In Kiev handed Future Generation Art Prize

In Kiev, the first prize was awarded Future Generation Art Prize, established by Ukrainian billionaire Viktor Pinchuk. Owner of the awards, whose size is 100 thousand dollars, was a Brazilian artist Cynthia Marcella (Cinthia Marcelle, p. 1974). She is known for his films, photographs and installations, which were shown at major exhibitions such as the Biennale in Havana (2006), the Biennale in Lyon (2007) and "Panorama of Brazilian Art in Sao Paulo (2007). The billionaire has already said it will acquire the work in its collection.

Special Jury Prize (20,000 dollars) received a Romanian artist Mircea Nicolae. The money will be spent on its projects in the residential program Pinchuk Foundation. For the other 19 artists whose names are also included in the shortlist of nominees (you can see here ), the main award was an opportunity to show their work at an exhibition in Pinchuk Art Centre. Overall, for the award and there were about six thousand artists from 125 countries.

award ceremony was attended by Andreas Gursky (Andreas Gursky), Takashi Murakami (Takashi Murakami), Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst) and Jeff Koons (Jeff Koons). Among the guests were also seen by the director of the Guggenheim Museum, Richard Armstrong (Richard Armstrong), head of the museum Pompidou Alfred Packman (Alfred Pacquement), fashion designer Miuccia Prada (Miuccia Prada) and director of the Tate, Nicholas Serota (Nicholas Serota).

The jury Future Generation Art Prize includes:

• Daniel Birnbaum (Daniel Birnbaum, Sweden) - Director of the Academy of Fine Arts Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Co-curator of the Moscow Biennale in 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 for Research and Senior Vice President Arts Institute of San Francisco;
• Ivo Mesquita (Ivo Mesquita, Brazil) - chief curator of the 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 Modern Art XXI Century in Kanazawa;
• Eckhard Schneider (Eckhard Schneider, Germany ) - Director General of Pinchuk Art Centre;
• Robert Storr (Robert Storr, United States) - Dean, School of Art at Yale University, director of the Venice Biennale in 2007;
• Ai (Ai Weiwei, China) - an artist.

material was prepared by Julia Maksimova, AI

Sources: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru