Among the nominees — Elena Elagina and Igor Makarevich, the group Recycle, Olga kroytor and other

Announced a short list of Kandinsky Prize nominees 2015. Of the 31 work of the long list of Kandinsky Prize nominees 2015 the international jury selected 9 finalists — in each category. In the third stage of voting members of the international jury selected the finalists. The vote was divided into two jury panels, one of which considered only research in the nomination "Scholarly work. History and theory of contemporary art", and the second selected finalists in two regular nominations "project of the year" and "Young artist. Project of the year". Each of the members of the jury voted personal list of three nominated works. The finalists were the participants with the highest number of votes.

the List of finalists in alphabetical order.

In the nomination "project of the year":

1. Elena Elagina and Igor Makarevich. "Makarevich-Елагина: Analysis of art"

2. Andrey Filippov. "With the wheel in my head"

3. Recycle Group. "Conversion"

In the nomination "Young artist. Project of the year":

1. Olya Kroytor. Performance "Point of support"

2. Martins Alexey Lazarev and Igor. Performance "How to talk about art in the Siberian city"

3. Tsayder Anastasia. "Mtsensk"

In the category "Scientific work. History and theory of contemporary art":

1. Lola Kantor. "Grobman ׀ Grobman"

2. Valery Podoroga. "The second screen. Eisenstein and the cinema of violence" (2-х volumes)

3. Pine Nina and Ksenia Fedorova. "Media between magic and technology"

jury Member — is an independent curator, art-менеджер, writer Boris-Style (Austria), commented: "perhaps we need to learn again how to believe in the usefulness of individual works of art. The Greeks used the appropriate term for things or objects. They called them “pragmata”. Following Heidegger (it is known to § 15 in “Sein und Zeit” (“Being and time”. — Approx. lane) these pragmata now perceive as “Zeug” (tool in hand. — Approx. lane), always referring to the whole context of “utilities” in their implementation. Separate work now works as the beginning is always the functional structure lying “behind it”; as the eye of a needle, carrying the context of functions and at the same time requires precision. Encountering this pragmatic usefulness in a specific product, you can also describe Hideharu the Onuma, when he describes the highest quality of hitting the target in archery: “the Arrow exists in the target.” All three nominees are there in the target. We can use them".

Selection and awarding the winners of the Kandinsky Prize 2015 will be held on December 10 in "the Drummer".

Source: kandinsky-prize.ru