2000
II Bienniale of Engraving of Mercosur

60 selected artists participated, each featuring two works, chosen by the curator of each of the six participating countries.

Jury: Fermín Fevre (Argentina), Pedro Querejazu (Bolivia), Fabio Magalhaes (Brazil), Waldemar Sommer (Chile), Ticio Escobar (Paraguay) and Angel Kalenberg (Uruguay).

Winners
1st Acquisition Prize: Ana Miguel (Brazil)
2nd Acquisition Prize: Gerardo Goldwasser (Uruguay)
3rd Acquisition Prize: Roberto Koch (Argentina)

Mentions
1st Special Mention: Francisco Copello (Chile)
2nd Special Mention: Bernardo Krasniasky (Paraguay)
3rd Special Mention: Pablo Uribe (Paraguay)
4th Special Mention: Soledad González (Chile)
5th Special Mention: Lotty Rosenfeld (Chile)

Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires Encouragement Award Competition 2000 – Painting – Mercosur
Intended for Argentine artists as well as artists from Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Curators:
Pedro Querejazu (Bolivia), Fabio Magalhaes (Brasil), Waldemar Sommer (Chile), Ticio Escobar (Paraguay) and Angel Kalemberg (Uruguay). In the case of Argentina, a jury consisting of Fabián Lebenglik, Ana Martínez Quijano, Guillermo Whitelow and Jacobo Fiterman, selected the winner of the Buenos Aires Province Encouragement Award and the Argentina Encouragement Award.

Winners
International Mercosur Encouragement Award: Rita Fischer (Uruguay)
Encouragement Award Argentina: Diego Perrotta
Encouragement Award Buenos Aires Province: María I. Hooft
Encouragement Award Bolivia: Fernando Montes Colque
Encouragement Award Brazil: Fábio Farias
Encouragement Award Chile: María García Huidobro
Encouragement Award Paraguay: M. Medina Zorrilla
Encouragement Award Uruguay: Diego Masi

Telecom. Painting Competition, Young Talents from the Provinces
10 artists from the provinces of Argentina, were invited to exhibit two of their works in arteBA2000.Jury: Albino Diéguez Videla, Rosa Faccaro, Jorge Glusberg, a representative from the arteBA Foundation and a representative from Telecom
Curator: Jorge Glusberg

Selected artists
Benjamín Aitala (Olavarría), Mónica Inés Alvarado (Tierra del Fuego), Amadeo Azar (Mar del Plata), Facundo Ceraso (La Plata), Ariel Etchegoyen (Mar del Plata), Diego Figueroa (Chaco), Andrea Giuliani (San Luis), Leonel Marchesi (Tucumán), Roberto Saez (Córdoba), Nicolás Sara (Sante Fé)

Telecom Argentina and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes special mentions:
Miguel Canatakis (Mar del Plata), Celina Chirino (San Juan), Viviana de Torres Curth (Bariloche), María Inés Szigety (Tandil), César Tschanz (Corrientes)

I “People of my city” Photography Competition
Sposored by Banco de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Jury:
Domingo A. Molina, Carlos Milanesi, Feliciano Jeanmart, Juan José Mosca, Otilio Moralejo and Alberto A. Burda.
Curator: Ana van Raap.

Winners
1st Acquisition Prize: Ricardo O. Gatti, Pibe, ¿te gusta?
2nd Acquisition Prize: Daniel Gustavo Bleiweiss, No me den la espalda
3rd Acquisition Prize: Enrique Limbrunner, Ventanas boquenses

Special mentions
José Luis Cáceres, Andrea
Yamila Calviño, Èsta también es gente de mi ciudad
Ricardo Martiniuk, Av. Corrientes
Gustavo O. Pato, En contra
Celia Salazar, Café y Noticias
Carolina Santos, Inauguración Banier
María Cristina Silva, Zoom tanguero
Osvaldo Vainstoc, Mimo de la calle Florida
Osvaldo Vainstoc, Muñeca de papel
Zulma S. De Zaldívar, Flores