Artists will be judged by Daniel Birnbaum, Robert Storr, HLSOC Envezor and other well-known personality. Unfortunately, the jury included only one woman

It has recently become known, who entered the jury new art prize Future Generation Art Prize founded by Ukrainian billionaire Viktor Pinchuk . Judge will be seven well-known artists from the worlds of art, almost all of them are men. As expressed well-known American journalist Judith H. Dobrzhinsky (Judith H. Dobrzynski), his choice of Pinchuk showed contempt for "the talented women curators, museum directors, critics, academics, dealers and collectors ... not to mention the-artists».

So, in the number of judges included:

• Daniel Birnbaum (Daniel Birnbaum, Sweden) - Director of the Academy of Arts Städelschule in Frankfurt, co-curator Moscow Biennale of 2005 and 2007, the director of the Venice Biennale in 2009;

• HLSOC Envezor (Okwui Enwezor, Nigeria) - director of the exhibition Documenta IX, the former dean of science work and senior vice president of the Art Institute of San Francisco;

• Ivo Mesquita (Ivo Mesquita, Brazil) - Senior Curator, Alte Pinakothek of São Paulo, curator of the Biennale in Sao Paulo in 2008;

• Yuko Hasegawa (Yuko Hasegawa) - chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the former chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art XXI Century in Kanazawa ;

• Eckhard Schneider (Eckhard Schneider, Germany) - Director General PinchukArtCentre;

• Robert Storr (Robert Storr, United States) - Dean, School of Art at Yale University, director of the Venice Biennale in 2007;

• Ai Veyvey (Ai Weiwei, China) - artist

Future Generation Art Prize will be handed to every two years. Artists can apply from all over the world. True, there are restrictions on age: to claim the prize can only those who are under 36 years old.

leave your request for participation is possible on site futuregenerationartprize.org (till April 18). The shortlist will be announced on June 22, and the names of holders of awards, we learn in December. The winner will receive $ 100 thousand, 20 thousand more will be allocated for projects of several finalists. In addition, all winners will get a chance to learn from such stars art market, like Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst), Takashi Murakami (Takashi Murakami), Andreas Gursky (Andreas Gursky) and Jeff Koons (Jeff Koons).

Material prepared Yulia Maximova, AI

Source: artsjournal.com /realcleararts , artinvestment.ru