Call for Submission:The 4th Dafen International Oil Painting Biennale, Shenzhen 2024

Under the national development goals of “the Belt and Road” initiative and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the cultural brand of Dafen International Oil Painting Biennale, Shenzhen continues to exert its international influence, With Shenzhen, the pioneer city of Reform and Opening-Up, as a foothold, continuously radiating outward, promoting the new trend of cultural industry development with stronger confidence, and setting the standards of artistic creation. Through this exhibition, Dafen will become a platform for China to understand the world and a window for the world to understand China, thus facilitating the exchange and development of artists from all over the world in terms of culture and art.

 
I. Exhibition Name
The 4th Dafen International Oil Painting Biennale, Shenzhen 2024
 
II. Duration
November 2024 – February 2025
 
III.Venue
Dafen Art Museum, Shenzhen

IV. Theme
Theme: Green and Coexistence
Interpretation of the theme: The earth is our common home; the harmonious coexistence of man and nature can promote the development of ecological civilization and balance better. People need to start from the environmental protection, and strive to practice green low-carbon development, the rational use of resources, to prevent environmental pollution, and develope a harmonious coexistence of man and nature of the sustainable development of the ecology.


V. Organizations
Academic support:
Oil Painting Art Committee of China Artists Association
Oil Painting Institute of China National Academy of Painting

Sponsors:
CPC Publicity Department of Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee
Shenzhen Federation of Literary and Art Circles
CPC Shenzhen Longgang District Committee, People's Government of  Longgang District

Organizers:
Shenzhen Artists Association
Shenzhen Public Culture and Art Creation Center (Shenzhen Fine Art Academy)
Longgang District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau
Longgang District Shenzhen Federation of Literary and Art Circles
Buji Sub-district Office of Longgang District, Shenzhen
Dafen Art Museum, Shenzhen


VI.Organizing Committee
Honorary Directors: Fan Di'an, Pang Maokun
Executive Directors: Zeng Xianglai, Liang Yu
Deputy Directors: Xu Qingfeng, Zhao Peizhi, Yi Yukun, Huang Yun
Commissioners: Li Lan, Xing Lidan, Wu Jun, Peng Gang, Zhu Yuhua,Lin Nan, Qiu Zhi, Huang Chaoruo, Zhuang Guodong,Chen Xiangbo, Chen Xiangbing, Yang Xiaoyang, Qi Jie,Liu Yajing, Hao Qiang, Yang Yanling, Lu Shengshe, Liang Jian, Zhang Ke
Exhibition Editors: Lu Weixuan

VII. The Jury and Requirements for Participating Works
The participating works of the 4th Dafen Biennale 2024 are expected to come from all over the world, and the representative oil paintings will be selected. The specific requirements are:
1. The jury established by Dafen Biennale, is responsible for the impartiality and the selection outcome.

2. Domestic and foreign participating works of Dafen Biennale can be submitted freely and are collected globally.

3. The participating works are supposed to be oil paintings created after 2020 and should be the artist's own original works. All the rights and interests of the submitted works belong to the artist himself/herself. The submitted works should focus on aesthetic taste and artistic quality. Each person should submit no more than 1 work (including co-created works).

4. The length and width of oil painting works should be no more than 200cm (excluding the outer frame), and each side length of wooden box should be less than 2.4m after the post is packed. The packaged weight should not exceed 100kg.

5. Once selected, the participating works should be framed by the artist, and the inner and outer frames should be firm. The frames should not have nails and exposed sharp objects. If the participating works have mirror frame, it should not use glass mirror and could use plexiglass or transparent plastic board.

6. The Sponsor has the right to refuse the participating works which are not in accordance with the information in the forms submitted by artists or which are over-sized, overweight, smelly, difficult to be transported and arranged for exhibition, or are dangerous to the visitors.

7. The participating works are required to be original. Once plagiarism is found, the work will be disqualified for selection and participation in the exhibition. Once the selected works have been found to have mistaken related to politics and history, violations of public orders and customs, and hurt the feelings of the Chinese people, the Sponsor should have the right to immediately cancel all the qualifications about it, such as being selected and published and participating in exhibitions and conferences. The Sponsor reserves the right of final interpretation of related issues.
 
VIII. Submission and Selection 
1. Submission Time: From now to August 5th, 2024

2. Selection: Dafen Biennale adopts the online submission, and the participating artist should log on the website (http://dfbiennale.artron.net/) and submit the information to complete the registration according to the requirements. Each participating artist needs to submit high resolution images of the work in JPG format (more than 8 million pixels or no less than 5MB) and is required to complete the registration form on the official website. The form must be clearly filled out, without missing items, and the submitted materials will not be accepted if exceeding the submission time. The Organizing Committee will review images of domestic and foreign participating works, and all participating information will be archived. Once submitted, the materials will not be returned, please keep the original copy. Photos or the original works sent by post are not accepted.

