China | Hyundai Blue Prize+ 2025 for emerging curators

Hyundai Motor Company has opened the Hyundai Blue Prize+ 2025 calling for exhibition proposals for Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing from emerging curators worldwide engaged with the context of Asia. 

Established as a laboratory for the evolving role of curators, Hyundai Blue Prize+ invites curators to explore the most pressing contemporary issues, in connection with the contexts of Asia, by pursuing boundless perspectives. 

Applicants will need to submit a curatorial statement outlining the exhibition, a proposed list of artworks, a preliminary exhibition design, a budget plan, as well as a framework for public programmes linked to the exhibition. The proposed exhibition should be designed for the gallery space on the second floor of Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing with the consideration of the exhibition being presented for at least 5–6 months. 

Applications are open to individual curators or curatorial collectives.

Selection process

Following the open call, five curators or curatorial collectives will be selected as shortlisted finalists and will each receive one-on-one mentorship with the members of the jury panel, a research tour in China, and a 4,000 USD grant to develop a final exhibition proposal. 

Two final awardees from this shortlist will present their exhibition at Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing with up to 800,000 RMB (approximately 110,000 USD) for exhibition production and implementation, as well as additional support for on-site operations and exhibition marketing and communications.

Hyundai Blue Prize+ 2025 application guidelines

Deadline: 8 June 2025