Today in the CHA will be the opening exhibition of works by Kandinsky Prize Nominees for the 2009 competition year. The exhibition will be open to the public from 3 to 26 November

Today, 2 November, at the Central House of Artists held an exhibition of works by Kandinsky Prize Nominees for the 2009 competition year. The exhibition will be open to the public from 3 to 26 November 2009.

Kandinsky Prize established by the Cultural Foundation "ArtChronika" in 2007 and named in honor of an outstanding artist of Russia Wassily Kandinsky , one of the pioneers of abstract art, as well as one of the few Russian artists, whose contribution to the development in the international art is priceless.

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The total number of nominees in 2009 was 45. This exceeds the amount prescribed regulations (40 nominations), but since several contestants tied scores, all of them, according to the rules allowed for the contest.

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The exhibition in Central House of Artists, a total area of 3,5 thousand square meters, will feature the works of all 45 nominees Kandinsky Prize in 2009. The total prize fund prize is 60 thousand euros and is divided in three categories:

• «Project of the Year" - 40 thousand euros (24 nominee);
• «Young Artist. Project of the Year "- 10 thousand euros (10 nominees who are under 30 years ,);
• « Media Art. Project of the Year "- 10 thousand euros (11 nominees).

Looking ahead to the competition this year, Alexander Borovsky, head of the newest trends of the Russian Museum and a member of the Jury, said: "Sent a number of classroom work, there are plenty to choose from. Moreover, the requirement Awards - to send the contest works created over the last year or two, met. I look forward to the results ».

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First Lady Bobrinskaya, art critic and jury member, said: "The competition this year involved many leading contemporary artists. If we try to identify a common trend this year, from my point of view, it could look like this: an attempt to self-identification, identification of their individual places in the national artistic tradition in a global context. In other words, an attempt to create a language of contemporary art, relying not on a strategy of denial, a strategy of understanding and self-reflection ».

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from the exhibition of works by the jury will select the top 3 in each category. Kandinsky Prize is not awarded for "longevity" or creative contribution. This is a prize for the best artistic achievements made over the past two years (this year have been taken to work only 2006-2007). The main criterion for selecting the winners - the extent to which a particular artist his latest works influenced the development of modern art of Russia.

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The award ceremony will be held on Dec. 10, 2009 in the concert hall Barvikha Luxury Village. In 2010 Kandinsky Prize Nominees - 2009 will again have the opportunity to show their work abroad, presumably in Tel Aviv and Kiev.

Nomination «Project of the Year» are: Konstantin Batynkov , Peter White, Vita Buivid , Lech Garikovich, Dmitry Gretsky , Alla Esipovich , Vadim Zakharov , Vladimir Kozin, Irina Korina, Rostislav Lebedev , Gregory Maiofis , Igor Mukhin, Nicholas Nasedkin , Arkady Nasonov, Paul Pepperstein , Nicholas Polissky, Roman Sakin, Simon Faibisovich , Natalia Hlebtsevich, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Dmitry Tsvetkov, Kirill Chelushkin , Dmitry Shorin , Sergei Shutov .

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Nomination «Young Artist» are: 3ART, MAKE, Milk & Vodka, Eugene Antufiev, Andrei Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov, Lech Garikovich, Ivan Lungin, Stepan Subbotin, Dmitry Teselkin, Alexander Frolov.

Nomination «Media Art Project of the Year» presents: Tanatos Banionis, Alexandra Dementieva, Yulia Devlyashova and Alexander Toschevikova, Vadim Zakharov, Marina Zvyagintseva , Elena Kovylina, Alexander Lavrov, Alexei Politov and Marina Belova, Provmyza , Dmitry Sokolenko and Olga Tobreluts , Chernyshev and Alexei Shulgin .

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Jury Kandinsky Prize: Ekaterina Bobrinskaya, art historian, an expert on the art of the twentieth century, an expert on Russian avant-garde, Alexander Borovsky, head of the Division of the latest trends in the State Russian Museum, Andrei Erofeev, art historian, curator, Jean-Hubert Martin, curator of the National Museums of France, the curator of the main project of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Alla Rosenfeld, curator, art historian, a specialist in European art of modern and contemporary, vice president of Russian paintings Sotheby's (2006 -2008); Valerie Hillings, curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, USA, co-curator of the exhibition "Russia!"; Vasily Tsereteli, executive director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the commissioner Russia pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art.

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Expert advice Kandinsky Prize: Joseph Backstein, Commissioner and artistic director of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art; Yevgeny Barabanov, art historian, Anna Zaitseva, art historian, curator, Marina Loshak, gallerist (gallery "Proun"), curator, art historian, Olga Sviblova, director of the Moscow House of Photography, art historian, curator, Sergei Khachaturov, art historian and critic.

Source: press release Kandinsky Prize

P.S. About Kandinsky Prize winners for 2008 can be read here.