Open Call for Talente Competition 2020

In an area of 600 m², the works will be shown to a wide audience, with an international jury selecting the winners of the TALENTE prize. An illustrated catalogue will be published.

The aim of TALENTE is to promote young people with a particular manual talent and to show an interested audience the enormous potential which lies in the new generation in crafts and trades. The works will be the outcome of formal or technical considerations and experiments, showing something new and exceptional.

Participants are chosen from any section of crafts and technology. They will have made the artefact by their own hands. Age limit is set at 33 in the domains of crafts, and at 35 in the domain of technology.  Deadline for all applications will be the 8th October 2019.

The competition is publicly funded. This covers the space on the fair itself, the catalogue entry and part of the transport of the objects to and from Munich.

The online application is now possible under the address: www.hwk-expo.de. We renewed our website and hope that the application is possible without any problems.

Find here the forms for the written application for your information as well as the conditions of participation with the timetable for 2020.


Prizes and Awards:
Talente-Prize

• Eight contributions will be awarded the TALENTE-Prize.
• Works will be acknowledged at the TALENTE-Catalogue of the following year (including photography and text).
• Distinguished exhibitors receive a certificate.

Bavarian States Prize

• Every exhibitor at the International Trade Fair can apply for the Bavarian States Prize.
• The Bavarian States Prize is awarded 5.000 Euros, a gold medal and a certificate.

Organisation and Funding:
Promoter: Verein zur Förderung des Handwerks e. V.
Administration: Wolfgang Lösche, Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern
Organisation: Michaela Braesel, Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern


We are grateful for the support provided by the Federal Ministry of Commerce and Energy, and the Bavarian State Ministry of Commerce and Media, Energy and Technology. The publication of the catalogue is enabled by funding from the Association of Trades Fairs.