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ARC Living Master Ana Schmidt has been awarded the first place at the The International FiKVA Award for painters 2025 for her painting In Search of the lost Place. Selected work will be on view online at https://fikva.art/product-category/gallery/

The International FiKVA Award for painters 2025 is a global online competition, open to all artists age 18 or older, worldwide. The FiKVA Award is open to all styles of representational painting—modern and classical realism, imaginative realism, hyperrealism, photorealism, luminism, surrealism etc. 

The FiKVA Foundation (Figuratieve Kunst Vandaag) is based in Antwerp and is a non-profit organization with a bold and clear mission: to champion contemporary realism and figurative art on a global scale. FiKVA supports outstanding artists - whether emerging or established - whose work is rooted in realism, yet alive with personal vision. 

https://fikva.art/winners-2025/