Ukrainian billionaire and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk has established a new prize for contemporary art, which was called The Future Generation Art Prize. Nominated to it can only artists under 35 years. Award the Prize, whose size is 100 thousand dollars, is expected every two years ..

new prize will be international. Artists "of all countries and continents" may apply to participate on the site futuregenerationartprize.org . Please leave your request can be from 18 January to 18 April 2010. Pinchuk also asked 100 members of the art-world nominate young authors, whom they consider outstanding. June 22 will be a short list of awards, it will include 20 artists. And the winner will be known in December.

Pinchuk stresses that at least 40 thousand from the amount that will get the winner, should go to work on art. In addition, Pinchuk will allocate 20 thousand dollars for projects of five other finalists. Winners will get a chance to learn from famous artists such as Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst), Takashi Murakami (Takashi Murakami), Andreas Gursky (Andreas Gursky) and Jeff Koons (Jeff Koons).

One of the finalists will also receive an "Audience Award". Art lovers will be able to vote for the artists after the announce short-list.

not yet known who will be in the jury award. Among the members of the board of trustees - Los Angeles megakollektsioner Eli Broad (Eli Broad), the designer Miuccia Prada (Miuccia Prada) and pop singer Elton John (Elton John), as well as museum directors - Richard Armstrong (Richard Armstrong) from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Glenn D. Lowry (Glenn D. Lowry) of the MoMA, Alfred Pacman (Alfred Pacquement) from the Pompidou Center and Nicholas Serota (Nicholas Serota) of the Tate Gallery.

Pinchuk already have one Award, designed for artists from Ukraine. Its size is 100 thousand hryvnia. This year's winner was Artem Volokitin, received an award from the hands of Damien Hirst.

Condition Pinchuk is estimated at 2.6 billion dollars (246 th richest man in the world of Forbes ). It is a rating the world's leading collectors of works of art . In 2006, the tycoon was opened in Kiev center for contemporary art. Recently he announced that wants to build another one .

the world's most prestigious award in the field of contemporary art is the British Turner Prize. This year's winner was Richard Wright .

article prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

Source: bloomberg.com , nytimes.com , forbes. com , artinvestment.ru