3. The selection outcome: The Organizing Committee will select the works based on the photos of the submitted works and the outcome will be announced on the official website of the Dafen Biennale. Meanwhile, the Sponsor will notify the selected artists to clarify the responsibilities, rights and obligations of both parties.

4. Registration and participation fee is not required.

5. The Sponsor reserves the rights as follows: freely exhibit and display the participating works, freely take photos of these works and use these photos openly free of charge, use the artist personal information listed in the registration forms for domestic and foreign publicity works of the exhibition, and publications of paintings albums etc., and the image reproduction rights including developing Biennale souvenirs, and the right to publish the works in the relevant media and networks for long term.

6. All the participating works and participants of Dafen Biennale should be deemed to have confirmed and complied with the requirements of the notice.


IX. Packaging, Transportation and Insurance of Participating Works
 1. The Sponsor covers the cost of round-trip transportation fees for participating works from overseas (from the country in which the works are located to Shenzhen, China) and the return fee of domestic exhibition works. Domestic exhibits will be sent at the expense of the exhibiting author.

2. The participating artists should cover the cost of round-trip insurance of transportation by themselves for their works. The Sponsor will refuse to offer carriage service for uninsured works and will be responsible for the insurance of the participating works during exhibition.

3. The Sponsor will inform the foreign artists of the confirmed carrier agency by website announcements and e-mail in time. The carrier agency will arrange for their staff to contact foreign artists in a timely manner. The foreign artists should properly pack participating works as required and put them in a fumigated box and give it to the carrier agency designated by the Sponsor, and clearly mark the designated exhibiting number offered by the Sponsor on the outside of the packages. To complete customs clearance smoothly, if the packaging materials of foreign participating works is raw wood (including all materials used for packaging works such as crates, mats and wedges, etc.), the raw wood must be fumigated, and the artists are required to mark the national IPPC (International Plant Protection Convention) logos on at least both sides of packaging materials. In addition, the artist should bear the cost of packaging, and the carrier agency will be responsible for picking up the works.

4. The domestic artists should post the packed participating works to the designated location of the Sponsor and clearly write the designated exhibiting number offered by the Sponsor on the outside of the package box. The post must be “door” to “door”. The fees of posting works to Shenzhen should be borne by the artists, and the fees of returning works will be borne by the Sponsor.
Participating artists should ship the corresponding works or deliver them to the carrier agency in time and should not replace works with other ones without permission, otherwise the Sponsor has the right to refuse it. If participating works cannot be delivered to carrier agency or shipped to the designated place in time, the Sponsor will not be responsible for the consequences that the works cannot be exhibited in this case.

5. For any selected works damaged during transportation due to poor packaging, or broken, shed, deformed or suffering other changes due to their own instability or weakness, or damaged in the process of transportation at artist’s own risk, the Sponsor will notify the artist in time, but will not take any responsibility of it.

6. The Sponsor will be responsible for returning the selected works. For the foreign works sent by the undesignated carrier agency, the Sponsor will not be responsible for returning them. If those works do need to be returned, the artist should negotiate with the Sponsor.
 
X. The Benefits of Artists
1. Each participating artist will receive a copy of “The Collection of the 4th Dafen International Oil Painting Biennale, Shenzhen 2024”. The Collection will be published, with all participating works, the introduction of artists, work descriptions and other related text contents included.
2. The selected works will be awarded the certificate issued by the Sponsor.

XI. Works for Donation
The Sponsor accepts free donations. Artists who are willing to donate participating works voluntarily should mark in the column of the work registration form. The donated works should be original copies of the exhibits and will be in the permanent collection of the Dafen Art Museum, Shenzhen. The museum will issue certificates to donors and hold donation exhibition in due time.
 
XII. Works for Collection
The works of the exhibition by the evaluation committee to convene experts to carry out the collection of works to determine the collection of works, by the organizers to pay the author of a certain collection of fees (including tax), issued by the Dafen Art Museum collection certificate for the permanent collection of the Dafen Art Museum.
 
XIII. Academic Symposium
1. Biennale parallel activities and related international academic exchange activities will be held during the exhibition, which invites the Organizing Committee, Chinese and foreign artists, influential art critics, curators and related scholars to attend.
2. The topic will focus on the theme of the exhibition
 
XIV. Contact Information
1. Address: Dafen Art Museum, Buji Sub-district, Longgang District, Shenzhen, China
2. Postal Code: 518112
3. Tel: 86-755-28402456 (Beijing Time: 9:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 18:00. Workdays only)
4. Fax: 86-755-84732622
5. Dafen Biennale official website: http://dfbiennale.artron.net/
6. E-mail: china2df@163.com (for domestic including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions) dfbiennale@hotmail.com (for foreign)
Note: All artists who apply to participate in this Dafen Biennale are deemed to have agreed to the Notice of Submission and Regulations mentioned above. The Organizing Committee of the 4th Dafen International Oil Painting Biennale, Shenzhen, 2024 has the final interpretation for the contents of these regulations.
 

The Organizing Committee of Dafen International Oil Painting Biennale,Shenzhen
July 2024