Kiev PinchukArtCentre published a list of nominees for first prize Future Generation Art Prize by Ukrainian billionaire Viktor Pinchuk founded to support the "young talent". The winner, whose name will be announced in December, will receive 100 thousand dollars. Award Pinchuk, along with the American ArtPrize (250,000 dollars) and the Hugo Boss Prize (100,000), is one of the largest in the world.

The short-list included the names of 21 artists. All the authors under the age of thirty-six, the youngest - 27-year-old Briton Simon Fujiwara (Simon Fujiwara). The names of many of the finalists are known to those who actively follows the modern art: so surreal installation and plasticine cartoons swedish Yurberg Nathalie (Nathalie Djurberg) made a splash at last year's Venice Biennale, and the well-known photographs by Guido van der Verviers (Guido van der Werve), wandering in front of great ice-breaker, now showing at the exhibition «100 years of performance" in Moscow "Garage» .

Among the members of the Board of Trustees Award - California collector Eli Broad (Eli Broad), as well as director of large museums: Glenn Lowry (Glenn Lowry) of the MoMA, Richard Armstrong (Richard Armstrong) from the Guggenheim Museum and Nicholas Serota (Nicholas Serota) of the Tate Gallery. Artists will meet with such famous colleagues as Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst), Takashi Murakami (Takashi Murakami), Jeff Koons (Jeff Koons) and Andreas Gursky (Andreas Gursky), whose work collects Pinchuk.

So, the list of finalists:

• Artem Volokitin, 29 years old (Ukraine);
• Fei Cao (Cao Fei), 1932 (China);
• Cinthia Marcelle (Cinthia Marcelle), 35 years old (Brazil);
• Hollerer Clemens (Clemens Hollerer), 1934 (Austria);
• Wardill Emily (Emily Wardill) , 1932 (United Kingdom);
• Fikret Atay (Fikret Atay), 1934 (Turkey);
• Gareth Moore (Gareth Moore), 35 years old (Canada);
• Guido van der Verviers, 1933 (Netherlands);
• Hector Zamora (Hector Zamora), 35 (Mexico);
• Yorinde Foyt (Jorinde Voigt), 33 year (Germany);
• Katerina Seda (Katerina Seda), 1932 (Czech Republic);
• Keren Sitter (Keren Cytter), 1932 (Israel);
• Mircea Nicolae (Mircea Nicolae), 30 years old (Romania);
• Natalie Yurberg, 1932 (Sweden);
• Hlobo Nicholas (Nicholas Hlobo), 1934 (South Africa) ;
• Vaschellari Nico (Nico Vascellari), 1933 (Italy);
• Ruben Ochoa (Ruben Ochoa), 35 (U.S.);
• Runo Lagomarsino (Runo Lagomarsino), 1932 (Sweden);
• Simon Fujiwara, 27 years old (United Kingdom);
• Wilfredo Prieto Garcia (Wilfredo Prieto Garcia), 1932 (Cuba);
• Ziad Antar (Ziad Antar), 1932 (Lebanon).

But who will judge the artists:

• Daniel Birnbaum ( Daniel Birnbaum, Sweden) - Director of the Academy of Arts Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, co-curator of the Moscow Biennale of 2005 and 2007, director of the Venice Biennale in 2009;
• HLSOC Envezor (Okwui Enwezor, Nigeria) - Director of the exhibition Documenta IX, former dean of research and senior vice president of the Art Institute of San Francisco;
• Ivo Mesquita (Ivo Mesquita, Brazil) - Chief Curator Pinakothek State 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) - General Director PinchukArtCentre;
• Robert Storr (Robert Storr, the United States) - Dean, School of Art at Yale University, director of the Venice Biennale in 2007;
• Ai Weiwei (Ai Weiwei, China) - artist.

material prepared by Julia Maximov, AI

Sources: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru