2004
First arteBA - Petrobras Prize in Visual Arts
Dedicated to distinct plastic three-dimensional manifestations
Jury for selection and prize-giving: Luis Fernando Benedit, Mercedes Casanegra, Norberto Gómez, Jorge López Anaya and Adriana Rosenberg.

Selected artists:
Leo Battistelli (Rosario, 1972),Universo Inventario
Mariana Ferrari (San Miguel de Tucumán, 1975), Sin Titulo.
Mauro Giaconi (Buenos Aires, 1977), Cama Fetal
Sebastián Gordín (Buenos Aires, 1969), Sin Titulo
Miguel Harte (Buenos Aires, 1961), El Dominador y sus criaturas (Fuente de agua para Jardín interior)
Celeste Martínez (Córdoba, 1973), Niñas Preciosas
Alberto Passolini (Buenos Aires, 1968), Súbita Inspiración (from the series Autodidactas)
Gabriel Valansi (Buenos Aires, 1959), Móvil

First Prize Acquisition - $20,000:
Sebastián Gordín. Sin Título, objeto

Second Prize not acquisition - $5,000
Alberto Passolini. Súbita Inspiración, objeto

Special Mentions:
Mariana Ferrari. Sin Titulo
Celeste Martínez. Niñas Preciosas

The RED Project
Dedicated to present the latest trends and to open new routes for the circulation of all the artists of the country.

Coordinator: Ana Martínez Quijano.
Jury: Jorge Gumier Maier, Valeria Gonzáles and Ana Martínez Quijano.

Selected artists:
Proyecto Venus, Eloísa Cartonera, Sonoridad Amarilla, La Re-colección, Universidad Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo –UNAC (National University of Contemporary Art), Taller La Estampa, Miguel Mitlag and Sebastián de Ganay. In alternative spaces the works of Pablo Guiot and Ruy Krygier were also exhibited.

RED Prize - $5,000
Eloísa Cartonera. “Cumbia cartonera, la mais endiablada” (The Scavenger cumbia, the most devilish one), an installation containing unique books handwritten and painted by writers like César Aira and Ricardo Piglia, among others, besides paintings on discarded material collected in the streets and sculptures on cardboard.

Special Mentions:
Fabiana Imola, BSASTENCIL, El Cuarto Punto group and María Blanca Iturralde.

II Contest of Young Art “Orígenes”
Bajo la consigna “Seleccionemos juntos el proyecto con más futuro”.

The jury also specially selected several artists whose projects appeared in a file that could be consulted by the public and by collectors and art dealers in order to get acquainted with their production.
The votes were counted in the stand of Grupo Orígenes of arteBA2004.

Winner
Sonoridad Amarilla, an independent collective project that presented a library with false wooden books containing works of art. Through a computer, the visitors were able to browse the “books” and obtain the corresponding material from a librarian who assisted them.

IV arteBA Bienniale of Graphic Arts
The primordial objective of this competition is to endow the present-day expressions of graphic language with a greater relevance and exhibit visibility.

Selection and prize-giving jury: Teresa Gazitua, Victoria Verlichak and Matilde Marín.

The prizes awarded are divided into 2 categories:
Category 1
First Prize Acquisition - $5,000:
Mabel Rublí, “Variaciones sobre la vida inmóvil III” and ”Variaciones sobre la vida inmóvil IV”.
Second Prize - $2,000:
Celia Marcó del Pont, “Cazando querubines” and “Vuelo de flores”.
Selected artists: Pablo Delfini, Lucrecia Orloff, Juan Canavesi, Rosalía Maguid, Olga Autunno, Carla Rey, Teresa Pereda, Leonardo Gotleyb, Ana Erman, Roberto Koch and Beatríz Moreira.

Category 2
Three prizes - $1,000:
Patricio Miguel Bosch, Ana Dolores Noya and Andrea Fabiana Fernández.
Special mentions:
María Eugenia Barrios Arnejo, Mario Rivas-Carola Murúa and Andrea Moccio.
Selected artists: Rosa Farfán, Alejandro Gómez Tolosa, Marisol San Jorge, Natalia Cacchiarelli, Diana Kleiner, Pipa Estefanell, Dolores May, Carlos Raúl Servat, Luján Funes, Sonia Cortez, María Ester Constant, Marina Aizen, Lorena Ximena Vázquez, Laura Spivak and Silvia Carrasco.

Chandon Award
For the fourth consecutive year Bodegas Chandon purchased, behind closed doors, the first work of the arteBA Fair to be donated to the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts Timoteo Navarro, of Tucumán.

Selection jury: Fernando Farina, Alicia de Arteaga, Jorge Figueroa and Beatriz Torres Correa de Migliorini.

Acquired work:
Sergio Avello, “Unión Argentina de Corderas Patagónicas” (Argentine Union of Patagonian Lambs).