Victor Pinchuk Foundation Future Generation Art Prize
20.01.2010 11:28:15 - adminA partner organization of the Amicus Europae Foundation, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, announces the beginning of the Applications Procedure for the Future Generation Art Prize and Announces the International Jury:
http://pinchukfund.org/en/news/archive/2009/12/10/1189.html
KIEV, UKRAINE, January 19, 2010
Beginning today, young artists throughout the world are invited to compete for the $100,000 Future Generation Art Prize, established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. Applications can be uploaded for free on the competition's globally accessible website:
www.futuregenerationartprize.org.
Established to discover and provide long-term support for a rising generation of artists, wherever they may live and work, this unique artist-focused prize aims to make a major contribution toward the production of new work by artists up to the age of 35.
Among the benefits of this new biennial award are a generous prize ($60,000 in cash and $40,000 toward production of new work); a group exhibition for the shortlisted artists at the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev, one of the largest and most active new contemporary art institutions in Eastern Europe; and mentorship by renowned artists including Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami.
At the same time as it has opened the applications process, the PinchukArtCentre has also announced the names of the art professionals who will serve as the international jury for the Prize. The jurors are:
• Daniel Birnbaum (Sweden) - Director of the Städelschule Art Academy, Frankfurt am Main; Director of the Venice Biennale 2009
• Okwui Enwezor (Nigeria) - Director of Documenta XI; Former Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at San Francisco Art Institute
• Yuko Hasegawa (Japan) - Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT); former Chief Curator of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
• Ivo Mesquita (Brazil) - Chief Curator at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; Curator of the 2008 São Paolo Biennial
• Eckhard Schneider (Germany) - General Director of the PinchukArtCentre
• Robert Storr (USA) - Dean of the Yale University School of Art; Director of the Venice Biennale 2007
• Ai Weiwei (China) - artist
"We are delighted that such a distinguished group of representatives from the contemporary art world have agreed to form the international jury for the Future Generation Art Prize," stated Eckhard Schneider, General Director of the PinchukArtCentre. "Our ultimate goal is to provide sustainable support for the future generation, by bringing the most promising young artists into a network that includes curators, critics, educators, scholars, art patrons and some of the world's most celebrated artists. Representing regions from across the globe, and with a wealth of knowledge and experience, our judges are a wonderful addition to this group."
Artists may submit applications at www.futuregenerationartprize.org from January 18 through April 18, 2010. The international jury will gather in Kiev and announce the Prize winner in December 2010.
Adding to the global outreach effort, PinchukArtCentre has named a number of non-profit, arts organizations as platform partners, which will support the Prize by communicating with artists and arts professionals in regions around the world. They include:
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• Viafarina (Milan, Italy), www.viafarini.org
• ArtHub (Shanghai, China), www.arthubasia.org
• L'appartement 22 (Rabat, Morocco), www.appartement22.com
• Artis - Contemporary Israeli Art Fund (New York, USA / Tel Aviv, Israel) www.artisrael.org
Notes to Editors
Timeline and Organization of the Future Generation Art Prize
Artists may submit applications at www.futuregenerationartprize.org from January 18 through April 18, 2010. Extending the reach of the Future Generation Art Prize, an invited group of approximately one hundred arts professionals from around the world will nominate artists for consideration. Following the close of applications, an expert Selection Committee comprised of members chosen by the jury will review all applications and decide on a shortlist of as many as twenty artists, whose names will be announced on June 22, 2010.
These artists will participate in a shortlist Prize exhibition, which will open at the PinchukArtCentre (PAC) in October 2010. Also participating in the exhibition will be Artem Volokitin, the winner of the first PinchukArtCentre Prize, a contemporary art prize awarded to young Ukrainian artists under the age of 35, which concluded in December 2009.
The international jury will gather in Kiev in December 2010 to select one main Prize winner. An additional $20,000 from the Foundation will be allotted to fund artist-in-residency programs for up to five other special prize winners. Images of works by all the shortlisted artists will be posted on the website, and members of the public will be invited to vote via the Internet for People's Choice Prize.
The international Board that oversees the Future Generation Art Prize includes chairman Victor Pinchuk, the four Mentor Artists, Eli Broad, Dakis Joannou, Elton John, Miuccia Prada, and art museum directors Richard Armstrong (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum), Glenn D. Lowry (The Museum of Modern Art), Alfred Pacquement (Musée nationale d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou) and Sir Nicholas Serota (Tate).
www.futuregenerationartprize.org
Victor Pinchuk Foundation
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation was established in 2006 by Ukrainian businessman and public figure Victor Pinchuk. It is the largest international, private, non-partisan, philanthropic foundation based in Ukraine. Its goal is to empower future generations to become the change makers of tomorrow. To achieve this goal, the Foundation develops projects, builds partnerships in Ukraine and worldwide and invests in three directions:
- Investing in people, to boost human capital;
- Investing in society, to promote social responsibility;
- Investing in the world, to foster a more integrated world.
www.pinchukfund.org
PinchukArtCentre
Located in the historic architectural complex of Kiev's Besarabka quarter, which has undergone a major renovation in the past decade, the six-story, 43,000-square-foot PAC opened in September 2006 as one of the largest contemporary art institutions in Europe. Dedicated to presenting exhibitions by leading Ukrainian and international artists, PAC to date has presented solo exhibitions of artists including Damien Hirst and Sam Taylor-Wood and group exhibitions such as 21 Russia (works created by 21 Russian artists during the first years of the 21st century), Reflection (a group exhibition with a selection of international artists), and Red Forest (works by seminal Ukrainian artists of the 1990s, shown in an exhibition named after a wooded area adjacent to the Chernobyl nuclear station).
PAC was also responsible for presenting the Ukrainian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and 2009 and in 2005 exhibited the first acquisitions of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation at the Venice Biennale.
www.pinchukartcentre.org
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