this year in the rules of the Kandinsky Prize have been several important changes. This year in the nomination "Scientific work. History and theory of contemporary art" can take part not only Russian citizens, but also people from other countries. Works both in Russian and in foreign languages. Prerequisite remains the same: the subject of the study must be Russian modern Iskusstvo@

This innovation due to the need to support the scientific process in the field of Russian contemporary art, to attract the attention of not only national but international academic credi@

a member of the expert Council and the jury in this category was left pregnil@

changes have affected the basic composition of the jury and the expert Council in the nominations "project of the year" and "Young artist". According to the Prize rules on periodic rotation, in 2015 the year of the contest the jury entered she Tregulova — General Director of the State Tretyakov gallery, Russian art historian, curator of the Museum exhibition proektov@

In the expert Council  wasli@

Andrei Erofeev, Russian art historian and exhibitions curator,

Elena Selina — art historian, Director and curator of the XL Gallery,

Alisa Prudnikova — art historian, Director of the Ekaterinburg branch of the State center of contemporary art,

Anna Gore — Director of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the State centre of modern art, honored worker of culture of the Russian Federation,

Naila Allahverdiyev, head of the public art program of the Museum PERMM, Russian art Manager, curator, artist,

Irina Bobyleva — former Executive Director of the Foundation for support of contemporary art "WINERY", Russian art Manager, curator, artist,

Tatiana Cahokia — former Director of the Kandinsky Prize in 2008-2014, can@

In 2015 in the procedure of the 1st stage of voting there is an additional tour. Now the members of the expert Council will vote in two phases: first round — anonymous "Yes/no", and the second with the names of the authors and point scoring system from 0 to 10. Such a mechanism would allow a more careful selection of nominees on the long list (extended list). The emergence of additional voting stage will also reduce the possibility of omissions of important names and projects from the General list konkursantov@

the Exhibition of the nominees in its usual format will replace the display of works of finalists, which will open a few days before the Ceremony nagrajdenie@

Traditional paper catalog Award will replace the electronic catalogue, which will include an extended list of projects and nominees. It will be available on the website Fonda@

a Collection of essays last year winner — Mikhail Yampolsky, "Scenic Gnosis" (dedicated to the artist Grisha Bruskin), forthcoming in August 2015 g@

this year's Kandinsky Prize will be held for the 9th time. The award was created in 2007 on the initiative of the President of the Foundation BREUS Foundation (formerly "ArtChronika") Shalva Breus. Its mission is the support of Russian contemporary art and its promotion in Russia and rubezhom@

Source: kandinsky-prize.ru