Wouters. As a prototype for more permanent solutions, FLOW addresses the urgency of the lack of open-air swimming in the European capital. FLOW also fulfils a number of social ambitions, such as employing young people from Brussels who are keen to contribute to the project.

LABIOMISTA is an atypical project, emerging from a remarkable collaboration between an artist, Koen Vanmechelen, and a city, Genk. LA-BIO-MISTA, a self-invented word that points to life in all its mixed and variegated glory, is conceived by Vanmechelen as a permanent and evolving work of art. It represents humanity, nature and the relationship between both. The site weaves together culture, heritage, public park, contemporary architecture and ‘wild’ nature.

The Last Transhumance is a visual art project which takes us into the world of shepherds who walk with their animals very long distances in search for food, an ancient way of life not compatible with the modern world. Transhumance is replaced by sedentary forms of animal breeding affecting the spiritual, social, cultural life & biodiversity. Stories of shepherds from Romania, Greece, Albania, Turkey, Italy & Wales invite us through photography and film to reconsider our relationship with nature.

MUCE is the first museum of circular economy started by the 25 year old Nina Maat. As a pop-up it tried to convince the governments that we need a place where citizens, knowledge institutions, artists and companies go in dialogue about several sustainability topics like circular economy, regeneration, biomimicry and social inclusion. By putting these actors together and stimulate debate, artists gave all the topics body by making artworks. People paid their visit to MUCE with empty batteries.

Awarded the highest global design awards Dieline Awards, D&AD, ADC, the Bee Loop packaging of Lithuanian beeswax is organic, recyclable, renewable, edible, self-degrading, anti-fungal, antiviral, antibacterial and antiseptic. Filled with 100% pure honey, the innovative container is fully sustainable, leaving no waste and ensuring the circle of nature continues.

Digital pagakia (benches) is a public art intervention which aims to collect audio recordings from citizens in the city of Athens. Everyday life stories were initially shared while sat on benches whilst digital platform digitalpagakia.gr gathers them and creates a storytelling ‘museum’ in the heart of the city. With the use of their smartphones, citizens scan the QR code found on the bench’s intervention or simply visit digitalpagakia.gr. They easily get directed to listen and record stories.