News
30.10.2009
Laureates of the PinchukArtCentre Prize are to Gain Experience at the Art Studios of New York, Berlin and London
On Saturday, 31 October, the PinchukArtCentre opens a new exhibition – a group show of the 20 shortlisted nominees for the PinchukArtCentre Prize. The show includes more than 110 works by young Ukrainian artists such as: Myroslav Vayda, Artem Volokitin, Andriy Halashyn, Gamlet Zinkivskyi, Mykyta Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Maya Kolesnik, Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Lada Nakonechna, Oksana Protsenko, Oleksiy Say, Oleksiy Salmanov, Olesia Khomenko, Oleksiy Khoroshko, Ivan Chubukov, Masha Shubina and groups BLUEMOLOKO, Hat, SOSka and SYN. The exhibition will last until 20 December.
The Prize laureates will be determined by the members of the jury including Francesco Bonami, artistic director of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin); Serhiy Bratkov, artist (Moscow); Udo Kittelmann, director of Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin); Boris Mikhailov, artist (Berlin); Jessica Morgan, curator at Tate Modern (London).
The short-listed artists’ exhibition will be on display on the 3rd and 4th floors of the art centre and present both the works selected in the competition and the new works created by each artist especially for the exhibition. Olexandr Soloviov curates the show.
The winners of the Main and the two Special prizes will be rewarded with the cash prizes of UAH 100 000 and UAH 25 000 accordingly and have an opportunity to enter one month apprenticeship at the studios of the internationally renowned artists: Andreas Serrano in New York, Olafur Eliasson in Berlin and Antony Gormley in London.
The winner of the People’s Choice Prize shall be determined by the vote of the PinchukArtCentre Prize exhibition visitors. The voting will last from 29 October to 29 November 2009.
The British artist Damien Hirst will arrive to Kyiv specifically to present awards to the Prize winners. The PinchukArtCentre Prize award ceremony will take place on 4 December 2009.
