BE OPEN announces the winner of #BEOPENCulturalTapestry, a recently finalised creative open call across social media. With open calls, by asking the participants to share their vision with pictures and photographs, BE OPEN aims to support creativity as a universal approach, and build bonds between people around the globe.
BE OPEN Cultural Tapestry was dedicated to celebrating the rich tapestry of human culture, the colourful threads of meaning, identity, traditions and customs, languages and symbols interweaved into a beautiful pattern of the everyday life rooted in sustainable relations, inclusivity and acceptance. BE OPEN encouraged the subscribers to capture glimpses of vibrant kaleidoscopes with each facet reflecting a unique story of a person, community, or even country.
BE OPEN praises everyone who posted visuals via Instagram and Facebook with the #BEOPENCulturalTapestry hashtag, as a way to celebrate people’s ability to creatively interpret the reality around them. BE OPEN Community members have selected the winning post from a shortlist of submissions with the highest number of likes by Instagram users.
Our congratulations as well as the €300 prize go to Bachetta, a young photographer from Israel, who complemented their visual with a wonderful commentary: “What could better illustrate the richness, diversity and transience of human culture than the domes of Hagia Sophia, a magnificent building that has lived through the glory of the Golden Age of Byzantium and Ottoman Empire, the crusades and World Wars, and has served as a paragon for both churches and mosques for over a millennium. Visited daily by thousands of people of different countries, religions and cultures, it is a great example of those magnificent cultural icons that can unite people in admiration for beauty, human workmanship, and history.”
BE OPEN Art also reports that regional art competitions will continue in 2025 to cover four new regions starting with South Asia in January-March. Elena Baturina explained that “the regional competitions highlights those emerging artists whose art best represents their regional, cultural and ethnic identities. This helps us support even more young people. From now on, not only each regional winner selected by the public will be awarded a money prize, but the foundation’s favourite as well. We love the outcome of the programme so much that BE OPEN will expand the regional competition to four new regions over 2025, to involve artists of South Asia, Oceania, South America and Western Africa.”
BE OPEN will also tailor a section of the gallery for sustainable and inclusive art and artists, supported by the “Art Limitless” online competition, lectures, master-classes and other sources of knowledge and guidance on sustainability in arts.
